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so I was going out with two friends of mine some weeks ago and had Gaston, my bat with me. I have to get him out without my mom seeing it. She doesn't like it when I'm walking around with "dolls". I guess she thinks I'm too old for "dolls". I disagree - and so did Benjamin Franklin, who said, "We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!" Anyway, so the three of us where out and as soon as we were around the corner, it took Gaston out…

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 I can type with all my fingers, which makes it quite fast. Faster than my parents can type on a keyboard anyway. So I do that to help my dad with some stuff he needs to have written up. He dictates the text on a cassett and then I replay it to write the text. The other day had a text about someone, who had stolen a lion bar. So my dad said,"Leon", which in german, if you don't read it english, would be pronounced like the name Leon. He said, "Leon. Whatever that…

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I was talking with someone yesterday and it let me remember a time when I was little. I must have been no more than 10 years old, because it was still in the garden of our old place where I had spent my first 10 years up in north germany. I see myself very clearly in front of a plastic house in the garden. Inside are two younger kids. They're the kids of friend's of my parents. They're laying there in the plastic house and I'm sitting outside telling them stories. I…

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years ago a friend of my mom's suggested to me to watch the movie "K-PAX". So that's what I did.



"K-PAX" is about a man (played by Kevin Spacey and he should have won an oscar for that one!), who is found bending over a lady. She's been mugged seconds before. The police question him and his answers seem rather strange, so they take him away and he's eventually brought to a psychiatric hospital. One of the chief of staff there is Dr. Mark Powell (played by…