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Pushing a wheelchair is very hard work!

When Robb broke his back, I realized this. We used to do crazy stuff, like going cycling. I'd ride my bike, and he'd hook his cane around my seatpost, and I'd drag him and his chair behind me.

Thank goodness he has his own adaptive trike now.

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You runners are awesome!

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You'll do great! Stick with it!

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Sounds like you're doing well.

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Actually love prunes.

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Monday

Breakfast -- latte, banana, homebaked bread with homemade jam and butter.
Lunch -- veggie sushi, a small roll, a few lychees, coffee.
Dinner -- rice and Swiss chard, peanut butter and crackers.

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Honestly, I think saying "oh gosh ... No thanks" covers it. You can decline without explaining.

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Can you incorporate sharing into your hobby? Make a cheesecake, and then invite the neighbors over, and send them home with the leftovers.

Everyone wins this way!

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Adding my wishes for your continued health and happiness.

(Nothing like a run of serious health issues to put things in perspective, huh?)

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Sunday Another splendid day. We stayed at a bed-and-breakfast last night, and then went for a drive in wine country, followed by a lovely eight-mile bike ride. The entire trail was surrounded by blackberry bushes, and all the locals were out picking berries. We managed to sweet talk our waitress in...

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I'm impressed.

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I think you're doing well. You're slowly losing weight, and working toward a healthier way of eating. You've got a plan. These are good things.

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Congratulations on your weight!

It's interesting what you write about syncope. I definitely have to drink enough water, or else I'll start to black out when I stand up suddenly. I make sure all my coworkers do the same.

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Hugs to you!

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Sounds like a great day!

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Earache morphed into another danged cold. I swear, I have the most overburdened respiratory system. Stayed home sick on Thursday and Friday. Ate fine, if a bit blandly. We were booked for a weekend of fun for Robb's birthday. I wasn't sure how I'd manage. We did a five-mile kayaking trip, which was ...

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Don't be a human garbage can. If nobody likes a particular food, why is it your job to eat it?

(This is why having a compost pile is great -- there's no guilt in disposing of yucky food.)

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I'll keep saying this: I think there is value in identifying *why* you have aversions to so many foods.

Forcing yourself to eat is certainly stern stuff, but does it help you *enjoy* food?

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I think it's interesting what you say about sensory food. Warning: the following might be just too weird to read. Reading it might make you think that I'm insane, or that I've ruined cherry tomatoes for you. Warning, Warning, Warning. I remember working with seriously creepy guys who agreed that che...

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Tuesday Breakfast -- biscuit and loquat jam, latte Lunch -- another beans and rice, guac and cheese salad Dinner -- biscuit, pasta green beans and mushrooms, and half a plum Headache morphed into an earache. Tonight we transferred our two big jugs of plum wine into other jugs, to strain off the sedi...

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This was one of those up-and-down days. I'm working on a smelly, tedious project, the dudes (my esteemed colleagues) were abrading steel directly outside of my door, and listening to particularly loathsome techno (seriously? who listens to techno anymore). The bad thing is that the ventilation for m...

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Thanks.

I was doing better, and then work dropped one of those Regularly Scheduled Disasters on me. Oh well....

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I think both of those rules are brilliant. They're "eating like an adult" to my mind.

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I do think you should speak to your physician about this. Perhaps you can get at the root cause of your inability to eat most foods. If you can't sort that out, you should be trying to avoid malnutrition.

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I never allowed myself out-of-control weekends. That whole idea just didn't make sense to me. I'll have a dessert or two over the weekend. Maybe I'll have seconds at dinner. Maybe I'll do a wee bit of grazing. But eating an entire carton of ice cream at the stroke of midnight? Never. That wouldn't s...

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Monday

Breakfast -- latte, bread and butter
Elevenses -- coffee, Italian roll
Lunch -- salad with black beans rice and guacamole
Dinner -- pasta with fresh pesto, pattypan squash, biscuits with homemade loquat jam

I don't know why, but I'm feeling really sad.

