What really got me was "I need to be strong for the kids that I did this for and people I did this for." She's so young! No teenager should have to feel that kind of pressure on top of everything else.

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I, for one, welcome the coming Ottocracy.

Idea: excellent

All the comments denying that this is a big deal are why we need to keep talking about it.

Ok, I lied, phone voting closes 60 mins after the show airs. But you can vote up to 12x online! http://apps.facebook.com/votedwts.

Here's the thing with Texas Republicans (and Republicans in general). They live in an echo chamber of yes men. They believe their own hype and that their shit doesn't stink. They think the majority is on their side and will yell and holler with approval when they do stuff like this. They live in a world where they are…

My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Layne, read it to us after lunch each day. I remember her crying at the end. We got to watch the movie. And I bawled like a baby. Will always remember that book and movie. Loved it. Our teachers read some other books to us through the years, but Where the Red Fern Grows has always stuck…

I remember heading into this book all positive because my mom had said, "Oh, I loved this book because I had a boyfriend named Dan, and I'm Ann, and it was so cute."

OMG, I forgot the best part. The street I live on is Red Fern. Had to buy the house just for the street!

Nope, this one joins Bridge to Terabithia and Sounder on the list of "books I will never read again because they made me cry to hard".

OMG. I was Punky Brester when I was little. I looked so much like her (freckled, chubby cheeks, brown hair with bangs in pigtails and buck teeth) that people used to always call me that.

That is a great book. And I hate it because of the emotional scars it left me.

Old Dan and Little Ann!!! Sob. Dude, I met Wilson Rawls at a book fair in 1977. He signed my fourth grade copy. I'm about to unleash it on fourth grade little Punky, but first I gotta go to Costco and get the 24 pack of Kleenex...

This is my all-time favorite book. The journey that Billy, Little Ann and Old Dan experience together, the joys and tribulations they share, and especially the sincere love they have for each other, were so wonderful to read as a child (and even today). Sigh.

Oh, God. This book KILLED me when I read it in the 4th grade.

Just thinking about this book makes me want to cry.

I remember loving this when I read it in sixth grade, but I could never re-read it because of the sadness. So many tears at the end.

Easiest blind item EVER you guys...

I had been dating Brad for almost 2 years, we were in love. I was, then, as now, a very insatiable creature, back then however I was a virgin. We had groped and kissed and blown (no return favor yet though) and fingered and everything else, but we hadn't done it. I was a good Catholic girl, he was a good Catholic boy.