Robert Ezekyo

So at about this time one week ago, I made a huge step up in life and proposed to my sweetheart. It was definitely one of the craziest, most unique days of my life, and I mean all of that in a very good way. Time never flew so fast, and we were both very energetic and worn out emotionally at the same time. It was a day filled with complete happiness that I haven't similarly felt in any other day of my life.

I had it all planned out how I wanted to propose to her, but of course, once it actually happened, I was shaking like a leaf and my voice was trembling. But other than that, it was all a big surprise to her, as I hoped. And more importantly, she loves her ring. She's not much of a jewelry person, and I didn't want to come up with something lackluster, so thankfully that was a success as well.

Once I had the ring in my hand for the first time, for some reason, in my mind I immediately decided the way I was going to do this was propose to her in the form of a poem. The poem would at first appear to be just something nice and thoughtful for our anniversary, but then I drop the paper I'm reading from to reveal that I'm holding her engagement ring, which has three diamond stones on it, with the three stones representing "past, present, and future". I wanted the poem itself to reference towards the ring and what it represents, so here's what I came up with:

Dear Jennifer,

I know that your favorite number is four, but believe me,
The best things in life really do come in three.
It's true when they say that the third time's a charm,
Because for three years, you've made me feel loved and warm.

October 7th, 2009; there is no day better,
To celebrate our past, present, and future together.
You are my soul mate, my lover and my best friend.
And you will always be those things, even when time comes to an end.

Happy 3rd Anniversary, Jennifer Zelaski.
But now I have to end this poem to ask you a question...

...Will you marry me?



For pretty much the entire day she was in shock, even after she said yes. The proposal took place in our hotel room at The Homewood Suites. The Homewood Suites is a sentimental place for us, seeing how our first time officially together, we decided to spend the night there. So with it being our anniversary, we first went to Olive Garden to stuff ourselves with pasta, then go check in to our room. Then once the proposal itself happened, time flew like crazy the rest of the day. That was the only bad thing about the day. We closed the night out with some bowling (pitiful bowling on my part), billiards, and food at Dave & Buster's, then snuggled up in our hotel room to watch BRUNO of all movies; that movie was hilarious and unbelievable with how much they pushed the envelope in it. Not to mention, the day was full of Jagerbombs for me as well, hahaha

To everyone who wished us well, I just wanted to give you all a heartfelt thank you! The support everyone showed us was amazing and overwhelming, it all means a great deal to us. And I apologize also for scaring you with my first official statement, but come on... I wanted to have a little fun with my announcement and pull a little prank. Just flat out saying "OMG WERE ENGAGED YAYYYZ" would've been too cliche and boring, and anyone that really knows me knows I have a warped sense of humor and like doing things a little different. So sorry about that. :)

As for where we go from here, all I can say right now is I know that Jen wants a long engagement, maybe around 2 years or so. I personally hope that we can be wed on our anniversary, October 7th, since that's our day. If we were to get married any other day, what would October 7th be after that? So I'm hoping our marriage can either happen that day, or at least a significant part of it happen on that day. Right now, especially with the holidays coming up, we both have a ways to go as far as planning, date, location etc. But so far we already have quite a bit of people offering to take care of certain duties at the wedding, which is awesome, and something else Jen and I are very thankful for.

Plus, big ups to everybody at N.E.W. for all the support! Tyger Smith starting out the pre-show meeting with announcing the engagement to the rest of the locker room and the ovation we got was totally awesome and a very nice surprise, and the congratulations throughout the night were great. I normally don't like breaking kayfabe, but fuck it (lol), it was really something special to us that I'll never forget.

Of course, I'll reveal more details as they come, which unfortunately right now isn't a whole lot. But I really wanted to thank everyone for their kind words. They really did make an excellent day even better, so thanks to all of you who supported us!

Yes, it's true. I didn't think I'd ever find myself saying this anytime soon, but I'm afraid it's true that all good things must come to an end... it looks as if though I'm without a girlfriend. I've had a wonderful three years with her, but as great as this chapter in my life was, it is now over.


It just feels so weird, so different... three years of fun and excitement have come to this. Jen had made me feel so happy all this time, and made me feel like these past three years were the best of my life. Anyone whose known me for a long time knows I wasn't exactly the luckiest guy when it came to women, so when this relationship with Jen came along, it felt like a huge step upward in my life. I felt like I found my someone. It totally turned my life around for the better, and I didn't look back. I figured we'd pretty much become inseperable up to this point; everyone always associated one of us with the other.


