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I feel like i'm a compassionate guy, but i also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. you almost have to feel that way, doing this.
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I Feel Like I'm A Compassionate Guy,

Dan Savage
I feel like i'm a compassionate guy, but i also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. you almost have to feel that way, doing this.
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