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I *am* the person who developed life-threatening allergies. In my case, it is to the members of the nightshade family, so farewell potatoes, goodbye eggplant, so long tomatillos, I'm going to miss you peppers and chile, and oh tomatoes.... whatever will I do without you. I *love* all these foods, mi...

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So, can you explore what it is about non-bland food that you find offensive?

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I suspect that I'm a super-taster, but thankfully it's positive thing for me. I *love* good food, and I live in a part of the country famous for good food. Perhaps you need to eat better food, and cultivate joy in eating. I don't eat any junk food, because I genuinely find the chemical flavor disgus...

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I work in construction, and regret our nation's bull-headedness in not adopting the metric system.

Quick! Multiply 4 feet seven and 5/32 of an inch by seven. Uuuuugh!

Multiples of ten, people!!!! So simple that you can count on your fingers.

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Just stopping by to say good morning!

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I have very low blood pressure, myself. Like crazy-low. However, nobody has ever suggested that I try to raise it. I wonder what our differences are?

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I think Americans regard the metric system as just another bad idea (like environmentalism, and equal rights for women) that the liberals tried to force on us during the 1970s.

"Thank goodness those ideas never took hold" seems to be the prevailing view.

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You rock!

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Awsome!!!

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A great weekend. Saturday -- latte, slice of bread Lunch -- two veggie and cheese sandwiches, water Dinner -- roasted corn, green beans, followed by two kinds of ice cream that we'd made (rosemary, reisling lemon sorbet, and lemon verbena ice cream). Main Event -- a tour of a beautiful historic orch...

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Oh jeepers!!!

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I bought figs at Trader Joes a few weeks back, and all but one were unripe. I'll be so happy when my baby trees mature enough the bear fruit.

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Nice to meet you!

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Good for you!

What on earth was your husband thinking when he chose that place?

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Friday

Breakfast -- latte, and I forget what else
Lunch -- leftovers from last night's dinner
Dinner -- wilted spinach and cheese salad, peas and beans from garden, corn on the cob, bread and butter

Today I am going to an experimental orchard for a fruit-tasting event! Whoo Hoooooo!

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Oh, what a relief! I was worried that someone was going to be sharing an article extolling the virtues of using leeches as a dieting aid. (They actually have some genuine medical uses, if I understand correctly. Their anticoagulant properties are apparently valuable at the site of amputation reattac...

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Thursday Breakfast -- latte, lowfat yogurt with added wheat germ and home made plum jam Lunch -- cucumber and cheese sandwich Dinner -- sauted greenbeans, mushrooms and shallots on rice with feta cheese Worked really late, painting. Surrounded by food, and had a lot of time to wait, wait, wait. Didn...

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I'm proud of you for calling this a failure.

You're understanding when too much is too much.

Good for you!

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Wednesday I'm counting this as a fail-day, mostly because of bad scheduling. I didn't eat "bad" food, I just didn't account for timing. Breakfast -- latte, bread and cheese Elevenses -- bread and coffee Lunch -- leftover Thai food Mess-up -- scheduled fruit picking after work, didn't finish until 7p...

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Seriously, bury the scale under a pile of towels in the linen closet. Jumping on the scale all day isn't the path to healthy behavior.

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Excuse me please, I have to go bang my forehead against the wall.

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I also don't own a scale.

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If your knees are giving you trouble, have you tried swimming or cycling?

And put down the cigarettes!

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I knit with friends at a local cafe that makes syrups, and then carbonates them. Do far, I've tried the cucumber and the lavender sodas. Strange, but delicious! And not too sweet.

It's funny what "normal" is. What the heck does coca-cola taste like, other than sugar and "ick"?

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Tuesday Breakfast -- latte, egg and cheese bagel Lunch -- "virgin" pad thai, very tasty Dinner -- green beans and purple beans from the garden, sauted with shallots and tofu Later -- a cucumber soda, that I knocked over, and sent flying all over the table at knitting night. Amazingly, I didn't dren...

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I hope you're feeling better, soon!

(I tried that virgin pad thai...very tasty!)

