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I want to knowwhat love is
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Vol. 3, Issue No. 5
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help your childrenmake friends
forgiveness
 
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As a kid I always wanted to be Batman. He was cool – a dark, mysterious, maskedfigure with an even cooler car – it shot fire out the back. Awesome! I mean, what8-year-old boy wouldn't want a bat-boat, a bat-car and a gadget-filled bat-cave ofhis own? My brother, who is two years my senior, always preferred that I should beRobin, his trusty sidekick. It wasn't the same.But you know, as I grew older and taller I realised that my legs were probablytoo spindly – a superhero in saggy grey leggings and big pants doesn't quite havethe same appeal.Life can be terribly cruel. In the innocence of my childhood I thought all thebat-related goodies could be well within my grasp – well, the flame-throwing car atleast. Now, as an old man of 32, I own a
bat
tered Golf (not quite the bat-car I hadin mind). It's not particularly dark and mysterious either, it's sky blue and, to behonest, if flames start coming out of the exhaust I’d be quite worried.Reality hits hard, but if, like me, you haven't had much time to delve into theimaginary part of your brain where all the fantastical, exciting things happen, joinAbigail on page 26 and let your imagination run riot for a few moments.I gave it a try and decided that I would be the incredible crime-fighting characterknown as SuperEditor – a caped crusader who can lasso villains with words andwho has lots of unnecessary but very fun gadgets!Anyway, give it a try and while you're imagining your Superhero-self, try not to letyour ego take over completely. Instead, take some time to imagine all the gooddeeds you'd be able to accomplish. Would the world be a better, more peacefulplace with SuperYou around?Talking of peace, check out I.P.D. on page 20 and then let us know yourthoughts.OK, I'm off. I've got a full diary of rescuing damsels and saving the worldpencilled in for this evening!
LIFE.info
magazine
Alma Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 9SL.
Email:
lifeinfomag@mac.com 
Magazine Aims:
To provide relevant material to help you with day-to-day living. To encourage you to stop and thinkabout a few things that perhaps you haven’t given much thought to before. To make you smile.
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LIFE snippets
Trivia and stories about the world welive in and the people we share it with.
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First Impressions
Judge not, lest ye be judged! Howimportant are first impression really?
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Get organised!
Overcoming the mental barriersstanding between you and a tidier life.
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Help your children make friends
Friendships don’t always comenaturally. What can you do to help yourchildren integrate socially?
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I want to know what love is
Ah, the eighties, birthplace of so muchgreat music and some interesting lyrics.
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I.P.D.
Can you remember what you weredoing on 21 September 2004?
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Mummy, can we have a frog?
To have or not to have . . . Andrea looksat the pros and cons of pet ownership.
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Super Man
Now if I were a superhero what sort ofsuperhero would I be?
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Will the
real 
Superman stand up?
Christopher Reeve, a man whose lifestory eclipses that of the fictionalcharacter he played in the films.
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If I were a signpost . . .
I wouldn’t keep bumping into myself forstarters!
Sponsored by:
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COVER PICTURE:
Digital Vision
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Auntie Mary’s coming
Light-hearted insightful poetry by Ruth
39
I survived a hurricane
Life is full of storms and not all of themare meteorolgical.
42
Forgive me
What do we really need to do to get togrips with this tough subject. Wherecan we go to find real forgiveness?
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What would I have done?
Is this story just a terrible reflection onsociety or does it have impact closer tohome?
50
Feeling a bit down?
Think of others for a change and youmight start to feel better yourself.
52
Enjoy your kids
Tired advice or a wake-up call?
54
Children at risk
Gangs, drugs, crime. Prevention isbetter than cure and you
can 
make adifference!
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Worth the wait
Patience pays off.
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Too much stuff
Handbags for men, now there’s andinteresting mental picture . . .
