:-6
Dear all me hearties, randal is back on the scene at last.
I felt very emarrassed for trying to reply to all the birthday greetings I received last October and each and every time my computer let me down by loosing them in some peculiar way.
I would like this to be cheerier but what was can't be changed.
Arnold, Abbey and Lon are some of the names I remember so a very belated thankyou to all - much appreciated - especiaslly as it also celebrated my FREE TELEVISION LICENCE????
Fancy getting something for nothing in GREAT BRITAIN the sixth wealthiest nation on earth - wonders will never cease!!!!!!
Whilst the battle with the computer was going on my wife went down with that viral throat infection which appeared to infect the nation but mulitply hers by ten at least - antibiotics are no good for those unfilterable heathens.
So I was fully taken up with the house, etc. anyway it was getting pretty chilly up in the attic at the computer.
I had not been up to scratch all year (2006) since the worst attack of allergy had hit me in the winter/spring I had had for many a long year. Whilst treating my wife I felt going downhill too.
Then within about 48/72 hours I also was infected by that throat bug a week before Christmas.
The ashtma kicked in to - as it usually does given the slightest excuse and I found myself with the worst attack I have had since a child.
Here was I so cocky about having it under complete control for sixty years suddenly struck down until I felt that my diaphragms were moving up and down about half an inch without the slightest wheeze - silent asthma I call it and have always dreaded it as it has been always the harbginger of grim days ahead.
I hung on and hung on until one Saturday morning just before Christmas I - who had been sleeping in a chair for days - went through and told my wife that I would have to call a doctor no matter how I detested it.
I called the new 24 hour service and could hardly speak the to nurse who I ended up with.
When she used my name I was so out of touch I asked, "Do you know me?" She laughed and replied that my name was on the monitor screen in front of her.
"You sound a poor thing." she added. "Can't you get a neighbour to take you to hospital?" I replied that that was impossible but that perhaps if I drove slowly I could manage to get there OK.
"No way am I allowing you to drive in your condition. I'll send an ambulance."
Much to my surprise there was one at the door within fifteen minutes.
The first time I had ever been taken to a hospital in an ambulance and with asthma as well.
Another first awaited me when the nurse and German locum hooked me onto a nebulizer which slowly relieved my condition.
The German gave me a few antibiotics for my throat and sent me home after about an hour and a half telling me to sleep and sit in a chair. "Thank the Lord for TV ." was my responce. He didn't see the joke.
I had to take a taxi home and had no money with me which did not please the taxi driver who scowled at the delay when my wife came out in her dressing gown to pay him (Having once been in the job I knew that all he was thinking about was that time was a wasting and he could have been away to another fare - the fact that he had picked me up from a hospital brook no sympathy from him.)
However, on Sunday I deteriorated and by Monday had to call for a home visit and my own doctor appeared. He immediately seaized upon the fact that the German locum had given me no steroids and should have given me a nebulizer unit home with me. My wife forced herself to go down and collect both
three days later I had to call on the doctors again and two turned up at the house.
The younger turned out to be a professor and was very solicitious and could hardly believe that a fortnight before I had been taking the dog for mile walks - my reply when he asked me how many months had I been in that condition.
However, it was he who discovered that I had double pneumonia as well and although the elder wanted me back in bed he insisted that the sitting and sleeping in a chair was the best position for bringing up all that goo pneumonia produces.
The elder said that I must have an X-ray as soon as I was able. The recovery of both of us has taken so long I can only put it down to the weather such as yeterday and today where have had howling gales of wind sometimes with rain, hail sleet and snow and then an hour later brillinat sunshine which lasts about an hour.
Minus five dgrees Celcius when I got up at six thirty today and looked out on a snowwhite world. One gardener once told me that a good fall of snow was the best gardener in the world.
I eventually got out of the chair at the beginning of February and even had bed sores on my hips through sitting motionless for so long.
