Mary K. Williams 🌍🌎🌏

Mom and wife. Writer and caring wise-ass. Yin and Yang, Sempai and Kōhai. We live in a global community, let's act like it. No DMs.

[Mary K. Williams 🌍🌎🌏 @MaryKay15]

@Okochobeef @supernova_freak I was literally going to mention my surgery in April, oxy for about 3.5 days, damn, it WRECKED me. 12 inches, easy. But it was NOT easy. OMG.

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@Joe__Bassey Beautiful work!♥️

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@HunterBiden @KyleLascoShow Not the same, but when I think back on Obama's two opponents for office, even though I voted for Obama, either McCain or Romney would have done at least a half decent job because they both had character.

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@klhicks912 It's not quite the same, but it reminds me of Anne Lamott's advice, regarding writing "shitty first drafts."

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@StellaParton Back at you!!

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@amvetsupport I see you!

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@NerdyCheeseCurd Well I don't know you, but yay! I hope you feel fulfilled and help others feel the same.

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@jeannel11 @TheRealThelmaJ1 Right?

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@TheRealThelmaJ1 Excellent!

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@HunterBiden @pissvortex Mahjong solitaire. Photography. Writing.

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Amazing story ❤️❤️

[Story Web @Ezekle1]

The janitor saw a soldier crying alone at the gate. What he did next left the whole terminal speechless.
It was just past 6 a.m. at a busy airport when Army Corporal James Whitfield sat down in an empty row of seats at Gate 14 and put his head in his hands.

He had just missed his flight.

Not because he was careless. Not because he overslept. James had been held up in a security line for 40 minutes, his military ID triggering an additional screening that morning of all mornings. By the time he reached the gate, the door was closed. The plane was already pulling back from the jetway.

He was supposed to be on it to say goodbye to his mother.

She had passed away three days earlier. The funeral was in eight hours, two states away. And James a 26-year-old who had spent the last year deployed overseas, had come home just in time to miss it.

He didn't make a scene. He just sat there in his uniform, quietly falling apart.

That's when Marcus Webb noticed him.

Marcus, 58, had been mopping the floor near the gate when he looked up and saw the young soldier. He set his mop aside, walked over, and sat down next to him without saying a word. After a moment, he asked, simply: "You okay, son?"

James told him everything.

Marcus listened. He didn't offer empty words. He didn't say it'll be okay. He just sat with him in the quiet for a moment, nodding slowly. Then he stood up, took off his work gloves, and said, "Wait here."

Marcus walked to the nearest ticket counter. He had $800 in his checking account, his rent was due in five days. He asked the agent for the next available flight to James's destination. She found one leaving in two hours. The ticket cost $794.

Marcus paid for it without hesitating.

When he walked back to Gate 14 and handed James the printed boarding pass, the soldier stared at it like he didn't understand what he was holding.

"I can't let you do this," James said, his voice breaking.

Marcus shook his head. "You already can't stop me."

A gate agent who witnessed the exchange later shared the story online. Within hours, thousands of strangers had found Marcus's GoFundMe and covered his rent three times over. He refused most of it, asking that the rest go to a veterans' fund.

"I just saw a young man who needed to be somewhere. I had the money. He needed it more than I did that day. That's all it was." Marcus Webb, airport custodian
James made it. He walked into the funeral home twenty minutes before the service began, still in his uniform.

His family said his mother would have loved the story.

They'd never met before that morning. They've talked every week since.

[Mary K. Williams 🌍🌎🌏 @MaryKay15]

@stephenRB4 It gets infuriating!

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@MikeLevin Vought= no bueno.

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@DAG_1968 @BravoKiloActual @Strandjunker What's wrong with single mothers?

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@DarlingAxe Your name is awesome. End of story.

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@PMastersMusic @HunterBiden Okay I'm going to say it. You're one heartless prick. You know nothing about addiction, I hope you never have to deal with it yourself.

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@WalterCronkite , @edmurrow & their contemporaries would have been appalled & flabbergasted at @ScottPelley 's allegations of political bias at the current @CBSNews team. With a President who lies every day, it is easy to see why the sacred concept of Truth is being totally bent out of shape and one should applaud Pelley for his stance. Anyone calling themselves a journalist must stand with him.

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@UnrealBluegrass That should be cool! Libraries are great places. I used to work in one. Although it was a corporate library. It was still pretty cool. That's still luck on the event!

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@StonerDad That's exactly how I do it. I built a little paper funnel and it works well.

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@RonFilipkowski Pa-thet-ick