Ugh! I've never had a heating coil go (knock on woody). With ours, it's always been the belt that lets go so I've been able to do it myself. If only I could get someone to pay to watch my buttcrack while I fix it...that'd be GOLDEN!!!

First time I changed a dryer belt, I was in high school. My mother handed me the new belt and asked if I could do her a favor and install it. I didn't know you could open the top of the dryer (like a clamshell) and expose everything you need to, so I changed the belt by shoving my arm through the teeny tiny access hole at the bottom of the back of the machine. It was like building a ship in a bottle!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.