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Great story and very funny!

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Thank you!

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Remind me to tell you about the ex who wanted to know if when I came to visit I'd sit in the middle seat of his pickup truck (I never visited).

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😂😂😂

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Love this. 🤣 And I refuse to ride in a car when Damien is driving because his driving gives me a panic attack. I like to be in control. And he likes getting driven around!

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Nice!

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Oct 26, 2023Liked by Jen Zug

OMG I am DEAD. 🤣 I miss you Jen.

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I LOVE this story. In part because I always always crave knowing that other people's past versions went on church youth groups mostly to make out with boys (ok you didn't exactly say that, but) --- but also + mostly b/c damn, a tight, well-contained and funny story in my morning inbox = life-giving.

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Ha! Totally! I was amazed at what I learned at our Catholic 'retreats'!

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Oh my gosh, church camp was ALL ABOUT making out with boys from other churches!!

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Oh man, that’s awesome! One of the most amazing qualities of my wife Sara is her capacity to “accept the man drives”--by which I mean, she has recognized that driving like a mad man is so important to me that she just accepts it.

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😂😂😂

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What does it say about me that I read that as him saying that he had sexual drives that needed to be accepted (and perhaps weren't fulfilled to his expectations?). If he meant driving a car then it's still icky, but less so.

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🙈

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My first thought too. I thought it was going to be his clumsy attempt at explaining that dudes have urges.

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Fabulous ❤️

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Oct 26, 2023Liked by Jen Zug

lol. I thought this was going to be about how you have to accept that having difficult conversations with men (usually a significant other) involves going on drives where you don’t look at each other, just the road forward (as I did with my husband this last weekend as we talked about potentially having kids hahaha)

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haha oh my. Trapped in a moving car! 😳

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Great story! I’m giggling.

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🙊

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Hahahaha!

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Ha! This was a great story. Also, please never tell my wife the "accept that the man drives," part, 'cause I hate driving. :)

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Oct 29, 2023·edited Oct 29, 2023Liked by Jen Zug

So many great lines in here. Summer of missionary love just one of many. I love how being together in person pulls these stories out of one. The body / life is a wild storytelling machine! Fingers crossed for last drive there but also, beautiful moment of gratitude on Bryan’s part.

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