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Manners are essential. You'll need them from climbing the corporate ladder to getting a discount on your cell phone bill.
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Basic cooking skills. You should know how to boil water, read a recipe and the difference between a tablespoon and a teaspoon. Your survival depends on it!! (Even Ramen has instructions)
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How to change a tire. If you drive or not, you will be in situation that calls for tire changing know how. When this day comes, nothing will be convenient, your phone will be dead and plan to get your favorite article of clothing dirty.
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How to read a map. GPS is great, but do you remember that time it told you to make a left turn and that left was a lake? Or the time your car charger died? Yeah... That's why this is important. (You should own a map too!)
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How to do basic math without a calculator. This is one skill they teach in school that you will need until you die.
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People outside of your family are different and more than likely, your family is crazy and dysfunctional. Deal with it. All family have crazies and secrets. You're not alone.
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Every man or woman that talks to you doesn't want your body, everyone that smiles at you doesn't have your best interest at heart and everyone that criticizes you isn't a hater. (Do the kids these days still say hater???)
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Love does not equal sex, gifts do not equal love and love is different for everybody but oddly the same.
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How to combine patience with logic, when you need lots of patience and when you need to let people know a table is going to get flipped if you don't get results. (please don't go around flipping tables because of this article. I claim no responsibility. *no tables were harmed in the making of this*)
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You CANNOT rely on spell check and autocorrect for grammar and spelling.
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The only person that has to be happy with you is you. Don't let society define you, it's often wrong.
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Mistakes are inevitable. Don't wallow in them, learn from them. You got this!!
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