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Oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is me at my most me, the meest of the mes I have presented in these videos &#8212; all of which are intended to acquaint you with my style of being as the result of your having spent time with me being me.<\/p>\n<p>I love this movie. I hope you do, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video is in this YouTube clip. Fair warning, it&#8217;s 40 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8jl-yYhneY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me from SelfAdoration.com: What I&#8217;m doing here is a sort of commencement speech, a celebration of my moving on to a different state of excitation &#8212; even if everyone else stays exactly the same. But I&#8217;m using extended arguments about the idea of preferring the subjunctive to the existential to defend my way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3152,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3152\/bloodhoundblog-unchained-commencement-news-and-then-to-bed\/","url_meta":{"origin":16187,"position":0},"title":"BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Commencement news, and then to bed","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've already been to sleep once, briefly. 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