Then I had numerous blood tests to go through and the painless X-ray whcih turned out to show that only a tiny part of one lung was still affected. All test proved to be positive which is a wonder.
My wife, on the other hand had the opinion of three docotrs of her lung X-rays that although there was nothing obvious they all felt that something was not quite right as one diaphragm was quite a bif higher than the other.
So now she has to go into Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for another X-ray next Monday followed by a bronchoscopy to see if they can visually see what the insides of her lungs are like.
Our doctor said that, "If you had smoked forty cigarettes for forty years I would be a worried man - but you neither drink nor smoke and the likelhood is that it will be nothing significant at all."
So we wait, pray, hope and will see in a week's time.
God bless you all and it is good to see that you are mainly all still about.
randall
PS The computer has been in hospital too and is working much better although they are telling me that some schoolchildren would refuse it even as a gift because it is so old and slow.
I don't blame them, a few hours ago my flopy drive decided not to work at all, at all.
:)
My father in law had a saying which has some merit.
"You can go through all of your life without even tripping over a matchstick and then, quite suddenly, in the matter of hours or days, your whole world seems to collapse around your heads."
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randall;578963 wrote: :-6
Dear all me hearties, randal is back on the scene at last.
I felt very emarrassed for trying to reply to all the birthday greetings I received last October and each and every time my computer let me down by loosing them in some peculiar way.
I would like this to be cheerier but what was can't be changed.
Arnold, Abbey and Lon are some of the names I remember so a very belated thankyou to all - much appreciated - especiaslly as it also celebrated my FREE TELEVISION LICENCE????
Fancy getting something for nothing in GREAT BRITAIN the sixth wealthiest nation on earth - wonders will never cease!!!!!!
Whilst the battle with the computer was going on my wife went down with that viral throat infection which appeared to infect the nation but mulitply hers by ten at least - antibiotics are no good for those unfilterable heathens.
So I was fully taken up with the house, etc. anyway it was getting pretty chilly up in the attic at the computer.
I had not been up to scratch all year (2006) since the worst attack of allergy had hit me in the winter/spring I had had for many a long year. Whilst treating my wife I felt going downhill too.
Then within about 48/72 hours I also was infected by that throat bug a week before Christmas.
The ashtma kicked in to - as it usually does given the slightest excuse and I found myself with the worst attack I have had since a child.
Here was I so cocky about having it under complete control for sixty years suddenly struck down until I felt that my diaphragms were moving up and down about half an inch without the slightest wheeze - silent asthma I call it and have always dreaded it as it has been always the harbginger of grim days ahead.
I hung on and hung on until one Saturday morning just before Christmas I - who had been sleeping in a chair for days - went through and told my wife that I would have to call a doctor no matter how I detested it.
I called the new 24 hour service and could hardly speak the to nurse who I ended up with.
When she used my name I was so out of touch I asked, "Do you know me?" She laughed and replied that my name was on the monitor screen in front of her.
"You sound a poor thing." she added. "Can't you get a neighbour to take you to hospital?" I replied that that was impossible but that perhaps if I drove slowly I could manage to get there OK.
"No way am I allowing you to drive in your condition. I'll send an ambulance."
Much to my surprise there was one at the door within fifteen minutes.
The first time I had ever been taken to a hospital in an ambulance and with asthma as well.
Another first awaited me when the nurse and German locum hooked me onto a nebulizer which slowly relieved my condition.
The German gave me a few antibiotics for my throat and sent me home after about an hour and a half telling me to sleep and sit in a chair. "Thank the Lord for TV ." was my responce. He didn't see the joke.
I had to take a taxi home and had no money with me which did not please the taxi driver who scowled at the delay when my wife came out in her dressing gown to pay him (Having once been in the job I knew that all he was thinking about was that time was a wasting and he could have been away to another fare - the fact that he had picked me up from a hospital brook no sympathy from him.)
