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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:10 AM
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the thing that sucks about dating your best friend
is that when you break up, you lose everything important in your life.

so how are things in your world people?
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:12 AM
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1. Ummm, aren't you supposed to date your best friend?
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 12:19 AM by brainshrub
I thought that was the way it worked?

ON EDIT: This comment is not meant to be snarky. I've been where you are and it sucks. Best friends make the best partners, but it sucks if you break up.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:14 AM
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I tried but it creeped him out
ANd he seemed rather confused
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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:17 AM
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4. Polar Bears are always confused by cross-species relationships.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:14 AM
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2. Been there, done that, got the "I lost everything" tee
It sucks ASS. The only thing that kept me going, many times, was--this is going to sound silly--Rudyard Kipling's "If."



If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
---Rudyard Kipling

OK, so it doesn't quite apply to me (I'm a woman) but imagining that my efforts to bounce back counted for *something* kept me afloat plenty of times.

Tucker




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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:16 AM
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3. thanks for the tip
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:27 AM
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5. Don't know if it's much of a "tip"
It helped me stay sane though. :shrug:

Well...sort of sane.

Tucker
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