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leapyrtwins

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #30 on: August 06, 2008, 05:18:32 pm »
I'll bet his parents didn't put him in a car seat, either  ;D

Actually when you think of today's world, it's amazing we all lived long enough to be diagnosed with an AN.

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2008, 07:06:32 pm »
LOL ... funny you should say that .. I did end up in ER as a kid (7 yo?) ... hit my head on the pavement.....  :'( and was out cold for a while ... gave my parents a good scare.....  :'(
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2008, 10:26:38 am »
David,
Interest question -- I'll play too.  I'm a real melting pot baby, English, Irish, Native American (Blackfoot Sioux) on my mother's side.  Austrian on my father's side.

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2008, 01:58:40 pm »
Good post !!

Lets see...basically I'm a mut...Irish, German, Scotish, and Cherokee Indian.

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #34 on: August 09, 2008, 03:26:37 pm »
I think the ethnic thing is very interesting........  I am Scotch-Irish-Hungarian-Sweedish also grew up pretty much on a river and live on one now........FISH.......I love to fish!!!  How about a chocolate connection are any of you addicted? 
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #35 on: August 09, 2008, 03:45:07 pm »
Hmmmmmm..... Scot-Irish here.  Grew up on a river town (Nasty Ohio river to be exact) 
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #36 on: August 09, 2008, 04:12:23 pm »
See there is a lot of variety going on here, I am English but have a London/Yorkshire/Welsh mix!  Grew up eating a lot of cod roe, rollmop herrings and chocolate though, oh dear  :P
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #37 on: August 09, 2008, 08:23:33 pm »
Maybe we found a possible cause of AN's.... could it be related to chocolate addiction?  I think a lot of us suffer from this!   ;D

Let's hope that's not it - I don't want to have to give up my chocolate - I'm REALLY addicted!

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #38 on: August 09, 2008, 10:40:22 pm »
Quote from: Esperanza on August 09, 2008, 04:12:23 pm
Grew up eating a lot of cod roe, rollmop herrings and chocolate though, oh dear  :P

What a lovely combination - does that dish have a name?   :D

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #39 on: August 10, 2008, 01:20:10 am »
i am seriously addicted to chocolate, it is my 6th food group - i believe we stumbled upon an AN connection here!!
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #40 on: August 10, 2008, 10:08:05 am »
I hope chocolate has no connection to ANs.  I am as addicted to it as the rest of you.  I can give up a lot of things but chocolate would be next to impossible!  Sometimes chocolate is the only thing that helps when I'm feeling down.

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #41 on: August 10, 2008, 01:30:10 pm »
It IS the chocolate!  It just has to be.  It's the only food group that counts.
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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #42 on: August 10, 2008, 02:17:36 pm »
Then there must be a LOT of people walking around that are undiagnosed!!!!!!    ;D

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #43 on: August 10, 2008, 04:50:04 pm »
Well, then if we've all been diagnosed and/or treated, then it must be safe to eat all we want!

Hey David, how did your provocative question turn to chocolate?   ;D

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Re: Here's a provocative question
« Reply #44 on: August 10, 2008, 05:50:55 pm »
A hijacking gone bad...or, rather, good? 
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