Another sleepy Sunday morning -- Smoke and Mirrors

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Subject: Another sleepy Sunday morning

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Past Tempted

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Date Posted: 07:23:15 02/17/02 Sun

We had cause to celebrate last night but didn't. We had reason to reflect and did. Oldie and Past Tempted, you can call us Ron and Cindy, came out of a sort of trial, more like a debate, on the Closet Smoking Board with a great deal of credibility. It was as satisfying as that first cigarette each morning.
The entire ordeal was interesting yet demanding. Of all the things that emerged was a suggestion that Tim, the judge and moderator of that board made. He noted similarities to a story that was placed on the internet in 1995. In that well-written story, Anne, a single mother tries smoking with her daughter and learns to like it. It is the stuff any red-blooded male fetisher would dream of. I am not a single parent and the partner in parenthood and marriage was a major factor.
In my case, mainly the story is similar in that I started by taking cigarettes away from my 16-year-old daughter. Other than her comment of you ought to try it, which registered about 6.3 on my awareness scale, she had no affect on my decision to try smoking. The knowledge that my husband might like the idea registered at least an 8.0.
The thought that I was going through life without experiencing a part of life registered in the 7s. My first cigarettes seemed to register about a 9.3 with Ron. My first experience at inhaling registered at least a 9.8 with me. Him, too. Smoking for more than a year registers a 9.9 and it seems to be headed up the scale.
Still that story, which I read for the first time last night, plays on my mind. It's more that it seems like or or more dramas were unfolding. As Will Shakespeare said, the whole world is a stage and we are merely players. More on that later.

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