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Personal Productivity Measured Courtesy

Personal productivity measured courtesy... Unspecified number of hours spent yesterday March 6th, 2021 reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette March/April 2021 issue. Proud papa highly regards eldest daughter, University of Pennsylvania alum as academic whip smart high achiever, she did (after quite a stretch of time after graduating) become self supporting earning hand over fist money as yours truly (her biological father) feels glum, cuz I would qualify mine existence as humdrum hence quite envious at well deserved income, which exact dollar figure I will remain mum yet if privy being financially, what me worry would become obsolete mine mental would find me comfortably numb livingsocial in splendour versus dwelling in slum bring (think dirt poor - according to youngest sister) whereby financial shortcoming exacerbates predilection toward anxiety with distress squarely within tum. Back during mine salad days earlier within mein kampf precious time squandered away this doubting thomas grabbing life by figurative horns, his outlook toward future did excel at procrastination, a pointedly powerful stance did delay ambivalence toward purposefulness hit me courtesy metaphorical ton of bricks, now at threescore earth orbits around the sun absorb shock while grizzled and gray recognizing when sober upon post drinking up lackadaisical indifference feigning to care not a whit, I allude to johnny come lately self actualization analogous to confronting judgement-day resigned to gather wilted, shriveled, matted rosebuds while I may experience e'en just fleeting aliveness, thus yours truly doth pray to dance (why I'll) while these spindleshanks sashay into Elysian Fields exorcising atrophied muscles oy vey!

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