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I was restrained, my legs tied, and my face covered with tape and a plastic bag".
I have a theory that before children, I lived by a set of rules that I was barely conscious of but that restrained my eating constantly.
For the previous year or so I'd been on Paxil, which had subdued and restrained my sexual response, even rendering me anorgasmic.
(Would I have been righteous about steroids if there was a chance to beat the Babe or the Mac?) My absolute uncertainty about this has always restrained my usual judgmental ism when it comes to parents who try to hoist their children up on their shoulders, over the fence, onto greener pastures.
Lastly, and most personally painful, I restrained my design passion by limiting myself to a first-draft approach to the UX and UI that resulted in a substandard experience.
I restrained my glee, anxiously fidgeted in the car as we drove what seemed like 100 miles home, and watched my dad try to hook the thing up for 45 minutes before grabbing the cables myself and proclaiming, "One side, father!
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What else restrains my tongue?
It is hard to restrain my enthusiasm for the Bulletin.
"I try to restrain my delusions of grandeur," he says.
I attempted to restrain my impulses by inspecting other aisles.
I hope you can either reassure me or restrain my husband.
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