Smooth, please!

This was my experience, plus potentially just getting older. I suspect as I near 40 my metabolism is slowing naturally.

Having spent my adulthood being used to maintaining my weight thru expercise, when life/work/etc. just started to get in the way and I ended up putting on some pounds, it kind of spiralled out of control. I wasn't making it to the gym, and eating comfort food due to stress, and this would make me feel guilty. This in turn stressed me even more, and started creating anxiety.

I finally gave up the gym membership after having not attended in 4 or 5 months! And then I just gave myself permission to eat what I wanted, just relax and enjoy. No stress.

I haven't tried to purposefully gain an ounce, but just accept the body I am in and enjoy it for what it is.

Smooooooth. Everywhere, preferably.

Thank you! These are an incredible resource. There is something about having a "curated" list of stories (perhaps they were even subject to editing at one time, by the librarian?) that is very nice. It assured a certain level of quality, and some of these stories remain among the best I have read online!

It worked for my second chapter - thank you so much for fixing this!

Argh!
The issue is with:

1. apostrophe '
2. quotation "

I just posted my first chapter, and I experienced this issue with the:
-apostrophe (&apos, and
-quotation marks ("

I tried it from a straight text file, from Google docs... I am not sure what format could be proper outside of those???

Any suggestions would be appreciated!