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Only when without pulp and cut half/half with lemonade.

Have you ever turned the radio up, wondered why it didn’t work, and then realised that sight was the dulled sense?

I've done similar things, yes.

Have you ever found your kitten in the fridge?

Mine jumped in once when the door was open. Thank goodness it was only seconds until I opened it again.

thankfully not.

have you ever cried when you visited a convalescent [old folks] home?

I cried in fear when I was young. My church group went to sing Christmas carols at a seniors' centre, during a time when I was really afraid of old people. Now I avoid them because I get extremely upset by the loneliness. I also find that the sensory elements (especially smells) bother me. I go to one every Christmas to donate gifts for seniors (they provide a wish list), but I don't stay very long.

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no, but once three cats and a dog cooperated in opening the fridge and eating everything in it
At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
ah the dog was called fido, from the Conceptual Continuity & The Crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe

^ab, no not that i can remember

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the local veteran's old age home when my dad was a patient in the va hospital after a stroke. the doc's office was one floor below the old folks section. i have never seen such a forlorn group of old men, just waiting to die. no visitors. even today, if i think of it, i get teary.

have you ever been to a wedding?

Yes. Polish and Orthodox weddings were fun when I was younger. I wouldn't want to go to weddings any more though, because I like my peace and quiet.

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i was the unofficial wedding photographer once. and i also attended my older niece's wedding.

As an adult, I've only been to one wedding - of a person that's not blood-related to me but has been my only family for a very long time. I dislike weddings.

How many people can you deal with at the same time?

Zero to One. Not even one, most of the time.

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One on one is my favourite if I feel like being around people. Depending on the state I'm in, I can handle 3 to 5 if I know and feel comfortable with them (but still engage people in conversation individually).

Do you still feel sad sometimes about your childhood and the long shadow it throws on your life (if that's the case)? Do you ever engage in the rather destructive exercise of imagining how your life would have been without that shadow?

My childhood wasn't as much of a problem as my 20-30s. I didn't know how to "adult" properly and it caused a lot of irreparable damage to my psyche. I do play what-if about those years all the time.

My childhood has a dark spot that I don't remember much about. I wish I could go back in time to fill in the blanks, good or bad.

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Unfortunately, yes - it's absurd because I'm old and have a really good life, but my childhood crippled me in an irreversible way, so I still can't help but wonder sometimes.

Do you have a pronounced sense of the esthetic (visually or not)?

With the written word, yes.

Regarding art I prefer art history and biographies about the artists, to the work they produced.

My visual systems are totally messed. I'm not a visual learner, I have severe prosopagnosia, and I dislike daylight so much that I scarcely look at anything without my eyes pinching shut.

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I hear you, visual learning is a nightmare for me and I'm generally not a visual person at all. When I think of someone I never "see" them in my head and I don't have the kind of fantasies men are "supposed" to have.

But I like art and can appreciate physical beauty (in a non-sexual kind of way) and have a heightened sense of the esthetic regarding language and music.

What's your favourite room in the house? Why?

I wanted to add that music is really important to me as well.

My favourite room is my reading room, with Moroccan tapestries, a vintage chaise and dim lighting. It's where I keep my Brontë cabinet with my most highly beloved books.

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