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"I'm named after the song A Letter to Elise by The Cure, and my middlenames: Klara and Lisel were chosen because my mom had a dream about having a daughter named Klara, and she promised my great-grandmother that she would name me Lisel."
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aw man.
old site way better :(
May 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I wish I would of told my daughter that one.
May 8, 2008 at 8:17 pm
My favorite! My texts to my daughter have simply read “make good choices,” but I love the specifics of this one!
Hope no one minds if I use this one tonight!
May 8, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I love this one!!!!
May 9, 2008 at 10:33 am
best one on this page. I LOVE IT!!!!
and will tell our daughters!!!!
May 9, 2008 at 1:51 pm
So funny…..and I wish my mother had given me that bit of advice before I left for college…..
May 9, 2008 at 5:17 pm
LMAO! This is a great piece of advice. I’m surprised Mama didn’t tell me this one! My fave of them all!
May 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm
That is wonderful advice and it does cover just about every situation one could encounter. It’s better than my mother’s “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t do if I were standing there.”
May 10, 2008 at 9:02 am
I love it! Keep them laughing, but get the point across!!
May 11, 2008 at 8:36 am
I am texting this one to my college daughter ASAP!!!
May 11, 2008 at 12:36 pm
WAY TOO FUNNY. I shall be passing this on and my oldest daughter is only 3. I think this goes for any age. Wow, way to go, Mom.
May 11, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Thanks to this site, my future children will be loaded with excellent life lessons!
May 12, 2008 at 10:08 am
The best advice ever.
May 12, 2008 at 4:02 pm