It's quite ironic that at around this time three years ago, we began something special. But now that's all changed. But even with this sudden change, I hope she knows that all this time, I cared for her more than life itself. No matter how things might have went down, I will always love her and care about her.


That's why today, on October 7th, 2009, I proposed to her, asking her to be my wife. She said yes.


So with this big change, Jen is no longer my girlfriend, but she is now my fiance!

LiveJournal's becoming pretty obsolete these days... I jump on here from time to time, so if you do too, just leave a little something, just because. :)

Just puttin' this out there in LiveJournal land...

Tonight was absolutely one of the hardest nights of my life. I came home from work at about 10pm to find that Sandy, one of my pet turtles, had passed away. My girlfriend wouldn't be home for anouther hour though... so not only did I want to get "it" out of the way, "it" is just something I dread doing, and it definitely was not easy. She was so heartbroken, and it just devastated me, losing one of our very own first pets, and seeing how sad it made my girlfriend. I'm fine right now, I just hope everything will be okay soon.

Rest in peace Sandy. Your mom and dad love you and miss you. <3

So I'm up late (what's new) looking through wrestling dirt sheet websites, when I read about this upcoming grudge match between Kevin Nash and Pierre-Carl Ouellet. Here's the aritcle:

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The International Wrestling Syndicate celebrates its Tenth Anniversary on May 30th at the Medley with the biggest grudge match to hit Quebec since the Rougeaus fought the Garvins in the old Montreal Forum: Kevin Nash vs. Pierre-Carl Ouellet. The History: In September 1995, PCO (as Jean-Pierre Lafitte) was scheduled to face Kevin Nash (as WWF Champion Diesel) in Montreal. PCO refused to job in his home-town. Kevin Nash was a monumental ass-hole about it. PCO lost his push and eventually his position in the WWF. What You Need To Know: For the first time in 14 years, PCO will be in the same ring as Kevin Nash, the man who cost him his dream job and literally millions of dollars in lost revenue. PCO will be able to punch Kevin Nash in the face as hard as he wants and not go to jail for it.


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Now here's my take on the whole thing... I don't consider myself a know-it-all in the wrestling business by any means. But I personally don't know of any excuse that makes it okay to refuse doing a job. It might just be me, but this article makes Nash out to be the bad guy in all this, whether it's hyping the match or not. I feel it was PCO's pride that led to him losing his dream job and literally millions of dollars in lost revenue. Regardless of if Nash was a monumental asshole about things, he was the top star of the WWF at that time, and that's just bad business refusing to job to the top guy. And no disrespect to PCO, but he wasn't exactly high up on the pecking order at that time. These days it'd be like R-Truth refusing to job to Randy Orton just because they're in R-Truth's hometown. To me it's just bad business to put your ego and/or pride before the product, in such a case as this.

So April Fools Day turned out to be one of the best days I've had in a long time.

Was off with the misses all day, so first we went to the Broadway Market. It was my first time there and I thought it was a nice place with a lot of cool stuff. After that we needed to clean out our turtle tank, and as much of a pain as it is, I feel like we've gotten better at it, and it shows. It's real satisfying to see a nice, crystal clear turtle tank after all the hard work.

Then I went on PlayStation Home, to see if their April Fools "joke" was for real, and not a joke in itself. We both love the Chain Swing song on the Listen@Home playlist, it's seriously addicting. So the one day I came on and noticed it was replaced with all this 50 Cent stuff, needless to say we weren't happy about it at all. Apparently many others didn't either, and the moderators suggested for April Fools day making a playlist with only Chain Swing on there. So I checked it out, and turns out it was true. A playlist of 23 songs, and all of them were the exact same song (lol). It was hilarious, so we kept it on for a pretty long time and enjoyed ourselves. As dumb and monotonous as it was, we never get tired of it, and we think it's great.

