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Nearly 71% of women would help pay for their engagement ring: They may see a ring as ‘proof of worthiness and desirability,’ says expert [ [link removed] ]
Sign of a healthy relationship or the end of western civilization as we know it?
Dad uses teen’s cell phone data to rescue her after she is forced into truck at knifepoint, police say [ [link removed] ]
Who gets the inevitable movie version of this one, Liam Neeson or Jason Statham?
I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”
The Last Four Years Ch. 11: Funding the Future: Congress Debates the Cost of Survival [ [link removed] ]
In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together
The Last Four Years Ch. 10 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 9 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 8 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 7 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 6 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 5 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 4 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 3 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 1 [ [link removed] ]
Also Worth A Look…
NASA to Launch Pandora Satellite to Search for Alien Life [ [link removed] ] - This has gone great in every single sci-fi movie where it’s been tried
Doctor says this many drinks will give you a hangover [ [link removed] ] - Useful information as you plan you New Years shenanigans
Sister’s sage advice leads Maryland woman to $50,000 lottery prize [ [link removed] ] - She’s never going to hear the end of that one
Best Friends Exchange the Same Birthday Card–Back and Forth–for 81 Years Straight [ [link removed] ] - Who says “festive” can’t also be “Cost-effective”?
StubHub mistakenly lists Christian show as Lamb of God metal concert [ [link removed] ] - Maybe they all made some new friends
$400,000 worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says [ [link removed] ] - You could almost feed a family of three with that many lobsters
Dating Apps Are Flirting With AI [ [link removed] ] - Skynet decides your relationship future in microseconds
Man Sues Wife for Malicious Abandonment After She Refuses to Donate Liver to Save His Life [ [link removed] ] - That seems like a bad sign for the long-term viability of their relationship… really any way you look at it
Report: Americans are still paying off credit debt from last Christmas [ [link removed] ] - That seems less than ideal
$300 Car Payments Are Now a ‘Thing of the Past’ [ [link removed] ] - That too seems less than ideal. Also, get ready for ten year car loans
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