Icy cold
wind sheers
layers of clothes
paper sandwiched between
looking for warmth
a spot of safety to sleep
while the world blindly walks by.
Looking for food
searching the dumpsters
garbage cans
fighting with rats for leftovers
to make a daily meal.
Half eaten entrees
thrown out
disposable income
no need to take home
there is always food to be found
only have to open the fridge.
She saw him huddled
seeking warmth
turned her eyes away
walking briskly in the other direction.
She looks back
seeing him trudge along
wind battering
voice biting her soul.
‘Excuse me?
May I buy you breakfast?’
He
startled looks up
sees the woman
wonders if she is a foreigner
or an angel
come to deliver him.
Breakfast
a card for later meals
and she departs.
A smile over her
shoulder
as he sits
watching
wondering
if he would ever see his angel again.
©Feb. 6/20
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Awesome 🙂
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Thank you 🤓💜
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You’re welcome dorklet
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Hush up there brother
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You’re not the boss of me.
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Um as your elder I am
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You’re only older than me and by that only a few years so get over yourself granny.
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Put up your dukes gramps
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💪💪
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Your muscles do not look like that
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They’re bigger 😁
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💩💩💩💩
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Carrying you around cause you’re too lazy to walk….
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I am at work
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Shouldn’t you be working then?
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I am on supper break
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Nom nom nom!!!
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Lying is a sin.
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I didn’t
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Brother! Wash your mouth out! *forces soap into John’s mouth and starts scrubbing*
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😝
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Bite your tongue!
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Absolutely not!
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You do as I say, young man!
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Please, youngin…
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No flattery! It ain’t gonna’ work! Jay will agree with me, won’t you, Jay?
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Of course she will. Both you sisters ain’t got a lick of sense….
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That’s cause we take after you.
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Uhh no….. y’all don’t!
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.
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My pants are fine little lady….
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No, no they’re really not. You need better taste than that!
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Lucky Brand??
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Ones with pictures of Elmo on them.
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Ha…… 🙄
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🤣 Got you there! I win!
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No… you don’t…
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Keep dreaming, laddie, keep dreaming.
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Ok
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I got more sense then a dollat
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😏😏😏
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Dollar
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😁
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Of course because his flattery usually ends up talking about my nose or something 😂😂😂😂
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don’t tell him, but I do enjoy it when he tells me I’ve done a great job.
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Oh he will see this and know
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True!
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I mean, I made the mistake of telling him that I loved him, and he wouldn’t let me hear the end of it! Thankfully, that was on one of my posts, so I edited my comments just to see his reaction, LOL!
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Respect your elders boy! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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At least I’m younger 😁
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I agree, but don’t be so mean to her.
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She’s mean to me!!!
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Dude! You know better than that.
Haven’t you ever studied your Bible?
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I do but it doesn’t make her any less mean
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Ha! I thinking you always start the meanness though.
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Look….. you’re coming into this family a little late. I understand that. But you don’t know the history of this woman. She needs my sternness to keep her straight.
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Ha! You need my help.
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I need coffee…..
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I have your coffee… come and get it!
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Coming!!
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He totally does
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Thanks for agreeing!
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Uh get that stick outta your bottom and loosen up
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I just got off the toilet and ain’t nothing up my bottom.
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I love you
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Who? Me or him?
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You
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Oh thank goodness!
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YEESSSS!!! Finally, someone is telling John off!
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Hehehe
Thanks for liking ALL of my comments!
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You’re welcome! 😁
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Blowing up my likes – super cool!
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My pleasure 🙂
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😢😢😂😂😂😂😂
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😝😝😝
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Bwahahahahaha
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Am not!
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Are too
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I know you are but what am I?
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A boogerhead
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Nuhuh
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😝
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See someone likes me
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I do!
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Stop playing the victim. I always get ganged up on and then you get off being all innocent and stuff…..
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I am so innocent 😇
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That’s subjective
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Says you
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I’m right
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Y’all talking without me?
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Well…. she’s blabbering.
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Dad! If you don’t watch your mouth!
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It’s true…
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You’re so mean that I want to kick you!
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Who’s daughter are you??
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Yours!
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Start acting like it!
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Oops. Sorry dad
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Stop kicking me then.
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I never kicked you
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You do it everyday!
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When??
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Like today
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Ok please tell
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Ummmm let me think
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🙄
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Actually, last time you did was last year
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😏
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You spank me a lot too
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I do not!!!! You’re a good kid!!
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Oh shucks, thanks. You’re JUST NOW saying that!
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And you’re fibbing
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I don’t lie.
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Go reread your comments
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I don’t wanna.
WHY?
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Cause I said so
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But I really don’t want to daddy
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🙄
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Why don’t you just tell me?
I promise I’ll accept it and believe what you say.
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I’m only dad when aunt J is away……
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What? How come?
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I wonder 🤔
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I DO NOT understand you right now! It’s annoying
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Of course you don’t….
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You’re speaking in riddles and you haven’t trained your sweet girl to understand riddles
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But I’m not. You don’t pay attention!
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I do pay attention!!!!!!
Ahhhhh *screams and runs laps around the house*
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Wear yourself out for bedtime 👍
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Ugh sigh sigh sigh…. are you ready to talk?
