Amelia

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In honor of her historic flight, here are 10 fun facts you may not know about this courageous aviator!

She was only the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic… ever

Amelia Earhart is best known for being the first woman to complete the feat, but it wasn’t like a whole slew of men had accomplished the task before her. She was only the second person ever to do it! The first was Charles Lindbergh, who made the flight in May 1927. Earhart did it in May 1932. She completed the flight in just shy of 15 hours—quite the accomplishment for our list of inspirational female firsts, dating from ancient Egypt to today.

The first time she saw an airplane, she was unimpressed

After Earhart’s disappearance, several of her diary entries were published as a book called Last Flight. In one, she recalls the first time she ever saw an airplane. She was ten years old, visiting a state fair in Iowa. She remembers seeing “a thing of rusty wire and wood” that “looked not at all interesting.” Even after someone standing nearby told her that the contraption could fly, Earhart still admitted that she was more impressed with the fancy hat she had just purchased. Little did young Amelia know what the future held.

She wasn’t quite as ahead of her time as you might think

While the playing field in the 1920s and ’30s was far from even, Earhart was not actually the only successful female pilot of the time. Several of her contemporaries were also women who were just as good, if not better, fliers than she. Louise Thaden, for instance, set new records for women’s speed, altitude, and solo-endurance flying in 1929 and remains the only pilot to hold all three records at the same time. Another pioneer, Ruth Nicols, set women’s flight records for speed, altitude, and distance two years later. Earhart was, however, the first female pilot to gain such wide notoriety. Her contemporaries definitely count as amazing women in history that you may not have heard of.

She was hand-picked for the feat that would make her famous

After Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight, publisher George Putnam hoped to duplicate the success and massive media attention that Lindbergh had enjoyed. His opportunity came when a socialite named Amy Phipps Guest bought a small passenger plane with the hopes of becoming the first woman to be flown across the Atlantic. (She was not a pilot.) But her parents refused to let her take such a risky journey. So Guest turned to Putnam, requesting that he find “the right sort of girl” to make the trip in Guest’s stead. Putnam chose Amelia Earhart, capitalizing on her existing passion for flying as well as her resemblance to Lindbergh. He fed the press a nickname for her—”Lady Lindy”—that would become widespread.

Before her solo flight, she flew across the Atlantic once before…

…but it wasn’t enough for her. While Earhart’s solo flight across the Atlantic made her go down in history, it was her first trip that made her a household name. In 1928, Earhart made the journey orchestrated by Putnam and Guest, making her the first woman to travel across the Atlantic by air. But she didn’t do any of the flying herself. A man named Wilmer Stultz did. Earhart was far from satisfied with being just a passenger, admitting, “I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes.” So, four years later, she decided to make the flight herself. That quote sums up her distaste for the journey, but it’s not the quote of hers that made it onto our list of our favorite quotes from inspiring historical women.

She didn’t like coffee or teaAccording to worldhistoryproject.org, Earhart was not a coffee- or tea-drinker. Her answer for keeping herself awake on her hours-long flights? A bottle of smelling salts. There is one hot drink that she did like, though—she revealed that, during her flight across the Atlantic, she enjoyed a mug of hot chocolate.

She encouraged other women to fly

In 1928, Earhart became the first-ever “aviation editor” of Cosmopolitan magazine. She wrote 16 articles for the magazine, several of which discussed the role of women in aviation. She wondered “Why Are Women Afraid to Fly?” and addressed reluctant parents in “Shall You Let Your Daughter Fly?” In 1933, after her famed solo Atlantic flight, she even wrote a letter to a 13-year-old female reader who wanted to become a pilot. Earhart told the young reader about the steps she might have to take to achieve her dream and offered some encouraging words. “As far as women’s opportunities in flying go, I think they will improve as they have in all industries,” she wrote.

She set three impressive records in the same year

In the first five months of 1935, Earhart became the first person—not just woman—to make three impressive flights. That January, she flew 2,408 miles from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California, the first person ever to do so alone. In April, she flew from Los Angeles to Mexico City; less than a month later, she flew from Mexico City to Newark. None of those flights had ever been made alone before, by a man or a woman. You go, girl!

