I am consistently horrified by the number of people who are willing to put out on social media things i simply think they should not put outmy rule on this is, never, ever say anything that you don't want to be used back at you. You can just bet your life it will be no send out a photo of yourself, and someone will say, don't look great. Send out a photoof yourself with your wife, somebody will say something about your wife. Not everyone's going to love your children, and so on and so on. It wicked. I mean, if you and i were on the board of twitter, i think we would struggle with it as well. But
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