Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Jake stole money from his parents a few years back when he was in high school. He had gotten away with it undetected and although it wasn’t a lot of money, he still feels guilty about what he did.
Rita lived next door to her parents for the first few years ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Laura cannot control her tongue. Whenever she hears the latest gossip about one of the girls on the cheer squad, she can’t resist the temptation to tell all of her friends.
Lindsay spends almost all of her free time shopping and looking at the latest fashions. Her boyfriend complains that they ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Amanda had binged a few times upon first getting to college. Afterward she would take laxatives and go the gym for hours to work off the calories.
Shannon and Cameron were best friends whose anorexia began early on in high school mostly due to their intense, unspoken competition with one another. ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Julie had never thought that her husband would ever hit her, but here she was starring at the bruise on her forehead. He had apologized to her over and over again, and had promised that is would never happen again if she could gave him another chance. She didn’t know ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Henry was served with divorce papers after his wife had an affair. He was devastated and begged her to attend counseling, but his wife had no desire to save their marriage.
Mary’s husband walked out on her and their four-year-old daughter three months ago. He said he didn’t want to be ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Roger has been working two jobs for years just to make ends meet. Unfortunately, he recently lost the higher paying of his jobs. As if that weren’t enough, his son was also just suspended from school for drug possession. Roger feels that he has failed as a father and blames ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Ian was driving home from work one evening when he was suddenly killed in an automobile accident. His wife came home to a mysteriously empty house that day- she heard a knock on their front door within minutes of her arrival home. It was the police.
Bertha was cooking dinner when ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Tom and Sara each stood in the foyer or two very different restaurants waiting for one another. They had planned on going to lunch together, but once again their plans had failed.
When Melanie cried to her husband, “It’s terrible here! You are never in this house- you have no idea ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Joann’s father had been placed in a nursing home last month. Her father often refused to eat and as a result Joann was constantly called by the home to go and visit. She suddenly felt herself becoming angry at all that she had to do. She felt that between visiting ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Sam’s mother was killed by a drunk driver. Ever since life has been extremely difficult for Sam and his family. The woman who killed her was only given a light sentence. Same is better about the unfairness of life.
Katherine’s ex-boyfriend was extremely critical of her. He was always humiliating her ...
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