She may actually have survived her final flight

Tragically, Amelia Earhart’s fame is bolstered by her mysterious disappearance in 1937. Accompanied by her navigator, Fred Noonan, she set out to fly around the entire world. But on July 2, after the pair set out on the final leg of their trip, which would take them across the southern Pacific Ocean, the plane simply vanished. Though the government conducted a massive search—the most expensive of its kind at the time—no trace of them or their plane was ever found. This, of course, led many people to theorize that she had actually survived. In July 2017, a mysterious photo was discovered, appearing to show Earhart and Noonan on the Japanese-controlled island of Saipan, that seemed to prove those theorists true. However, the photo has no date, and its legitimacy has been seriously questioned, just like these other conspiracy theories still floating around about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

There’s a record-setting pilot named Amelia Earhart flying today

How’s this for poetic justice? In 2014, another woman named Amelia Earhart—yes, that’s her real name—became the youngest woman to fly around the world in a single-engine plane. She felt that considering her name and her similar passion for flying, she almost had a duty to do what her namesake couldn’t. “By recreating and symbolically completing her flight around the world, I hope to develop an even deeper connection to my namesake,” this Amelia Earhart claimed. We think her predecessor would be proud for sure—not to mention amazed by such an incredible historical coincidence!

Source: Meghan Jones @Readers Digest

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    1. Morning, Pat! It was 41 this morning here but it is going to heat up fast! Predicting possibly 80 today, up to 86 by mid-week. Jerry returned my mower – just in time for Matt to do my annual weed spraying – I was able to get the backyard finished. I had the neatest experience last evening. I posted this last night at M’s:

      I had to come back and tell y’all about my rescue earlier tonight….I was watching the birds thru my patio doors and saw 2 males on the cage who appeared to be pecking at a bird that was INSIDE the cage! I could see it try to peck back but it never moved….when I opened the doors, I figured it would climb out and fly away but it didn’t move. When I got outside, I found out why – I think it is a baby male Oriole and he was completely stuck by the jelly to the bottom of the foil pan. You can clearly see in this pic how bent the cage got when it was knocked down a few years ago, but it still works.

      He had even lost some feathers that were stuck to the pan:

      I took the top off and reached in – he was REALLY stuck! I gently pulled him loose and took him inside; ran some warm water in the bathroom sink, then dipped him in it and rubbed gently on his feathers to get the jelly off, running warm water over him. His feet were clenched tight around some small pieces of wood mulch stuck together with grape jelly. Once I got as much jelly off as I could, I tried to gently dry him off with a soft towel.

      When I went outside, he immediately flew off – bumped into the fence, then landed and steadied himself. He was still there when I came inside but when I looked later, he was gone so I am going to assume he made it! That felt really good!

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        1. They could if they squeezed which, of course, they won’t do. It’s entirely possible the other males drove it to climb inside – they were pecking at him while he was inside the cage so maybe they were before that…I don’t know but that is the first time any bird has gotten inside.

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            1. I’m always amazed at how tiny and fragile they are, yet so very strong at the same time! I am not a big person, as we all know, and he fit easily in one hand. His body wasn’t more than 3-4 inches long! But, then, they aren’t big birds anyway.

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      2. Wonderful story – wonderful you could rescue the little oriole. Wonder if he will come back someday to thank you and bring his family?!!!

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          1. The graft thing still hasn’t fallen off – so I wear a bandaid to go out so I don’t gross people out and when I work in the yard to keep it clean.

            I’m pretty confident they got it all.

            Now I won’t be scared of surgery – the Lord kept me calm – by bringing a Christian friend to be dermatology surgeon and another to be my nurse and kept me calm by reciting His Word in my mind. Both the dermatology surgeon and the plastic surgeons were excellent – all great good folks all the way around. Couldn’t have been better.

