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What was the shittiest year of your life?

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trip dopamine
  01/28/26
The year after graduating law school when I realized practic...
Clear Cumskin
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Honey-headed marketing idea gay wizard
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Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly i...
chestnut nighttime lodge lettuce
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2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the b...
abnormal very tactful meetinghouse
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racy skinny woman stage
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Yellow Provocative National Security Agency Headpube
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misanthropic ruddy corn cake faggot firefighter
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2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my p...
unhinged school antidepressant drug
  01/28/26
How’s life now
Massive greedy alpha business firm
  02/01/26
every year is the shittiest year of my life so far
Shaky deer antler travel guidebook
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racy skinny woman stage
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trip dopamine
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laughsome kitchen partner
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trip dopamine
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racy skinny woman stage
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wow, thats messed up
Honey-headed marketing idea gay wizard
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trip dopamine
  01/28/26
Already underrated
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trip dopamine
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Contagious zombie-like psychic university
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trip dopamine
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tp
haunting cerebral school cafeteria friendly grandma
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thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty yea...
Slap-happy Affirmative Action
  01/28/26
many poeple are saying this
trip dopamine
  01/28/26
2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying at...
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now ...
trip dopamine
  01/28/26
ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw. in lat...
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their ...
unhinged school antidepressant drug
  01/28/26
it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawye...
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude...
unhinged school antidepressant drug
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cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler...
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an ...
unhinged school antidepressant drug
  01/28/26
180, we beat the odds
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a
trip dopamine
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Yellow Provocative National Security Agency Headpube
  01/28/26
"oh. so you were just a loser then." *gary chuc...
curious spot
  01/28/26
(never worked at a biglaw firm)
stimulating locus
  01/28/26
regional large midlaw!!!
curious spot
  01/28/26
2023
flesh pit
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2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I ...
Confused Passionate House
  01/28/26
Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about n...
amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse
  01/28/26
Slackfist Cumdumpster
flesh pit
  01/28/26
Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to l...
sticky mexican newt
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Skadden Farts https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=...
amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse
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Confused Passionate House
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180
sticky mexican newt
  01/28/26
i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out ...
amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse
  01/28/26
I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out...
Confused Passionate House
  02/01/26
LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.
Confused Passionate House
  01/28/26
2024
Razzmatazz Jet-lagged Legal Warrant Corner
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2013
amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse
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opaque fiercely-loyal forum indirect expression
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charismatic national
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2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm...
sticky mexican newt
  01/28/26
2024-ongoing
wild volcanic crater cuck
  01/28/26
2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thi...
Stubborn Stain
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Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died abou...
Maniacal office codepig
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: trip dopamine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626378)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Clear Cumskin

The year after graduating law school when I realized practicing law was torture and I was sentenced to life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626382)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: Honey-headed marketing idea gay wizard



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: chestnut nighttime lodge lettuce

Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly in the running

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626414)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: abnormal very tactful meetinghouse

2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the best and the worst. Mom dropped dead of pancreatic cancer and met most of the people who I'd now consider my friends, had a lot of fun doing college shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: racy skinny woman stage



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: Yellow Provocative National Security Agency Headpube



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: misanthropic ruddy corn cake faggot firefighter



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: unhinged school antidepressant drug

2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my parents basement while most of my Ls classmates had Biglaw and my local HS friends were well into their careers and I got dumped by my LS GF.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626484)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: Massive greedy alpha business firm

How’s life now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639234)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM
Author: Shaky deer antler travel guidebook

every year is the shittiest year of my life so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626491)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: racy skinny woman stage



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM
Author: trip dopamine



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: laughsome kitchen partner



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: trip dopamine



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM
Author: racy skinny woman stage



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: Honey-headed marketing idea gay wizard

wow, thats messed up

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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: Aromatic tanning salon



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: trip dopamine



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: sticky mexican newt

Already underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628644)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: trip dopamine



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: Contagious zombie-like psychic university



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: trip dopamine



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: haunting cerebral school cafeteria friendly grandma

tp

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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: Slap-happy Affirmative Action

thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty years i’ve had in my adult life, how shit my shit life has been, lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626514)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: trip dopamine

many poeple are saying this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626570)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: stimulating locus

