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Migratory Hoosier. IU Alum talking about things we weren’t supposed to talk about growing up.

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Joined March 2019
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3 years
Maslow’s Hierarchy was magical for me to encounter as child neglect and abuse survivor. I suddenly had a way to understand the rest of the world. It was like discovering Cliffs Notes for a foreign language I was trying to learn as fast as humanly possible because no one else
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@adamoverberg My brain has only left the orange & red zones a handful of times. It’s like everyone I know has been playing with cheat codes with access to normal relationships & goals & then y’all fell through your floor and my roof and here we are.
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@womenpostingws I hope every few years she just redoes this so someday we have a very unique chronical of her journey through life.
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How many women here have felt obligated to dress “nice/professionally” when seeing a new MD in a desperate attempt to be taken seriously?
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3 years
What’s your least favorite part of aging?
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Just got laid off. I’m in shock. I’ve devoted almost the entirety of the past 6 years to this company and they genuinely DGAF about their employees or their clients.
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My “kid” brother (42) checked into the VA’s Mental Health facility yesterday. He had an A1C of 600 & was diagnosed with Covid. He’s an Iraq vet who is definitely going to lose his job because he sought help and will possibly lose his home. This country is so broken.😭
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5 years
Mayor Pete connecting rural American prosperity with immigration is smart as hell. #demdebates #mayorpete
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Leaving the hospital. I stayed to help get her on the mortuary’s gurney and walked out behind her. I have never felt so lost and heavy.
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@ProdigalHoosier
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4 years
Someone come claim your racialist grandma. (CA)
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Teenager is moving into his first apartment in June and I’m working on a grocery list because I promised I’d take care of their first grocery shopping. What did you eat when you were young, broke and probably too lazy to cook? 😂 I’ve got staples like PB&J & Ramen…
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I’ll add rogue weird hairs. WTF is the deal with that?!
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@HumanityCritic @TrudeauStaffer And he couldn’t legally date her until he was damn near 50 & could’ve been her daddy 2x over Just another pathetic man who can’t hold a conversation with a grown ass woman his own age so he goes chasing women just out of their teens so he can easily groom, gaslight, and exploit.
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How insane am I to want to go to Med school when my youngest goes to college in a few years? I’ve wanted to do this for 20 years. I’ll be in my mid 40’s.
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Got into the hot tub at 3 AM, started floating and noticed the tree above is full of thousands of lightening bugs. 🥹
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@BvuePD @Heynongman14 Police departments shouldn’t need PR firms because they abuse Black People ALL THE TIME. No one believes you anymore. Y’all lost the public’s trust with your own Persistently White Nationalist agenda.
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After the longest 4 hour drive of my life I’m home and I have never felt this sad or tired in my life. All I want to do is drive back, lay down on their grave and never leave. I don’t want to imagine life without them. I didn’t even have time to grieve him before losing her.
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Grateful my EKG looks OK. Not moving nearly enough oxygen though. So tired. Headache is coming back. Can’t stop crying.
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3 years
If you could contribute one piece of American or World history you didn’t learn about in K-12 what would it be?
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Another hidden figure. Her name was Selma Burke. She was a magnificently talented sculptor.
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@ask_aubry $5 says this is an incel posting as a woman.
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1 year
Reading Prince Harry’s “Spare”. Not a normal biography for me to pick up since IDGAF about the Royals. BUT… His writing is fantastic and his stories about history and his tours in Afghanistan and his hikes with disabled vets to the North & South poles are fascinating.
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I am not ready to lose this woman. My heart is shattered. She was the one who called CPS when she realized the abuse & neglect happening in my home. She encouraged me—a single mom & HS dropout—to go to college. She was in the crowd when I finally received my degree.
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#TinyBaby | Day 11 My grandma came by and totally fell in love with our tiny girl.
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My teenager sent me this. 🤣
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4 months
Because he’s a teenager moving out of state into a new apartment & when you’re starting out you don’t have shit and need to spend a fortune on cleaning supplies, toiletries & a tons of other stuff. Wild you think making sure my kid has food in his first apartment is “coddling”.
