If my face offends you, I'll gladly step outside.

If my words offend you, I'll talk elsewhere.

I don't want to be the one that diminishes a dining experience for you and your loved ones. And I expect the same courtesy from those around me. Problem is...we can't have it both ways. It's impossible to eliminate smoke. It's cheaper and more effective to not allow it. If the technology enabled us to copatronize, I wouldn't have a problem with a dining facility that accomodated both.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.