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Mother, music lover, Potter forever, believe hugs make it better. People are weird and beautiful and I like most of them. Cheese is life.

[Kevin Bacon @kevinbacon]

Happy 4th! Beware of goat poop 🇺🇸 @kyrasedgwick

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@MarkZuckerfuq 🫡😂🤙🏼

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@MarkZuckerfuq The slo mo roll 🤤

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That ‘my spouse is gone I can sleep
In the middle with my pillow walls’ feeling

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

“This starts my 22nd year of teaching middle school. Yesterday was quite possibly one of the most impactful days I have ever had.

I tried a new activity called “The Baggage Activity”. I asked the kids what it meant to have baggage and they mostly said it was hurtful stuff you carry around on your shoulders.

I asked them to write down on a piece of paper what was bothering them, what was heavy on their heart, what was hurting them, etc. No names were to be on a paper. They then wadded the paper up, and threw it across the room.

They picked up a piece of paper and took turns reading out loud what their classmate wrote. After a student read a paper, I asked who wrote that, and if they cared to share.

I’m here to tell you, I have never been so moved to tears as what these kids opened up and about and shared with the class.

Things like suicide, parents in prison, drugs in their family, being left by their parents, death, cancer, losing pets (one said their gerbil died cause it was fat, we giggled😁) and on and on.

The kids who read the papers would cry because what they were reading was tough. The person who shared (if they chose to tell us it was them) would cry sometimes too. It was an emotionally draining day, but I firmly believe my kids will judge a little less, love a little more, and forgive a little faster.

This bag hangs by my door to remind them that we all have baggage. We will leave it at the door. As they left I told them, they are not alone, they are loved, and we have each other’s back.

I am honored to be their teacher.”

Credit: Karen Wunderlich Loewe

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After 2 years of virtual, meeting my therapist in person for the first time today & it feels like a simultaneously comfortable/incredibly nerve wracking first date

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If anyone is listening, please play Without Me at my funeral

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One cannot ever sleep on @Outkast B.O.B., easily a top 5 song of life

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I don’t love much about U of M, but this right here 👌🏼

[MLive @MLive]

The invention is being developed by a Grand Rapids sophomore in professor Eric Fretz's entrepreneurship class. https://t.co/lONSRCoAhv

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How this announcement makes me feel

[“SmartLess” @SmartLess]

Welcome. To. #SmartLessOnTheRoad! Check the dress code and get ready to say HIIIII May 23 only on Max. #StreamOnMax @HBOMax

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Unlocked the 2023 concert trifecta and kind of can’t believe it

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@Oreo @MarkZuckerfuq 😍

[sam greisman @SAMGREIS]

“Use code GOOP for 15 percent off”

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Hearing ‘Music for a Sushi Restaurant’ while at a sushi restaurant was a life goal I didn’t know I needed

But then it happened tonight so thank you @Harry_Styles

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@realryanpro Tom and Greg are a dynamic TV duo

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A day doesn’t pass, as I whiz by the local landfill exit, that I don’t lovingly recall the time we went to dump @MarkZuckerfuq old bed

She gagged at the smell so bad I thought she was going to throw up #mistywatercolormemories 🥹

[Old School 80s @OldSchool80s]

Mar 24, 1984: is the date that 5 students (a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal) spent their Saturday in detention and became The Breakfast Club. #80s

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No one told me I’d need mushrooms for the #Oscar

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Wild how becoming a parent takes you from vomiting at the smell of vomit to finishing your cheerios after cleaning up your child’s vomit