Had a similar encounter in HS involving going out to dinner before a father/daughter dance. The girl who made the reservation didn’t want me to fill the spot of someone who dropped out, but her parents told her that “Jesus would reward her in heaven” for letting poor ‘ol me tag along (and it’s not like this was HER…

For as long as I can remember, I always felt like something was off/lacking (in more ways than one), but it wasn’t until I was almost twenty that I started to realize how fucked up and weird my family’s financial situation was. I don’t even know if I could say whether or not we were well off. My parents were abusive…

Exactly how I interpreted the movie! The story is over the top and full of gratuitous violence, and I think the audience is supposed to recognize it as such. Edward is a terrible writer, and the story is fucking horrible.

Laura was played by Isla Fisher rather than Amy Adams because those scenes were all taking place in Susan’s head as she read the novel. She read the descriptions of the characters and immediately thought of Edward but was unable to recognize herself in Laura (at least at first). There are a few references to Susan…

It took me almost four hours total to vote today. I’m in Philadelphia and recently moved. Even though my husband and I had registered by the deadline and had our registration cards with the new address/polling place, we were turned away (at about 7:30 AM, got in line close to 7:00 AM) and told to go back to our OLD…