A friend of mine/arch-nemesis has drawn her father and father-in-law for this year’s Christmas celebration and demanded a Christmas gift guide for them. While I am generally compliant towards requests from friends who have incriminating stories about me, this one is a hard one as I don’t have a relationship with my dad * and I don’t have a lot of use for my father-in-law so I am at a bit of a loss. While I had to laugh at the label emotionally distant father , the problem with too many da
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By Katie Buitrago A preface: I have a complicated relationship with fruit. Meaning: I don't like it. Any of it. Not apples, oranges, mangoes, watermelon . . . not even [insert your favorite fruit you can't fathom anyone ever hating here]. I know this is shameful, and bizarre, and horrifically unhealthy. I know. I don't know why I was made like this, and it frustrates me endlessly. In my adult life, I'm trying really hard to rectify the situation. I can occasionally stomach a tangerine.
