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What was the shittiest year of your life?

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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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The year after graduating law school when I realized practic...
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heady shrine twinkling uncleanness
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Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly i...
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2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the b...
translucent field
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what year is it rn
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2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my p...
snowy curious indian lodge
  01/28/26
How’s life now
\'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'
  02/01/26
every year is the shittiest year of my life so far
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swashbuckling soggy gay wizard
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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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swashbuckling soggy gay wizard
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wow, thats messed up
heady shrine twinkling uncleanness
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doobsian pit
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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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Already underrated
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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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tp
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thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty yea...
Ocher hall voyeur
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many poeple are saying this
nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
  01/28/26
2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying at...
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now ...
nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
  01/28/26
ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw. in lat...
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their ...
snowy curious indian lodge
  01/28/26
it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawye...
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude...
snowy curious indian lodge
  01/28/26
cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler...
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an ...
snowy curious indian lodge
  01/28/26
180, we beat the odds
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a
nubile windowlicker school cafeteria
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Cream home boiling water
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"oh. so you were just a loser then." *gary chuc...
Passionate pontificating idiot
  01/28/26
(never worked at a biglaw firm)
ruby know-it-all market hissy fit
  01/28/26
regional large midlaw!!!
Passionate pontificating idiot
  01/28/26
2023
bull headed nursing home
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2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I ...
diverse umber theater stage regret
  01/28/26
Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about n...
buff garrison yarmulke
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Slackfist Cumdumpster
bull headed nursing home
  01/28/26
Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to l...
nofapping azure stage lettuce
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Skadden Farts https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=...
buff garrison yarmulke
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diverse umber theater stage regret
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180
nofapping azure stage lettuce
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i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out ...
buff garrison yarmulke
  01/28/26
I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.
  02/01/26
LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.
diverse umber theater stage regret
  01/28/26
2024
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2013
buff garrison yarmulke
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Fragrant crystalline stock car forum
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2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm...
nofapping azure stage lettuce
  01/28/26
2024-ongoing
Mauve excitant ratface
  01/28/26
2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thi...
floppy menage
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Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died abou...
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: razzmatazz amethyst point personal credit line

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=5310909#49626382)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: heady shrine twinkling uncleanness



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: copper tanning salon jap

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=5310909#49626414)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: translucent field

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=5310909#49626416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: swashbuckling soggy gay wizard

what year is it rn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: Cream home boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: hairraiser unhinged university crotch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628645)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: snowy curious indian lodge

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=5310909#49626484)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: \'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'

How’s life now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49639234)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM
Author: insecure angry friendly grandma

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=5310909#49626491)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: swashbuckling soggy gay wizard



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626494)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: disgusting fiercely-loyal selfie



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM
Author: swashbuckling soggy gay wizard



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: heady shrine twinkling uncleanness

wow, thats messed up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627490)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: doobsian pit



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: nofapping azure stage lettuce

Already underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628644)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: cerebral red location



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: Confused gas station jewess

tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627673)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: Ocher hall voyeur

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=5310909#49626514)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria

many poeple are saying this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626570)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

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=5310909#49626532)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria

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=5310909#49626561)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

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=5310909#49626579)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: snowy curious indian lodge

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=5310909#49626916)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

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=5310909#49628763)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: snowy curious indian lodge

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=5310909#49626562)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

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=5310909#49626564)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: snowy curious indian lodge

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=5310909#49626850)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

180, we beat the odds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626860)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: nubile windowlicker school cafeteria

and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626565)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: Cream home boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627415)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM
Author: Passionate pontificating idiot

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

*gary chuckles*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: ruby know-it-all market hissy fit

(never worked at a biglaw firm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627623)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Passionate pontificating idiot

regional large midlaw!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627658)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: bull headed nursing home

2023

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49626775)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: diverse umber theater stage regret

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=5310909#49627418)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM
Author: buff garrison yarmulke

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=5310909#49627499)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM
Author: bull headed nursing home

Slackfist Cumdumpster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627750)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: nofapping azure stage lettuce

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=5310909#49628650)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: buff garrison yarmulke

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=5310909#49628706)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: diverse umber theater stage regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628712)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: nofapping azure stage lettuce

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628729)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: buff garrison yarmulke

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=5310909#49628752)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.


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=5310909#49639487)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: diverse umber theater stage regret

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628709)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: avocado razzle-dazzle cruise ship volcanic crater

2024

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49627669)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: buff garrison yarmulke

2013

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628643)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: joran tindersloot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49639551)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: Fragrant crystalline stock car forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628663)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: nofapping azure stage lettuce

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=5310909#49628715)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM
Author: Mauve excitant ratface

2024-ongoing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#49628724)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: floppy menage

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=5310909#49628818)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Flesh multi-colored death wish

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=5310909#49628832)