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            1. Oh, no – I’d never stop making entries! Every day, hundreds of birds come to my feeders, literally, all day, every day! I want to get a trail cam to put out there with night vision. On my list of wants…

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  5. Belle
    Belle
    May 20, 2023 12:45 am
    Reply to Citizen 817

    This story on Ron DeSantis was re-tweeted by Sundance on DeSantis’ investment of FL retirement funds in underperforming assets, but assets whose executives donated to the Republican Governors Association which in turn donated $21 million to the DeSantis campaign. DeSantis says it is to get rid of ESG investments, but it has cost FL’s retirement fund – approximately $10 billion in lost revenue, while adding $54 million in fees. It is a way to invest FL retirement funds to support his own campaign.

    As governor, DeSantis oversaw the transfer of $1 billion of Florida public employees’ retirement dollars to firms whose executives donated to the Republican Governors Association, which poured $21 million into DeSantis’ political committee. pic.twitter.com/xcL78IA65V

    — The Lever (@LeverNews) May 17, 2023

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  7. Citizen 817
    May 20, 2023 12:30 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    13h
    REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT MAKE A DEAL ON THE DEBT CEILING UNLESS THEY GET EVERYTHING THEY WANT (Including the “kitchen sink”). THAT’S THE WAY THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS DEALT WITH US. DO NOT FOLD!!!

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  9. ultra maggot not reporting “gifts” on required disclosure forms
    FTA
    WASHINGTON — President Biden failed to list free vacations at the homes of businesspeople on his annual financial disclosure form this week — drawing a rebuke from ethicists and Republicans amid an ongoing political firestorm over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ similar non-reporting of free trips from a businessman.

    Biden enjoyed three beach getaways at the homes of the wealthy and politically connected owners during the past-year reporting period.

    In two instances, Biden is known not to have paid the owner and in the third case it’s suspected the president did not pay.

    Ethics experts Walter Shaub, who led the Obama-era Office of Government Ethics, and Richard Painter, the top ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush White House, say free vacation-home stays need to be disclosed if the homeowner isn’t present — and it appears they were not — because a “personal hospitality” exception would not apply.

    “The homeowner has to be a personal friend of the president or first lady and be present during the stay — otherwise that goes on the form. There’s no excuse not to have it on the form,” Painter, now a University of Minnesota law professor, told The Post.

    https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/biden-omits-free-vacations-from-financial-forms/

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    1. was in response to THIS tweet….

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  13. oh no…not rent free—US CITIZENS are paying for them!

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    2. Øbama was behind this.

      Øbama was the king of Warrantless Surveillance.

      There was a overall dramatic rise in warrantless surveillance during the Ø years – so much that it alarmed even the ACLU:

      Øbama changed the law TWICE (2013 & 2017) to make it easier to conduct warrantless data gathering.
      *https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/obama-us-intelligence-greater-access-warrantless-data-foreign-targets
      *http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html

      85% of Øbama’s warrantless surveillance searches were illegal! P 82 – https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

      It was exposed here – “Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory” “Obama normalized domestic spying….judge shopping to spy on James Rosen, journalist…” – David Harsanyi – National Review – 5/12/20 – https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/trump-russia-investigation-obamagate-not-conspiracy-theory/

      Regarding spying on Trump – The FISA warrants were merely window-dressing. It is likely that Øbama was surveilling/spying Trump and his family, team, et al, without a warrant for at least a year, probably longer.

      Trump knew.
      Here are his tweets:
      Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
      — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
      Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
      — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
      I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
      — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
      How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
      — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

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  22. we have allowed them to act with impunity for so long, they do not give up anything they don’t want to. remove, remake, restore the intelligence sector because NO ONE elected them head of the gov’t

    Winston
    May 20, 2023 7:38 am

    Yawn…

    Reps. Jim Jordan, Mike Turner Threaten To Subpoena CIA In Hunter Biden Laptop Investigation
    MAY 19, 2023

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reps-jim-jordan-mike-turner-threaten-subpoena-cia-hunter-biden-laptop-investigation

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    There Is No Oversight: The NSA Withheld Documents From Intelligence Committee Heads
    Mar 28th 2014

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140327/08140826708/there-is-no-oversight-nsa-withheld-documents-intelligence-committee-heads.shtml

    There has never been effective oversight of the NSA’s bulk collections programs, or indeed, intelligence agencies in general. There’s been a lot of noise made about this vaunted oversight in defense of programs revealed by leaked documents, but this is nothing more than a talking point.

