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Quayblue

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2. It's crazy up here in upstate NY
Thu May 25, 2017, 12:27 AM
May 2017

I'm ready to move.

"Unpresidented" banners, blue lives matters flags and bumper stickers. I just may have to uproot us for the sake of kiddos. My kids grandparents have a bitch-made flying a confederate flag and an "unpresidented" flag 5 houses up the block.

I recently had an optometry appointment and brought them with me. They got started on the dude in the white house and my heart started racing. Mind you, they're 9. The office staff got really quiet. I paid my copays and got us the fuck up outta there.

It fucking sucks to live in defensive mode. I found my first streak of gray hairs today. It was a whole goddamn patch of em lol!

Which leads me here...minorities of any color, gender, religion, sexuality... We need to start protecting our mental health. We have been tried and will continue to be. As long as America chooses to be slow on acknowledging the bullshit that has us where we are today, why wait to make ourselves whole.

Get a lawyer, then find a therapist.

This is a long war.




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