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backtoblue

(11,681 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 04:48 AM Feb 2020

Loners Group - Happy Valentine's Day!!!

A few years ago, I came back to the "outside" world and landed in the Loners Group of DU. You strange, silly weirdos accepted me into your worlds, and in turn I've shared the oddities of mine.

Since my return to the electronic world, Ive been working to not resent forced human interaction in the real world.

I still stutter, but it's better now that I dont care if Im laughed at. Wanda Sykes summed it up perfectly when she described her "give a f54k" routine on "Sick and Tired"
(Youtube it, its funny)

I've been pushing myself to do things that have immediate impact on my community and a minimal risk of incarceration.

I've been to church and volunteered to help the local Art Center in town. I sat at the same table with the local MAGA hats at the local diner last week. I'm "little Pelosi" to these old farts. I like the nickname and hope it sticks.

It's hard to interact in the real world. I dont want to be offensive, and yet my soul burns to spread truth and goodwill in my community.

Here's a poem I wrote that Im going to read at the Art Center soon if I dont flake out.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1199673

Love, love, love,

From afar, afar, afar.









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Loners Group - Happy Valentine's Day!!! (Original Post) backtoblue Feb 2020 OP
Boog the chocolate lab and man say hello TEB Feb 2020 #1
Word! backtoblue Feb 2020 #2
Had to give you one of my last hearts tavernier Feb 2020 #5
Absolutely TEB Feb 2020 #6
Going to get some candy hearts at the store shenmue Feb 2020 #3
What a lovely post! tavernier Feb 2020 #4
Love, love, love you back, backtoblue! ❤ littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 #7
❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹 LiberalLoner Feb 2020 #8
A big, ole howdy from one to another. yonder Feb 2020 #9

tavernier

(13,258 posts)
5. Had to give you one of my last hearts
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 07:40 AM
Feb 2020

(like you need it, ha!) because you once made me family.

Give Boog a scratch behind the ears for me.

tavernier

(13,258 posts)
4. What a lovely post!
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 07:35 AM
Feb 2020

As I’m a huge Mr Robot fan, I couldn’t help but think of Elliott.

I’m probably quite the opposite since I’m a bit of an extrovert in my nature, but like you,I have to push myself into situations that aren’t at my comfort level. Sometimes I’m the person who wears the lampshade at the party, other times I desperately wish to just blend in with the wallpaper.

But we work at it, I think, because a moment of true interaction with another human is priceless.

yonder

(10,002 posts)
9. A big, ole howdy from one to another.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 12:34 PM
Feb 2020

Those old cracks must like you if they've given a nickname that you like. That's how it's done — keep up the good work.

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