What exactly is wrong about this story from my childhood?

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:06 pm #821832

    I would just stop telling the story to other people. It has run its course. No one really cares that much about childhood stories from other adults…just think if some adult was telling you about something he did in 2nd grade. You would think, uh, ok. I think it’s just time to move on and stop thinking about this story. You did a good thing to help out your friend who was being bullied, but you seem to be clinging on to this story for way too long. PS – My son has twice stood up to bullies for other kids at about this same age and I was proud of him at the time. He’s in high school now and I doubt he even remembers.

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:08 pm #821833

    I will of course have nothing but love either way but husband also wants a girl after two boys. Not fully succeeding with staying to the days we should for a girl since we tend to be pretty frequent though. Ha He’s up for having plenty of kids. I think my uterus and age say two but who knows. I’m nervous enough about 1 happening. We would for sure chose a girl if we have to go the IVF route, assuming those are healthy.

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:13 pm #821834

    Hunter inspired me to do some googling, and guess what is the number one search result when you google “advice forum”?

    Now, if only DW could break like the top five pages for “relationship advice”…

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:17 pm #821836

    I did some googling too, and I did not see this letter posted anywhere else. I wanted to see this positivity he was getting on Reddit, where they usually rip these kinds of stories, but I couldn’t find it ?

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:22 pm #821838

    Dear Wendy probably hits number one for advice forum because you have the Forums!!!

    What if you called them the relationship advice forums? That might be clunky but I wonder if it would drive search engines?

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:23 pm #821839

    Oh that’s awesome.

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:31 pm #821842

    Nvm, here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Advice/comments/ahvpvn/can_someone_please_explain_what_exactly_is_wrong/

    Same kind of feedback here.

    Also, instead of this being a writing assignment, here it’s just something that came up in conversation last week.

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:41 pm #821845

    Not surprising.

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    January 23, 2019 at 3:42 pm #821846

    Ha ha ha.

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    Hunter
    January 23, 2019 at 5:51 pm #821854

    Well yeah, I told the class what I wrote, and they told me what they thought of it. I’d call that a conversation.

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    January 23, 2019 at 5:57 pm #821855

    Haha okay.

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    ron
    January 23, 2019 at 6:34 pm #821859

    With all the talk of chivalry and sexism, I think his classmates reaction may be this simple: he admits he did a lot of embroidering of the basic story, That was clear to us (to the point that many thought the whole thing was false), and most groups of listeners are going to be less than thrilled with obvious boasting and self-aggrandizement. Underselling, rather than over-selling, the tale likely leads a better result. Over-selling will cause a big chunk of the audience to hear the whole tale as a lie, rather than just 30-40% a lie, and from there the nitpicking just escalates.

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