    At The Big Picture, a clip of Sen. John D. Rockefeller (then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence) discussing how oversight actually works has been posted. It’s from an interview given in 2007, about the time the FISA Amendments Act was being put together to replace the expiring Protect America Act. The amendments act, among other things, extended the length of warrantless surveillance and gave telecoms retroactive immunity for their participation in the NSA’s bulk collections.

    Here’s Sen. John D. Rockefeller explaining why, even back in 2007, intelligence agency oversight was a joke.

    DAVIS: Reports quote administration officials as saying this is going on and it’s being done in a way to avoid oversight of the Intelligence Committee. Is there any way—

    ROCKEFELLER: They’ll go to any lengths to do that, as we’ve seen in the last two days [during hearings on FISA].

    DAVIS: Is there anything you could do in your position as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee to find answers about this, if it is in fact going on?

    ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m Chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say I want it, and they give it to me? They control it. All of it. ALL of it. ALL THE TIME. I only get – and my committee only gets – what they WANT to give me.

    Audio clip:

    [audio src="http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/mt-static/images/Rockefeller.mp3" /]

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  26. EXCERPT: “US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch clearly understands the power of the Parasite Stress Hypothesis on the American people. Justice Gorsuch issued a damning opinion yesterday on the exploitive and manipulative use of fear by the Federal, state, and local governments in order to declare and abuse emergency powers during COVID-19.

    ***https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-592_5hd5.pdf***

    Justice Gorsuch stated, “Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.”

    Gorsuch goes on to state, “We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes.

    We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.”

    The Consequences of Capitulating to Fear

    In other words, many of our government leaders, medical experts, and media influencers have been acting as manipulative tyrants who demanded that Americans capitulate to a fear-based narrative and surrender our liberties, freedoms and bodily sovereignty over to them.

    In exchange for Americans dutifully surrendering their unalienable God-given rights, we have suffered social, economic, and physical harm; State and Federal governments wielded unrestrained, abusive powers and irresponsibly expended and destroyed our financial, military, natural resources.

    Remaining silent at this point in America’s history regarding the COVID-19 emergency powers and toxic mRNA technology injections is neither kind, nor noble, it is cowardly. Our national sovereignty and our posterity are at stake.”

    https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/supreme-court-justice-speaks-up-to

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  28. “Zelensky Announces Run For Second Term Of U.S. Presidency”
    WORLD · May 19, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “KYIV — Following a successful first term as Chief Executive of the United States of America, Volodymyr Zelensky has officially announced plans to run for a second term as U.S. President.

    His toughest rival is predicted to be Vladimir Putin, who served as U.S. President from 2016-2020.

    “Today I am formally announcing plans to ‘finish the job’ as leader of the United States,” said President Zelensky from the balcony of his $130 million Ukrainian mansion. “Only in America can a poor immigrant comedian achieve his lifelong dream of asking for like three thousand missiles and getting them in a week. I love America!”

    Zelensky then listed the top agenda items he would implement during his second term as President:

    — Add more blue and yellow to the American Flag.
    — Declare all Russians poopy heads
    — Also, nuke Russia
    — Edit the Pledge of Allegiance to contain more off-color jokes
    — Pocket another $300 million

    At publishing time, Volodymyr Zelensky had announced the first female Asian-American Vice Presidential running mate, Xi Jinping in a blonde wig.”

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  29. Belle
    Belle
    May 20, 2023 9:14 am

    Prigozhin, head of Wagner PMC, just announced “Twentieth of May, year 2023. Today at noon, at 12:00, Bakmut was completely taken.”

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  30. “Terrified Paparazzi Photographer Starting To Think This Meghan Markle Girl Is Stalking Him”
    MEDIA · May 19, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “NEW YORK, NY — A terrified paparazzi photographer is asking for privacy following an altercation with the Duchess of Sussex in downtown NYC this week.

