If I could go back in time, I would tell my younger self that love is not going to come in the package that you're expecting.

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All of the above are definitely weaknesses I have seen in potential candidates, but also characteristics I have seen perhaps in my younger self and contemporaries.

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But a curious thing about my younger, smoking self.

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