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New take – Complete the story with one or more tasty addictions, just for fun?

  • Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:21 pm

As the other entries, won both by Silva, complete the story in a cooperative fashion, adding one addition after the other one. Wins the tastiest, better addition.

Once upon a time, there was a master dollmaker, old and alone. When he was younger, he built toys and dolls for all the children of his town, then for the children of those children, and for their nephews and nieces. However, now he was old, really old, and without no one to care with him.

So, he built a mechanical doll. She was a lifesized doll, with skin of bone china, painted lips, eyes and cheeks, with a cherubic, kind expression, and the ageless apperance of a young lady, a ballerina, down to the simple white dress and the ballerina slippers. A complex, hidden, and enchanted mechanism gave her the ability to move freely, and to think a little by herself. She was able to silently care for her “father” (having a painted face, and being a doll, she couldn’t even speak to him), and sometimes ventured out of her place to shop for groceries. Being a doll, she couldn’t feel emotion, but, somehow, she felt uneasy being surrounded by fleshy people, and always came back home in no time. She had no passions, not even something she liked: however, due to her mechanical nature, she felt “drawn” to order and neatness. And even without knowing what love was, she deeply cared for her father, as daughter would be for her aging father.

One day, however, his father “broke”. To her, he seemed just broken. He didn’t move anymore, he didn’t speak to her. The doll stayed at his side for some days, then, without nothing else to do, went away.

No one suspected she was a mere doll, they just thought she had gone silent and weird by grieving, and being all alone for so many time, so no one paid attention to her.

One day the ballerina doll, after winding up her gears, saw a group of ballet dancers, performing in public. She felt drawn to that group of girls, moving almost as exactly and neatly as she could, and tried to dance with them.

The other girls, and the public, were amazed, impressed by her ability, and, after the show, the girls brought the unknown ballerina in white behind the scenes to converse a bit with her…

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Drugs and other addictions!?

  • Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:22 am

im reading a book called the Parlor House Daughter. And i was also watching the history channel on western prostitutes. And in both the book and show it mentions something about opium. in the book the women used it to kill herself? what is it and what does it do? what are the affects or benefits?

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Addictions, please help. My daughter is 14, skinny, tall?

  • Posted on October 15, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Is it possible to have an addiction to diet coke.
Not coke as in cocaine, coke as in diet cola.
My daughter is drinking up to 12 cans of it a day
and if she doesnt have it, she cant seem to concentrate
she freaks out, screams
makes me go out late at night to get her a can.
she is altogetehr calmer and more sociable when she has drunk a few cans of it.
She never normally demands anything, she just puts up with what she has and is happy with it
but with diet coke, its like she needs it to survive.
I’ve asked her why she like sit so much, and she said that when she drinks it, everything is calmer again. she said she feels happier.
I have noticed that when she doesnt have any, she goes very pale and shakey, sometimes being sick and getting dizzy spells.
She was reccently taken off flouroxotine and lorazipan, and i am wondering if her body has replaced one addiction with another.
Is this possible?
She has an addictive personality, and is a severe depression sufferer.
What is the best thing for me to do?

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Addictions? please help.?

  • Posted on September 28, 2010 at 7:21 pm

Is it possible to have an addiction to diet coke.
Not coke as in cocaine, coke as in diet cola.
My daughter is drinking up to 12 cans of it a day
and if she doesnt have it, she cant seem to concentrate
she freaks out, screams
makes me go out late at night to get her a can.
she is altogetehr calmer and more sociable when she has drunk a few cans of it.
She was reccently taken off flouroxotine and lorazipan, and i am wondering if her body has replaced one addiction with another.
Is this possible?
What is the best thing for me to do?
ALSO:
She never normally demands anything, she just puts up with what she has and is happy with it
but with diet coke, its like she needs it to survive.
I’ve asked her why she like sit so much, and she said that when she drinks it, everything is calmer again. she said she feels happier.
I have noticed that when she doesnt have any, she goes very pale and shakey, sometimes being sick and getting dizzy spells.
She has an addictive personality, and is a severe depression sufferer.
And shes 14.

