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"I was perusing the news this morning and came across this tidbit about Kate Gosselin. She&amp;#039;s apparently trying to get her name back up on a marquis somewhere by offering up her own reality dating show (that is, if any network will make her an offer). She&amp;#039;s willing to travel all over the country, if necessary, to meet &amp;quot;Mr. Right&amp;quot;. I want to go on record as one of the few people around who actually likes Kate Gosselin. Really! Yes, she&amp;#039;s abrasive. Yes, she&amp;#039;s bossy and pushy and any other descriptive word you&amp;#039;d like to use for an overly assertive and occasionally over-entitled person. I watched her show a few times when it used to be &amp;quot;Jon and Kate Plus 8&amp;quot;. Maybe it was just my spidey senses working overtime, but I told someone once that I felt like the reason she was such a screaming harpy to her husband is because her husband often seemed to be her ninth child instead of her partner in that family. When you&amp;#039;re dealing with a situation like that, I don&amp;#039;t blame her for screaming at him. Plus (and you should know), reality TV is usually pretty far from reality, the way they edit things. Kate being a b*tch was good TV, so they did all they could to play that up, I&amp;#039;m sure. And now she&amp;#039;s trying to get back into the limelight. Some people might call that opportunistic, but I call it &amp;quot;she&amp;#039;s got to feed eight kids - give the girl a break&amp;quot;. If I were in her place, you&amp;#039;d see me shilling for every product endorsement I could get, showing up on any cable access show that invited me, and doing whatever I had to do to keep food on the table and college funds for my kids in the bank. I don&amp;#039;t have her kind of opportunities, of course. But I bet I could do a great reality show. We could call it &amp;quot;The Macaroni Matchmaker&amp;quot;. I can&amp;#039;t travel the country, but I can make us some mac and cheese or spaghetti and we can push my daughter&amp;#039;s latest science experiments aside to sit at the kitchen table. I might even be able to find a scented candle for ambience, provided my daughter hasn&amp;#039;t poured the wax into the aforementioned science experiment. Afterward, I can challenge the guy to Mario Kart on the Wii - a staple in my household, and we&amp;#039;ll try to have conversation while a kitten attacks him and my older cat takes over my lap. It&amp;#039;ll be swell. Now, which network do I pitch it to first? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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