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haikugal

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7. You said it so well Warpy...that's what I'm talking about!
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 12:51 AM
Apr 2015

I'll disclose that I've been alienated from my family since I left home as soon as I was of legal age..I would have gone at 15 but was threatened with Juvenal Hall. Anyway, I had a brain so I managed. The point is that off and on I've tried to repair the relationships but it doesn't work...so my youngest sister married and moved to Australia and she and her daughter were in California the same time as my son and I so after much work they agreed to let us drive them to their next stop. I thought it would be nice for the kids to meet. Well it all went sideways when I didn't know who my sister was! I couldn't get my head around it and no one had told me that she had not just gotten a boob job, I knew about that, but she had had total facial surgery and was unrecognizable. She got really mad at me and said I was rude. I felt bad but I was so shocked I was confused by it...even her daughter had had total reconstruction and didn't look like the pictures I'd seen of her.

What a mess...

They're very pretty, I just didn't expect it...my bad, again.

Our values are very different.

We aren't valued for what we really are inside, just outside...I always hated that.

The other day I was coming back from the barn in my coveralls and jacket and had sunglasses on and someone honked at me. It brought it all back, that's when I started to think about this and how comfortable and grateful I am to be at an age when I don't have to deal with so much shit, all the time...LOL

Hey Warpy I nursed my son and my boobs got in the way! My husband loved it, I hated it...you couldn't give me a boob job! LOL I like my natural self!

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When I was 38 years old I woke up one morning and my eyebrows applegrove Apr 2015 #1
Yes indeed! haikugal Apr 2015 #2
I do find getting older very freeing. TDale313 Apr 2015 #3
Me too. applegrove Apr 2015 #4
Yep! haikugal Apr 2015 #5
Getting that invisibility cloak can be a little disconcerting at first Warpy Apr 2015 #6
You said it so well Warpy...that's what I'm talking about! haikugal Apr 2015 #7
Sweet convo! cilla4progress Apr 2015 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author haikugal Apr 2015 #10
True Cilla, it's the strength... haikugal Apr 2015 #11
I'm finally in menopause (early 50s) Novara Apr 2015 #9
Awesome! Go Girl! haikugal Apr 2015 #12
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