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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Was going to Spain to see a friends band back in the late 1980's n changed my mind last minute, so didn't go.
On the way to the airport the car crashed killing 4 out of 5 of them."
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over a year ago
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"Dying twice with meningitis...both within 24 hours of each othertrust you are fit and healthy now  "
Has a bit of a scare last month, after having an infection so was put in an isolation ward for 48 hours...oh the joys of being high risk |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Someone tried to push me in front of a tube train in the northern line but mistimed it and I bounced off the drivers door.
Shook me up tbf. "
that's awful doll x |
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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago
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"Someone tried to push me in front of a tube train in the northern line but mistimed it and I bounced off the drivers door.
Shook me up tbf. "
Holy crap that’s horrible and incredibly lucky. Glad you’re still with us. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Someone tried to push me in front of a tube train in the northern line but mistimed it and I bounced off the drivers door.
Shook me up tbf. was it just random my friend  "
I’m assuming so. Though ever since I’ve been wary in the tube and very conscious of who is around or behind me. |
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105mm (I think) rockets being used as mortars. Basra Airport - favourite of the locals to lie the things on corrugated sheets, line them up with the ATC tower and set them off. We were based at the base of the tower... Thankfully they weren't that good an aim  |
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"Someone tried to push me in front of a tube train in the northern line but mistimed it and I bounced off the drivers door.
Shook me up tbf. was it just random my friend
I’m assuming so. Though ever since I’ve been wary in the tube and very conscious of who is around or behind me. "
great you are in good health and here to tell the tale xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"105mm (I think) rockets being used as mortars. Basra Airport - favourite of the locals to lie the things on corrugated sheets, line them up with the ATC tower and set them off. We were based at the base of the tower... Thankfully they weren't that good an aim "
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over a year ago
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At 10 yrs old I had a grumbling appendix, ok so the pain only ever came on on a Sunday night (school next day) the doctor said I just didn’t want to go to school. After 3 months of infrequent pain a locum diagnosed appendicitis and referred me to hospital. After the surgery the surgeon said that it was so strangulated it was ready to burst, quite likely I would have had blood poisoning and it would have killed me.
Years later in 1993 I had an infection in my hip (after a riding accident 6 months earlier) I’d had a few infections while in hospital after the initial operation and after getting home. This time the surgeon ignored me and said I just needed more physio, 3 weeks later after a physio appt for which I was late for as I could hardly move they organised a GP home visit for me the next morning, she organised an ambulance, when in the ward the resident dr took blood. This showed that my infection level was off the chart I was also severely anaemic.
An emergency operation later revealed an abscess ready to burst inside, they only just caught it in time. I hadn’t realised I was very ill. After that my surgeon referred me to a different surgeon. |
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"At 10 yrs old I had a grumbling appendix, ok so the pain only ever came on on a Sunday night (school next day) the doctor said I just didn’t want to go to school. After 3 months of infrequent pain a locum diagnosed appendicitis and referred me to hospital. After the surgery the surgeon said that it was so strangulated it was ready to burst, quite likely I would have had blood poisoning and it would have killed me.
Years later in 1993 I had an infection in my hip (after a riding accident 6 months earlier) I’d had a few infections while in hospital after the initial operation and after getting home. This time the surgeon ignored me and said I just needed more physio, 3 weeks later after a physio appt for which I was late for as I could hardly move they organised a GP home visit for me the next morning, she organised an ambulance, when in the ward the resident dr took blood. This showed that my infection level was off the chart I was also severely anaemic.
An emergency operation later revealed an abscess ready to burst inside, they only just caught it in time. I hadn’t realised I was very ill. After that my surgeon referred me to a different surgeon. "
wow thanks for sharing the story . Trust you are fit and well now . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"At 10 yrs old I had a grumbling appendix, ok so the pain only ever came on on a Sunday night (school next day) the doctor said I just didn’t want to go to school. After 3 months of infrequent pain a locum diagnosed appendicitis and referred me to hospital. After the surgery the surgeon said that it was so strangulated it was ready to burst, quite likely I would have had blood poisoning and it would have killed me.
Years later in 1993 I had an infection in my hip (after a riding accident 6 months earlier) I’d had a few infections while in hospital after the initial operation and after getting home. This time the surgeon ignored me and said I just needed more physio, 3 weeks later after a physio appt for which I was late for as I could hardly move they organised a GP home visit for me the next morning, she organised an ambulance, when in the ward the resident dr took blood. This showed that my infection level was off the chart I was also severely anaemic.