And finally, I've gotten back in touch with Matt, my best friend from back in high school. We'd since gone our separate ways, with him moving back to his home state of Missouri. Last time we saw each other was I believe '02 or '03; he was up here with a friend of his and his girlfriend Rachel. It kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, because I apparently rubbed them all the wrong way without even realizing it, and they didn't really enjoy the visit, which I felt really bad about. But recently I found him on Myspace, and he sent me a message telling me what he's been up to, and how proud he was of me for how I've come up in life. Him and Rachel have actually been married for 2 years now which is great. So I messaged him back telling him some of what's been going on lately. It's been a long time and we have a lot of catching up to do, which I'm looking forward to. Matt's seriously one of the coolest people I've ever met, so I'm real happy to be talking with him again.

When it was all said and done for the day, I realized that I haven't had a day quite as good or as fun as that in a while, and there needs to be more days like that.

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I dunno why, but it just makes my skin crawl whenever I hear Michael Cole say "the monstrous" Mike Knox. Cole and his annoying catchphrases (whoring out WWE.com with the Daily Diva and Cryme Tyme's word of the day, Kofi Kingston's "controlled frenzy, etc.) are starting to remind me of how much of a tool he comes off as. Jim Ross used to always get on my nerves too with his "scalded dog" and "government mule" phrases, but he didn't annoy me as bad as Cole.

As if I didn't have enough hope to ever see Heidenreich come back, I wish he'd come back and make Cole his bitch again. lol

Okay, enough of my randomness-driven rant. kthxbye.

Well it’s already getting towards the end of 2008, and as per usual, it’s time for my review of my year in wrestling. I’d like to start off by saying that my 2008 in wrestling didn’t exactly blossom like I wanted it to honestly, but in the end it wound up becoming overall more of a stepping stone to the new direction I want to take with wrestling.

My first goal in 2008 was first and foremost, to get back in the ring at some point. And while I was on hiatus, I noticed how much my home fed Next Era Wrestling was beefing up the production, getting to the point where the set started reminding me of Monday Night Raw, which was awesome. And of course, me always trying to be a little different, I saw all this and thought to myself that I'd love for my return to be something with build-up and surprise; something that would be a memorable moment.

The coming back part obviously happened no problem. But... unfortunately, the part about it being a memorable moment failed miserably.

It really sucked, because I'd put quite a bit of effort into this hoping it would work out; I thought it was a great idea, and one that was simple, yet effective, to pull off. And this isn't me knocking anybody, but those that I put my trust into to assist me with it didn't really put forth as much effort as needed. Too many people got their hands on it, my idea got changed up so much that it wound up being a fraction of the original idea, and in the end, it flopped. Nobody really noticed or cared, which was the exact opposite of what I was going for. I also made it a point to let me know if they couldn't really put in the time and effort, and I'd try something else. They gave me the green light with it, but didn't put forth 100% effort like I'd hoped, so that was kinda disappointing as well.

Case in point, sort of an ironic story stemming from it: this guy we call Mullet Joe was a big fan of mine since my time in Roc City Wrestling. While I was on hiatus, I still came backstage to N.E.W. shows to help out with other things. And a lot of times, Joe would catch up to me after the show and always ask me "ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?" Of course I was kayfabing it at the time, but I was trying to give the impression that it wouldn't be anytime soon. That would happen so many times after shows: "ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?" and I'd try n' kayfabe him. Then finally, it was the night of the comeback. Despite it failing, I was still hoping to hear what Joe thought of it. I was walking around doing the usual post-show frolicking with people, when Joe finally caught up with me.

"ZEKE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK!?"

At that point, I was pretty much like "Ouch". That told me how much it failed, so that was a tough pill to swallow.

But I still played with the cards that were dealt, and bounced back as best as I could. The working idea fueling the return was that I got screwed over by N.E.W. back when I was N.E.W. Champion; that I worked so hard to achieve that, and that it was just simply taken away. So now I was going to come back the opposite of what I was. I was going to go from being a hard-working, honorable sort of journeyman wrestler who wanted to earn his accolades, to being a cowardly heel with no respect for anybody or anything (except myself of course, lol), taking any shortcut I can, and bragging about the things I did accomplish.

I was excited about doing this new character, since I was always into heels. Plus this character would allow me to open up and be more myself than ever before. Robert Ezekyo was always kind of dark and sinister. But despite me trying to be dark and sinister, I couldn't help but throw in some sort of comedy one way or another, which wasn't exactly dark or sinister (lol). But now I was able to shed that and just let my funny side really blossom, since I also kind of use wrestling as sort of my outlet for comedy. Prior to me going on sabbatical, I toyed with this new character a few times in Canada, since I was a heel there, and I had a LOT of fun doing it, so I was excited to make this my primary gimmick.

