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Macchio won my heart in both "The Karate Kid" and "Crossroads". Kind of lost interest when he (and everybody else) milked the Kid franchise to death. "Crossroads" is a Love It/Hate It movie but well worth watching as it ages quite well.
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Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones,
In fact, he's remarkably fat.
He doesn't haunt pubs; he's got eight or nine clubs
For he's the St. James' Street Cat.

-T.S. Eliot, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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I was brought up in Dundee, Scotland, in the 1960s and our tenement buildings were similarly strewn. It's quite an ingenious system - the washing lines are attached to the poles in the center of the yards with pulleys. The housewives would reel the washing in and out like naval flags! In the basement of the buildings or in special out-houses would be the communal wash tubs, great big vats heated by a fire. Huge loads would be tipped into these vats and then stirred with a big wooden paddle or a washing 'dolly' before being scrubbed by the traditional wash-board. Mondays were indeed the traditional day for doing this, it was all part of the strage routine that went on in tenements and it was seen as 'bad form' to have washing hanging out on any other day. As the 1970s came and the tenements started to disappear - and electric washing machines became available - this way of life started to disappear. Although I still know older Scots who still abide by 'Wash Monday'.
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By the way, the hangar itself is not a leftover of the military base, but of a sadly failed attempt to create a new industry around constructing airships. You are looking at the giant graveyard of a failed public infrastructure investment http://goo.gl/maps/daRvH
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They don't owe those parents a thing. My parents were abusive (nothing for the record books, but emotionally and sometimes physically), and have disowned me because of their cultish religion. You can say I've forgiven them, because I've just let it go and don't dwell on it, but I have not forgotten.

I worked as an aide in special education many years ago, and I recognized that going through life hoping to be loved by those who cannot is a drain on you. You will NOT get resolution by forgiving and caring for them. The great majority will not change and you will only open old wounds by dealing with them.
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she screwed up when she had it in a bar,with other minors invited without the parents knowing about it. rather she grew up before becoming a mommy is a pointless argument. its not the age, its the mentality. she is poor in the commonsense department.
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