I was abandoned by my father when I was 2 years old. Growing up, I went through many different emotions. At first I blamed myself - obviously something was wrong with me that my own father couldn't love me. Then I was angry at him for leaving. Then I blamed my mom for his leaving. Then I didn't care; had no feelings at all about him. Then I was sad. Finally, I have come to accept it. It is what it is. I don't know his side of the story, so I can't harbor any resentment. But I can't love someone I've never known. To me, he is simply a story, just like a book. If he ever wants to know me, he knows where I am. Last year, I found his address and sent a short letter with my contact info, and never received a reply. But that is his choice and his loss.
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him, but imagine the feminine as being she, shis, and shim.
Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into! the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number. 19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? 22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
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Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example...If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but cannot make one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends, and get rid of all! but one of them, what do you call it -- one odd and one end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
Where else would you park your car on a driveway and drive your car on a parkway?
You can't properly take care of another person if you're not taking care of yourself. That is the most important relationship.
Besides that, I have to say the parent/child relationship. People can come and go, and there's no guarantee that your husband (or wife) won't leave you on down the road. But the bond between a mother (or father) and child, is nearly impossible to break. (Possible yes, but not easy - taking into consideration that the parent isn't an abusive arsehole.)
BEIJING (Reuters) – An 81-year-old Chinese man has proved age need not be a barrier to Internet love, marrying a 58-year-old bride he met online, a local newspaper reported.
Wu Jieqin, a retired Beijing art professor who has spent time in an aged-care home, married Jiang Xiaohui, 23 years younger, in a ceremony on the weekend, the Beijing News reported.
"The Internet doesn't belong to the young alone," he told the paper. He said he had been using the Internet since 1998.
"There are no rules against old people seeking love online."
But to reach the altar, Wu had to overcome the opposition of Jiang's parents, aged 85 and 86, who feared he was too old.
But she won them over.
"His voice is very youthful. Not like an 80-year-old," Jiang told the paper. "He's very romantic."
The couple met after Wu, lonely since his divorce a decade ago, put a lonely hearts notice on a Chinese website last year with the help of a student.
Not that the feisty retiree with thin gray hair was not picky.
"As internet mates of his own age did not suit him, he set his sights on a woman in her forties or fifties," the report said.
Wu said over 50 women responded positively to his ad, including prospects from the United States, Australia and the Ukraine. Wu met several but things clicked only when with Jiang, a retired railway worker from southwest China's Sichuan province.
Wu plans to move to Sichuan to be with his new bride.
He likened their love to two well-meshed gears.
"As long they up to scratch, they can keep turning forever, and you don't have to care whether they're old or new," he said.
SUPER BOWL HAIL 'MARRY' GAL'S $3M BID TO BUY AIRTIME FOR HUBBY-HUNT AD By JENNIFER FERMINO
This gal's fourth and desperate.
A Manhattan lonely heart wants to buy a $3 million Super Bowl ad so she can advertise her availability to millions of potential husbands nationwide.
Amy Borkowsky - who gives her age as somewhere between Carrie and Samantha - is confident she'll up her odds of marriage if she markets herself to an audience of captive, guacamole-gutted football fans.
"Dating is a numbers game," she said. "I need to reach a large pool of guys."
To that end, she has created a Web site, SuperBowlSingleGirl.com, to raise money to reach her multimillion-dollar goal to buy a 30-second shot at love.
So far, she has bagged about a grand, mostly from $10 and $25 donations.
But she is still optimistic.
"I know times are tough," she said. "Even $10 is as appreciated as the bigger ones."
Those who do dig deep - $10,000 or more - will get an invite to the wedding if Borkowsky's scheme lands her at the altar.
The slender brunette said coming up with the idea was simple, thanks to her background as an award-winning ad exec.
"For me, it was a natural thing to say, 'Hey, why not run a personal ad where the greatest number of guys will see it?' " the Long Island native said.
Nearly 100 million people tuned in to see the New York Giants trounce the New England Patriots.
But Super Bowl ad spots are going fast. A spokesman for NBC, which is airing the Feb. 1 game, said there were fewer than eight left.
"All I need is 3 million!" said Borkowsky, who has written several books and does stand-up comedy.
She said if she doesn't meet her ambitious end goal, she'll donate all the money to the United Way.
But Borkowsky has already brainstormed ideas for a TV spot. She might write a jingle, feature testimonials from ex-lovers or even do side-by-side comparisons of her and other single gals.
Even though she loves the spotlight, Borkowsky insists she's really just looking for a nice guy with a good heart.
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Hi, Mama.
Hopefully, something good. 
You mean without my makeup? 
RE: so..
Definitely still go to the Ball. Maybe you'll find a young lady in your shoes there.