    Eddie Duarte, a freelance celebrity photographer, says he’s beginning to suspect Meghan Markle is stalking him after he noticed the defunct royal following him while he was trying to have dinner with his family.

    “I just looked over and there she was, hiding behind a bush,” Duarte told reporters. “What was really strange was, when I saw her, she immediately held up a sign with flashing lights that said ‘I’m Meghan Markle! I’m oppressed!’ It was weird.”

    Duarte says Markle followed him throughout the evening in what he thinks was an attempt to get him to take photos of her. At one point, as Duarte and his family were driving home, Markle allegedly swerved her black SUV into his car in what bystanders describe as a ‘near catastrophic accident’.

    “Look, I’m just out here doing my job, trying to make a living, and she’s over there jumping in a photo I’m taking of Alec Baldwin and his 20 kids.”

    In response to Duarte’s accusations, Markle released a 30,000-word statement detailing her need for privacy along with her daily schedule and minute-by-minute agenda, in case any other Paparazzi want to take photos of her very private life.”

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      1. I just fiddled with it again – it is definitely the power connector on the router – right now, I have a Tootsie Pop stick stuck behind it – so far, it’s working…for the moment. They can’t get up here soon enough with the replacement router!

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  36. 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸
    @Travis_in_Flint
    Have you heard about Martial Simon, a 61 year old homeless man from NYC who had mental illness? He was a repeat offender and was out on parole for armed robbery.

    In 2022 he was harassing patrons at the subway station and threatening them. No one did anything. Everyone stood by because they were more afraid of the cancel mob than this lunatic. He walked behind 40 year old Michelle Alyssa Go and shoved her in front of an oncoming train. She died at the scene.

    @AOC
    did not attend her funeral. She did not get a golden casket. If someone had stepped in to save her life and Simon died, they’d be persecuted. AOC should be ashamed of herself

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  37. lock this asshole up!

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  40. “How do you know when you have entirely too much money at your disposal?”

    “Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z just made a historic real estate purchase. The billionaire pair bought a ugly-looking Malibu mansion for $200 million, making it the most expensive home ever sold in the state of California. Think about that.”

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  41. “The most popular search term in New Jersey is ‘Moon Knight’? I had to Google it myself to find out what it is. I’m kinda disappointed in my ole’ home state…”


    “They say that during sex you burn off as many calories as running eight miles. Who the hell runs eight miles in 30 seconds?”

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  43. “In case you were wondering what that alphabet soup really means, here ya go…On another blog or in another social media forum, this would most likely be unacceptable. I think you’re not supposed to know what they all really mean. I guess ‘heterosexual’ is the + sign – ya know – ‘other’.
    Juss’ sayin’…”




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    1. the + is the open door for pedophilia
      regular heterosexuals don’t need labels…we are sane enough to know who we are without them

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    1. This is one movie I definitely want to see – hopefully, in the theatre in Norfolk – I would expect it will show there but we’ll see. If I have to watch on-line, I will but I want the big screen for the full effect, personally. It will be the same with The Passion follow-on movie.

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  49. More info on Sound of Freedom movie:

    If you want to request that the movie be shown near you, go to the WR link and you can fill out a form indicating your interest – they need as many people as possible to buy tickets to help pressure the theaters to show it. If you buy your tickets thru the WarRoom link below, you’ll get a 10% discount – under “discount code,” enter “Angel10.” I am assuming that, if you buy it thru them and your theater ends up not showing the movie, you would get a refund – on this one, I wouldn’t even care, personally!

    They will batch these requests and contact the theaters. I contacted the Norfolk theater and they don’t schedule that far ahead but I submitted my request. My Google info was plugged in automatically – YMMV.

    Also, btw, you can pay to watch other Angel movies here: https://www.angel.com/

    https://www.angel.com/warroom

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  50. Prayers needed – Sally’s Dad called – thinks he’s having a stroke – and is with EMTs on the way to the ER.

    Am praying for him and about what to do short term and long term.

    I am probably going over there for a while. Or just going back and forth. Not sure yet.

    Last visit with Sally Q was rough – she can turn irrational and vile in a heartbeat.

    Love to all!

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