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Profanity; Love it or Leave it? Day 14, 30 day writing challenge.

*Disclaimer:  Some Offensive (??) Language* In a day and age where an F-bomb is common place, I have to ask, what do you think of swearing?  I think I might have an addiction.  I don't walk around talking like "a sailor", but I have my moments of being a complete potty mouth, which brings to mind that scene from 'A Christmas Story' when Ralphie gets his mouth washed out with soap and daydreams about going blind.  Yeah, I never swore as a kid, well not until High School, but even then it was a sporadic 'shit', or 'dammit'.  I was never one to drop an F-bomb.  I can't swear in front of my dad (nor my mom, when she was alive), though the sporadic 'shit' might pop out.  My dad says, "whatever, you're an adult and I know you do it when I am not around."  My mama basically said the same thing, but told me, "you're a lady, you should watch how you talk."  I have been called, jokingly, Saltymarie, by a mentor o...