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Bladian

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8. Let's see here...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:34 PM

Feb 2012

I have my mom's temper. Probably not a good thing, but there it is. I have my dad's kind of odd sense of humor. And his impatience. My mother gets mad at us because we'll try to look for something (say a book) and after 30 seconds to a minute we'll both say, "Yeah it's not here. Musta given it away." And then, go figure, she looks and finds it right away.

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It what ways are you like your parents? I have my dad's solitaryness and empathy. I also [View all] applegrove Feb 2012 OP

I'm pretty much my own person but OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #1

That's cool Phentex Feb 2012 #9

I'm the perfect combination of my father's debilitating shyness and my mother's crippling insecurity 6000eliot Feb 2012 #2

I'm not. Chan790 Feb 2012 #3

From Dad, I learned how to be a big smart-ass, sarcastic, and to cuss The Genealogist Feb 2012 #4

I like to think that I got my Dad's ability to woodsprite Feb 2012 #5

I got the best and worst of both of them. kaitcat Feb 2012 #6

Well, I look just like my dad (although it's the look he had when Old Troop Feb 2012 #7

Let's see here... Bladian Feb 2012 #8

I look like my mother, but I'm my father's daughter. femmocrat Feb 2012 #10

My mom insisted I read the newspaper every day when I was 13 or so. I am so thankful for that. applegrove Feb 2012 #11

I think I have my mother's artistic temperment nolabear Feb 2012 #12

I have my dad's over sized head. It gets really annoying when I want to get a hat. My MC helmet is yellowcanine Feb 2012 #13