>>"...find it difficult, if not hard..." Isn't the use of that tautologically and verbosely utilising superfluous verbage more than you need?
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>Not the same: one is not easy, the other is not soft.
Yes, I know the several meanings of "hard". The French also say "dur" for difficult. The meaning you should pick on is "hard water" :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.