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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 04:43 PM
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I can't answer this. I don't feel that the best has come. I'm grateful for my friends family and apartment, yet I still feel that the best is to come. What is the best thing that has happened to you?

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:03 PM
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I would say the most amazing thing that has happened to me was the arrival of my first child. I never thought I would be a parent.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:04 PM
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Meeting and marrying my wonderful husband (30 years in June). He has stood by me and taken care of me through thick and thin. He also took up the slack when I was ill and was a wonderful father to our three children. He is a saint.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:34 PM
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My daughter being born.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:38 PM
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Marrying my husband of 35 years. Without him nothing else, especially our kids, would have been possible.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:53 PM
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Well, probably the best thing for me happened many years ago when I did something that was not well thought out. My husband got me to the hospital where I had excellent care--if not for that, I would never have seen my dear sons get married and never would have met all my grandchildren! I will always be grateful for getting another chance
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 05:57 PM
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The birth of my three children for sure.
Recently my divorce was good, it was totally liberating.

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I'd say the two times i fell in love. I like falling in love. Staying in love is not as exciting.
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Definitely my husband and three sons. Nothing compares.
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 06:53 PM
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my wife ... the only reason I am still alive ...
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 06:57 PM
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The birth of my daughter.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 07:01 PM
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Getting my college degree. I cried tears of joy when I got the email that it was being granted, and then I proceeded to call everyone I knew to tell them the good news!
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:13 PM
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My kids, being pregnant and having those tiny babies was the happiest I ever felt.
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:20 PM
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Graduating from Harvard was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It has opened many doors for me, even though my bipolar disorder insists on closing them.
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:29 PM
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When my mom got sick (a year and a half in the hospital, and now PT) my dad and I up to this point didn't generally get along, we started to get into it a bit, and I said we need to stop doing this and worry about mom right now. set our differences aside. He was floored by the wisdom that had just been disposed upon him. and since then we have never been closer. he's done some reading about my illness and how to help manage a loved one with it, now we're best friends.
So as far as how terrible an experience this all was for my mom, the silver lining was that it brought my dad and I closer together than we ever could've been.
In the future it will be my graduation from college which will at that point be a minimum of a 10 year run to get an undergrad chemistry degree. I'll cry at that one for sure.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:33 PM
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My niece.
My family was small and continues to get smaller. My niece is the only new growth on the family tree. She will be the only too. Due to mental illness I am not even considering children. Plus I am getting to the point, I wouldn't have a lot of time if I suddenly changed my mind. Due to her mother's age, she will be an only child. I know I am not her mother but in a way she is my child too. She is as close as I will come to a biological child. A little bit of my DNA is in her make up. I often have no idea how to behave around her. When she was a baby, I was terrified when she cried. But I would walk through fire for her. I would do anything to protect her. Her arrival in the world coincided when the rapid acceleration of me into bipolar. But she had no say in that. And thought of being her aunt and watching her grow up has kept me going in the difficult times. My big goal now is to eventually move to their hometown so I can see their little family more. I can video dance recitals and photograph birthday parties. I would like it.
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:44 PM
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When my future wife said "yes" when asked if she would marry me. When my two kids were both born. Hard to choose.

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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 08:47 PM
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Becoming an auntie
Graduating from college
Becoming a homeowner
My current job
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Default Apr 14, 2016 at 09:00 PM
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Meeting my husband. HE is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

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My mind, my memory, emotions, depression and mania, my parents, people, being torn between extremes, paradoxes, my rational and irrational mind, knowledge, suffering, escaping, integrating, creativity, my friends, destroying and healing, sharing: life. Just life. All of it.

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