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If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will be able to accidentally shoot each other in the face. Magnetic Bumper Sticker shows picture of Cheney.
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Magnetic Bumper Sticker considering gun control, outlaws, and Dick Cheney accidentally shooting his friend in the face.

Gayle And the Soccer Lesson [HD]
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Accidentally on Purpose
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Digitally remastered and expanded two CD digipak edition of this 1988 album from Deep Purple members Ian Gillan and Roger Glover includes three bonus tracks. While Deep Purple was in the middle of House Of Blue Light concert tours, settling their ongoing internal battles and routine studio recordings, Gillan and Glover decided to take a little time off and head back to the studio. The material they had in mind was a huge step aside... Anyone that hadn't paid close attention to the post-Purple careers of Gillan and Glover may have been shocked by the sound of their reunion album. In fact, many Purple fans might be shocked as well, since Accidentally on Purpose is hardly reminiscent of any of the group's records, relying almost entirely on synthesizers, Pop melodies, introspection and breezy rhythms. 13 tracks. Metal Mind. 2009.

Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made
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This was a wonderful book which I could barely put down each time I picked it up. Dinners were late, dishes were left in the sink, and laundry piled up while I immersed myself in the touching tale Mary weaves about coming to terms with herself, her childhood, and her life choices.

The author finds herself unintentionally pregnant after a one night stand with a guy 10 years her junior. Since she is 39, she doesn't think she could possibly get pregnant so easily; but when she does, with no marriage prospects in sight, she is left with a real dilemma: she may never be pregnant again, and has always wanted to be a mother. She never would have chosen to do it alone, but what does she do now? What she does, is decide to have the child, and decides after telling the father of her unborn child, that, if he is willing, she would like him to be a part of her child's life. She then embarks on a journey of learning to accept the father and his shortcomings, and learns to really look at herself and her own shortcomings and change. It is a wonderfully hopeful book about loving what life has dealt you and yet still being open to change - in yourself and in others.

This is not just another alternative lifestyle book about someone becoming a single parent, but a memoir that all parents - single or otherwise - can relate to about the generational ties that link us, whether we like it or not, to the families from which we all came. She delves into what her parents did or didn't do, and tells stories about her own childhood and her quirky upbringing with love and honesty.

What made this one of the best memoirs I have ever read is that she didn't just wallow in her own feelings, or just dump on the reader about how she felt about this, that, and the other thing. There was a real objective to the stories she told of her past and how they shaped who she was, and a real introspection taking place on her part as to how she could change, and what she ultimately learned being a single mom by "accident".

Unlike The Middle Place, which I recently read as well, this memoir really had depth and Mary grew. She deals with aging parents at the same time as becoming a new parent herself and experiences the heartache of seeing her parents decline while her child's life is just beginning. She sees her father's face in her child; she sees her father in herself in the way she handles her co-parent's shortcomings.

In the end, she grows by leaps and bounds. Her realization that she must quietly let her co-parent, Matt, find his own way in the world will serve her well as their son Dolan grows and delves into the world himself, making his own mistakes as he must.