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Reading As An Oasis Amidst Turbulent Emotional Travails

Metaphorical troubled waters deluge pitched me to and fro, analogous to ghosts that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge, yours truly violently tossed impossible mission to experience refuge except when deeply engrossed between bound pages thick and juicy tome one garden variety generic bookworm doth ravish escape courtesy his imagination especially when tomes I wade thru huge. Impossible mission to identify figurative source, whereby I felt obliged to battle unseen force blowing strong as Lake Wobegon Norwegian bachelor farmers, whose soused forebears heavily bundled nevertheless healthy as horse, implacable foe bore down perforce (think Sisyphus pushing boulder up steep mountainside) of course. Try as I might to conjure where in the world (wide web then nonexistent) diminutive lad experienced his psyche got hurled hither and yon as hibernating animals squirreled nuts, what weather forecasters predicted severe winter, where below zero temperatures any ill clad *****sapien imperiled against the elements (of style), would freeze to death succumbing to brutally cold underworld mine lovely (prepubescent) rattling bones nearly swept me into icy netherworld courtesy anorexia nervosa aforementioned harsh adversity now formerly starved little boy can experience virtually augmented reality where lifelike simulated scenarios, when whiz kids easily craft bytes designating computerworld. Best now to condense and conclude (without being in coon sitter writ nor rude) the aforementioned tasty morsel food for thought one ordinary wordsmith hewed tragedy that befell aging baby boomer one quiet natured contemplative dude, who whiz also an aging pencil necked geek still garnering psychological succor delving into select printed material some books dog eared and pages getting unglued hoop fully amusing poem he brewed ideas percolated within me noggin purposely depriving body viz nutriments no longer eschewed cuz indelible harm wrought, such conjecture imbued half dozen decades elapsed since necessary sustenance I did agonizingly exclude adolescent mystery still not understood. As I racked up orbitz around Earth physical shortcomings bespoke self evident dearth nsync with corporeal weathering transpired, a band of adipose tissue encircled abdominal girth allowing, enabling, and providing golden opportunity many love handles whereby countless jellyrolls of flab signify self worth.

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