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Colton Butcher's avatar

Over the past few years, I stopped calling things "guilty pleasures," changing it to just "pleasures," and it's truly made me feel good. It's amazing how a little semantic change can alter your feelings. Great post!

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Vinny's avatar

I can definitely relate to having "scenes missing" from my 20s, but for me it's likely attributable to mildly poisoning my brain and jostling it around inside its bone cage, more than the post-college/early-adulthood malaise.

I do remember reading a Cussler book in my mid-to-late teens, a rec from my dad, and really enjoying it at the time. It reminded me of one of the Pierce Brosnan-era Bond films (likely the one with the floating evil lair) and was FUN. Though unfortunately I cannot remember the plot and looking at the Cussler catalog didn't jog my memory either. I do remember his Corvette Stingray was in the author photo though, and that it gave me the (very false) idea that authors were rich.

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