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Imagine that a movie producer pays you a 5-figure retainer to write my bio-pic. Which chapter(s) do you leave out?

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Posted - December 1, 2016

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  • It has to be the ones that you say no to.
    I would have to hope that didn't eliminate the parts that would make it the most interesting as a film.
      December 2, 2016 12:45 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Thank you. 

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      December 2, 2016 5:28 AM MST
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  • Aawe, shucks... :( ... Was hoping you might at least share which chapters you would veto. ;-)
      December 2, 2016 5:41 PM MST
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  • The speed-knitting years
      December 2, 2016 5:42 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Thank you: that was a dark time for me, worse than the eggnog addiction periods. 
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      December 2, 2016 8:08 PM MST
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  • (Do you have any decorative plates)
      December 3, 2016 5:02 AM MST
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  • 53509
    I'll decorate something for you. C'mere, you. 


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      December 3, 2016 6:59 AM MST
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  • Was this you?
      December 5, 2016 2:18 AM MST
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  • 53509
    It's cruel of you to remind me of my knitting obsession. It took me years of therapy to kick it. 

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      December 5, 2016 5:40 AM MST
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  • 11005
    All of them. No one would pay to see that. I would then replace them with something interesting.
      December 2, 2016 6:07 AM MST
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  • Like what, Jane? I'm not saying it can't be done, of course.
      December 2, 2016 6:30 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Lucia!  Quit egging her on!  She only wants attention. 

    :(
      December 2, 2016 8:09 PM MST
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  • You only want attention. I mean, five figure retainer? I'll do it for 50 quid.
      December 3, 2016 5:01 AM MST
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  • 53509
    That can be arranged, Lucia.



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      December 3, 2016 7:07 AM MST
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  • 11005
    Maybe I could show how he struggled to learn how to organize his sock drawer. That would be more interesting than his discovery that he preferred tildes over girls.
      December 3, 2016 2:33 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Wait, I keep forgetting; is it blue sock/blue sock, black sock/black sock, brown sock/grey sock?

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      December 3, 2016 7:11 AM MST
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