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This is my life what’s yours Better Homes & Gardens: Agatha is very homebound she hates being around people, she loves knitting yarn and being around her cats. Agatha is 45 years old, friendly, and has a strange addiction to cottage cheese. She was actually featured on “TLC’s My Strange Addiction” she eats about 15 containers a week and eats it with everything. She reads a women’s lib pamphlet daily once her mouth gets tired from eat cottage cheese. Agatha may not be a common name, but she has been seen on television numerous amounts of times. She was also on TLC’s Extreme Couponing, she first started when she saw an ad about a department store sale. Plenty fair deals, but since she always spent her money on cottage cheese, she decided to …show more content…

Throughout the week, he waits for his favorite team that almost plays every weekend, in his big easy blue chair. Noah is very wild, so he always wears his lucky t-shirt with a wild design. He always has the two most important things his six-pack of beer, and his unsalted potato chips. One thing that Noah collects is golf balls. This all started when his brother tripped down the steps due to a golf ball being in his way. Noah has sought to collect every golf ball he sees, because he felt guilty that his brother almost died due to his …show more content…

Albert’s father had his own chain of restaurants that were very successful. When his father died, he left Albert a small loan of a million dollars and thus his successful lifestyle was brought to life. He is flashy, he carries a solid gold cigarette case at all times, and wears a $90 silk necktie everywhere. Success isn’t everything when your life is spiraling out of control. He is a deadbeat father, he is “mentally” addicted to aspirin, he has been eating about 10-15 tablets a day for 3 years straight. Albert thinks it is a solution for his problems, but it has landed him in the hospital multiple times. Aspirin if taken many times, can become a blood thinner, kill off a liver, and can rip your stomach lining. He got his act together, when he learned he was very close to

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