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It truly has suffered.

Don't know if it's as bad as being forced to project the films they made us watch in high school health class, though. But I'll give it a close second.

TERRIBLE!!! I'll be merciful to it.

It's older than some dinosaurs. If it can't survive a B movie, I don't know if it deserves to be wheeled out of the basement.

B-movies are more fun than health class anyway!

And probably more informative than any of our high school teachers expected! No one in high school taught me what to do about giant spiders - but that's an actual potential issue for us nowadays.

Yeah, and all of their "your body is going through changes" lectures never really covered all of, you know... THIS.

Maybe they do now. I'll have to ask my niece to inquire.

I wonder. It's a lot of ground to cover...

She's only going to be a freshman so maybe they just do a generalized overview. One of those 'please reach out to your school guidance counselor for further information if any of the following symptoms feel relevant to you' things.

Yeah, that's probably a good idea?? Then at least she won't make it to 30 like me and wake up one day like, aaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAhhHHHH!!!

God, no. Like second puberty. That's just rude.

I did mine riiiiiight after college acceptance letters. Just in time to ruin my parents' dreams of academic success.

Nooooooooooo I'm sorry to hear that! But also I ruined my parents' dreams like, 5 years ago and now they don't speak to me, so I feel you there.

I was probably going to get a liberal arts degree anyway. My sister's a doctor, my brother had a kid, and my mama gets to lament me to the regulars - they got what they wanted out of the lot of us.

That's their loss. Fuck 'em. We can just add you into my mama's rotation if you want.

Nothing wrong with that! It sounds like you have a really successful family. I dropped out of college to work for mine, but my little brother went to ~BuSiNeSs ScHoOl~ and didn't turn into a hideous monster, so he's the favourite forever now.

That's very sweet of you, thank you.

It's fine, I went mildly insane instead. Arguably more valuable than what I might have done otherwise.

I could also argue that going to ~BuSiNeSs ScHoOl~ would turn a person into an actual hideous monster. God, was it an Ivy and everything?

Probably less student debt, too.

Yeah, fucking Yale School of Management. He's a demon!!!

My credit score thanks me.

Ugh. Yale. And they just let him out among the common people after that? Is that even safe?

The pay here's probably also better than whatever they're paying out there anyway. Plus, free housing? Free healthcare??

It's not. ~~He's the one who reported me to IRIS~~ He's a jerk.

Exactly! It's a practical living choice.

Yeah, I don't think Yale produces many people with redeeming qualities. I'm sure there are outliers. But.

It's nice here!! The three months it was closed sucked for me.

I agree, but I'm biased. But it doesn't matter any more, he also doesn't talk to me, so problem solved! I never have to hear him gloat again!!

Next time we get apocalyptically shut down, you just show up as my mother's newest child and she'll feed you flautas and ask you why you haven't given her grandchildren.

~~Yeah, b~~ Fuck him too, then. Nothing better than that kind of silence.

Your mom sounds really nice. But hopefully we don't get apocalyptically shut down again, I don't think my heart can take it!

Thank you! Sorry, I didn't mean to be a downer!!

Oh, she is. She's also insane. My sister is 'childless by choice' and mama's still stressed by this a decade later.

You're not. I just kind of want to sock your brother in the jaw a little is all.

It's a valid choice! It's 2023, mom!!

Well, maybe he'll also turn out to be a Liminal and wind up here and we can both punch him a little.

My brother only gave her one granddaughter. Who's going to carry on the family name, Whitney? She's under a lot of pressure. What will the ladies at church say?

What kind of power do you think he'd hate most? Maybe something with oozing pustules.