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Option One: Seven Things

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
~Madeleine K. Albright

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
~Knights of Pythagoras

1. Helpful, by MissMeliss

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Option Two: Pick Three

Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can’t help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, “How can he want me the way I look in the morning?” It’s because we can’t see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
~Andy Rooney

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
~Jean Giraudoux

1. Hint of Possible Sound, by Gemma
2. Melinda, by Jane Doe
3. Lancelot has heavy remembrance to wipe off his brow, by Niebla
4. The Dog Makes a Decision, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
5. Seconds in Between, by One More Believer
6. Twisted, by Lissa
7. Morning, by Misanthrope

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Option Three: Can You Picture That?

Photo Credits: “Morning Smiles” is by Yvonne Chamberlain, and “Computing in a Coffee Shop” is by Quavondo Nguyen. Both are provided by iStockphoto.

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1. My Kind of Girl, by Niebla
2. Picture Perfect, by Ambiguity Lotus

Option Four: Poetry

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
~Ruth E. Renkel

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~Honoré de Balzac

1. Inheritance, by Paisley
2. Abyss, by Areet Krsna
3. Goddess Gaia, by Rebecca

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Option Five: Fiction

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.
~ Dennis Franck

1. What’s going on in their minds while they’re having a cup of coffee, by Leonard Blumfield
2. An Adult Conversation, by Mike
3. Conversation with a Prince, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
4. Former Reflection, by One More Believer

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Option Six: Timed Writing

Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.
–Author Unknown

1. Approximately Seven Minutes About Men and Women, by James Steerforth
2. Betroth Your Heart to Me, by Rebecca
3. Gulp!, by Sunrise Sister
4. Men and Women, by Lucy
5. Six Pack and a Potato, by Rebecca

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