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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@chintakaprazad Logged into Twitter after so long. Thank you so much 🙏🏽

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

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[Dr Thurairajah @RubenThurairaj]

Sri Lankan academic predicts Sri Lanka to go bankrupt again and again; just like Argentina.

Unbelievable!

#SriLankaProtests #lka #SriLanka #Argentina #Zimbabwe

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@Sush_says Gosh how true 😣

[Mahela Jayawardena @MahelaJay]

As a father I can only imagine what they must be going through 😢 If @GotabayaR read this and have any guilt should resign immediately as he was directly responsible for this situation and everyone els who was part of this administration…

[Ovandi @idnavO]

The real heroes https://t.co/7nvIuN06NP

[Dinidu de Alwis @dinidu]

ජාතිය අමතන drinking came. Take a shot every time Gota,

Mentions the war
Mentions the other war
Mentions Easter
Mentions භෞම���ක අඛණ්ඩතාවය
Mentions successful Covid response
Mentions ජාත්��යන්තර බලවේග

[DitzyFlama @DitzyFlama]

when you're doing the sugar honeycomb from squid game

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@JamesDeanNFT Hi James 👋 I’ve sent you a DM. Pls check

[Ovandi @idnavO]

One of the only times I decide to drop by 😬 Hi Twitterverse 👋

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@iFeelYouJohanna Agreed 🙌🏾

[BitDoggos @bitdoggos]

We are #FurryPunks from The Lost World of #Doggos. We were abandoned by our loved ones for many #doggie centuries. Circa 2015, we discovered a #wormhole that opened the gateways for us to travel through spacetime to reach the Ethereum blockchain in the form of #NFTs. #Woof #Woof

[Amitabh Bachchan @SrBachchan]

T 3998 - क्या किया .. क्या हो गया 🤣🤣 !
But truly an ode to that incredible Sri Lankan song ‘Manike Mage Hithe’ ..edited here to my KALIA song by the genius NAVYA NAVELI..BUT honestly Manike.. playing in loop whole night .. impossible to stop listening.. SUUUPPEEERRRBBB 🎶🎶🎶🎶

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@Sush_says Yeah it got better after a hour or two and finally fell asleep.

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@Sush_says Same, so scary 😥

[Ovandi @idnavO]

😔 https://t.co/EWGms5ip4R

[TODAY @TODAYshow]

Actor James Michael Tyler (@slate_michael) played Gunther on “Friends” for 10 years, but he was unable to attend the recent cast reunion in person because he’s been battling a serious health issue. Now he’s sharing his news for the first time with @craigmelvin.

[Ovandi @idnavO]

@chintakaprazad Thank you. Sorry for seeing it late

[Marcos Breton @MarcosBreton]

Life is so precious. We waste it hating on each other, seeking the worst. We’re all going to die one day. When that day comes, no one is going to care about anything but the love you inspired in others. Everything else is noise .
#WakandaForever

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

While Italy is on quarantine, the Italian Air Force flies a single jet, representing the virus, to meet other jets that stream the colors of the Italian flag while Pavoratti's Nessun Dorma that has the lyrics "we shall overcome" plays.

Breathtaking. 🇮🇹❤️