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Izabela Grochowska's avatar

Great piece, though I must admit my attention was unexpectedly hijacked by your choice of images. I couldn’t help but wonder about the wording of your prompts 😄

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Antonio deGou's avatar

My prompts by now are basically a novel with therapy: and images spit out.

I really appreciate you reading! Thank you.

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Emily-Jane Clark's avatar

Love this! Your mum sounds hilarious!

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Dr Hajar Tukur's avatar

Comedic genius (your mom, that is). Screams classic mom of boys energy—toss in a challenge, add a sprinkle of mystery, and let chaos unfold! 😂

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Antonio deGou's avatar

As always you are a master of the reviews and kindness.

For sure, mom of boys, chaos 100% of the time.

Thanks for reading!

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Emmaline Dove's avatar

I love the nut salad story!

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Antonio deGou's avatar

I just had to tell it.

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Benjamin Antoine's avatar

Nuts, bawls, salad - is it just me or is really about something else entirely?!

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Antonio deGou's avatar

Sorry! I can't answer right now, I gotta take the phone call from Freud. 😜

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Benjamin Antoine's avatar

Hope the call cleared some things up🤣

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Baranverse's avatar

I can't believe she did that 😂 Love this story.

The second picture is the best.

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Antonio deGou's avatar

I hope it's not genetic! haha

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Untangled Knots's avatar

You just made it acceptable to talk about my nuts in public!! 💙

Go big or go home. I hope there wasn’t already salad dressing on the salad. To put a plastic bag in that would be full on psycho

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Antonio deGou's avatar

I guess my work here is done. 🤪

You are nut! So I didn't expect any less of ya.

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Rasmus's avatar

Sometimes the nuts need to go in our mouths for us to find out if they are a fit.

Thank you for an entertaining read Antonio, and the reminder on commitment in creation!

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Antonio deGou's avatar

😆

The lessons nuts can give us all!!

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Chad's avatar

"Antonio, not everyone likes nuts.”

These are just facts, Antonio.

You will just have to live with it.

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Caroline Pankhurst's avatar

So many questions.

What type of nuts were they?

I think the greatest part is that she squirrelled them away at the bottom of the salad.

Didn’t even unwrap them in a little side bowl.

I run programs on how we can build our courage practice - I now thing the one called Courage to Create might be better called the Courage To Go Nutty

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Antonio deGou's avatar

My dear Caroline! They were walnuts, the smallest translucent bag you can imagine. I do believe my mother lacked a teacher such as yourself. I could do a substack just based on her food choices. In this case would be The Courage To Eat!

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Caroline Pankhurst's avatar

Almond mom?

I would love to teach her in the way of the nut.

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Antonio deGou's avatar

🤣 I think almond mom should be your next project.

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Caroline Pankhurst's avatar

I so wish we could share imagines in the reply. I have a GPT for decision making - it would be such fun to ask it how to make a salad with nuts without putting any in.

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Moon Arica's avatar

Oh my, this is insane! Great storytelling.

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A.C. Cargill, All-Human Author's avatar

Interesting text. The images are distracting and break things up too much.

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