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15.  I'd forgotten how enjoyable smoking is! Just on the basis of that dream I went out and bought a pack of 555 Golds, from State Express, London. Damn! A woman's a woman, but a smoke's a smoke! Anyway, politicians should be more careful what they say. Mr. Romney said something careless about an independent super PAC's (Political Action Committee) television ads: "I thought he was a new kind of politician. But instead, his campaign and the people working with him have focused almost exclusively on personal attacks ... It's really disappointing." See, here's the trouble: If you hear the words, "It's really disappointing," it reminds you of something your mother might have said after seeing your 3rd grade report card. It sort of lodges in your brain and reverberates there until you can do something to blow it out of there, and I don't mean, go out behind the barn to smoke. That's another story. When I hear the words, "It's really disappointing," I immediately replace them with "—More you!" It's just something you can say to any mom-figure, provided you've given up believing you're still in the 3rd grade.