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Addictions? help please.?

  • Posted on September 22, 2010 at 1:21 am

Is it possible to have an addiction to diet coke.
Not coke as in cocaine, coke as in diet cola.
My daughter is drinking up to 12 cans of it a day
and if she doesnt have it, she cant seem to concentrate
she freaks out, screams
makes me go out late at night to get her a can.
she is altogetehr calmer and more sociable when she has drunk a few cans of it.
She was reccently taken off flouroxotine and lorazipan, and i am wondering if her body has replaced one addiction with another.
Is this possible?
What is the best thing for me to do?
ALSO:
She never normally demands anything, she just puts up with what she has and is happy with it
but with diet coke, its like she needs it to survive.
I’ve asked her why she like sit so much, and she said that when she drinks it, everything is calmer again. she said she feels happier.
I have noticed that when she doesnt have any, she goes very pale and shakey, sometimes being sick and getting dizzy spells.
She has an addictive personality, and is a severe depression sufferer.
and shes 14.

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Should I leave my husband because of his gambling addictions?

  • Posted on August 19, 2010 at 7:22 am

Met my husband when we were 20 married after 4 years of dating. I knew he had a gambling problem but I thought getting married would change him. I got pregnant 4 months after we got married and I thought (again) that having a child will change him. He is gambling non stop. Even using his dad’s card to bet online. He is using credit cards that were paid off to bet online. I even had to use cash advances on mine to get him out of debt from gambling. I complain and he gets mad at me. He says: “Do you think I like to lose?” or “I only lost $500 it’s not the same as losing $2000.” When I go to sleep that’s when he starts betting. Every month, we’re short because the money goes to his gambling. I’m tired and I feel bad for my daughter. I don’t want to have a husband like this. I’d rather work 2 jobs to support my daughter than having 2 jobs to support his gambling… please help…
How can I help him? I tried not getting upset when he loses money. I’d asked him not to and he would just do it behind my back. I took his credit cards away but he just took it off the statements and bet online. I tried to leave him numerous times but his promises are always empty.
How can I help him? I tried not getting upset when he loses money. I’d asked him not to and he would just do it behind my back. I took his credit cards away but he just took it off the statements and bet online. I tried to leave him numerous times but his promises are always empty.

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We all have many addictions, but I have an addiction to the wrong men can you tell me why?

  • Posted on July 25, 2010 at 1:46 pm

youngest child, only daughter, two older brothers and never once could I get my oldest brother to accept me. Seems I could never get my father to believe in me. I am 46 years old caught in a time warp.

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Smoking – It’s All in Your Mind (Or – Why the Patch Doesn’t Work)

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Your want to smoke isn’t caused by the decrease of nicotine levels in your blood, despite what many people want you to believe. It’s because your mind is trained to desire cigarettes at various points during the day.

There’s a very simple example to demonstrate this. Do you smoke every, say, hour? No, you smoke when you’re on the phone, when you’re in the car, or right after you’ve had a fight with your wife. Your smoke to relieve stress, not to satisfy your craving for nicotine.

You don’t hear yourself say “wow, I could sure go for some nicotine right now.” Instead, you say “huh, let’s take a break and have a smoke.” There’s a key difference there, and it’s something that few people who want to quit realize.

Just as smoking is something your mind desires, quitting has to be done by dealing with your desires directly. You have to figure out what your mental triggers are and how they work in order to stop your urges for cigarettes. The nicotine patch, gum, and the like don’t work because they treat your physical addiction to nicotine.

You’ve probably heard of a ton of people who are on the patch yet still want a cigarette. If cigarette addictions were physical addictions, that would never happen because their want for nicotine would be resolved by their replacement therapy, but it’s not.

Again, smoking addiction is caused by your mind and its want for cigarettes, not from any sort of physical conditions.

Now that you understand how smoking works, you’re ready to learn how to quit smoking and kick your habit.

Smoking – It’s All in Your Mind

Article Source: Smoking – It’s All in Your Mind (Or – Why the Patch Doesn’t Work)

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