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Sometimes the headlines can work to your advantage.<\/p>\n

Take the bizarre story about the astronaut love triangle<\/a>. After reading how Lisa Nowak (a Naval Academy grad) drove cross-country in diapers, I thought to myself, maybe I’m more normal than I had guessed.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not nice to laugh at someone else’s expense, but that story is better than anything the tabloids could make up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the headlines can work to your advantage. Take the bizarre story about the astronaut love triangle. After reading how Lisa Nowak (a Naval Academy grad) drove cross-country in diapers, I thought to myself, maybe I’m more normal than I had guessed. 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