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I just went to see Mamma Mia! with a couple of new friends I made. YEY! While I was watching the scene with “The Winner Takes it All” playing and good ol’ Meryl blasting it out, it occured to me that what a wonderful ability it is to be able to feel something you have never experienced yourself, and feel like you had. How it is possible for you to put yourself in another persons shoes and feel his or her feelings. How rich we are having that cabability! There wouldn’t be a story in this world if we couldn’t put ourselves in the shoes of the hero or the paws of a hunted bear cub or his mother. It is the same thing, that makes me want to wash a mannequin doll off of her past humiliations, and to bring her back to a life of a respected doll. I know she’s not real, but as I am as human as they come, I can spare some for her as well. Isn’t it wonderful, truly wonderful?

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I am not completely sure what would be the most accurate word or term to use for the Finnish word “vittuilla”, which is a perfect word. Taking the piss, yanking your chain, give you hard time, fuck with you (non-literally), give a good roast or something else. It’s the type of humour that tests the boundaries of friendship, is on the edge of insult but is always good willed… Unless it goes wrong, which happened over and over with a member of a Barbie collectors forum that I run.

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