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George Lakoff has retired as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is now Director of the Center for the Neural Mind & Society (cnms.berkeley.edu).
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This WordPress.com site is for thoughts from "the other side"
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naming the results of a kjv-literalist homelife
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*Not really about marriage. Welcome anyway.
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all plans remain fluid until the moment of actuality
A blog full of humorous and poignant observations.
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adventures in losing Faith & Leaving Christian Science
Be suspect of anything encouraging you to reject your own curiosity.
embracing madness
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March 8, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Hi Ruth,
I read your whole story and it made me cry (I’m a sap!). It made the happy ending that much happier, though. SO glad you found a wonderful partner. I really like your Blog entries!
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March 8, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Thanks so much for reading! That’s a lot of reading you did there.
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March 8, 2014 at 3:48 pm
It took me awhile!! (several days, actually!) Heavy reading at times. . . but GOOD ON YA!! I won’t announce on your Blog what I’d like to do to your ex if I ever got the chance. Let’s just say it involves a heavy boot . . .
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March 8, 2014 at 4:29 pm
I sincerely appreciate that. I really do. But I’ve come to a place where I’m not sure he could help himself. It was my craziness for staying so long and thinking things would get better. Water under the bridge. I wish him no ill will. I hope he got the help he needed.
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