
“Listen do you want to know a secret
Do you promise not to tell woh woh woh closer
Let me whisper in your ear…”
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The irony of that Beatles song and everything else, once you’ve told a secret, it’s no longer a secret because, really, two can keep a secret…if one them is dead. “Pretty Little Liars”, huh, more like Petty Little Liars for many politicians and too many others https://yadadarcyyada.com/2019/01/14/your-genius-is-showing/. But not everyone!
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Some wear their secrets as armor, others to get away with things, others to avoid embarrassment, but no matter the reason for your secrets, they’re toxic.
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I get that secrets and lies are a thing, have been for as long as humankind has existed.
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I naïvely thought social media would make it better. Wrong again, it’s worse (or just more obvious…more visible?). Now it’s all denials, proof, more denials, more proof…and so on.
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Me, I’m an open book, what about you? Of course, at any given time only those two pages are really ‘open’.
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When someone tells you another person’s secrets, red flag wavin’, don’t trust them with your secrets (or anything else).
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.”
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At least chocolate never lies or keeps secrets…or maybe it does, who am I kidding, I don’t care.

Fun post!
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Thank you kindly, hope this weekend treats you well. 🙂
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Welcome! I wish the same for you!
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Tell me no secrets and I’ll tell you no lies. That way we should both survive. Mind you, I’m not always sure I want to but a World with you in it can’t be all bad.
xxx Gigantic Hugs xxx
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I know the feeling, dear David, but I have to think that we both bring smiles and laughter, so survive we must and hey, there’s always chocolate, that makes the world big and shiny and gooey. 😉
Hope this weekend is treating you well, dear friend and that joy finds you wherever you are. 🙂
Massive who knows what tomorrow brings hugs xoxoxoxox
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Say the words you long to hear
I’m in love with you oo…… Genius as ever ❤ ❤
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Thank you kindly for the awesome reblog, it’s no secret you’re great. 🙂
Hope this weekend brings you plenty of joy! 🙂
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Not everyone is entitled to know my everything. Yet I do not play games and as one of my neighbors’ is fond of saying …. Amy, what you see is what you get with you. Yep. 😁
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I love what you see is what you get, we need more of that! 🙂
Hope this weekend treats you kindly, Amy. 🙂
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Bless you! It is treating me kindly. 💝
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Wonderful to hear, hopes it just gets better and better. 🙂
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PS. I wish the very same for you! 💝
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You are a joy to read, I look forward to your posts, funny lady. Without chocolate…how absurd! ❤
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Perish the thought, a chocolate-less day or worse, world! 😉
Hope this weekend treats you kindly and with plenty of joy and chocolate (sorry, that was redundant!). 🙂
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I am about to have a hot cup of cocoa now! Mission accomplished! 🙂
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The nectar of the chocolate gods! lol 😉
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You got that right , haha !
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Love it and you’re right…a day without chocolate…uh, would mean that I was dead.
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Me too… #chocolateforever
Thanks for dropping by and I hope this weekend is filled with love, laughter and of course, chocolate. 🙂
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So true, all of it, especially the chocolate part. 😉
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Chocolate love knows no bounds! 😉
Hope this weekend treats you kindly. 🙂
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Ha! Very funny. 🙂
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Hope your weekend is filled with even more laughter! 🙂
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Yours too! 🙂
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that’s fun!
& your secret
is safe with me 🙂
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Shhh! lol 😉
It’s no secret I hope you’re having a wonder-filled weekend. 🙂
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I loved that song. I really don’t like it when people tell me their secrets. Unless of course, it’s a surprise party.
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Me too.
Secrets are a lot of responsibility and there are few if any that wouldn’t be better aired/shared.
It’s no secret that I hope this weekend is treating you kindly, Jan. 🙂
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You can’t even rely on a dead person to keep one. They might blab through the medium of a medium, small or large.
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lol You never can tell, size might matter even in the hereafter. 😉
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Two words: no collusion. 🙂
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Hey, as long as you didn’t say the worst two words: no chocolate🍫
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LOL..
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Oh Rob, you know me well, I Love Lucy and chocolate, does it get any better? 😉
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I actually found myself laughing as if I haven’t seen that scene a thousand times.
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It’s timeless, the comedy is so true you can feel it every time we watch it. It’s a joy. 🙂
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It’s her timing.
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I might be wrong (it’s an ongoing issue, wouldn’t be the first and won’t be the last time) but I always felt her smile, her laugh was real…I always like people who have a real smile/laugh. 🙂
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Fun post, Donna. I don’t keep secrets, ask for secrets, or tell secrets. It’s way too much work! Much easier to eat chocolate. 🙂
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So so so much easier to think about chocolate, dream about chocolate, hope for chocolate, plot how to get more chocolate, share chocolate, and of course, eat chocolate. 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
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Lol. 🙂
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Dear Donna… I really hope all is well in your world, and that the only betrayal you might have experienced is that there was more chocolate waiting to be eaten than you thought.
