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#20

Health insurance. Masquerades as a way for people to be able to get healthcare but really doesn’t give a damn about you or ensuring you actually get healthy. .

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#21

Grew up with an erratic volatile unpredictable very unusual quite beautiful mother who I thought was “eccentric” and it was just normal to me. She spoke with a strong accent and was very silly and flighty and energetic and would enroll me in things but then sabotage the event—children’s pageants, department store modeling runways, local tv shows, summer children’s events, acting auditions, pets that were gifted but always disappeared after a week or so. I learned not to get attached to any thing or situation.

The upside tho was that I very quickly realized that, even as a very young child, I could not depend on her much and needed to always rely on myself for planning and safety and care. I became super-independent and capable at a young age. It made me very strong and creative and self-confident.

But it all got much worse later—public fits, outbursts, arson, nudity, inappropriate language—and we realized that she was mentally ill, finally diagnosed as schizophrenic, moved on to near-constant paranoid hallucinations and a frightening death.

This was all a long time ago tho. She passed more than 35 years ago.

#22

Having skin like velvet and being super duper flexible. turns out i have ehlers-danlos syndrome. whoops.

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#23

I had a headache, which happens sometimes. I don’t know that I’d call it “normal,” but it’s not so abnormal that I saw it as cause for immediate concern. Whatever, I’ll just go to bed early, surely I’ll be fine the next day.

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