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Category: That’s Life

One Last Hurrah For My Cervix

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I thought that the glass of wine I had beforehand would relax me; after all, it’s been so long since anything’s been up there, I thought that unless I took a muscle relaxant, nothing short of a JCB was going to do the job without some assistance.

Jaci Stephen May 18, 2024 That's Life

Sex-tions . . . How Far Have We Come? (Not a Euphemism)

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I was such an innocent, if they’d shown me Last Tango in Paris with Dirk Bogarde’s infamous sexual butter scene , I’d have thought it to be a promotion for Anchor to put on my scones.

Jaci Stephen May 15, 2024 That's Life

Manners Maketh Man

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The discipline of manners is something that never leaves you, and is, to me, the foundation of good behaviour. I was taught so many.

Jaci Stephen April 12, 2024 That's Life

Love’s Labour’s Lost (Thank God!)

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Valentine’s Day is inevitably a reminder of what was and what might have been, but mostly a reminder to be grateful for my having dodged not just a bullet but an AR15 assault weapon.

Jaci Stephen February 12, 2024 That's Life

A State Over Real Estate – Part III

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For legal reasons, no companies’ names have been mentioned, the locations have been changed, and, for legal and ethical reasons, the identities of the bores, incompetents and lunatics have been disguised.

Jaci Stephen December 14, 2023 That's Life

Mortgage? No, Thanks. No Interest for Life

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But here’s the reality: having a mortgage does not make you a home ‘owner’; you are, essentially, renting from the bank or building society with whom you have taken it out, and they, just like any landlord, if you fail to make those monthly payments, will turf you out on your ear.

Jaci Stephen December 14, 2023 That's Life

Adult Orphan at Christmas

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But that’s me now. An adult orphan. I’m no Oliver Twist, humbly asking for another bowl of gruel, but neither am I Black Panther the Orphan King with his superhuman strength, speed, stamina and endurance. Because I feel weak. Alone.

Jaci Stephen December 14, 2023 That's Life

Adult Orphan – an excerpt (book available for purchase on Lulu.com)

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Dad’s 60th birthday party is different. It feels like a farewell: a rehearsal for the funeral. I try not to think of it as such, but the house has an air of broken past about it.

Jaci Stephen October 19, 2023 That's Life

Should the Law Be Changed to Protect 16 Year Olds?

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It was only when the words were coming out of my mouth during the interview – alone, in a room, with only a microphone and tape for company – that the reality of abuse hit me.

Jaci Stephen September 27, 2023 That's Life

Unleashing My Inner Barbie

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Barbie was my dream girl. A fantasy. The girl I thought I might become, who would live happily ever after with the man of her dreams, the penis-free Ken.

Jaci Stephen July 15, 2023 That's Life

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