And the kicker is that the men who have been drawn to me are those that have needed me to "take care" of them in the sense of being equally or exceedingly the breadwinner, the housekeeper, the lawn girl, the pool girl and home repairwoman and entertainment director.
Those statistical aggregates devastated me to tears when I first read them, and inspired me to take direct concrete action.
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"They accused me of coming to Malaysia to take away resources from them, taunting me for having darker skin, " she says.
Mr. RONNIE SILVESTRE(ph) (Bartender): And I talk to people and they still, to this day they come in and they tell me how their father used to take them across the street to the bar and they can't believe the place is still here, and yada, yada, yada.
Hiding my glove in the bushes, I would pose as an innocent spectator until a right fielder with chores to do forced them to take a chance on a social inferior like me.
"We will first have to check out the problems and what it will take to fix them, " he told me.
"They want me to pay off the debt then let them take over the club, that is not possible, " Holloway told BBC Sport.
If I'm on the fence about a candidate but they take the time to e-mail me and thank me for having them come in, it shows me that they are motivated, tactful and professional.
"If you want to give me the dings, I'll take them, " he says.
This is my chance to take care of them as they have taken care of me.
It's all right me asking them to do it, they've got to take it on board.
Inevitably the onlookers would start to shout, "Draw him, draw her, draw me, " and Sandy would take up the exhortation, if only to stop them from screaming in his ear.
With class guys around me I've just got to take my chance and open up some space for them.
"They'll stop you coming out of the building or the lobby and you could tell them, 'Y'all could take me upstairs right now to the apartment I came from' and they'll lie and say 'we went upstairs and checked, '" he said.
For me, the Grand adVenture that I dreamed about was starting my own mentoring and angel investingfirm that would allow me to take all of the lessons and experiences that I had gone through and use them to help others be successful.
To me it is the concept that traditional marketers can take traditional and contrived messages and cram them into new communications channels such as Facebook.
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Not too long ago, one of them pulled me aside and told me that I worked too much and needed to take vacations.
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