The best of the best of women who are willing to leave their own pain, struggles and challenges at home and bring their love, life lessons, compassion, time, strength, courage and spiritual wisdom -- for girls they have never met.

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Again, the story of a woman attempting to impart wisdom gained from years of fighting in the dating and love trenches with little to show for it at the end of the war.

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He loses his wisdom and eventually his kingdom when the dragon Smaug, a creature even more enslaved to the love of gold than the dwarf, takes it from him.

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