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   PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Win32  Jun 19 2020 MSC    
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   Don,   
      
    DL> Having been alone for decades...this never bothered me. What surprised   
    DL> me was when co-workers/friends came to visit me.   
      
     What was strange is that before I got married, I was happy being single.   
   Then, when I got married over 17 years ago, I was happy. But, after being   
   a widower over 13 years, while I'm busier than I was when I was married,   
   some days, it does get awfully lonely. At this stage of life, so many   
   folks have "too much baggage and drama" to deal with...and I don't want,   
   or need that.   
      
    DL> Good to hear!   
      
     I'm hoping to get the one night stay written off. Since I basically   
   have no family locally (my brother is in worse physical shape than I   
   am, and I nearly suffocate around him, as he smokes and drinks), and    
   all my friends work, and have families, it's difficult to get a ride   
   to and from the facility, but impossible to get someone to stay with   
   me overnight at the house. Both parents are dead and gone now.   
      
    DL> The last 1 you mentioned was something else men should be tested for as   
    DL> well.   
      
     I know a male ham radio operator who is a breast cancer survivor.    
   While not as common as breast cancer in women, it does occur in men.   
      
    DL> Had friends with this & it's worse. My kidney stones the 1st time would   
    DL> beat both of these.   
      
     One woman told me that she would rather have quintuplets (5 at once),   
   in hard labor, with no anesthesia or epidural...than 1 kidney stone.   
   That pretty much sums it up.   
      
     Another woman told me "If we women can pass a kid, you men can pass   
   a kidney stone". I told her "But, unlike the female cervix, the male   
   penis can NOT dialate".   
      
    DS> "Not quite". When she talked to her Mom (who's black, and her Dad is   
    DS> white...but they're both a couple of nuts ), she said "I'll bet you   
    DS> didn't think you had a son that looked like him!!" .   
      
    DL> ;)   
      
     When talking to her Mom nowadays, and I make a real bad pun, etc.,   
   I'm told "Go to your room!!" .   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Don't raise the bar!! It's too hard to get the drinks!!   
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