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And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.
Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.
Believe me, I know people who have doting Grandmas. Jessica's Grandma Pearl spent four years knitting her a blanket. Four years! And she's got arthritis. I wonder what Grandma Pearl would think if she knew Jessica lost her virginity to Michael Greenberg under the blanket she spent four years knitting with her crooked fingers.
The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.
The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.
You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.
—Ser judía es más algo de tu corazón que de tu mente. Para algunos, ser judío es seguir estrictamente las leyes y las costumbres de nuestros antepasados. Para otros, es ser parte de una comunidad. La religión es muy personal. Siempre estaré allí para ti si quieres o lo necesitas. Puedes elegir adoptar el judaísmo o decidir que tu vida no lo necesita. Nadie puede imponer la religión en ti o ésta no será real.

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