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a mistake I'll never forget

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Jim Dalling
Nov 12, 2023
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Some of you may notice that I occasionally have typographical errors here in the FoolsLetter. This is partly due to laziness. Well that doesn’t accurately capture the process of someone who writes every day. I also leave errors to maintain a clear sense of authenticity. It would take me a lot of work to get Chat GPT to make the same kind of mistakes that I do. They are random, even more than some of a large language model’s most weird hallucinations. The main reason though? I like to think that I am transparent, a living example of human imperfection and remarkable foolishness.

I have some previous posts where I talked about how my wife was the only long-term relationship I had. Though I did refer to another woman as ‘the mistake’. Now, don't get me wrong; dating and being involved with her for as long as I was, was a mistake.

My biggest mistake with her was dating her in the first place. Relationships built on a swampy foundation of ‘convenience’ have all of the solidity of an ongoing…

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