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Kween Justine 陳加婷, MSPH 👸🏻
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This is how we end up with guys described in that @TheCut article that everyone hates. Their f’g mom does f’g basic grocery shopping for them. Never have my parents ever done grocery shopping for me. It’s so f’g easy. It’s not rocket science. Why do you need to coddle him????
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This is the kind of love I wish all of us got to experience in our lifetimes.
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“And I still love her.” Break out the tissues...
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It’s insane these are NOWHERE in the U.S.
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@ACleverNickname They use these in Mongolia!
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I pissed off a good friend by calling in a welfare check because he went off the radar for longer than usual and something felt wrong. I probably should have waited longer than 48 hrs, but I would have never forgiven myself if he spent an extra day laying hurt, dying or dead.
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@DevineCarama LOVE HER! 😍 Tell her she picked the HARDEST possible fabric type to experiment with. Then buy this girl some patterns! (DM am address & I will send her some!) There are some AMAZING ones that are simple that she can use to make clothes for herself, her dolls or her friends!
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It’s official! I gave @Bellmore ⁩ an out by asking ‘Are you sure?’ before saying “YES!”
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@EDoggTheRed My favorite part of this story is how that “strong constitution” turned out to not automatically favor white men who believe laws don’t apply to them.
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My mom (grandmother) died today leaving gaping raw wound in my soul.
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5 years
@alicewillhelp @pattonoswalt Discovering your organization this morning made me happy/ugly cry. My grandma Alice was my refuge as a child. She bought me warm coats, school clothes & shoes that fit, took me to movies when my parents couldn’t. Her home was warm & welcome to anyone needing a safe place.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen this stated so perfectly.
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@AnnCastleWalton @JayHulmePoet Hilarious, but also: what book was it?
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@FionaBowler YAY! Maybe Reg came into your life at the perfect time. You both need each other. Thank you for sharing your life with Reg. Your posts brigthten my TL
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@ullistudy @AITA_reddit OP should have shut things down the moment his wife went to snatch the 12 year old’s donut or he should’ve figured out how to diffuse the 3yo’s tantrum. They’re all shitty parents, but his wife is solidly TA for starting it all & getting them kicked out.
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@williamd314 @Smorgasboredom Brilliant She wants the connections that come with an Ambassadorship. It’s never been about public policy for Sinema. It’s about exploiting political power.
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@emily_ladau I love this. Have you thought about reporting what a great experience it was to the cab company? This guy should be an example to his peers.
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Have been holding off on starting a new book because ⁦ @DanRather ⁩’s What Unites Us was on its way & I wanted to read it as soon as it arrived. Looking forward to reading his thoughts on the state of our union and where he believes we need to go from here.
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One of my favorite coworkers died of a heart attack this morning. He wasn’t even 40. Every Friday at 3:00 I had a meeting with him & I always enjoyed how kind, thoughtful, & smart he was. Frank was the kind of person you meet who you know is well loved by those in their lives.💔
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Walked past the isle of cards at CVS that said “to my daughter” and started sobbing in the middle of the store. I’m never going to get another card from her again.
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@adamnvillani @Molson_Hart The horseradish justifies the toilet paper budget.
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4 years
If he’s hungry enough he’ll figure it out. #BeanDad
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@CharlTaylorPage @StephMDavisPhD I’ve been rage tweeting about this exact thing for days. Growing up resented for being an inconvenience is a fucking awful life. I wouldn’t wish the daily abuse & neglect I experienced on a daily basis on my worst enemy.
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How TF do you plan a wedding when your 2 best friends have died, your dad & grandparents are dead, & you have no mom? I don’t know what to do. This grief feels like being wrapped in fly paper that’s preventing me from moving forward in any direction.
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My mom did the same thing in the 70s. My grandfather came to check on us b/c they hadn’t heard from my mom in a week. He got to the house, heard me crying, no one answered the door so he broke in & found me. When he died in Dec I struggled to articulate how much he meant to me.
