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Old 01-24-2013, 01:13 PM   #9
Trilby
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I understand, too monster.

Barbara Ehrenreich (Of Nickel and Dimed fame) wrote her latest book about how she had cancer and she was sick to effing DEATH of all those positive polly's out there telling her chin up, etc.

here's the title from the US and UK: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009). In the United Kingdom this book is called Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World 9 January 2010 Guardian
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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


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