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Melanie's avatar

All those things….big ups! Happy New Year!!

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Annie Mueller's avatar

Here we go! Love you, friend

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Cyndi's avatar

I wish to boldly speak your very words, because not being that free is the real curse.

And, yet, part of me still says that I must hold my tongue... sometimes. After all, not everyone deserves what comes out of my mouth too often. Still.... oh, to be that free !!!

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Annie Mueller's avatar

I think being free is a long long process -- any step forward however small is important.

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Cyndi's avatar

I have no doubt that for most it is a very long process. Yet, there are some who are free to begin with, or who have gone though a much shorter process at a young age and enter adulthood being free to be who they are. I envy them. And I wonder how much nature vs nurture has to do with it, and suspect that while nature does create those who are free, but nurture has a bigger hand it. Having read your stories about your children, I have always thought you were doing a pretty good job at teaching them to be free while also teaching them to be kind. At my age I still look for my freedom to just be me, but it's become less important than trying to teach my grandson to be free. I get discouraged with that..... I am not the main nurture-giver.

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Amy Scrivner's avatar

so good girl

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