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Whenever you are
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I’m ready goof ball
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Ok geeklet
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Take that back!
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😁😝
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I say that to kids everyday at work… you wanna know what one kid said to me?
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I wonder how long a Contrarian we can have on J’s post lol!!!
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What?
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*conversation… 🤦♂️
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Oh lol
Okay *drags you by the feet to my blog*
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That’s a lot of weight
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I dont’ care
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He is having spelling issues of late
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Autocorrect failed me
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😂😂😂😂😂
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😝
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Conversation?
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😂😂😂😂😂
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He got me all worked up!
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I saw that lol
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Yep!
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I am paying attention
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I ain’t talking to you
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He always speaks riddles
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Yes! Thank you for agreeing
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🤓
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You do realize that he’s simply messing with you, don’t you?
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Oh we do. But it is so much fun to get him all riled up cause he eventually starts sputtering
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I know, right? I do that to him all the time.
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Yeah of course. He is my dad and that’s what dads do.
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Tell me about it.
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Lol yep!
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It was my pleasure.
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Now he is being obtuse
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That’s a big word for you…
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My question too
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😉
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Why is that?
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She always takes your side
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😁😁😁
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?????
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Hehehe yeah
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😂😂😂😂
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You do, John, you do.
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As your sister, John, I order you to stop this and to start acting like a gentleman or so help me, I’ll feed you only the scraps from dinner for a week!!!
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Don’t forget he has to feed the goat.
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Well, he can give the goat his scrapes.
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This happens anyway….. so 😝
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😁😝🤪
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Apparently she likes her Aunt better than her dad na na na na poo poo
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I unadopt y’all
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You cannot unadopt us
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I just quit
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You are not allowed to quit us
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Why do you want to keep me though?? I’m sure there’s gooder brothers out there 😉😉
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Nah you da best
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You keep me around for your amusement….
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There is that and you really are an amazing man and I am proud to call you unseen adopted brother. 🤓💜
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Maybe one day you’ll see me. Just be warned I’m not photogenic
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Neither am I
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🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙌🙌🙄🙄🙌🙄🙄🙄🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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The judge denies your claim and sentences you to being part of this adopted family for ever!!!
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See this is what I have been telling him all along. He is not allowed to unadopt.
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Yep – we simply just won’t let him. He’s stuck with us.
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🤪
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I knew that you were going to say that! Sorry – you are stuck with your little horrors.
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🙄
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😁
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That literally made me laugh out loud
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Good I don’t like it when he’s not kind to nice people
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No I am answering
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I am answering all from earlier. I am at work
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Work…. this late?
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1:30-10 today
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Whoa! Hectic!
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Busy day
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No kidding. I feel bad for you
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All part of being a single mom
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Yeah I guess so
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In your dreams
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Let’s not be weird here
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With you, that’s an impossibility to NOT be weird.
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Actually, that’s not true. Innocence is determined from facts, not emotions or opinions, which looks or such are determined by.
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Ok forget everything I told you 😝
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🤪 No way!
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Because we are innocent. Lydia, Jay, fancy ganging up on John without me! I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this since I met him!
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Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh this is gonna be funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn………Johnny Boy’s in trouble…….😜😜😜
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Absolutely!
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🙄🙄🙄
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You’ll never hear the end of this…
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I must be very important to you to have so many replies to all my comments 😁
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As your sister, you are my responsibility.
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Other way around…..
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No, sir! I am responsible for making sure that you behave! And, so far, you are an adolescent.
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Whatever
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What till I take you to our father.
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That’ll be hard
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*drags John by the ear to heaven*
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That is hard too…..
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No, it isn’t. All I need is a gun.
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🙄sigh
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*aims gun at John’s forehead* any last words?
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That’s a little harsh……….
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*rolls eyes and gags John instead*
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That’s harsh too
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But we girls need it.
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To bring harm to me??
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To hold onto whatever sanity you have left us with in your wake.
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Like I’m that bad…
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I think Jay and Lydia will disagree…
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I’m a model brother and father…..
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*gives you blank look and stutters* I won’t say a word…
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Ah! Good. I shut her up.
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*sings Do-Re-Mi at the top of my voice*
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Such an angelic voice…
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Thank you!
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Most welcome!
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Hyuck hyuck hyuck
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No you are not that bad…
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See!
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Ha!
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Awesome poem and great conversation! Had me in stitches!
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Glad that you enjoyed. So if Lydia is Adopted daughter = adopted niece and if you and me are John’s adopted sisters does thst make us adopted sisters? It is very confusing. Hello. I am Jay. 🤓💜
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Yeah, that makes us sisters, like it makes me Lydia’s aunt, despite the fact that I am a few months younger than her, LOL!
Yeah, it does boggle my mind sometimes.
Hi! I’m Racheal, though some call me Rue or Ash. How long have you known John?
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Last year or so
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Cool! I’ve known him since August 2018.
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Sorry for the 400 comments… my youngins follow me wherever I go.
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😂😂😂😂☺
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Young ones don’t do as you say, they do as you do.
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Bwahahahahaha she got you der brother
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*pumps fist* Victory!
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Lovely!
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Thank you. 🤓💜
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Wonderful poem. A voice biting at your soul is so truee. Thanks
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Thank you so much. 💜😊
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