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NEW: Ohio mother pleads guilty to the murder of her 16-month-old baby after she left her in a Pack-N-Play pen alone for 10 days. Absolutely horrific. Kristel Candelario's daughter Jailyn was found soiled with urine and feces after her mother decided to leave for 10 days on
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Hell hath no fury like an adult who doesn’t have time for this shit.
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This is heartbreaking. I hate that there are people who have been absolute assholes to him.
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Librarian Mychal Threets is resigning from his role at the Solano County Library to prioritize his mental health:
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I don’t know why—but every few months or so @docrocktex26 COMPLETELY disappears from my Twitter feed & it pisses me off. 🤬
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My grandmother had a heart attack. They worked on her for 30 minutes, pronounced her and then someone heard breath sounds. She’s in the ICU at IU West. I’m on my way back down to Indy. I’ve been worried about her since my grandfather died in December.
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President Biden has reopened ACA signups from Feb. 15 to May 15, so people who have lost insurance can apply. He also directed a review and reversal of any policies that made it more difficult to apply for healthcare. #First100Days #DemCast
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@darakass @mjs_DC Next Stop: Viagra
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2 years
One of these days I’m going to start wearing holsters full of dildos.
@HackingButLegal
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Larry Croft: Subway Raider
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Every #TeamPete member salivated over that familiar,“Let’s do the rail strike…” tone of voice. It’s hearing the crack of a bat and your brain processing the Home Run before your eyes can catch up. @PeteButtigieg ’s inimitable linguistic Mastery in these interviews is High Art.
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Buttigieg: And what happened with that supply chain crisis? Well, before the holidays last year, there were all kinds of news organizations, not just this one, running stories, saying Christmas was going to be canceled. What actually happened?
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@DevikaGandhiMD @EbunoluwaFalade If I were you I would LOVE to view data on who clicks on that awesome pronunciation link, & how many times they click on it when you email them. You could see if someone clicked on it prior to meeting with you IRL. (I do email marketing for a living so I’m a data nerd.)
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There was a stabbing this morning at my son’s HS. (My son is fine & didn’t see anything.) The school isn’t calling it a "stabbing" but, "an unfortunate event involving a knife". Like someone sliced the tip of their finger off while cutting onions. 🙄
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Having my teenager text memes like this makes me feel like they really have been listening all these years.
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You are only as happy as your most unhappy child.
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@Imani_Barbarin Please tell me the comments tore into her. 🤞🤞🤞
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Fixed
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Beau of The Fifth Column
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Ok look, I can deal with the attacks on the Constitution, I can deal with undermining the foundations of democracy, I can deal with the corruption, but... The Trump administration needs to keep the name of Mr. Rogers out of their mouths.
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I highly recommend the Netflix documentary #HumanNatureFilm . It's wonderfully done & features interviews with many of our greatest minds in the fields of genomics & microbiology. (You'll also fall in love with a wise & wonderful kid named David Sanchez.)
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Panicked pregnant mama in front of me at the store had $5 to spend on bag of potatoes that WIC wouldn’t cover. Her final bill: $14. She apologized for my wait as she frantically tried to find the offender hidden among cheese, yogurt, milk & other groceries she’d bought. 1/n
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Mom & Baby are doing AMAZING. Daisy’s not even my daughter and I still almost ugly cried at how proud I was of her. I am heading to bed. Tomorrow starts a new chapter. 🥰
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@jmugele Can you please start responding to these with, “You’re right - it must be Tertiary Syphilis!”
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I will single-handedly revive this as a legitimate Women’s Olympic sport.
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Found in a bag of birthday & holiday cards collected over my grandad’s 92 years was one issue of the @indystar When was the last day that was so meaningful you bought a newspaper to save?
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@ProjectLincoln Post highlights! I refuse to switch over to it.
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I make a mean coffee
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Note: If you ever find yourself in this position don’t minimize the amount of money they need help with By saying, “Oh $__ is nothing, don’t worry about it.” For her, not having $14 was a huge thing today. Minimizing it would have been dickish & classist.