Thanks for putting a lovely and peaceful feeling song in my head.
Sorry but I do *not* promise not to tell about this delightful post. Mega hugs!
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I love that song, it always makes me smile…like chocolate and you. 🙂
lol All secrets should be shared. 😉
Hope this weekend is treating you kindly so far, dear Teagan and all the best for the week ahead. 🙂
Mega “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” (Roald Dahl)hugs xoxoxoxoxox
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Beautiful quote. Thanks Donna — I needed that one. More hugs!
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No secret I’m sending you more hugs lol 😉
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Donna, I always enjoy your hilarious spin on current events 🙂
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And there’s so much out there, I’m spinning. lol But chocolate is there to catch me. 😉
Hope you have a wonder-filled week. 🙂
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Nah, chocolate keeps no secrets. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. 😉 😀
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But worth every single bite. 😉
Hope the week ahead treats you well, Linda, with lots of #chocolatelove moments. 🙂
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“Everybody lies” (including me) except Donald Trump.
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lol That should keep me laughing for awhile. 😉
Hope the week ahead treats you well. 🙂
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I like. There needs to be more secrets.
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We’ll have to agree to disagree, I’ve never found secrets make things better, but maybe some people feel that way. Hope the week ahead treats you kindly. 🙂
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Donna, a fun post with a touch of seriousness. The thing about secrets, I don’t tell them, but people tell me. It’s no problem! It’s just part of their life story, unloaded. Now, a day without chocolate would be a big problem! Have a shining Sunday! 📚🎶 Christine
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A day without chocolate, shudder! 😉
Hope this week treats you kindly, Christine! 🙂
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Whenever someone tells me a secret about someone else, I know not to trust them with any of mine:-)
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Exactly – you can’t trust them with anything!
Hope the week ahead treats you kindly. 🙂
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Secrets are at best ,avoided!
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How true! Hope this week treats you kindly and openly. 😉
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There are many doors in a hotel but no secrets…
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Not from you… 😉
Hope the week ahead treats you kindly. 🙂
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We’ll see.
Everyone at the hotel is dreading an impending (apparently) winter storm.
I wish you all the best as well.
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It’s hit us hard and it keeps going. At least the cold has let up a bit, but the snow keeps coming. Wishing you warmth and safety and not too many ‘cabin fever’ hotel guests. 🙂
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Thanks!
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I;m an open book; no secrets
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Two pages at a time…me too. 😉
Hope this week is treating you kindly so far. 🙂
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This is turning out to be a great week. Thank you!!
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I have not thought too much about secrets, but what you say is so true. Best of all I love, love your chocolate quote, that cracked me up and the secrets got out 🙂
Kathleen
Blogger’s Pit Stop
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It’s no secret I love chocolate…and everyone over at #BloggersPitStop 🙂
Hope this week is treating you kindly so far Kathleen and thank you all again for helping us bloggers connect every week. 🙂
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Hey,
I’m working on my debut poetry book.
I am preparing a mailing list. Would you like me to add your e-mail address please? If so, can you share it with me?
I don’t plan to do it like hard core promotion, I will just inform you when it’s available and when there is some huge fluctuation in price (sale etc.), as on WordPress reader posts get lost in stampede.
That wouldn’t be more than 5 to 6 times a year, max.
Won’t bother you with unnecessary e-mails, promise!
Thank you 🙂
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No problem, it’s somewhere on my blog, in one of the widgetty thingies, but I can’t even remember where lol
iwanttobelieve@rogers.com
Hope this week is treating you kindly, so far and best of luck with the poetry book, hope to read it sometime. 🙂
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Ahah happens your blogs can be very confusing to us sometimes.
Thank you so much 🙂
Kindly?? I don’t know. Been insanely busy.
Thanks again 🙂
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It’s in the send me stuff for free lol 😉
Hope we can virtually visit often. 🙂
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Ahhaha. Yep for sure 🙂
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Ah, yes secrets. I don’t like keeping things from others – I’m also a bit of an open book – but I have no trouble keeping a secret for someone else. In fiction and in drama, however, I love reading about the secrets people keep. That always makes for a good story!
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Secrets are fascinating, to read about, but in reality, generally toxic.
From one open book to another, glad to read you today. 😉
Hope this week is being good to you, so far. 🙂
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Donna, this is such a timely post! My husband and I have been discussing “secrets” recently as it pertains to confidentiality. One of his pet peeves is when people tell him, “This is between me and you,” because he swears that the secret teller has told someone else already or will tell someone else later. BTW, I’m a big Pretty Little Liars fan. Miss that show! Thanks for sharing on TrafficJamWeekend.
