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Here's a quote from Grey's Anatomy. Lexie wants to tell Callie all about her new relationship. Lexie (talking about Mark): He's fun and he's funny. Even with no sex we just laugh and we talk. Callie: Yeah. I don't want to hear this. Lexie: Come on! But you have to. You're the only one who knows about us and I'm terrible at keeping secrets. Keeping secrets makes me sick. Callie: Look. Alone people don't like to hear about the together people. Okay. Even if the alone people are alone by choice. It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything." -- Alex Karev , Grey's Anatomy

(A paraphrased version) Dr. Shepherd : I want to marry you. I want to raise a family with you. I want to live to be 110 and die in your arms. I don't want 48 hours of uninterrupted time. I want a lifetime. And I see as I say that you fighting the urge to run in the opposite direction. But that's OK. I learned something today. You are still an intern, you're not ready. Dr. Grey : But can't things stay like they are and I'll get ready? Dr. Shepherd : That's fine. We can keep doing what we're doing and you can get ready. I'll wait for you. But what if while I'm waiting for you to get ready, I find someone who's ready to do all the things you aren't ready for with me?

but finally Grey's Anatomy is back. It's as if I was missing something this whole time, and now my best friend has returned! :) Did you know there are lots of websites all about Grey's Anatomy? There are websites with 100's of quotes from episodes. Try goggling it sometime. And you thought I was obsessed? Look, give me a break. I have to have something to occupy my time. I'm a school teacher and a youth leader, my life is all about helping young people find their way. Besides a few friends and my immediate family, there is nothing else going on for me. I have to live life vicariously through something. This past weekend, a friend of mine had a guy drive 8 hours to come visit her. They've never met in real life. It's kind of friends of friends, they connected on EC, and a year or so later he finally comes down here. He seems like a great guy and I hope things work out for them, but 8 hours for a girl he's never seen face to face?? I've been intereste...

In Tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy , Derrick Shepherd's tells his girlfriend Meredith Grey that he is having doubts about their relationship. She recently fell in the ocean (bay or something) and almost drown. So the conversation goes something like this. "When you came up out of that water, I spent the scariest hour of my life trying to breathe for you. You can swim, but you didn't....I want you. I love you. But I just don't know if I want to spend the rest of my life trying to breathing for you." This show has such a way of saying what I'm thinking. Sometimes you just get tired of putting all the effort into the relationship, coaching that person to communicate, open up, be there for you. No matter how much you love them or want them, it's hard to make it last if you are the only one doing all breathing...

Pardon me if this comes across as sacrilegious, but I thought it was funny. Izzie: But what if it's God's Plan? Addison: God's Plan is for you to be an adulteress? Izzie: God impregnated a virgin with magic. God's not playing by the rules. Just a little Grey's Anatomy to tide you over. I wrote an article about the Italy trip for ninetyandnine.net, so as soon as it comes out, I'll post my Italy blog.

"Do you know I can't remember the last time we kissed because you never think the last time is the last time. You think you have forever, but you don't." "The truth is -- the truth hurts. So we lie." --Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy