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Southern Democrats and Progressives
In reply to the discussion: Current or former residents of the South are eligible for this group. Let's have a REUNION!!!!!! [View all]If I go much further west I'll get salt water in my shoes.
July flies and lightning bugs...
I worked the family farm for several years. We had a new peach orchard in a low spot in front of the house. I couldn't sleep one summer night and stepped outside. Apparently, every firefly in the area had decided that orchard was the place to be. There must have been a thousand of them down there. It looked like an Elton John concert.
There was a lot to dislike but some things just can't be replaced anywhere else in the whole world.
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Current or former residents of the South are eligible for this group. Let's have a REUNION!!!!!! [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2011
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Pacific Northwest, formerly of Texas (so big it's a region). Christmas was starting off quiet until
freshwest
Dec 2011
#26
We are moving to Beaufort, SC..terrified that I won't fit in with white Republicans
jeanne907
Jan 2014
#35
The native inhabitants, I have found, do not grasp the miracle of the internet very well.
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2014
#47