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I know right, between you and me, ha, not likely. 😉
I’ve heard they’re doing another spinoff of PLL but I also think another limited series or movie would help us adjust to life PostA or even PostAD lol 😉
#trafficjamweekend rules!!! 🙂
Hope this week is treating you kindly, so far. 🙂
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Oh, I couldn’t agree more about secrets… I’ve known families where BIG secrets have festered until they chose the very worst of times to burst out in the most hurtful of ways. I hate them – and I’ve noticed that a certain type of person is often drawn to keeping secrets. Uses them as a sort of powerplay.
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They are toxic and the long they fester the more toxic they become.
Yes, some folks seem to use secrets as currency, to wield power, that’s sad. Easily thwarted, let those secrets see the light of day and the power goes away.
Hope this week is treating you kindly, so far. 🙂
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Yep. Absolutely. Hard to cope when such folks are family members… I’ve seen it cause endless trouble.
It’s been a good week so far and I hope that you, too, are enjoying this week, which seems to be zipping past at lightspeed!
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Every week just shows up and then it’s gone, they should learn to slow down and linger. 😉
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Loved it Donna. ..😊
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Thank you kindly, hope this week is being good to you. 🙂
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Lie is a lie everyone one lies. Found you on Bloggers Pit Stop Link Party
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So House told us…but I don’t believe everyone does it maliciously. Love #BloggersPitStop – I’ll pop back and see if I can find you and please drop by here and leave a link to your blog so I (and others) can find you. 🙂
Best wishes for a wonderful weekend. 🙂
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Chocolate is my friend–and that’s no secret! I found your blog on the Blogger’s Pit Stop. Nice to “meet” you.
~Christie
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lol So glad we found each other in this giant virtual haystack, Christie, #BloggersPitStop is one of the best ways for bloggers to connect, I don’t know how they do it every week, but I’m so happy they do! Thanks for dropping by, I hope we can virtually visit often. Best wishes fr the weekend. 🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
CHOOSE LIFE 😀
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That reminds me of a Wham! video lol 😉 As long as it’s quality of life and we take care of those who are alive. 🙂 Thank you kindly for the delightful reblog, Jonathan, I really appreciate you sharing the #bloglove. 🙂 Hope this weekend is being good to you so far. 🙂
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My husband claims I disguise my lies as “not quite telling the truth”! Not sure if there’s truth in that! Thanks for sharing with us at The Blogger’s Pit Stop!
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lol As long as it’s not quite reaching alternative fact status, who knows. 😉
It’s always wonderful to visit #BloggersPitStop (dropping by again later today), such a wonderful way to bring bloggers together, thank you and hope this weekend is treating you kindly. 🙂
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And your post headline is the best quote of all!
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I think Benjamin Franklin said something like, Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead, but I prefer the ‘Pretty Little Liars’ one, two… 😉
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I tend to freeze up if someone says to me, “Do you want to hear a secret?” I usually blurt out, “Only if it’s good”, as in if there’s an upcoming surprise party. There are some things I just don’t want to know.
I hope you’re keeping warm!
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I never trust people who tell me secrets, well, a surprise party is ok, especially if it’s mine (I don’t like surprises). 😉
I am, so far, how about you?
Hope this week is being good to you. 🙂
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Donna, we will feature your post on the next Blogger’s Pit Stop. Well done.
Kathleen
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Kathleen, thank you so much, that is amazing. You’re too kind, I’m very grateful for all the #bloglove 🙂
It’s no secret I love #BloggersPitStop lol 😉
I’ll be there to check it out, with bells on.
Hope this week treats you well. 🙂
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Thanks for all the #bloglove – and thanks for connecting all of us bloggers every single week. 🙂
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Thanks for all the #bloglove – and thanks for connecting all of us bloggers every single week. 🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
OH YEAH—-I’D SAY SO! DON’T TRUST ALL YOUR DELUSIONS ABOUT PEOPLE!
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There are so many versions of the ‘truth’ these days, I like facts, but even those can be played with.
Thank you kindly for the lovely reblog, Jonathan, hope this week is being good to you, so far. 🙂
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I can keep State secrets…..unless red wine or dark chocolate is offered.
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lol Or both! 😉
Hope this weekend is treating you kindly, so good to see you back. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Ian, I’m behind on my comments, but my sentiment remains the same, I am very grateful so this reblog and your kindness. I hope this weekend is treating you well so far. Any ideas for a new title for my bio? 😉
Best wishes today and every single day. xox
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