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Originally Posted by Les
There's also the possibility that they don't particularly intend for anyone to take their word choice quite as literally as you are. In the quote that Ali used when she started this thread, Lindsey is chuckling through it. I don't really come away with the feeling that he really means he was "traumatized" in the literal sense of that word. When Stevie talks about being poor and starving, she may dip into her tendency to dramatize, but it doesn't require a stretch to think she doesn't really intend to say that she was truly near death's door. She uses terms that a lot of people use to describe times in their lives when they aren't living well. The terms aren't used in their most literal sense or in their most extreme interpretation.
As for being spoiled, of course they are and I'd say that they know it too.
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Sheesh. I'd be absolutely lost if I didn't have you to interpret their childish comments and explain exactly what they meant to say.