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My Favorite Folks
Who are your favorite people to be around? My favorite people to be around are genuinely happy adults and children. A lot of adults are some miserable sots so when I meet happy grown people, it brings me joy because I know that they will not be bringing any drama into my life. And I…
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A Middle Aged Around The Way Girl
If there was a biography about you, what would the title be? If there was a biography about me, the title would be the one above because that’s who I am. Born in the 70s, came of age during the 80s, and still alive today. Saw the carnage of the crack epidemic in real time,…
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Locking Up Child Molesters
If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? If I had the power to change one law, it would be giving child molesters a life sentence without parole. As a survivor of child molestation, I understand the harm that it causes the psyches of children. When I was…
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A Break From BS
Do you need a break? From what? Yes I need a break from a capitalist society that conditions people to believe that it’s normal to work from dawn to dusk for crumbs. I’m currently laid off and I can’t speak for anyone but myself but it’s felt great to not work. The anti-seizure medication I…
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The Internet
The most important invention in your lifetime is… The most important invention in my lifetime is the internet. Due to this invention, humanity now has millions of information literally at their fingertips. Whatever random thought or memory that they think of, people can now go to Google and look it up. Unfortunately despite having all…
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My Most Idea Day From Dusk to Dawn
Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. My idea day would be rising leisurely from bed and stepping into my jacuzzi and taking a hot bath filled with peach scented bubbles. Then I would would rise like Aphrodite from the sea, and my handmaidens would pat me down with soft towels. Then I…
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Writing😆😆😆
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. Something on my “ to-do list” that never gets done is writing several blogs per week for my website. My intentions be great but my attention span is short so it never happens. Thank goodness for these prompts or my website would be dry as the…
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Finding Joy
There are many unhappy people in this country which is ironic considering that the pursuit of happiness is written in the Constitution. They are unhappy with their economic status, their relationship status. Just mad at everything and everyone and although I understand because at times, I’m mad as hell too but it’s not healthy to…
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Reading
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? What I enjoy during most during my leisure time is reading. Reading is one of my biggest pleasures right now I am reading Mama written by Terry McMillan who is best known for writing Waiting to Exhale which became a hit movie. Books are like…
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The Museum of Science and Industry
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. I live in the same neighborhood as the above mentioned museum but I haven’t visited it since the 1980s. During that time, it was a meeting place for Black teenagers who lived on the South Side of Chicago, and…