That he spends more time narrating what he would do to you than doing most, if any, of it is the kind of intermittent reward used to create addiction in lab rats. You are the rat.
WIT TEA
Lesser-Known Facts About Birthdays
If someone invites you to a birthday party for their dog, you are not required to purchase a gift.
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Case Study: Blood
Is it better to be the universal donor or the universal recipient
FICTION
At the Gift Shop in Los Alamos
They are selling J. Robert Oppenheimer bobbleheads and martini shakers and baseball caps and t-shirts and pins and patches and picnic blankets.
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