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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Dismal Nitch, AZ
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An ex-fiancé of mine spoke beautiful and perfect English - she also had a HUGE vocabulary.
Laced with sarcastic and clever humor, her speech was entertaining...the only thing about her I miss.
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She would freely correct my English...one frequent error of mine was using "lay" when "lie" was correct, etc.
It was easy to be corrected by her because of her tone of voice and her choice of words when doing so.
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I attended a Catholic Academy for my first 12 years of schooling where grammar/spelling was emphasized by the Sisters of St. Joseph. One of them used to say, "First we make habits, then our habits make us." (no pun intended)
I still make errors now/then, but they also taught that self-forgiveness is a good thing.
God bless their soles.
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Don
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"Fully integrated people, in their transparency, tend to not be subject to mechanisms of defense, disguise, deceit, and fraudulence."
- - Don R. 1994, an excerpt from My Ass From a Hole in the Ground - A Comparative View
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