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Let me e’splain… No. There is too much. Let me sum up:1<\/sup><\/p>\n My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.2<\/sup> Now that’s a hard motherfucking fact of life.3<\/sup> <\/p>\n No, I’m pretty fucking far from “OK.”3<\/sup> But when you can’t run anymore, you crawl. When you can’t do that, you find someone to carry you.4<\/sup> You gotta have your true friends by your side.5<\/sup><\/p>\n But no one seemed to understand. In his heart he knew the artist must be true, but the legend of the rent was way past due.6<\/sup> And I need just a little more silence, and I just need a little more time, the courage to pull away. There will be hell to pay.7<\/sup><\/p>\n But then, if we never _take_ time, how can we ever have time?8<\/sup><\/p>\n (answers here) (A vignette in media quotations.) Let me e’splain… No. There is too much. Let me sum up:1 My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.2 Now that’s a hard motherfucking fact of life.3 No, I’m pretty fucking far from “OK.”3 But when you can’t run anymore, you crawl. 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\n1 – Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride<\/i>
\n2 – Buffy, Earshot \/ Buffy, the Vampire Slayer<\/i>
\n3 – Marcellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction<\/i>
\n4 – Tracey and Zoe, The Message \/ Firefly<\/i>
\n5 – Sheldon Mopes, Death to Smoochy<\/i>
\n6 – Dewey Finn, School of Rock<\/i>
\n7 – Sarah McLachlan, Time<\/i>
\n8 – The Merovingian, The Matrix Reloaded<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"