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Old 05-29-2009, 09:57 PM
Danzig Danzig is offline
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You might consider that your two options are not the only possibility.

If you are a horse are running in a race, and your legs are getting repeatedly struck and stung by horseshoes, other horses legs, you might back off and not do your best at that moment, too. Yet come out of the race cut and bruised, even with a stinging quarter grab, but pretty much are okay in a day or so when the cuts heal and the immediate bruising to the bone is cooled and the anti-inflammatories are on board. Especially when they check you out and you x-ray sound.

I don't know why I'm having to explain this point.
probably because i'm stubborn and hard-headed. and til your post, no one had put it that way. thanks.
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Old 05-30-2009, 01:25 AM
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probably because i'm stubborn and hard-headed. and til your post, no one had put it that way. thanks.
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