When your boys are gone you're always afraid it might be the law.

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The future of the UK is hard enough to predict when you are basing your assumptions on the way things have gone before.

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Gone are the days when toothbrushes simply cleaned your teeth.

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Gone are the days when holding stubbornly to the truth of your flaws and refuse to improve yourself.

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Gone, apparently, are the days when you could depend on nonprofits to make preserving your gift a top priority.

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Yet when you have Donald Trump defending your new policies, it is as glaring a sign as any that you have gone off the deep end.

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Of course, these will depend upon your actual usage but if you are like me, I need to stay in contact especially when I am gone for a few weeks.

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Because last I checked that job cannot be there for you in a nursing home when you are more of a burden that a benefit, when only someone who loves you treats you as the most special gift on earth though all your market value is gone.

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