An emergency operation later revealed an abscess ready to burst inside, they only just caught it in time. I hadn’t realised I was very ill. After that my surgeon referred me to a different surgeon. wow thanks for sharing the story . Trust you are fit and well now . "
Because of the abscess in my hip, it cut off the blood supply to my femur which then died and crumbled. It left that leg short by about 3.5 inches, so had to wear a shoe raise on the outside of my shoes/boots, whenever I bought new ones I had to wait ages to wear them as they had to be sent to Newcastle to a specialist. In 2006 I had a total hip replacement with a “girdle stone” attached to lengthen my leg (it’s just a small bit of metal placed somewhere not sure about the jist of it) but my muscles were quite tight, I’m stil about am inch out, so need to use a crutch for balance, or ill end up looking like some sober d*unk idiot outside lol. I’m supposed to wear a heel raise inside my shoe but I can’t be arsed with it. Incidentally, after the accident (horse landed on me) I got riding again, and again after the replacement. Since then I’ve had both knees done too as a knock on effect of the hip. |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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Sitting in the back garden, aged 12. Heard a lot of screaming and shouting from the next door's house.
Turned out his son, who was in my year at school, had his Dad's rifle aimed at me and was going to take a shot. His Dad walked in on him as he was taking the safety off.
The screaming and shouting was their son protesting how it was unfair that Dad wouldn't let him shoot me. |
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Sat on a wall outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton after a gig waiting for the lift home. A week or so later, a bomb went off in the hotel. It was stated the bomb was planted well in advance. Therefore it was in the hotel at the time we were outside. |
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"Sitting in the back garden, aged 12. Heard a lot of screaming and shouting from the next door's house.
Turned out his son, who was in my year at school, had his Dad's rifle aimed at me and was going to take a shot. His Dad walked in on him as he was taking the safety off.
The screaming and shouting was their son protesting how it was unfair that Dad wouldn't let him shoot me."
you look such a gentle soul aswell  |
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Someone who was in more of a rush for the train than me one morning. She pushed past me as I stepped out onto the crossing, making me lose balance and check myself before stepping again…. she got hit by a car as I did |
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"Sitting in the back garden, aged 12. Heard a lot of screaming and shouting from the next door's house.
Turned out his son, who was in my year at school, had his Dad's rifle aimed at me and was going to take a shot. His Dad walked in on him as he was taking the safety off.
The screaming and shouting was their son protesting how it was unfair that Dad wouldn't let him shoot me."
Hope you reported to the police? |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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"Sitting in the back garden, aged 12. Heard a lot of screaming and shouting from the next door's house.
Turned out his son, who was in my year at school, had his Dad's rifle aimed at me and was going to take a shot. His Dad walked in on him as he was taking the safety off.
The screaming and shouting was their son protesting how it was unfair that Dad wouldn't let him shoot me.
Hope you reported to the police?"
We did, but nothing came of it. The father claimed that it was a misunderstanding, although years later admitted that it was genuine.
The son later went to prison for other offences. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Semi pro bike racer.
Broke my neck in 2007 at Brands Hatch.
Snapped back of my C4 off completely.
Luckily it didn’t commute.
Friend of mine with same accident is quadriplegic. "
You are incredibly lucky there I remember you telling me that!  |
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Uncannily, I was thinking about this incident about half an hour ago and wondered whether to start a similar thread.
About 20 years ago I was driving along a road on Vancouver Island and was aware of a train blowing its whistle continously. It was running parallel to me from my left and suddenly it dawned on me that the driver was blowing the whistle at me as, unbeknow to me my road crossed the track at an angle further ahead where there was an unguarded level crossing.
Had I been a fraction ahead of the train I wouldn't be here now. Trains are fascinating to look at but not when you should be looking out for level crossing warning signs on an unfamiliar road.
What made me think of this was a car alongside me to my left pulling out into a main road without a clear view to the right past me. |
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"Semi pro bike racer.
Broke my neck in 2007 at Brands Hatch.
Snapped back of my C4 off completely.
Luckily it didn’t commute.
Friend of mine with same accident is quadriplegic.
You are incredibly lucky there I remember you telling me that! "
Yep. Feel lucky everyday. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Fell out of a tree and landed on my head when I was 8, it was about 6 foot. Bounced, got up and carried on regardless.
Fell into a pit about 21 feet deep in the woods, sign was hidden. same results as before, this time I had a cut on my nasal bridge, had a butterfly stitch, no pain killers.
Decades later. I Found out what an airbag smelled like when my car hit a rather greasy patch on a bend and picked a fight with a pick up truck driven by a bloke called Elvis. I was more pissed off with the fact he wouldn't give me his details, as he couldn't read or write. I developed a way of standing up with severely bruised ribs. It works, feel free to ask. |
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In my teens I stepped out in front of a car, and despite being thrown several meters had nothing worse than bruising.
