Kind of related- can someone please explain a promise ring before an engagement ring? Someone once told me he gave it to his GF as a promise that they would get engaged. Which is a promise to get married. He was really excited so I didn't ask too many questions, didn't want to poop on his parade, but I hear about…

It is a real story. I lived in an orphanage (big surprise, it was in the deep South) between the ages of 12-15. It's still running and it is the subject of one of my books. I wouldn't mind writing an article for GroupThink or the Powder Room, but I don't know how that works.

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This is wonderful. I'm a Christian, but I HATE True Love Waits. When I lived in the orphanage they rounded us all up and forced us to a delightful indoctrination-filled weekend of slut-shaming, cheap hot-dogs and badly-thought-out pseudo-theology. Afterwards, they gave us crappy silver TLW rings and sent us back to…

"They don't get to tell the South what their history and symbols mean to them."

Except no they aren't.

Hey, Mark Twain was from Missouri and we had our own little mini civil war. We had slaves in some counties, but never joined the Confederacy.

Um how about no. I love my state and living in the Northeast, but I dont go flying a FUCKING FLAG for it.

Sherman knew how to deal with folks like you.

The 13-letter profanity, we assume, is "motherfucking."