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This is a wonderful observation! Knowing when to stop is really important.

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Sounds like you're doing well!

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You all are so sweet!

Monday

Breakfast -- latte, egg and cheese on a bagel
Lunch -- leftover turnip gratin and green salad, grapefruit juice
Dinner -- homemade "white" pizza, with mushrooms, leeks, and garden herbs

Still fighting that cold...

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You guys crack me up.

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You are the second person to suggest mashed cauliflower. Is this actually any good? It seems like you'd have to cook it to death. I like roasted cauliflower, because it maintains crunch. You'll never see me on a low carb diet. No way. I'm too much of a starch lover. My lunatic (sadly) mother was all...

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Saturday could have been an N-day. I ate normally, with the exception of four rather stale licorice candies Sunday I came down with a cold. Ate strangely. Breakfast -- half a nectarine, cheese and herb omelet, latte Lunch -- pbj, and several slices of home made bread with our plum jam Dinner -- gree...

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I love what Determined wrote about proving yo yourself what that twelve pounds lost means.

What is it about family, anyway? Why do we revert to our childhood roles around them?

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Sounds like you're doing well!

And it sounds like you need to become more of a food-snob, when it comes to sweets. Life is too short to eat lousy chocolate! (I'm kidding, of course.)

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Sounds like you're doing well! And hurray for garden veggies!

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Sounds like a lovely dinner.

Don't be too envious of my fig trees. They're all babies, and it will be years before they bear fruit.

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Nicely done. Marshmallows are Required By Law when camping. I think you did quite well. Maybe not officially No-S, but you ate as well as you could, and didn't go crazy.

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When Robb was paralyzed, a huge amount of my hair fell out, and then it all grew back grey. I was under so much stress! I kept hoping that it would look cool and funky, but it actually just depressed me. I'm very pleased with how things look, and with the fact that I've finally given myself permissi...

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Whoops! I lied. I never put in that link, and I can't seem to edit the blog from my phone.

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Liten to your wise friend Strawberry. It's true that people hardly care if we pass up on their snacks.

And congrats on doing so well.

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Oh, gee, thanks!

The shallot story was pretty pathetic, but if you clicked the internal link, you would have seen all of the creatures who benefitted from the shallot flowers. I asked my local garden forum, and I guess I should have chopped if the flowers as soon as they emerged. Oh well....

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If you want to eat butter, eat it separately rather than mixing it in with your dish. Wha-a-a-at???? (I suspect there's an editing issue here, and that he's nit suggesting chowing down on a stick of butter. I also think that the idea that food should be un-palatable is sort of insane. Pick three fo...

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Friday Breakfast -- latte, cereal with added nuts and dried currants Lunch -- cucumber and cheese sandwich, on home baked bread, latte Dinner -- rice with sauted vegetables, wilted arugula, bread I'll admit that over the last few years, I haven't been taking care of myself. On Thursday, I got the f...

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Wednesday Breakfast -- latte, home baked bread, butter, home made jam Lunch -- two boiled eggs, cheese and bread, watermelon Dinner -- cucumber on bread, lentils, rice and sauted zucchini This is my four-hundredth post. While I'm not a totally orthodox follower of No-S, as articulated on this discu...

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That is a very wise observation.

Atta girl!

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Sorry. "Herd" was probably a poor, and provocative, word choice.

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Tuesday Breakfast -- home baked bread, home made plum jam (with fruit from our back yard), butter, latte Lunch -- cheese sandwich, two figs, banana Dinner -- grilled asparagus and an ear of grilled corn, home baked bread, watermelon I met another neighbor, who really inspired me with his beautiful b...

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Okay, then, this is where I deviate from the herd. I think that equating actually good home made food with feces is crazy and unhealthy. But then, I actually can stop eating when I want to. I started with No-S as a way to get back to my good eating habits, which slipped a bit when my partner was par...

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Perhaps you could just take a single bite of cake. accept a slim slice and then only eat one bite.

The dog feces solution would never work with me. I don't see the point in perverting something pleasurable. But then, I'm not prone to binging.

