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1. Joel Bernstein on July 29th, 2010 at 3:09 pm

   Drive him to soccer practice

2. Deron Bauman on July 29th, 2010 at 3:11 pm

   fasten his bib.

3. Andrew Simone on July 29th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

   I’m so sorry for your loss.

4. Aaron Winslow on July 29th, 2010 at 3:27 pm

   i kick the azz of a bitch peacook!!!!

5. Michael Smith on July 29th, 2010 at 3:28 pm

   I always check a new friend’s bookshelf before I fully commit.

6. Sheila Ryan on July 29th, 2010 at 3:36 pm

   I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Like the Twelfth of Never, I’m thinking.

7. hubs on July 29th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

   Cry just a little bit.

8. walt on July 29th, 2010 at 4:31 pm

   Ouwf.

   Report them, and it’s off to the re-education “camp.”

   No, seriously, though, how much do you care about this person?

9. Amanda Mae Meyncke on July 29th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

   Is it… Eva?

   I liked Anthem. I don’t care what you people say.

10. Brianna on July 29th, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    “I always check a new friend’s bookshelf before I fully commit.”

    What happens to those of your friends who keep Ayn Rand next to Karl Marx?

11. Amanda Mae Meyncke on July 29th, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    You just let a smile play about your lips and do something small and destructive to their bathroom later.

12. Sheila Ryan on July 29th, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    I’m not down on Rand for her critique of collectivism but for her aesthetic: Soviet realism through the looking-glass.

13. OP on July 29th, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    We’ve been sort of drifting apart, for mostly geographic reasons. So it goes.

14. walt on July 29th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    I think that if it hasn’t come up until now, either in discussion of politics or the author, that it can’t be that big a dealbreaker. If this is someone that otherwise seems like a person worth knowing, then why change things? If she/he goes on on spouting preachy Objectivist ideology, on the other hand, you may want to reconsider.

    But, I get from your tone that it’s just as well that things are drifting.

15. Michael Lang on July 29th, 2010 at 7:55 pm

    Get pissy, stew over whether I’m going to be able to deal with that, become the person’s apologist (it’s a sentimental artifact from their youth that they’ve not yet eschewed), demonize the person for tricking me, cry, pray, have a rebound one-night stand with a free-wheelin’ hippy, then I’m not sure what comes next, but I’m pretty sure it involves a lot of awkwardness.

    Then again I’ve not read Rand, but amongst the several fans I’ve encountered over the years, I’ve not encountered anything that convinces me it would be worth it either.

16. Terence on July 29th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    Pretend like you don’t care and let the resentment slowly come to a boil over a period of years, resulting in a bitter fallout and possibly property damage over some specific issue that you both feel the need to be involved with.

17. Daryl Scroggins on July 30th, 2010 at 9:11 am

    What do you do when a family member who “knows you like to read” gives you the gift of….

18. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2010 at 9:53 am

    Same as you did when your aunt gave you handkerchiefs or a knock-off Barbie for Christmas: Try not to make a bad face.

19. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2010 at 9:56 am

    “oh, wow. look at that.”

20. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2010 at 10:04 am

    “Well, that’s something.”

21. Daryl Scroggins on July 30th, 2010 at 10:08 am

    “What a nice bow you found.”

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