I tried brining my turkey last year. That's supposed to give you the juciest, most tender bird. It was salty as hell and couldn't have sucked more if I used poop as a basting.

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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.