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OK, cough it up!I want to know what your FORMERLY is, not least of all because perhaps it'll be as superficial and relatively unimportant in the scheme of things as is mine.

Obviously, the fact that you've always been the smartest kid in your family and yet couldn't bring yourself to finish your dissertation is nothing compared to the problems of veterans returning minus a limb, but it's still worth a few words. Or that your high school peers voted you most likely to get rich quick and you're working at Dunkin' Donuts. Or that you had the marriage and little blond children that seemed so perfect, and now you have an ex and bigger blond children that you see every other weekend.

Boo-effin'-hoo, some will say. You're not homeless. You're not trapped in some abandoned bomb shelter with nothing but a skeleton and some plant water to drink like that girl on All My Children. Get some real problems. And you will, at some point. But for now, I want to hear about your FORMERLY.

Go to the drop-down menu, and select a FORMERLY from among the ones I posted. If none apply, write your own in the box to the right. And then give me a few words (no more than 200) on your FORMERLY, what it meant to you and how you're dealing. You can also post a relevant picture (it needn't be you but something that says it all). Keep it relatively clean, kids, and feel free to post more than one. You can be serious, self-mocking, however you feel.

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AMBITIOUS, What's Your Formerly?

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880116996_d337b4fad3_m CABERNET WROTE: What happened to the internationally-minded college girl?  I now am in a profession that I just fell into, nothing international about it what so ever.  I haven’t had sex since Bush was in office - the son, not the father, I’m not that pathetic yet!  Nor do I have the desire to be around a man long enough to have the opportunity.  Unfortunately, I am not a lesbian either… believe me, I contemplated it!  My days consist of working and channel surfing, with some red wine thrown in the mix.  Hey, I have to watch out for my health, right?  I know what I need to do:  get off of my butt and exercise, eat the right foods and find a hobby or two.  For me, that is way easier said than done.  I think I need to start by picking one of these, but I can’t seem to make up my mind which one to choose first.  So I do nothing.

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