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    Ascendo_tuum: I feel sorry for this guy's teen daughter. How horrible to have your father write about your birth in the context of 'opening a closet of rage'. Ugh. more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: I'll bet my bottom dollar this manboy's getting a book deal. more »
    sybann: I cannot decide if he's more mad at himself for failing to rise to the ocassion or his wife for not needing him. more »
    Princess Leela: So he's basically saying that everything about the failure of his marriage can be traced back to one traumatic event, and wants to make very sure we a... more »
    rollergirl76: "It was perhaps fitting that the first woman I dated post-Leslie found the story appalling - despite my selling it, as I always did, as a kind of craz... more »
    Cerridwen: This kind of reminds me of an incredibly self-absorbed friend of mine who, after the girlfriend of her roommate had a miscarriage, spent weeks crying ... more »
    RisaPlata: I think this touches on something that struck me when I was watching Knocked Up. You know when she's in labor, and the doctor won't give her an epidur... more »
    Lizawithazee: Classic narcissist-- thinking he is so incredible he should have controlled the way the birth happened. And then blaming HER for causing his subsequen... more »
    Kivrin: I know we're all screaming for the guy to "get over it already," but maybe -- hopefully -- that's why he wrote the damn article. I for one will not cr... more »
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: So what you're saying is... wait... what are you saying? more »
    TheFormerJuneBronson: I read that this morning and I still don't get what his problem is. She couldn't help having the baby, and sometimes it doesn't happen the way you pla... more »
    RedVelvetCake: "My daughter, Tia (pronounced TYE-uh)" This is where I stopped reading. Note to new parents: if you have to actually tell people how a particular name... more »
    British Benzene: "It must have been terrible for you" I would have interpreted this as "You must have been so scared about what might happen to your wife and child." M... more »
    hatepaperdoll: Think of something other thing about Leslie to bitch about, dude. There is no way you're coming out looking good when you turn your child's birth into... more »
    battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch: Man, how dare his wife not keep control over her hoohaa. Doesn't she know that she's supposed to hold it in until he can sail in on his white horse an... more »
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