However, on Sunday I deteriorated and by Monday had to call for a home visit and my own doctor appeared. He immediately seaized upon the fact that the German locum had given me no steroids and should have given me a nebulizer unit home with me. My wife forced herself to go down and collect both
three days later I had to call on the doctors again and two turned up at the house.
The younger turned out to be a professor and was very solicitious and could hardly believe that a fortnight before I had been taking the dog for mile walks - my reply when he asked me how many months had I been in that condition.
However, it was he who discovered that I had double pneumonia as well and although the elder wanted me back in bed he insisted that the sitting and sleeping in a chair was the best position for bringing up all that goo pneumonia produces.
The elder said that I must have an X-ray as soon as I was able. The recovery of both of us has taken so long I can only put it down to the weather such as yeterday and today where have had howling gales of wind sometimes with rain, hail sleet and snow and then an hour later brillinat sunshine which lasts about an hour.
Minus five dgrees Celcius when I got up at six thirty today and looked out on a snowwhite world. One gardener once told me that a good fall of snow was the best gardener in the world.
I eventually got out of the chair at the beginning of February and even had bed sores on my hips through sitting motionless for so long.
Then I had numerous blood tests to go through and the painless X-ray whcih turned out to show that only a tiny part of one lung was still affected. All test proved to be positive which is a wonder.
My wife, on the other hand had the opinion of three docotrs of her lung X-rays that although there was nothing obvious they all felt that something was not quite right as one diaphragm was quite a bif higher than the other.
So now she has to go into Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for another X-ray next Monday followed by a bronchoscopy to see if they can visually see what the insides of her lungs are like.
Our doctor said that, "If you had smoked forty cigarettes for forty years I would be a worried man - but you neither drink nor smoke and the likelhood is that it will be nothing significant at all."
So we wait, pray, hope and will see in a week's time.
God bless you all and it is good to see that you are mainly all still about.
randall
PS The computer has been in hospital too and is working much better although they are telling me that some schoolchildren would refuse it even as a gift because it is so old and slow.
I don't blame them, a few hours ago my flopy drive decided not to work at all, at all.
:)
My father in law had a saying which has some merit.
"You can go through all of your life without even tripping over a matchstick and then, quite suddenly, in the matter of hours or days, your whole world seems to collapse around your heads."
Hey Randall its great to see you .
Dear all me hearties, randal is back on the scene at last.
I felt very emarrassed for trying to reply to all the birthday greetings I received last October and each and every time my computer let me down by loosing them in some peculiar way.
I would like this to be cheerier but what was can't be changed.
Arnold, Abbey and Lon are some of the names I remember so a very belated thankyou to all - much appreciated - especiaslly as it also celebrated my FREE TELEVISION LICENCE????
Fancy getting something for nothing in GREAT BRITAIN the sixth wealthiest nation on earth - wonders will never cease!!!!!!
Whilst the battle with the computer was going on my wife went down with that viral throat infection which appeared to infect the nation but mulitply hers by ten at least - antibiotics are no good for those unfilterable heathens.
So I was fully taken up with the house, etc. anyway it was getting pretty chilly up in the attic at the computer.
I had not been up to scratch all year (2006) since the worst attack of allergy had hit me in the winter/spring I had had for many a long year. Whilst treating my wife I felt going downhill too.
Then within about 48/72 hours I also was infected by that throat bug a week before Christmas.
The ashtma kicked in to - as it usually does given the slightest excuse and I found myself with the worst attack I have had since a child.
Here was I so cocky about having it under complete control for sixty years suddenly struck down until I felt that my diaphragms were moving up and down about half an inch without the slightest wheeze - silent asthma I call it and have always dreaded it as it has been always the harbginger of grim days ahead.
I hung on and hung on until one Saturday morning just before Christmas I - who had been sleeping in a chair for days - went through and told my wife that I would have to call a doctor no matter how I detested it.
I called the new 24 hour service and could hardly speak the to nurse who I ended up with.
