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TODAY
Saturday, April 20
Fuel
A / July 20, 2009 8:32 AM
Starting to smoke.
Gordon / July 20, 2009 9:09 AM
Dating ____ ______.
eee / July 20, 2009 10:17 AM
Dating that guy in college. That relationship completely effed up my last year and a half of schooling, as well as my relationship with my family. It took a while to recover from that one...
LittleJill / July 20, 2009 10:56 AM
Moving back to Chicago. It's really true that you can't go home again.
richat / July 20, 2009 12:18 PM
Not putting my small inheritance away when I was 21. Spent it slowly, on booze and toys. In my will, kids get nothing 'til 30!
bobbie / July 20, 2009 1:56 PM
spending too many years (yeeears) with the wrong guy and not having the foresight or strength or whatever to get out sooner. what a waste of time. ugh.
annie / July 20, 2009 1:58 PM
smoking. hands down!
CN / July 20, 2009 2:38 PM
Getting married.
Irisheyes1212 / July 20, 2009 3:43 PM
I keep repeating the same mistakes day after day. 10 yrs of the same mistake and counting....
Steph / July 20, 2009 7:49 PM
Quit my first real job without having another job lined up.
fluffy / July 20, 2009 8:52 PM
not telling him how crazy I was about him. ruined the whole new year's and he never found out how I felt.
jlp / July 20, 2009 9:32 PM
I'm not sure that I can pinpoint my 'biggest' mistake, but I'd say that my mistakes usually come from not following my gut instinct about a situation.
Spook / July 20, 2009 10:19 PM
Not keeping the Devil way down in the hole
Mucky Fingers / July 21, 2009 10:52 AM
There were many situations where I should have been go-with-the-flow and just dive right in. I always hesitated instead.
Guy Smiley / July 21, 2009 2:19 PM
Still making them. Get back to me later.
PMan / July 21, 2009 10:40 PM
Not making a move on the girl across the street after a summer night of relievio..
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