In 1992 was visiting a mate at Uni in Manchester and we had walked past the Arndale Centre about 30 minutes before the bomb went off. |
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A medical misdiagnosis which should have been fatal within a week. It was discovered and corrected at six weeks.
I was in agony for six weeks, so... maybe not bullet dodged. Bullet didn't hit a particularly fatal spot. |
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Not sure if these count.
I got hit by a car and taken a quarter of the way around the roundabout under the front of his car, i lost two front teeth, ripped the gums from both jaws, hair fracture of my upper jaw, and other cuts and bruises. I was 7 at the time, cycling home to St. Helens from Mold.
Got shot in the eye with an air pistol, lucky enough to lose some sight in the eye.
Had a car pull out in front of my on a dual carriageway, both me and the bike went over the bonnet of the car. I landed on the back of my head and rolled for a long way, I had concussion, whiplash, bruising and a blister on my little toe. The blister hurt the worst. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fuck me looks like most of us are lucky to be here - good job final destination is just a film 
Also had a random round ping into the floor about a foot behind me as I walking to the line in Bagram. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is one of the best threads I’ve ever read on here. You are all awesome.
Every. one. Of. You.
Also check out EMDR therapy if you haven’t- can help with overcoming trauma xx"
Huge Salute .. seriously...to come out of those and live to talk about it ..wow. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"105mm (I think) rockets being used as mortars. Basra Airport - favourite of the locals to lie the things on corrugated sheets, line them up with the ATC tower and set them off. We were based at the base of the tower... Thankfully they weren't that good an aim "
When were you there? I was there in 2003-04. |
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I was pissed out of my mind at my mate’s 21st birthday do on the night of the 12th August 1989. On the Marchioness. It was an awesome night, what I remember of it; I can’t even remember how I got home. The following week it collided with the Bow Belle and fifty odd people drowned.
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By (user no longer on site)
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This will be a bit long and I was only two at the time so I don’t know if it counts… but when I was two my parents decided to go to a small town called omagh to do a bit of shopping on the 15th of august 1998. When we got there we went into a shop and my father realised he had forgotten his wallet at home so back down the road we went, parents say when we got home and they watched the news they realised we would have been within 50meters of the bomb before it went off  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"Sat on a wall outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton after a gig waiting for the lift home. A week or so later, a bomb went off in the hotel. It was stated the bomb was planted well in advance. Therefore it was in the hotel at the time we were outside."
It was planted well in advance and was attached to the timer from a VHS recorder; I was in a building society office in Belfast several years ago, and the guy who was convicted for planting the device, Mr Magee, was in the queue in front of me! |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
I came within seconds of being crushed to death on a ferry in Sweden; the gap between the bulkhead and the train on the ferry was very small. A student was killed by having his head crushed a few years later at the same spot; there were no signs, no visible warnings; nothing!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"105mm (I think) rockets being used as mortars. Basra Airport - favourite of the locals to lie the things on corrugated sheets, line them up with the ATC tower and set them off. We were based at the base of the tower... Thankfully they weren't that good an aim
When were you there? I was there in 2003-04."
I was on the Chinook we took into Basra airport to scope it out prior to using it as a base. Had the jump seat and privilege of looking the airport building straight on as the crew max powered straight at it and leapfrogged it - absolutely shat myself if I'm honest. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"105mm (I think) rockets being used as mortars. Basra Airport - favourite of the locals to lie the things on corrugated sheets, line them up with the ATC tower and set them off. We were based at the base of the tower... Thankfully they weren't that good an aim
When were you there? I was there in 2003-04.
I was on the Chinook we took into Basra airport to scope it out prior to using it as a base. Had the jump seat and privilege of looking the airport building straight on as the crew max powered straight at it and leapfrogged it - absolutely shat myself if I'm honest."
I wasn't there until September  2003, until the end of January 2004; quite organised by then. |
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By *Marvel-Man
over a year ago
In The Gym |
There's been two occasions I can remember in my life.
The 1st I was around 8 years old walking home from the shops in the rain. For some odd reason I just decided to stop walking. Then a bolt of lightning struck the pavement immediately infront of me. If I'd not have stopped I'd have been in that exact spot. I remember the flash really well but I don't remember the noise. Also the pavement was steaming due to the heat and the rain.
