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o i dunno...its hard to tell much of anything about such situations from message board posts i find, particularly in situations like this where there seems to be kindling laying about for all kinds of reasons that your remark set a flame to. was it out of line? well, that seems a circular matter---given his reaction it was situationally so, yes? is there some Line that you Should Have Seen? it's impossible to say.
were i to try to read into this i'd say the op contains alot of extraneous detail because it looks to me like the reaction was triggered by anxiety over the increasingly obvious health consequences of smoking for this guy, which seem to be mapped over onto the money consequences. it may be that the backstory explains why this particular conjuncture was in place...but it may not.
btw i just quit smoking about 8 weeks ago.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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