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LiberalArkie

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41. I am so sorry to hear that.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #33)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 07:45 AM

10 hrs ago

Sadness is one of the things that people have a hard time expressing. I believe most of us feel it very deeply, so very deeply, but we do not show it. Except for maybe just shutting down. So people think we are very cold hearted.

I guess that is why I was designated to do my mothers funeral, then my fathers funeral.
And then the designated person to sign the papers to terminate life support for my sister. Not her husband, not her son, but me.

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You didn't see them generations ago bc they were warehoused in insane asylums. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Yesterday #2

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wow, another post worth of its own thread Skittles Yesterday #22

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