tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post4305278934118403809..comments2024-02-26T13:34:55.746-06:00Comments on Comrade Kevin's Chrestomathy: A Quick One (While He's Away)Comrade Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post-58931955531317899212007-10-09T14:22:00.000-05:002007-10-09T14:22:00.000-05:00What a great post. It should be all over the inter...What a great post. It should be all over the internet. That said, we know a lot of kids will still start to smoke.<BR/><BR/>I send you so many good thoughts and wishes regarding quitting.<BR/><BR/>When I was 15 I decided to give it a try, for similar reasons. You and I seem to have our own odd doppleganger-ish things despite the vast difference in age and our gender!<BR/><BR/>Now I decided to try this even though I had grown up in a house of smokers and detested smoking. What does that tell you?!<BR/><BR/>Thus it began. I started in 1972 at age 15. In college, when I was dating Mr He Is circa 1978, I was smoking my fool head off at 33 cents a pack! He hated it so I actually did stop. <BR/><BR/>Around the time we broke up in 1980 I started up again. This went on until about 1984 or 85, when I quit for good and quite by accident.<BR/><BR/>Can I tell you what a tragic shock and surprise it was to re-meet Mr He Is in 2004 and find out that he started smoking when we broke up and that he still did! Ugh, it is the one bad thing between us.<BR/><BR/>And it was my one dating non-negotiable. Love throws non-negotiables out the feckin' window.<BR/><BR/>Back to matters at hand, I am an extremely addictive type person... food is my worst demon I can tell you. <BR/><BR/>However dear CK let me tell you this... Once I was broken of it, I have oddly never, ever wanted to go back to it. <BR/><BR/>May this happen to you. Smoking sucks. I wish Mr He Is would figure that out.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.com