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In the past ten years I haven't once woken up after a night of drinking with a hangover or headache.  In the past 10 days, since I stopped drinking, I've woken up with a migraine three times.

I couldn't afford my car at one point, so I refinanced it. One day after the final payment was mailed out, I totaled it.

I had never stretched before playing a sport in my entire life.  The first time I ever did was in a basketball class at Manhattan College.  I blew out my ACL two minutes into the game.

I once made a college baseball team that was returning JC Championship runner-ups.  I was one of two non-returners to make the team out of a pool of forty (impressive being I never played HS baseball and these were all HS all-stars).  When they congratulated me, they explained that I had to drop all my class load down to six credits.  I never played baseball again.

I skipped third grade because I was really smart.  I got left back in tenth because I was really stupid.

I went to summer school for English after failing in my senior year.  This came after getting the highest grade in the school on my 11th grade English regents.  With the same teacher.

Of all the sports I've ever played, I'm probably worst at tennis.  I've been teaching tennis for 12 years.

My mother smoked like a chimney and couldn't have a baby, but got ovarian cancer.

About this time in 1978, Bucky Fucking Dent hit the home run that devastated my Boston Red Sox.  In 1978, I was a Yankees fan.

The two people who mattered most to me as a child were my mother's parents.  I saw them every day and they did everything and anything for me.  When they died, they didn't know who I was.

I'm very close friends with all of my exes.  They are all my exes.

After suffering a bad break up, I went away for a bit and met a wonderful girl, who would have been perfect.  We spoke every night for hours while laying under the stars.  When we met, she was about to leave for Israel for a year....maybe longer.

My favorite meat is lamb.  It's probably the meat I eat the last.

I was born in Florida.  I hate the heat.

When people ask, I say I don't like to read.  Between the Internet and magazines, I probably spend more time reading than anyone I know.

I always find it interesting that people find me funny, but we don't share the same taste in humor when it comes to movies and TV.

A lot of people ask me for movie suggestions, but almost none of them have seen six of my top ten favorite films.

I consider myself a foodie, but other than steakhouses, I've only gone out for anything other than a burger, maybe five or six times in the last two years.

The people I have cared about the most, have probably taken me for granted and the people that cared about me the most, I definitely took for granted.  Is that the way it's supposed to work?

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