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29. "It builds character!!"

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 04:56 PM

Jul 2013

That's what I always hear from the apologists from the money grubbers. I guess it did build character when I was young and going through it. But now, at 51, I'm quite the character or so I'm told so I guess I've had enough character building. Now in place of "it builds character" I guess I'd just have to say "this shit gets old"

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