No one would mistake my chicken-like scrawl for the elegant loops and lines of a grade school copybook.

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So I started wondering: Have I missed something, did I make a mistake in sacrificing my teen days for the future?

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"Make no mistake: My opponent is running for four more years of policies that will throw the economy further out of balance, " he said.

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As things turned out, it was a pretty monotonous evening, and I was regretting my mistake long before Arthur came into the lounge bar and stood waiting for someone to serve him.

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"I hope that people understand my friends' presence in the area for what it was: a simple and very regrettable mistake, " Meckfessel wrote.

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And despite my best efforts, occasionally a whopper must be dropped from the list to make room for an even bigger mistake.

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