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What was the shittiest year of your life?

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Gay diverse hell
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The year after graduating law school when I realized practic...
Vibrant Menage
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provocative massive school
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Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly i...
stimulating stage cuck
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2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the b...
nofapping aqua partner
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what year is it rn
Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal
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concupiscible mischievous police squad hall
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Razzle den gaping
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2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my p...
crawly ladyboy property
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How’s life now
\'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'
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every year is the shittiest year of my life so far
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Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal
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Gay diverse hell
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arrogant boiling water locus
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Gay diverse hell
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Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal
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wow, thats messed up
provocative massive school
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Gay diverse hell
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Already underrated
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Gay diverse hell
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Gay diverse hell
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tp
brilliant multi-billionaire chapel
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thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty yea...
lascivious house
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many poeple are saying this
Gay diverse hell
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2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying at...
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now ...
Gay diverse hell
  01/28/26
ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw. in lat...
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their ...
crawly ladyboy property
  01/28/26
it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawye...
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude...
crawly ladyboy property
  01/28/26
cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler...
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an ...
crawly ladyboy property
  01/28/26
180, we beat the odds
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a
Gay diverse hell
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concupiscible mischievous police squad hall
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"oh. so you were just a loser then." *gary chuc...
Sexy aquamarine cuckoldry
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(never worked at a biglaw firm)
clear self-absorbed party of the first part
  01/28/26
regional large midlaw!!!
Sexy aquamarine cuckoldry
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2023
Galvanic frisky orchestra pit scourge upon the earth
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2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I ...
ungodly arousing gas station
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Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about n...
turquoise racy sandwich
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Slackfist Cumdumpster
Galvanic frisky orchestra pit scourge upon the earth
  01/28/26
Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to l...
Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation
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Skadden Farts https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=...
turquoise racy sandwich
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ungodly arousing gas station
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180
Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation
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i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out ...
turquoise racy sandwich
  01/28/26
I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.
  02/01/26
LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.
ungodly arousing gas station
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2024
poppy aphrodisiac doctorate corn cake
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2013
turquoise racy sandwich
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Tan Beady-eyed Mood
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2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm...
Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation
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2024-ongoing
Thriller Jap Faggotry
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2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thi...
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Gay diverse hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626378)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Vibrant Menage

The year after graduating law school when I realized practicing law was torture and I was sentenced to life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626382)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: provocative massive school



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: stimulating stage cuck

Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly in the running

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626414)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: nofapping aqua partner

2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the best and the worst. Mom dropped dead of pancreatic cancer and met most of the people who I'd now consider my friends, had a lot of fun doing college shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal

what year is it rn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: concupiscible mischievous police squad hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Razzle den gaping



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: crawly ladyboy property

2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my parents basement while most of my Ls classmates had Biglaw and my local HS friends were well into their careers and I got dumped by my LS GF.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626484)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: \'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'

How’s life now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49639234)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM
Author: chestnut naked associate church

every year is the shittiest year of my life so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626491)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: arrogant boiling water locus



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM
Author: Smoky aggressive cruise ship son of senegal



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: provocative massive school

wow, thats messed up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627490)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: Frozen Fighting Juggernaut



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627541)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation

Already underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628644)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: apoplectic beta box office water buffalo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628698)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: brilliant multi-billionaire chapel

tp

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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: lascivious house

thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty years i’ve had in my adult life, how shit my shit life has been, lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626514)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell

many poeple are saying this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626570)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying attention to how firms worked. i just went to ls because i had nothing better to do and i didn't try. i wrote on to law review but otherwise didn't try to get good grades.

realized how fucked i was after i graduated. bounced around between temp jobs at ID firms, i couldn;'t even get an ID job. i finally got one and the guy paid me $25 per BILLED hour and i was a contractor. i really thought i was life pwnd.

unbelievable that i eventually worked my way up to biglaw from that. but yeah, 2006-2007, either of those years could easily be the worst. by far.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626532)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell

2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now that i think about, cant beleive i didnt kms honestly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626561)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw.

in late 2007 i got a job with a solo who did L&E (primarily traditional labor) and happened to take to it. in 2009, we hired a law clerk who was a 2L who'd gotten an offer from a regional bmore firm but the offer was rescinded bc of ITE.

he worked for us a few months and we kept in touch. he wound up at a baltimore firm called miles & stockbridge - basically, regional midlaw. the solo had to lay me off bc he lost a big client at the end of 2011 and the law clerk got me in at miles. i went from there to jackson lewis (ttt L&E firm), and from there to baker hostetler, where i wound up making partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626579)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: crawly ladyboy property

Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their own sphere? It’s not true Milbank scale Biglaw but it’s not Lewis Brisbois either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626916)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawyers are hit and miss. some are really good like me, but some are borderline retarded.

they pay first years in NYC, DC, etc like 120k lol. what do you expect at that salary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628763)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: crawly ladyboy property

Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude we weren’t perma fucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626562)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler, which is a shitty biglaw firm, but it's amazing i even made it there given that i was in literal shitlaw for a couple years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626564)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: crawly ladyboy property

Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an adjunct professor I emailed recommended me for. Made contacts and got skills there and eventually did 5 years as a counsel/NEP at a lower tier V100 before going back in-house (at a fund now).

Not sure what the path is without that initial break. Definitely threw as much work as i could to the adjunct professor (who was a V20 Biglaw partner).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626850)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

180, we beat the odds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626860)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: Gay diverse hell

and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626565)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: concupiscible mischievous police squad hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627415)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM
Author: Sexy aquamarine cuckoldry

"oh. so you were just a loser then."

*gary chuckles*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: clear self-absorbed party of the first part

(never worked at a biglaw firm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627623)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Sexy aquamarine cuckoldry

regional large midlaw!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627658)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: Galvanic frisky orchestra pit scourge upon the earth

2023

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49626775)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: ungodly arousing gas station

2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I had to do a hard reset. Doing the hard reset was difficult but I was ok with hard work. There was a relatively short period when it seemed like it wasn't going to work. I had sent several thousand job apps (!!!) and never closed the deal. Then I did and things were fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627418)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM
Author: turquoise racy sandwich

Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about not being allowed 2 slices of pizza for work lunch etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627499)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM
Author: Galvanic frisky orchestra pit scourge upon the earth

Slackfist Cumdumpster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627750)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation

Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to link them?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628650)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: turquoise racy sandwich

Skadden Farts

https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&mc=187&forum_id=2#20278379

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628706)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: ungodly arousing gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628712)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628729)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: turquoise racy sandwich

i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out of law school like 10 months and quit my first job to start my solo firm. I was lying in bed (at my dad's house) reading those and was just like I have to fucking succeed at this or I'm going to kill myself working doc review

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628752)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.


I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out of me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49639487)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: ungodly arousing gas station

LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628709)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: poppy aphrodisiac doctorate corn cake

2024

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49627669)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: turquoise racy sandwich

2013

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628643)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: joran tindersloot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49639551)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: Tan Beady-eyed Mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628663)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: Fiercely-loyal Theatre Mediation

2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm 3 years into marriage and made like 15k all year, which did not go over well and was very embarrassing.

My dog turned 2 that year and was the only thing that kept me from abject despair. He'll be 16 this year and I would murder innumerable people to give him more life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628715)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM
Author: Thriller Jap Faggotry

2024-ongoing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628724)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: Buff Swashbuckling Kitchen Skinny Woman

2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628818)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Startling wagecucks

Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died about 8 weeks later. Went through a break up at the same time. Had a lot of support from family n friends but was by far the worst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2"#49628832)