For https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-420-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-sleeve

Here's a thing, as I drink my coffee (without a sleeve...see how I related it to the topic? Sometimes you drink a to-go coffee and there's a sleeve to keep the coffee heat from your delicate palms.)

Here's a thing as I drink the coffee, the Armenian mixed light and dark roast coffee ground on number 9 from the Jon's.

Here's a thing... There's a lot of... how do I put this delicately?

I'll tell you why I want to put it delicately. Firstly, because I have friends who disagree, and I don't think their disagreement is particularly harmful... well, I do a little, but not so much that I want to risk their companionship over this.

Secondly, because I'm less certain than they are. Of course, that's a natural byproduct of skepticism. You're less certain even of your own knowledge and sources than the people you disagree with because they're not skeptical enough, you think.

At the same time, they think you've been duped (perhaps they know you wear your heart on your sleeve -I got it in again! Though a little less smoothly this time. After all this is in a parenthetical. Ooo I should find a place to use "antithetical". (I just realized, parentheses are like sleeves for your thoughts. Deep.)) by whatever is making you disagree with them. So they presumably believe they're skeptical and you're not.

Sigh.

I DO believe that companies don't have my best interests in mind. Of course I do, and that they'll lie and manipulate to...

Well, that's time and I didn't even get to the subject at hand: Coffee. Is it bad for you?

I guess you'll have to tell me in the comments below. Science-based answers only, please. ;)
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