Jackie Hicken

Writer, historian, political junkie, habitual obsessor

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Current weather: Thunderstorm

Current neighborhood chat:

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Bio-mom to Daughter 1: “Your great-grandma sent you a check for your birthday, but I’m keeping it to put toward a future Disneyland trip that we’ll hopefully get to take before you graduate.”

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Husband’s cheating, vision-having ex thinks she’s a therapist in Draper now.

Her current husband wears women’s clothing & has been non-stop pinning closeups of Dungeon Crawler Carl’s junk.

My girls are old enough that they have chosen to rarely see them both now.

It’s time…

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Bio-mom sent us a group text about how her current husband doesn’t have a job. I don’t know why she would do that…

Unless her goal was to shame him in front of us - people he has actually identified on social media as his enemies - so he does whatever she wants.

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@FiredUpCoug Best meat you can find in a basic store - price & quality - by far. Bulk candy, often big bags of Frooties that can only be found at Zurcher’s. Guittard chocolate chips - hard to find elsewhere. Don’t buy normal candy there. It’s overpriced. Cheaper branded foods, cheaper fruit

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@ShannenCbooks Bricks and Minifigs dispute in Oregon, YouTuber linked it to Mormons as a whole, now the entire internet is like, “Kill the Mormons!” and “Eliminate these American Jews,” and “Destroy America’s Israel,” etc.

Cool, cool.

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I don’t particularly appreciate some “reckless” YouTuber linking the Mormons to random business activity, legal or not, & riling up crazies - read the psycho comments - less than a year after my brother & 5-year-old niece were shot in an LDS church just for being LDS. Awesome.

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Gossip session with Daughter No. 1 about her bio-mom:

- Now wearing ex-husband’s ring as wedding ring + affair partner’s promise ring. Current husband’s ring unworn

- 2 iPhones in since current husband & password is still her 2017 affair date

- Husband is “scared” of us

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@MarienneMaid After watching all the Star Wars films, my 5-year-old asked me to explain how Palpatine came back and what made Kylo Ren bad.

Sure wish there were a couple of movies - a trilogy, even - that could explain those things. But those don’t exist.

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There were so many direct bio-mom quotes in Kouri Richins’s statement at sentencing yesterday that listening felt just like flipping through all my years of court notes. Like a cozy poisoned blanket.

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Daughter #2 told bio-mom - not in the context of bio-mom, but in the context of the book she’s reading - that “once a cheater, always a cheater”

Sometimes people who abandon their kid for their CrossFit coach just need to hear the consequences of their actions said out loud

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Bio-mom’s weird husband has started a dating & life coaching business. He is the “coach” & bio-mom is the “therapist.”

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Some Grand Canyon University writer did a profile on bio-mom, bio-mom’s dad, and bio-mom’s mom for their website.

It’s an odd choice to have an unrepentant adulterer & her unrepentant adulterer dad who asks my 16yo about her sexual boundaries represent your school, but…

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Bio-mom story:

Daughter 1 asked bio-mom to buy the boyfriend a hoodie for Valentine’s Day.

Bio-mom: “No. We’re broke.”

Daughter 2 asked bio-mom to buy the boyfriend a hoodie for Valentine’s Day.

Bio-mom bought it.

Like, both girls know she likes Daughter 2 better, but…

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I spotted bio-mom’s review of her custody attorney on Google. You know… that case from 3 years ago where she lost 50/50 & had to start paying child support & other child expenses for the 1st time…

She “100% attributes” her “positive outcome” to the lawyer.

I have questions.

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@BowTiedBroke A vacation for a newly-retired vet? His vacation fate rests with the bear…

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@ahackride @certopinion I assume you read that her 5-year-old daughter and husband were shot 2 months ago by a man who specifically wanted to kill Mormons because of their religion, right?

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@bloodthrstbooks Almost anything by Patricia C. Wrede, but the Enchanted Forest Chronicles to start

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Our useless HOA said if we didn’t pay our fee by the end of August, they’d contact their lawyer to collect.

We paid it on August 19th.

The HOA returned the payment a few days later & sent the case to their lawyer.

All HOAs are garbage, but ours is a special kind of garbage

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It was bio-mom’s temporary husband’s birthday. She gave both girls permission to stay out til 10 p.m. then promptly yelled at them for not properly celebrating his b-day while he cried to them about how he always gets forgotten.