This was flat-out false, and if they believed it I was helpless to explain it.

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"I was helpless, there was nothing I could do, " he said.

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"Believe me, I was sitting at home completely helpless, " he said.

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"Thirty percent of our clients tend to be men, " explained Behare Sahatqija, my esthetician, as she lowered the headrest so that I was almost prone and virtually helpless.

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The pain was overwhelming ... and I felt helpless.

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In reality, I was trying to override the fact that I felt utterly helpless and still wanted, so desperately, to help my mom and save her life.

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My initial marveling at how cool it was that I could do this from Singapore without schlepping to Borders and then to the post office, turned to helpless anger a month later when the gift hadn't been delivered.

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