When she used my name I was so out of touch I asked, "Do you know me?" She laughed and replied that my name was on the monitor screen in front of her.
"You sound a poor thing." she added. "Can't you get a neighbour to take you to hospital?" I replied that that was impossible but that perhaps if I drove slowly I could manage to get there OK.
"No way am I allowing you to drive in your condition. I'll send an ambulance."
Much to my surprise there was one at the door within fifteen minutes.
The first time I had ever been taken to a hospital in an ambulance and with asthma as well.
Another first awaited me when the nurse and German locum hooked me onto a nebulizer which slowly relieved my condition.
The German gave me a few antibiotics for my throat and sent me home after about an hour and a half telling me to sleep and sit in a chair. "Thank the Lord for TV ." was my responce. He didn't see the joke.
I had to take a taxi home and had no money with me which did not please the taxi driver who scowled at the delay when my wife came out in her dressing gown to pay him (Having once been in the job I knew that all he was thinking about was that time was a wasting and he could have been away to another fare - the fact that he had picked me up from a hospital brook no sympathy from him.)
However, on Sunday I deteriorated and by Monday had to call for a home visit and my own doctor appeared. He immediately seaized upon the fact that the German locum had given me no steroids and should have given me a nebulizer unit home with me. My wife forced herself to go down and collect both
three days later I had to call on the doctors again and two turned up at the house.
The younger turned out to be a professor and was very solicitious and could hardly believe that a fortnight before I had been taking the dog for mile walks - my reply when he asked me how many months had I been in that condition.
However, it was he who discovered that I had double pneumonia as well and although the elder wanted me back in bed he insisted that the sitting and sleeping in a chair was the best position for bringing up all that goo pneumonia produces.
The elder said that I must have an X-ray as soon as I was able. The recovery of both of us has taken so long I can only put it down to the weather such as yeterday and today where have had howling gales of wind sometimes with rain, hail sleet and snow and then an hour later brillinat sunshine which lasts about an hour.
Minus five dgrees Celcius when I got up at six thirty today and looked out on a snowwhite world. One gardener once told me that a good fall of snow was the best gardener in the world.
I eventually got out of the chair at the beginning of February and even had bed sores on my hips through sitting motionless for so long.
Then I had numerous blood tests to go through and the painless X-ray whcih turned out to show that only a tiny part of one lung was still affected. All test proved to be positive which is a wonder.
My wife, on the other hand had the opinion of three docotrs of her lung X-rays that although there was nothing obvious they all felt that something was not quite right as one diaphragm was quite a bif higher than the other.
So now she has to go into Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for another X-ray next Monday followed by a bronchoscopy to see if they can visually see what the insides of her lungs are like.
Our doctor said that, "If you had smoked forty cigarettes for forty years I would be a worried man - but you neither drink nor smoke and the likelhood is that it will be nothing significant at all."
So we wait, pray, hope and will see in a week's time.
God bless you all and it is good to see that you are mainly all still about.
randall
PS The computer has been in hospital too and is working much better although they are telling me that some schoolchildren would refuse it even as a gift because it is so old and slow.
I don't blame them, a few hours ago my flopy drive decided not to work at all, at all.
:)
My father in law had a saying which has some merit.
"You can go through all of your life without even tripping over a matchstick and then, quite suddenly, in the matter of hours or days, your whole world seems to collapse around your heads."
Hey Randall its great to see you .
Can go from 0 - to bitch in 3.0 seconds .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
Smile people :yh_bigsmi
yep, this bitch bites back .
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Good to see you back, hope your health prevails.
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
• Mae West
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You've been well and truely missed and your tale of woe only makes you're absence worse.
I hope life has turned back around the corner and things well be good for the pair of you.
I hope life has turned back around the corner and things well be good for the pair of you.