 
source:
www.inhis.com 
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dangerous
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the food of love
A Chinese restaurant is offering a free meal to diningcouples if they come back, still together, a year later.Restaurant manager Chen Guang’en said the ideawas to reward couples who achieved lasting love.‘Lots of young people today do not cherish their part-ners. They may fall in love just for fun, so many couplesdon't last long,’ he told the
Southern Metropolitan News 
.He takes two photographs of couples who eat at hisrestaurant, in Guangzhou, and who want to take part.One copy is handed over to the lovers while the othergoes on display in the restaurant. So far more than 100couples have taken part.Those who return as a couple a year later, qualify fora free meal in the promotion.
you’re kidding, right?
Pensioner Tom Brierley went to buysparklers - and was asked to provehis age.The shocked 68-year-old thoughtthe Co-op assistant was joking - butthen had to show his pension bookbefore they let him have the fireworksfor his grandsons Luke, 8, and Adam,11, reports
The Sun 
.Tom, of Portsmouth Hants, said:‘This is common sense gone crazy.There were other pensioners in thequeue and we were all flabbergasted.’A Co-op spokesman insisted:‘Rules are rules.’
 just to be sure
A pensioner with a life-time fear of beingburied alive has designed a coffin with anin-built alarm system.Frenchman Angel Hays, 87, has suf-fered from taphephobia - the fear of beingburied alive - since he was 20.He was involved in a traffic accident thatleft him so badly injured his family believedhe was dead.Now the octogenarian has built his owncoffin that will ensure his survival if he isburied prematurely.It features an alarm system that can beheard from up to 500 metres away if thereis the slightest movement within the coffin.It also contains a water holder, food, aventilation system and a mini bar with 87-year-old Hays' favourite tipple - Ouzo.Hays told French daily
Aujourd’hui 
: ‘Iwas so badly hurt in the accident all thoseyears ago that a coffin had even beendelivered to my family’s house before I wasable to move to let them know I was alive.‘I want to make sure nothing like thatwill happen again.’
USA Driving School
Here are some real answers received onexams given by the California Department ofTransportation’s driving school:
Q:
Do you give way when a blind pedestrianis crossing the road?
A:
What for? He can’t see my licence numberplate.
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Who has the right of way when four carsapproach a four-way stop at the same time?
A:
The pick-up truck with the gun rack andthe bumper sticker saying, ‘Guns don’t killpeople. I do.’
Q:
When driving through fog, what shouldyou use?
A:
Your car.
Q:
What changes would occur in yourlifestyle if you could no longer drive lawfully?
A:
I would be forced to drive unlawfully.
Q:
What are some points to remember whenpassing or being passed?
A:
Make eye contact and wave ‘hello’ ifhe/she is cute.
Q:
What is the difference between a flashingred traffic light and a flashing yellow trafficlight?
A:
The colour.
Deluded drivers
Below are actual insurance claim formgaffes found by a UK insurance company:
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‘I started to slow down but the trafficwas more stationary than I thought.’
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‘A car drove away at speed catchingour client who went up in the air and hishead went through the windscreen andthen rolled off at the traffic lights a goodfew feet away. The car then sped off andmiraculously our client remained con-scious and managed to cross the road.’
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‘I pulled into a lay-by with smoke com-ing from under the bonnet. I realised thecar was on fire so took my dog andsmothered it with a blanket.’
Q:
Could either driver have done anythingto avoid the accident?
A:
Travelled by bus?A customer collided with a cow. The ques-tions and answers on the claim form were:
Q:
What warning was given by you?
A:
Horn
Q:
What warning was given by the otherparty?
A:
Moo
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‘I had one eye on a parked car, anotheron approaching lorries, and another onthe woman behind’.
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‘I had been driving for 40 years whenI fell asleep at the wheel and had anaccident. I pulled away from the side ofthe road, glanced at my mother-in-lawand headed over the embankment.’
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‘Coming home, I drove into the wronghouse and collided with a tree I don'thave.’
source:
www.ananova.com 
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