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Our high school valedictorian got an engineering degree, married a classmate, and developed some new system for jet engines with her. I heard recently that their company just got a big military contract.

@StephieAye The ring of fire is the pain that you feel when the baby crowns. Some people say it’s not as bad as labor pain for them, but it was significantly worse for me! But the upside is that it passed very quickly and I actually felt great afterwards.

This happened to me when I had my twins, but with a spinal instead of an epidural because I was ready to push by the time I got to delivery. The ring of fire was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced, but as soon as the baby was out, it was like a huge endorphin rush and I suddenly… Read More

#19 reminds me of an office where I used to work, where someone had edited a small poster of the serenity prayer to say, “God grant me the serenity to work with Jeanine.”

I remember watching The Fox and the Hound when I was a kid and crying so hard that my siblings got mad that they couldn’t hear the movie, so my mom had to pause it while I calmed down.

@silkypear23 That’s not accurate. The US department of transportation reported about 43,000 car accident deaths in 2021 vs over 300,000 COVID deaths reported by Johns Hopkins in 2021. In fact, more people died of Covid in 2021 than died in any type of accident. Thankfully, Covid… Read More

When I was a senior in high school, we had a young teacher fresh out of college who all the girls had huge crushes on. My friends would talk about how they were going to ask him out the minute they graduated. About three years later, he married the newly-divorced school secretary,… Read More

I took a first aid class in college that was taught by an EMT. This was in rural Maine where there was a big lumber industry. The first day of class, the teacher told us a story about a guy who was killed by a debarker that haunts me to this day.

This very nearly happened to my sister’s ex-boyfriend. He was lucky that he only ended up with some broken bones and was able to drag himself back to the road to get help.

My older sister is the greatest. I named my youngest daughter after her.