2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying attention to how firms worked. i just went to ls because i had nothing better to do and i didn't try. i wrote on to law review but otherwise didn't try to get good grades.

realized how fucked i was after i graduated. bounced around between temp jobs at ID firms, i couldn;'t even get an ID job. i finally got one and the guy paid me $25 per BILLED hour and i was a contractor. i really thought i was life pwnd.

unbelievable that i eventually worked my way up to biglaw from that. but yeah, 2006-2007, either of those years could easily be the worst. by far.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626532)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: trip dopamine

2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now that i think about, cant beleive i didnt kms honestly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626561)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: stimulating locus

ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw.

in late 2007 i got a job with a solo who did L&E (primarily traditional labor) and happened to take to it. in 2009, we hired a law clerk who was a 2L who'd gotten an offer from a regional bmore firm but the offer was rescinded bc of ITE.

he worked for us a few months and we kept in touch. he wound up at a baltimore firm called miles & stockbridge - basically, regional midlaw. the solo had to lay me off bc he lost a big client at the end of 2011 and the law clerk got me in at miles. i went from there to jackson lewis (ttt L&E firm), and from there to baker hostetler, where i wound up making partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626579)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: unhinged school antidepressant drug

Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their own sphere? It’s not true Milbank scale Biglaw but it’s not Lewis Brisbois either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626916)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: stimulating locus

it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawyers are hit and miss. some are really good like me, but some are borderline retarded.

they pay first years in NYC, DC, etc like 120k lol. what do you expect at that salary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628763)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: unhinged school antidepressant drug

Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude we weren’t perma fucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626562)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: stimulating locus

cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler, which is a shitty biglaw firm, but it's amazing i even made it there given that i was in literal shitlaw for a couple years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626564)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: unhinged school antidepressant drug

Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an adjunct professor I emailed recommended me for. Made contacts and got skills there and eventually did 5 years as a counsel/NEP at a lower tier V100 before going back in-house (at a fund now).

Not sure what the path is without that initial break. Definitely threw as much work as i could to the adjunct professor (who was a V20 Biglaw partner).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626850)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: stimulating locus

180, we beat the odds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626860)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: trip dopamine

and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49626565)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: Yellow Provocative National Security Agency Headpube



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM
Author: curious spot

"oh. so you were just a loser then."

*gary chuckles*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: stimulating locus

(never worked at a biglaw firm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627623)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: curious spot

regional large midlaw!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627658)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: flesh pit

2023

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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: Confused Passionate House

2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I had to do a hard reset. Doing the hard reset was difficult but I was ok with hard work. There was a relatively short period when it seemed like it wasn't going to work. I had sent several thousand job apps (!!!) and never closed the deal. Then I did and things were fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627418)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM
Author: amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse

Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about not being allowed 2 slices of pizza for work lunch etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627499)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM
Author: flesh pit

Slackfist Cumdumpster

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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: sticky mexican newt

Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to link them?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628650)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse

Skadden Farts

https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&mc=187&forum_id=2#20278379

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628706)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Confused Passionate House



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: sticky mexican newt

180

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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse

i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out of law school like 10 months and quit my first job to start my solo firm. I was lying in bed (at my dad's house) reading those and was just like I have to fucking succeed at this or I'm going to kill myself working doc review

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628752)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: Confused Passionate House

I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out of me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639487)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Confused Passionate House

LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628709)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Jet-lagged Legal Warrant Corner

2024

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49627669)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: amber candlestick maker bawdyhouse

2013

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628643)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: opaque fiercely-loyal forum indirect expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49639551)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: charismatic national



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: sticky mexican newt

2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm 3 years into marriage and made like 15k all year, which did not go over well and was very embarrassing.

My dog turned 2 that year and was the only thing that kept me from abject despair. He'll be 16 this year and I would murder innumerable people to give him more life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628715)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM
Author: wild volcanic crater cuck

2024-ongoing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628724)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: Stubborn Stain

2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628818)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Maniacal office codepig

Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died about 8 weeks later. Went through a break up at the same time. Had a lot of support from family n friends but was by far the worst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Reputation#49628832)