On that note, this brings me to my overall primary and major goal of 2008: for Amy Ash and I to become a duo.

This idea was pretty much 17 months in the making. After N.E.W. Prodigal Sons in April 2007, that was when I pretty much decided I needed time off. When everything was done for the night, Amy and I were driving home. It was a long-ass drive from Elmira to Buffalo, so of course we were talking quite a bit about this being it for me for a while. Then out of the blue, Amy suggested that when I do come back, that her and I become a wrestler/valet tandem, with a gimmick similar to Edge and Lita. Just her mentioning that idea already got me feeling like I was ready to come back, and the wheels had pretty much been turning ever since. And I give all the credit to her for getting that idea going.

Back to 2008. Another storyline at the time was that Amy Ash came back to N.E.W. and was scouting matches, looking for her next charge, which eventually became J.C. Money. Coincidentally, J.C. was my target the night of my comeback. After I came back, we kind of played a game of cat-and-mouse with me always dodging J.C. until we actually had a match. Along the way in July, to add fuel to the fire, I came out when it looked like J.C. was going to defeat Kriptic for the N.E.W. Championship. I grabbed Amy by the hair, got J.C.'s attention, and then drilled her with my new finisher on the floor, otherwise known as The C.U.M. (Currently Unnamed Move, lol).

Then in September we finally had our match, and J.C. pretty much went to town on my ass as expected. He got the duke in the end, and as he was celebrating, I grabbed Amy by the hair threatening to drop her again. But I pushed her out of the way when J.C. got in my face… and then the double-cross happened. Amy nailed J.C. with a low blow from behind which got the crowd REALLY pissed off. We both kind of stalked J.C. looking down at him, then I laid him out with The C.U.M. And then the icing on the cake: in the middle of the ring, Amy and I shared a long, raunchy, dirty kiss. The disgusted reaction from the crowd was unbelievable, and I loved it so much. So long story short: her angle of looking for her next charge and my angle of coming back both intertwined and became one, another thing I was going for. So finally after 17 months, Amy Ash and Robert Ezekyo were an item, and the crowd hated us for it. And that was exactly what I was hoping for. It worked out awesome. That was my highlight for 2008, without a shadow of a doubt.

Unfortunately, that's the last time we've been on a show. Things have been really rough financially lately, so we're focusing on that right now. We should be back soon in early 2009, which brings us to what I'm looking forward to in 2009...

I eventually want to start traveling again in 2009, go back to Ontario and hopefully other parts of the Northeast. In 2008, I didn't exactly get back to where I used to be with wrestling. I hope to do that in 2009. Also, a goal for 2009 is for Amy Ash and I to gain more notoriety as a duo, and eventually become the next Marc Mandrake and Ferrari; to do all of our bookings together as a team, and look good doing it (lol). And finally, one more goal I have for 2009 is to simply just have some more fun in wrestling again.

Overall, I wouldn't rank 2008 as my best year, mainly because my 2008 spanned from May to September (lol). I think my best year was definitely in 2006, my run from becoming the first N.E.W. Tap Out Champion, transitioning from being one of N.E.W.'s most hated guys to being one of the most popular, to finally becoming N.E.W. World Champion, and also being recognized as 2006 Wrestler of the Year by N.E.W., as well as WrestleBlast TV. 2008 was a really rocky and rough year for me, but my last moment of 2008 was definitely the exclamation point. It was that good to where it overshadowed everything else, so that's enough for me to give my 2008 a thumbs up. Not as high up as I wanted, but thumbs up nonetheless.

Almost forgot about this thing, but I can pretty much kill two stones with one bird... or something like that. Past two days were about the same thing, the satisfaction of getting some chores done around the apartment.

Not much, but it's something.

The day started off kinda hectic and busy, as Jen and I plowed through the Walden Galleria for Christmas shopping. As expected, my old beat-up body was feeling it after a few hours of rushing around pretty much the entire mall.

