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[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

My mom died when I was 17. I only have a handful of pictures and zero videos of her. A couple years ago, on my birthday, I got a text from a number I didn’t recognize. It simply said “happy birthday” with a YouTube link. I clicked it and my heart stopped. It was my mom.

I had to pull over immediately. She was telling me how proud she was of me and how she wondered what I’d become. Maybe a policeman, a preacher, or even a clown. I couldn’t believe it.

Well, it turns out the random phone number was my friend Jon’s dad, who had found this video on an old VHS tape they made before a 1999 school event. I was 16.

This experience got me thinking... what if we could have one last conversation with someone we lost?

🚛 The Crossing Over Express is now on @X 👻

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@pernilleripp @korytellers As I continued to be on time, I was told I should have my kids (single parent) picked up afternoons by a daycare so I could work late, and as I couldn’t afford that, I should get a second job to cover it.

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@pernilleripp @korytellers I was put on an improvement plan for being “too close to the deadline” for getting SpEd paperwork finished for meetings. Not late, just on time. But I *might* be late so….

[My car updates. @iMDRW]

If you remember hearing Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" on the radio back in the day, schedule your colonoscopy, mammogram and shingles shot.

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@MartinOdimaJr AuDHD and hard of hearing, and I’ve taught self-contained special education for over 20

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@merlep01756164 @JJRodV This was the format of some of my more intensive graduate courses- meet the rubric/requirements and participate in ways that demonstrate skill/understanding and ‘A’

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@AutisticCoach_ 2/I was stunned, but managed 3 services in 3 states in 3 weeks. Didn’t feel deep grief until winter, turned on heat in my dad’s car (I kept), and it smelled just like him-old spice, cigarettes, and whiskey. Those smells always bring him back. And ABBA 🙂

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@AutisticCoach_ Feeling deeply when I’ve lost pets, with the people I’ve lost it takes more time-I think I’m more in my head with memories and thoughts about them and how my life is different now. I lost both parents in the same week, across the country from each other. 1/

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@AngieTheOptimus @ashleyann_atx I keep having this discussion with others in my line of work. ‘He’s just wanting attention. He gets plenty of attention.’ Well obviously not.

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@brightblueorb I have but I’ve been told it’s -a- my use of words or b- my stilted interactions come off as ‘formal’/overly structured or c- general demeanor (low eye contact, less affect, more monotone, etc)

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@The8BitIdiot Pluto.

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@bigblueape @livinlakelife15 @KelloggsUS Even our Kroger doesn’t carry it in N Dallas area

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@DrBlackDeer

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@PortiaNoir Yay.

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*awesome*.

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@PortiaNoir 54

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@PandyJayne @ask_aubry I’m going to have to try that - ‘ thanks, my dad gave them to me’

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@theDRAMAgoat1 Yes- Texas, right around Dallas