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(sic) Have you ever noticed that after a night on the falling down water you go for a Curry and the inevitable happens , you throw up on the way home and when you looked down there lots of bits of carrot in 
I don't eat bloody carrots
I don't eat bloody carrotsIF YOU CAN'T SAY GOOD ABOUT SOME ONE , KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
Did you know that too much chocolate shrinks your clothes
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:-6
randall,
Thanks to all for your welcome back and the good wishes expressed for the future.
The reason I went into so much detail is that we mainly see life as going far on into the distance beyond the horizon and then suddenly something like that can happen not only to one of you but to both or even a whole family,
Makes you stop and think.
Makes somethings more important and other important things of no consequence at all.
God bless you all.
Love.
randall
:)
randall,
Thanks to all for your welcome back and the good wishes expressed for the future.
The reason I went into so much detail is that we mainly see life as going far on into the distance beyond the horizon and then suddenly something like that can happen not only to one of you but to both or even a whole family,
Makes you stop and think.
Makes somethings more important and other important things of no consequence at all.
God bless you all.
Love.
randall
:)
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:-6
Have you ever noticed that just as soon as you are getting back into the rythym of life something always seems to go awray and knock you back again.
Is it natures way of just saying "Hey don't get too cocky you've still to obey my laws.?
Well after my previous post my computer started to go astray but in a shop I saw a magazine "Windows XP" the official edition and splashed across the cover was - more or less - how to get your computer running like new again.
So I bought it and followed the instructions very carefully and ended with two copies of Windows XP on my computer.
I had to get a more talented friend to remove one copy.
Heypresto! A week later my floppy disc drive gave up the ghost - it went out and in but would not play or record. I prefer it to disks for copying and backing up.
Today, a new floppy disk drive has been fitted and I am back in running condition again - I THINK?
Anyone heard that TalkTalk is somehow incompatible with Internet Explorer 7????
Download OPERA they said,you don't have to have IE6 or IE7.
I found it impossible to extract IE7and reinstall IE6 (I downloaded IE7 accidentally)as Microsoft programmes consider it to be superior the computer just refused to load IE6 again saying that there was a much later programme already installed.
OPERA is certainly more colourful and seems to work OK but we really are dictated to by all these "advances" and "Improvements".
My wife took it very badly when I told her that her TV's and VCR's would soon be unusable. They just force you to spend money you don't have.
I envy my parents generation when they really could cut back to the bare necessities of life when times got hard.
Another though.
What dangerous houses we lived in for the first third of our lives - gas lighting, open coal fires, water coming through a maze of lead pipes and a toilet in the garden in the middle of a winter's night with snow blowing uder the door - it makes you shudder to recall it.
Plus playing with mercury in the classroom. Buying "Boys' How To Make It" books which included how to make your own X-ray machine (honestly) and, of course, almost all paints had a lead base and we played and worked with red lead and white lead with abandonment - or is that why we are so healthy?
God bless you all.
randall
:)
Have you ever noticed that just as soon as you are getting back into the rythym of life something always seems to go awray and knock you back again.
Is it natures way of just saying "Hey don't get too cocky you've still to obey my laws.?
Well after my previous post my computer started to go astray but in a shop I saw a magazine "Windows XP" the official edition and splashed across the cover was - more or less - how to get your computer running like new again.
So I bought it and followed the instructions very carefully and ended with two copies of Windows XP on my computer.
I had to get a more talented friend to remove one copy.
Heypresto! A week later my floppy disc drive gave up the ghost - it went out and in but would not play or record. I prefer it to disks for copying and backing up.
Today, a new floppy disk drive has been fitted and I am back in running condition again - I THINK?
Anyone heard that TalkTalk is somehow incompatible with Internet Explorer 7????
Download OPERA they said,you don't have to have IE6 or IE7.
I found it impossible to extract IE7and reinstall IE6 (I downloaded IE7 accidentally)as Microsoft programmes consider it to be superior the computer just refused to load IE6 again saying that there was a much later programme already installed.
OPERA is certainly more colourful and seems to work OK but we really are dictated to by all these "advances" and "Improvements".