The 2nd occasions I was 16 walking to college from the bus station. It was a mega windy day and stuff was flying all over the place. A few of the buildings I walk past were in a state of disrepair and you could visibility see the render was coming away on the walls exposing the bricks. A McDonald's paper bag hit me in the face due to being blown around so I stopped walking. Moments later roughly 4 bricks came crashing down from one of the buildings infront of me. This was another lucky escape as I'd have been in that exact spot again otherwise. On the way home from college the entire wall had barriers infront of it to stop people walking close by incase more bricks fell off. |
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"This will be a bit long and I was only two at the time so I don’t know if it counts… but when I was two my parents decided to go to a small town called omagh to do a bit of shopping on the 15th of august 1998. When we got there we went into a shop and my father realised he had forgotten his wallet at home so back down the road we went, parents say when we got home and they watched the news they realised we would have been within 50meters of the bomb before it went off "
I have a similar story about the IRA bomb in Manchester in 1996. My Dad was going to take us out in Manchester but changed his mind at the last minute. Then...... We know what happened. |
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Actual or metaphorical?
4 x 7.62mm rounds that hit my car as I was driving. Although I can't take credit for actually dodging them, I was just lucky that they missed me.
I didn't dodge the no7. Birdshot that peppered my arse as kid when a mate and I were poaching. But that barely penetrated. And I still have an airgun pellet in my shin from when a mate shot me.
The metaphorical near misses that actually make my blood go cold at the thought are things like, being stalked by a Tiger Shark. Almost trampled by a Hippopotamus. A couple of venomous snake encounters. Rolling my land rover on a dirt road in the countryside when d*unk one night, with no seatbelt on and landing straddling a railway line. Escaping from armed hostage takers. Being knocked out by lightning. Being trapped overnight in the mountains with a mate during a mid summer snowstorm in shorts and a T shirt. The last was probably the closest I've come to actually dying in my many, many stupid misadventures...
I honestly could write a book but I don't think anyone would believe that you can actually pack that much stupid into one lifetime! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Real was a 30mm round from a rotary cannon, tore right through not even a seat in front, got a few burns of shrapnel tho.
Also should been at a meeting at American express on 11th September but had food poisoning so postponed it from breakfast to lunch, the restaurant was at the top of the tower so would been fucked. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Being road raged and followed late one night, me on a moped, him in a car, he very soon went on to bludgeon someone to death and went to prison. Saw his face on the front page of the papers and gasped it was him. |
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Another one for me that was too close for comfort. I shoot a lot. Have open certs etc.
Was mentoring a local chap to get his FAC and on one of our walks through some scrub his muzzle awareness was terrible, he’d failed to put the safety on and he negligently discharged a round past my ear.
Took his rifle off him there and then and took his cert away.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This will be a bit long and I was only two at the time so I don’t know if it counts… but when I was two my parents decided to go to a small town called omagh to do a bit of shopping on the 15th of august 1998. When we got there we went into a shop and my father realised he had forgotten his wallet at home so back down the road we went, parents say when we got home and they watched the news they realised we would have been within 50meters of the bomb before it went off
I have a similar story about the IRA bomb in Manchester in 1996. My Dad was going to take us out in Manchester but changed his mind at the last minute. Then...... We know what happened. "
Mental it’s that similar |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Wow there are some interesting stories on here...
One corner over on the isle of man ... Remember thinking "well if I survive this I'm definitely waking up in hospital. I actually made the corner in the end. I've done a lot of things which have nearly resulted in death but this one corner is the one that I never forget. The mind is weird. |
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Growing up where I did there were too many close calls to highlight one but bullets, bombs and highjackings were all the norm Also had a gun to my head on numerous occasions from Loyalists and Republicans as well as members of the so called security forces who were all in the process of stealing goods from my vehicle at the time. |
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To those of you who served, and actively and deliberately put yourselves in the path of potential harm to protect others... I take my hat off and thank you for your service!
Your courage makes my own misadventures, however dangerous seem childish and silly |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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Mercifully, I have never been married; but in the 1970s I met a girl who on the face of it was the ideal person to marry: same age; same faith (I now have none); same stratum of Irish society; same catholic educational background; same position in family, etc.
But her parents were phenomenally controlling, patronising, condescending snobs, who, in my opinion, talked utter nonsense. They had a dysfunctional relationship and bizarre notions about sexual relationships, pre-marital sex, etc.
I made a decision to incrementally withdraw from the relationship, and to never have sexual relationships with this woman; I knew that if I ever had sex with her, I would be trapped forever.
When a convenient break came, I got out, stayed out and developed my interest in swinging.
That relationship was by a long chalk the most dangerous bullet I have ever dodged.
It was a relationship with which I was profoundly lonely; principally because there was really nothing in common to discuss!
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