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If you've already got two kids and are wavering over a third, then you've already got a pretty good idea of what parenthood is like, and you already know that, unlike the addict who despises his addiction, you're going to treasure your attachment to your children.
An interview with Hillary Clinton suggests, among other things, that she is responsible for the recent economic boom in Ireland, that her husband is a sex addict, and that running for the Senate will save her marriage.
According to Time , Clinton's old friend and reputed former lover Dolly Kyle Browning claims that, in 1987, she confronted him with her suspicions that he was a sex addict, "just like her."
He sounds like an addict," says the anti-gambling coalition's Grey.
The downside of holy shit stories is that they can turn out to be wholly bullshit, as Woodward learned in 1981, when a reporter under his editorial watch, Janet Cooke, got caught making up a story about an 8-year-old heroin addict.