Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice.

I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure -- say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Once is never. Twice is always.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.