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K-Mom, where do you eat?

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Hmmm... Sounds good. As long as I can giggle about pad Thai drenched in scotch...

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I have to ask. What's virgin pad thai? A virgin Mary is a bloody Mary with no booze. Confuzled.

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Another day on-track. We need to go to the grocery store, so lunch was a Random Assortment of Food.

I'm surrounded by treats, but am not tempted. It's such crappy quality, that passing on by is easy.

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I'm chugging along, staying (mostly) on track. The funny thing is that my S-days are almost the same as my N-days. I rarely eat seconds, almost never eat sweets, and rarely eat snacks. I haven't stepped on a scale, since just after I started this experiment. I've lost some weight in my face, but my ...

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Amazing/scary what we do without really noticing, isn't it?

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I think the issue is probably American. In much of Europe, lunch is sacred. They think we're barbarians for gobbling down lunch in our cubicles. And they're probably right.

Also:

http://employeeissues.com/breaks_meals.htm

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Just like No S, there's a lot more "during" than before and after.

http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/search/lab ... %20cottage

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Here's an interesting question: why do traditionally male jobs (like construction) have very strictly observed meal breaks, while female jobs like yours don't? Unions? Men being more pushy, and sticking up for themselves? Women being afraid to make a fuss?

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What do you like to eat? What do you envision, when you picture an average breakfast, lunch or dinner?

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If you pack (or buy) a "real" lunch, you could nibble on it when you have he chance, and still be aware of eating a reasonable amount.

Are you not given meal breaks? That may not be legal.

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I haven't been doing daily check-ins. I've been on vacation, which we spent at home. Brewed beer and wine. Had friends over. Went to the beach. Read a lot. Hung out in the garden. Worked on improving my hand-spinning. Worked with our bees. Cooked and ate some yummy meals. Ate well. I think we will b...

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Me? I keep my mouth mostly shut on this subject. I've mentioned to my immediate coworkers that I don't eat sweets or snacks on weekdays, and they pretty much looked at me like I was insane.

I was raised in a no snack household, which was difficult because I have a very speedy metabolism.

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Ravelry is brilliant! I'm in awe of the way it functions, both as a tool for research, and as a place to socialize.

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Ruthian?

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Nice to "meet" you. Sounds like you have a good attitude and a plan.

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We only have a tiny porch, and we spend most of our time in the back garden. But it is funny how similar houses of this era are. Tonight, we're making another batch of jam from our plum tree, and starting yeast for brewing beer. All of these things are simple, and date back centuries. I joke that my...

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5272/5885344280_2b48d792d7.jpg Home made plum jam! Our backyard tree drops fruits, and I keep them from going to waste, by cutting off the split part, and freezing them until there's enough to make jam. Three gallon sized bags made a dozen jars of jam. http://farm6.st...

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I imagine you'd have to cook pears a long time...

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When I worked as a bartender I'd see a lot of guys guzzling beer right after working out. Now, I strongly believe that a long bike ride properly ends with a beer. But I don't think that every workout should end with six Coors Lights.

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We live in a 1925 house, whose kitchen was last updated in the late '40s or early '50s. We love it. We have a vintage stove, that is fantastic for baking. We cook most of our meals from scratch. Photos, if you're curious, are at my blog: http://howsrobb.blogspot.com/2009/06/jumping-up-and-down-with-...

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I haven't been checking in, but that's just fine. I've been eating well. Had another weekend where I never had a urge for either sweets or snacks. I took a four hour kayaking class, and have been scraping the paint off of my house. We made plum honey wine (which won't be ready for a year and a half ...

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Wednesday I forgot that I declared a moratorium on dairy after we planned tonight's menu. Had friends and their twin sons over to pick fruit, and we made pizza from scratch. Breakfast = espresso, plums, bread with honeycomb Lunch = boiled eggs, plums Dinner = a fritatta, and white pizza with homegr...

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I think this is where we crank up the stereo, and dance around the living room! Awesome!!! You rock!!! High five!!! Whoo--flipping'--Hooooo!!!

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Hang in there!

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