Good Morning Michael 🏆

 

How was he ever supposed to play wide receiver for the L.A. Rams if nobody passed him

 the stupid football, for crying out loud?

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Los Angeles Rams Win Super Bowl LVI

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The Los Angeles Rams won't have to travel far to enjoy a celebratory Super Bowl victory parade.

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Hold Me While You Wait

He said nothing. Tears were clogging his throat. Understanding, she

turned to him. Holding each other, they sat in silence as the sun rose

higher and dried the dew on the tall grass.

"I should never have left you," he murmured.

"We left each other."

"Why?" He tightened his grip. "Why?"

"I've thought about it so many times. I think we couldn't bear to be

happy. That we felt, or I did, that if we could be happy after he was

gone, it would be like dishonoring him. It was wrong."

"Bev." He turned his face into her hair. "Don't go. Please don't go."

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Rekindled romances are so intense

He wasn't the young man who had once loved her. Nor was she the same

woman. They were more patient now. They didn't tumble onto the bed,

but lowered slowly, knowing each moment was precious when so many had

been lost.

And yet, though they had changed, their bodies moved easily together.

When she reached for him the years seemed to vanish.

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By Виктория Злых - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76837594

The psychology of why rekindled romances are so intense

Last month, the New York Times’ Modern Love column told the tale of two romantic relationships that ended and were then rekindled many years later. The author’s romance first ended when her boyfriend lost the piece of paper with her address and had no other way of contacting her. When they saw each other again after 20 years, she writes, “Our long-lost love was still there.”

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It was a very subdued Rogan who left his grandmother's parlor and

swung by the gallery just past closing. He didn't want to believe he'd

seen what he knew he'd seen. Just as Maggie had once said, when a

couple is intimate, they throw off signals.

His grandmother, for God's sake, was flirting with Maggie's

moon-faced uncle from Galway.

Born in Fire

reason to not clean our homes

"Michael, not to
intrude, but could I ask how long you've been living this way?"
'l bought the place about four years ago."
"And you're still alive. You're a strong man, Michael."


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We finally have a scientifically-backed reason to not clean our homes

It’s interesting to see that housework isn’t just annoying, but possibly very damaging to our health, too. And while we now have a pretty good excuse to NOT do housework, we still have to wonder, “Who will do it FOR US?” Any volunteers?

YAHOO!

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It was her first free day since resuming her role of Amanda. 
She was spending it doing something she rarely started, and more rarely finished. 
Housecleaning.
In tattered shorts and a halter, she sat on her windowsill two stories
up, and leaning out, washed the outside of her windows. 
The volume on her radio was turned up so that the sinuous violins of Scheherazade
all but shook the panes. 
Occasionally someone from the neighborhood would shout up at her. 
 Ariel would stop working— - something that took no effort at all— - and shout back down.


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What’s in your fridge?

But what was she doing with her head in his refrigerator?
"What are you doing?"
"Fixing you breakfast. You have one egg. How would you like it?"
"Cooked." He drained the cup and hobbled back for another dose.
"Your bologna's green, and there's something in here that might be
alive." She took out the egg, a hunk of cheese, and a heel of bread.
"I've never seen things move in a refrigerator before. Got a skillet?"

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Photographer Mark Menjivar wants to know. The 33-year-old San Antonio, Texas, native has spent the past four years snapping the insides of people’s refrigerators for “You Are What You Eat,” a photo series that recently inspired his first book, simply titled "Refrigerators," to be published in December.

“I was hoping to learn about people through their food — refrigerators are a private space — but more importantly to shine light on how people take care of their bodies and our food supply,”

 

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 “Me too. Then what do you say we flip to see who cooks dinner?”
“Buzzing up sissy frozen dinners isn’t worthy of a flip.”
“I was thinking of the steaks we have in the meat drawer of the fridge.”
“We have steaks?” The day got brighter. “We have a meat drawer?” She smiled and got to her feet.
“Yes, we do.”
“Okay, the meat drawer probably came with the fridge. How did we get steaks? Do you have a magic cow somewhere?”
“No, I have a fairy stepmother, who delivers. I asked Syl if she’d pick us up a couple steaks, Idahos, some staples I needed. She dropped them off today, including a bunch of fresh vegetables and fruit because she thinks we need those, too. That’s why there are fresh vegetables in the crisper. And yes, we have a crisper.”
He decided there was no point in telling her he’d looked in the fridge and seen none of those things.
There’d just be some variation of his mother’s standard crack about Male Refrigerator Blindness
Syndrome.

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