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Anyone else uncomfortable using those work wellness programs where they ask you your entire medical history? It feels like such a slippery slope and they don’t seem terribly upfront about how they will use your data.
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I want for you to remember what life was like at your lowest point and remember that for some people that day is happening today (in the middle of a pandemic & political chaos). Be as kind to those around you (even strangers) as you once needed others to be kind to you. 6/6
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@danzu72 @kristin__wilson @igorbobic He absolutely needs to be put in a position of senior leadership over -at least- the Capitol Police if not higher.
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Funeral Day I kept trying to remember to order more flowers than the casket spray, but I kept getting pulled into other things and now I’m sobbing because she has one lone vase of flowers. 😭 I know it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it breaks my heart.
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🤣 @EffinBirds must have known today is @Bellmore ’s birthday. #BellmoreBirthday 🥃🎉
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@muthaphukkaaa @blackpnwlady Me watching @blackpnwlady not engage in emotional labor for free.
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I’m sending him with my Instant Pot that has an air fryer so I’d love any good recipes you can recommend that would be good for meal prepping!
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Rare vulnerability selfie I am tired of being sick. I miss working, concerts, reading, gardening. I hate being too tired for phone calls or even Twitter some days. But I’m also not ”disabled enough” to get disability which doesn’t offer a respectable life to people anyway. 🧵
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More than anything, I’m appreciative of his honesty in writing about his mental health struggles over the years. It’s refreshing for someone to be so candid about how trauma has impacted their lives.
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@MiraclesArt He has been taking a cooking class and he’s going to cook dinner for us 3 nights a week until he moves out. We’re sticking with easy Instant Pot stuff for the most part since it’ll give the boys plenty of leftovers.
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4 months
WHO😬 HURT😳 YOU🤯
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It’s down to 300 today. Didn’t know he was diabetic because he never goes to the Dr. 🤦‍♀️
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@mschlapp If you can’t afford $8 maybe cancel your Twitter Blue subscription.
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My return home to Indiana is, in part, due to @PeteButtigieg . Pete has made me enormously proud to be a Hoosier. He's changing the country's perception of what it means to be from the Midwest. I hold my head higher every day b/c of @PeteButtigieg & @Chas10Buttigieg .
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@jmugele “No one expects Tertiary Syphilis!”
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@DougalWallace I just took my pup to Target last weekend!
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My cousin has been found!! We still don’t know the details, but the fact he’s alive & safe is enough for me.
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My eldest uncle is now trying to exclude me from her funeral planning. I have voicemails where she calls me her daughter and calls herself “Mom”. I held her hand as she died and bathed her in the last hour of her life. I cannot stop crying.
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Thanks for the obituary writing advice. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever written. They messed up the formatting which is a pet peeve of mine, but I’m trying to let go of the little things which is the last promise I made to her. 💔
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It is impossible to have a more perfect baby! 🥰 Five Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Will definitely snuggle again.
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Met a young girl in 6th grade tonight @Chas10Buttigieg ’s event. The only kid in attendance. Sweet & quiet, she was overwhelmed. Mom told me she felt out of place walking into a very grownup looking nightclub. As the event ended I asked her, “Would you like to meet Chasten?”
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Indiana should change its state motto. Indiana: At least we’re not Texas or Florida.
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2 years
I am absolutely in love with this sweet tiny girl. 🥰
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@EDoggTheRed Not remotely. White savior complex tends to blind people to understanding things like that.
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🆘 SEND MEMES 🆘 Still struggling with my health, grief over the loss of parents who died a month apart, a suicidal uncle, a brother in an intensive VA MH program, a SIL & uncle who both had strokes last week, selling my house in IN & clearing out my parents house to sell.
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How did you cope in the days and weeks after losing the person who knew everything there was to know about you? I feel paralyzed by the start of this “new normal”. The smell of her perfume on her sweaters makes me sob, but I can’t bring myself to wash them.
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@steve_ross64 @jeneps @tylerpager I've heard that @PeteButtigieg has been calling @Chasten "Mother" all week to get into Pence's headspace. Also: If @nbcsnl does this as a sketch I may just die of happiness
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