Monday, January 12

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My Funniest Online Dating Horror Stories
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My Funniest Online Dating Horror Stories

Yeah, yeah. It's absolutely true that online dating worked out pretty well for me, ultimately. But having given it some thought, I wanted to come clean with you about something. It's not like every single date was a blissful stream of perfection. Sure, I met lots of great women and had a blast for several years...culminating in meeting Emily on Match.com. But along the way, especially at the beginning, I certainly encountered my share of sometimes hilarious and sometimes downright nightmarish situations. Here are the four most memorable ones: 1) Not What The Doctor Prescribed Very shortly after my divorce in 1992, I received a "spam" message in my inbox that I actually responded to. Believe it or not, I hadn't even heard of online dating before. This ad claimed I could meet the woman of m...
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Sunny Hostin Has Some Pretty Unforgettable Stories To Tell About Herself—And About America
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Sunny Hostin Has Some Pretty Unforgettable Stories To Tell About Herself—And About America

The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice. “What are you?” has followed Sunny Hostin from the beginning of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowled...
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A Tale Of Two Cities Is One Of Charles Dickens’s Most Popular And Dramatic Stories
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A Tale Of Two Cities Is One Of Charles Dickens’s Most Popular And Dramatic Stories

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most popular and dramatic stories. It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens’s most exciting books—a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine (“It is a far, far b...
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Bedtime Stories For Adults: You Can Apply Acting Exercises To Save Your Relationship
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Bedtime Stories For Adults: You Can Apply Acting Exercises To Save Your Relationship

If we think about renowned A-list movie stars that are dating or married, do we get the notion that they know certain information (which we don't) that can help them become closer and perpetually interested in one another? After all, they are expert artisans of their craft and they can conceive and perform stories at their own will. We will be exploring 5 main ways, taken from our bedtime stories for adults advice collection, to strengthen your love and communication. Because it doesn't take a professional actor to play children games, we can all apply simple acting techniques to improve and continue to feed our relationship. This is something we all must do at one point, because paid entertainment (movies, restaurants, trips) can only last so long. And Adam and Eve did not have paid ente...
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