The memoir, "Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox, " draws heavily on diaries he kept and letters he wrote to friends, family and his hometown newspaper during his years in prison, the preface says.

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But my millennial friends who are hell bent on food-water-shelter now, damn their fledgling paychecks and resources, would recite the same five reasons.

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For me, exploring is accidentally stumbling into a den of creatures 10 levels out of my league and trying like hell to run through without dying.

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And I am telling you that federal judges do not take bribes and I am telling you that I have never bribed anyone in my life and I sure as hell am not going to do it now on your case.

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As a hostel newbie - the ones on offer when I was young being more akin to borstals than anything else - I was astonished to discover they now have free wifi, a bar, barbecues, beer nights, and rooms more akin to boutique hotels than the dirty, ram-a-jam hell-holes of my youth.

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When my husband left me, I was just beginning to adjust, or at least trying to, through the ever present counseling, to my new disability and the excruciating, straight from hell pain I was enduring constantly.

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About the PG-rated "How to Train Your Dragon, " for example, we learn that it includes such phrases as, "All hell is going to break loose in my undies, " "The gods hate me, " "This is stupid, " "It's us, idiots!"

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Much of what is sold under the moniker "bagel" where I live is as bready and dry as toast before being toasted, which it must be to become palatable. (With those words, bagel cognoscenti will understand that I have just condemned these specimens to the same circle of hell reserved for blueberry bagels.) The new trend should be my salvation, but alas, it leaves me cold.

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