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I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023

I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023... getting fitted for a new pair of dentures at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; The tab picked up courtesy Aetna Medicare Advantra Cares (HMO D-SNP). Unfortunately said outcome represents the exception (regarding measuring success or failure in the school room or work place) rather than the rule, whereat scattershot academic, and employment history reveals mine curriculum vitae chock-a-block extant with poor scholastic performance and termination (as if pierced with a terrible swift sword) from one job after another respectively. I made an absolute ZERO effort attempt to score high marks or earn kudos, no rhyme nor reason why yours truly rarely if ever sought to persevere, and essentially did not try though forever dog gone tired donning figurative dunce cap - a pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools in Europe and the United States— especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries— for children who were disruptive or were considered slow in learning, (where classmates or other employees assailed ready made fodder made snickering snide remarks in tandem with swashbuckling sword play - nah akin to the three musketeers - barred from Mars) toward extremely socially withdrawn boy whispering under their breath at a lad, who owned an inferiority complex the size of Pennsylvania) exhibiting faith no more in self at a painfully early age found him eager, ready and willing to allow, enable, and provide ripe opportunity for others to ply name calling and bullying, experiencing trauma analogous to British POWs ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance over the river Kwai but never did tears of sadness simultaneously emanate from left and right eye.

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