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Mattoon, Illinois? I went to school in Charleston and worked as a cocktail waitress (not server; that's a different thing, believe me) at a restaurant/bar called Fat Albert's. That was a long time ago!

I absolutely agree that a fear of heights is really a fear of jumping, and I also would have been obsessed with that lizard.

The book sounds good. I'll keep my eye out for it.

Cheers!

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I may very well pick Illinois, to go the Sweet 16. Why? Because no one else will. No way they go any farther...

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I like this Illinois team. No bad losses the entire season, two wins against probable two seeds. I mean, we would kill for this position compared to five, six years ago!

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The summer after high school a buddy and I decided to blow some of our summer-job money on a baseball weekend in Cincinnati. Stayed at the Sheraton-Gibson hotel downtown. We were from a small town and thinking back on it now it was probably the first time I'd ever been in a building that tall. Anyway out of nowhere I suddenly became obsessed with the fear that I was going to jump out the open window of my room. I got over it after a few hours, and it was fine, I don't think it's happened since. But I later found out that that's quite a common fear.

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