However, we went from a busy day to a fun night. I turned on some Christmas music, and we decorated the tree with lights and some bulbs, and then hung our Christmas stockings by it. We both were very happy with how it all turned out and it boosted our Christmas spirit. And to top it all off, I made us an awesome linguine dinner with rolls and watched Mulberry St. Definitely not a Christmasy movie by any stretch of the imagination; we don't have any holiday movies, but we felt like the night called for a movie, so we pretty much went from Christmas back to Halloween! :P

Happy thing about Friday was gettin' my paycheck. And that's not saying much. Ah well...

So first off, for day two of my 8 days of happy stuff, Jen and I got our christmas tree.

Now that that's out of the way, somebody tell me something here...

Why do people feel the need to be bitchy and/or cop an attitude for no reason? Whatever happened to the days where someone could tell me something, and not have to be an ass about it?

Especially lately, I feel like 90% of anyone I encounter fit that description, and it really upsets me. I have a really big problem when someone decides to talk to me in a rude, disrespectful manner and get snotty with me, especially when I don't deserve it. If someone has a problem with me, they can just tell me what I did wrong and what I can do better without putting me down in the process. It really isn't hard at all. I'm almost 27, and I really don't need anyone talking to me like I'm a dumb child.

So yeah, it's no secret that common sense is a long~lost concept. Looks like you can throw manners and respectability out there as well.

For eight days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag eight people to do the same.

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My happy thing today: Changing the turtle tank with Jen for the first time, job well done. :)

Sometimes I am curious to check out the grammatically-challenged comments on YouTube, and I found this gem when I was reading comments in a video of when Ashley Massaro broke her ankle. It makes me picture Borat typing this, haha

"There is ashley, your bitch. You know, before Ashley on a WWE DIVA search I was her boyfriend. I told her for don't go to WWE. Now is go to playboy and she is naked in all places. I never saw her since she goes to WWE. She never more call me. Hey Ashley, you a BITCH, I TOLD YOU, "DON'T GO TO WWE". Hey guys she likes to sucks and between of her tits and I remember that when we was sex, in final he likes that I put sperm in all her body."

HOLY MOLEY! 7 MONTHS! It's been 7 freakin' months since I last updated this thing! I'd been meaning to sometime, but blogging's just not a typical thing for me. I'm pretty spontaneous with it; I only do it when I feel like it. There could be another one tomorrow, or next week, or another 7 months, who knows? I have no blogging "schedule". But anyway, I felt compelled to do this thing here n' now.

So word going around lately is that WWE is supposedly banning the term "sports-entertainment"; that it's just "entertainment", and that "superstars" are now to be referred to as entertainers. People keep expressing disgust and bitterness towards it, how bad it is, how it's shitting on the business, etc. But here's what I'm wondering:

I could be wrong and/or missing something, but if this supposed change has happened, why hasn't WWE really acknowledged it? Ever since this whole "entertainment/entertainers" talk began, WWE still says sports-entertainment, superstars are still referred to as superstars, nothing about just "entertainment" or "entertainers". Hell, even last night, William Regal said "professional wrestler" on a live Raw broadcast. I jokingly thought William Regal committed the ultimate sin by doing that (lol).

So what's the deal? Is WWE just entertainment or still sports-entertainment? Are they entertainers or superstars? Am I missing something here? Because I've yet to see or hear WWE acknowledge such a thing. Only from people who have seemingly nothing good to say about WWE lately. You'd think if you hear it from the main source, that it would be concrete. But from the website to TV shows, I've yet to see or hear such a thing.

"HEY, GET OUT FROM THERE!"

I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, if you're more of a lurker, or if we already know everything about each other.


Copy from here then answer them in a comment. Repost the empty questions in your LJ.

BE HONEST!



1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
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2) What was your dream growing up?
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3) What talent do you wish you had?
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4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
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5) Favorite vegetable?
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6) What was the last book you read?
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7) What zodiac sign are you?
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8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
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9) Worst Habit?
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10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
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11) What is your favorite sport?
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12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
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13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
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14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
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15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
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16) Do you have any pets?
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17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
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18) What was your first impression of me?
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19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
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20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
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21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
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22) What color eyes do you have?
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23) Ever been arrested?
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24) Bottle or can soda?
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25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
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27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
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28) Do you believe in ghosts?
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29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
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30) Do you swear a lot?
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31) Biggest pet peeve?
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32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
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33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
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35) Do you believe in God?
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36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
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Although I'm dissatisfied with the inclusion of DC comic book characters into a Mortal Kombat game, I'll be real happy if The Joker is a playable character in the game.