My wife took it very badly when I told her that her TV's and VCR's would soon be unusable. They just force you to spend money you don't have.
I envy my parents generation when they really could cut back to the bare necessities of life when times got hard.
Another though.
What dangerous houses we lived in for the first third of our lives - gas lighting, open coal fires, water coming through a maze of lead pipes and a toilet in the garden in the middle of a winter's night with snow blowing uder the door - it makes you shudder to recall it.
Plus playing with mercury in the classroom. Buying "Boys' How To Make It" books which included how to make your own X-ray machine (honestly) and, of course, almost all paints had a lead base and we played and worked with red lead and white lead with abandonment - or is that why we are so healthy?
God bless you all.
randall
:)
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hotsauce;49747 wrote: There are a lot more backwards people in the world than forwards people.
:yh_rofl that is so funny,,, and so true!!!!!!!:D
:yh_rofl that is so funny,,, and so true!!!!!!!:D
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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There are a lot more backwards people in the world than forwards people.
these kinds of statments are all based on a perspective in other words if you are a backwards person to some one then they will more then likely be a backwards person to you but to themselves they are a forward person not a backwards person and the paradox continues
these kinds of statments are all based on a perspective in other words if you are a backwards person to some one then they will more then likely be a backwards person to you but to themselves they are a forward person not a backwards person and the paradox continues
Theres a question but it doesn't get answered until some one knows what the question is so please ask it
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CEFW;1168186 wrote: There are a lot more backwards people in the world than forwards people.
these kinds of statments are all based on a perspective in other words if you are a backwards person to some one then they will more then likely be a backwards person to you but to themselves they are a forward person not a backwards person and the paradox continues
I agree... I have never been backwards at coming forward unless my forward is too forward , then i find my backward stance moving in to accelerate my forward stance.
these kinds of statments are all based on a perspective in other words if you are a backwards person to some one then they will more then likely be a backwards person to you but to themselves they are a forward person not a backwards person and the paradox continues
I agree... I have never been backwards at coming forward unless my forward is too forward , then i find my backward stance moving in to accelerate my forward stance.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
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and well, Minks, she's just upside down!:sneaky:
Life is just to short for drama.
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Are you now , or have you ever been?
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Robin313;1170895 wrote: Are you now , or have you ever been?
of course, we live in Canada!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
of course, we live in Canada!:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
Life is just to short for drama.
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Robin313;1170895 wrote: Are you now , or have you ever been?
No, and it's damn all business of McCarthy's anyhow :wah:
No, and it's damn all business of McCarthy's anyhow :wah:
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I miss Randall's stories
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill
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Me too. 
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Snowfire;1170926 wrote: I miss Randall's stories
A real character and a good man.
A real character and a good man.
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Puppy puke is gross........... even more gross is a dog eating the gross puppy puke:eek::eek:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
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Do you know the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh will put you to sleep?:wah:
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Snowfire;1170926 wrote: I miss Randall's stories
I miss Randall too......does anyone know how he is? I'm going to send him a pm or email now. He's a lovely man indeed:-4
I miss Randall too......does anyone know how he is? I'm going to send him a pm or email now. He's a lovely man indeed:-4
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Kathy Ellen;1171515 wrote: I miss Randall too......does anyone know how he is? I'm going to send him a pm or email now. He's a lovely man indeed:-4
Missed that one. Who is Randall and does he watch Winnie the Pooh? Just curious:wah:
Missed that one. Who is Randall and does he watch Winnie the Pooh? Just curious:wah:
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some children are playing the role of adults.
some adults play the role of children.
just sad, very sad.
some adults play the role of children.
just sad, very sad.
Life is just to short for drama.
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Odie;1171621 wrote: some children are playing the role of adults.
some adults play the role of children.
just sad, very sad.
Yes it is very sad, when life doesn't let children be children!
some adults play the role of children.
just sad, very sad.
Yes it is very sad, when life doesn't let children be children!
Cars 