I think Terry McGovern, daughter of Democractic Presidential Nominee and Senator George McGovern, said it best. Terry was brought into the ED of her local hospital for alcohol poisoining for the umpteenth time and an orderly asked her why she did it--kept on drinking in the face of irrefutable proof that she needed to quit to save her own life, and Terry said, "I don't know."
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.
"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie
Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
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