The Girl on the TrainRachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking.

MAD Magazine satire-comic series
The very first 20 issues of the cult "Mad Magazine!" previously introduced to the Englishtips by Maria!
(Maria's publication is here: http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150792132)
Enjoy! The rest will follow soon, I hope! Get yourselves at ready: there's quite a loooooooooooooot of it :-)
MAD started in the 50-ies, so u can follow the changes in Eglish having a lot of fun due to the sharp wit and black humour of MAD authors....

What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His LifeWhat do you learn when your brain goes pop? Chris Licht had always been ambitious. By the time he was thirty-five, he had become a real-life Jerry Maguire: hard-charging, obsessively competitive, and willing to sacrifice anything to get it done. He felt invincible. Then one day Chris heard a pop in his head, followed by a whoosh of blood and crippling pain. Doctors at the ER said he had suffered a near-deadly brain hemorrhage. Chris’s life had almost been cut short, and he had eight long days in a hospital bed to think about it.

This is the story of what happened next.

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