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Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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The year after graduating law school when I realized practic...
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offensive house
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Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly i...
Peach international law enforcement agency reading party
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2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the b...
cyan ticket booth
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what year is it rn
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Cobalt background story
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2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my p...
Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker
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How’s life now
Big-titted stimulating orchestra pit
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every year is the shittiest year of my life so far
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fragrant liquid oxygen
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wow, thats messed up
offensive house
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flatulent double fault indirect expression
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Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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Already underrated
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Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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tp
curious chapel
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thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty yea...
chest-beating rigor rehab
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many poeple are saying this
Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying at...
Mauve psychic dysfunction
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2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now ...
Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
  01/28/26
ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw. in lat...
Mauve psychic dysfunction
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Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their ...
Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker
  01/28/26
it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawye...
Mauve psychic dysfunction
  01/28/26
Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude...
Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker
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cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler...
Mauve psychic dysfunction
  01/28/26
Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an ...
Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker
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180, we beat the odds
Mauve psychic dysfunction
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and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a
Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth
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appetizing box office generalized bond
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"oh. so you were just a loser then." *gary chuc...
Heady zombie-like dilemma potus
  01/28/26
(never worked at a biglaw firm)
Mauve psychic dysfunction
  01/28/26
regional large midlaw!!!
Heady zombie-like dilemma potus
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2023
racy narrow-minded whorehouse party of the first part
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2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I ...
bipolar silver address marketing idea
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Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about n...
Erotic Bistre Hospital
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Slackfist Cumdumpster
racy narrow-minded whorehouse party of the first part
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Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to l...
Out-of-control associate office
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bipolar silver address marketing idea
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Out-of-control associate office
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i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out ...
Erotic Bistre Hospital
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I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out...
bipolar silver address marketing idea
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LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.
bipolar silver address marketing idea
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2024
Mustard Forum Becky
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2013
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2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm...
Out-of-control associate office
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2024-ongoing
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2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thi...
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: insane impressive resort death wish

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626382)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: offensive house



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: Peach international law enforcement agency reading party

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626414)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: cyan ticket booth

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen

what year is it rn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: appetizing box office generalized bond



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Cobalt background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628645)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626484)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: Big-titted stimulating orchestra pit

How’s life now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49639234)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM
Author: Jade stage macaca

every year is the shittiest year of my life so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626491)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: Effete Ivory Water Buffalo



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: offensive house

wow, thats messed up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627490)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: flatulent double fault indirect expression



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Out-of-control associate office

Already underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628644)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: provocative range preventive strike



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: curious chapel

tp

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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: chest-beating rigor rehab

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626514)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth

many poeple are saying this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626570)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626532)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626561)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626579)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626916)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628763)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626562)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626564)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: Drunken bat shit crazy cuck weed whacker

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626850)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

180, we beat the odds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626860)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: Federal Kitchen Scourge Upon The Earth

and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626565)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: appetizing box office generalized bond



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM
Author: Heady zombie-like dilemma potus

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

*gary chuckles*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: Mauve psychic dysfunction

(never worked at a biglaw firm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627623)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Heady zombie-like dilemma potus

regional large midlaw!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627658)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: racy narrow-minded whorehouse party of the first part

2023

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49626775)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: bipolar silver address marketing idea

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627418)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM
Author: Erotic Bistre Hospital

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627499)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM
Author: racy narrow-minded whorehouse party of the first part

Slackfist Cumdumpster

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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: Out-of-control associate office

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628650)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Erotic Bistre Hospital

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628706)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: bipolar silver address marketing idea



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628712)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Out-of-control associate office

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628729)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: Erotic Bistre Hospital

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628752)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: bipolar silver address marketing idea

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49639487)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: bipolar silver address marketing idea

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628709)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Mustard Forum Becky

2024

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49627669)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: Erotic Bistre Hospital

2013

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628643)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: Turquoise apoplectic affirmative action



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: Thriller violent ladyboy jap



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: Out-of-control associate office

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628715)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM
Author: Odious sound barrier station

2024-ongoing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628724)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy Razzle-dazzle Den Mexican

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628818)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Swashbuckling school foreskin

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=2\u0026mark_id=5310796#49628832)