are we allowed to express our opinion that his story is pure fiction? and in poor taste?
A nurse I worked with married a terminal patient she cared for. He went into remission, but died 8 months later. They had time to produce a child. So, her life was turned into a single mom with a stressful job. He had no life insurance so she was on her own.
At least her job paid well.
I was enthralled.
Engorged, even
I hope so.
Perhaps a real-life example of this is Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith (for whom the town of “Ladysmith” in South Africa was named).
Se was a 14 year old orphan during the infamous siege of Badajoz during the Peninsular War. The Brits stormed the town and the soldiers subjected it to a medieval-style sack - basically, and orgy of plunder, rape and murder directed against civilians, where drunken and battle-crazed soldiers did whatever they wanted to anyone they could catch (depicted in the Sharpe series of novels, notably).
The young Juana María de los Dolores de León was defended by Major Smith, allegedly fell in love with him on the spot, and married him a few days later. Apparently this was a true love-match and not simply a marriage of convenience, as she accompanied him, in defiance of convention, on all his subsequent military adventures - including to South Africa.
I thought Penthouse style posts were verboten here.
And she only weighed a hundred pounds?
Isn’t every mans fantasy a hot young skinny chick with giant boobs?
If fully one quarter of her body mass isn’t mammary glands, why bother getting soaked with petrol?
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Since the OP is basically polling for personal experiences and anecdotes, this is better suited to IMHO.
Moving thread from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion.
I was involved in a near fatal car accident when I was 17 and sustained a traumatic brain injury. The doctors that helped me said that they had never seen one as bad as mine. One of the firefighters that responded to the accident was an intern and it was the first bad accident he had responded to. Because of the way my accident had effected him, he broke OSHA rules and sought me out while I was in the hospital and in a coma. One month after I got out of the hospital, I got to meet him. We hung out several times and even though he had a fiancée, both of us developed feeling for each other. I was head over heels in love with the guy! Because I was 17 and he was ten years older than me, and after reading some racy Facebook messages we had sent to each other, my parents talked to the police. Both the firefighter and I had to go in (separately), and talk to the cops. Needless to say, we stopped talking after that.
I’m pretty certain a goodly number, if not all, of these examples could just as easily be attributed to time spent together.
Your nurse is around you a lot, ditto, Drs, grief councillors, therapists, lawyers, marriage advisers, etc, etc.
So, how is it not just straight up time silent together?
I’m pretty sure OSHA doesn’t care who you date.
I presume she meant HIPAA.