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A CRONE WITH A BOTTLE. Or two.'s avatar

Dearest Ally,

my favorite things about you are your kind heart and your ability to detect kindness in others. That Angelina story is priceless (like children’s drawings, which are the best drawings in the known universe).

We are currently living through the cruelest of shit shows. As a descendent of German Nazis, I know whereof I speak. But as the mother of a revolutionary, raised to question the status quo, I beg you to keep an open mind when it comes to third party voters. My wife, a civil rights attorney currently struggling to keep her trans clients safe, will not soon forgive my daughter for ‘throwing her vote away’ (not choosing was choosing/ same as voting for the monster itself).

But my Laura has spent much of her almost thirty years on this earth advocating for the wrongly imprisoned and marginalized who didn’t have a voice in the Biden/Harris administration, either. She could not, in good conscience, vote for a ticket funding genocide and making a sharp right turn to recruit voters (we, too, are tough on crime and immigration, and we carry guns to prove it). I have to believe that our children deserve radical (rather the in.. cre…men.. tal) change and that they will built something better out of the ashes. I have to believe that our children are smarter than we are.

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Eileen Dougharty's avatar

The wisdom of Angelina is the best medicine I can imagine right now. I needed something pure and simple and perfect to get my mind right.

I’ve been watching the benefit concert for FireAid tonight and I am loving the stories of people rescuing other people’s pets and all the love for the fire fighters and first responders. It’s good to fill up on the beauty of the world before your cup gets empty. I will keep Angelina in my pocket for moments when I flirt with losing faith.

You’re the best, Ally. Shine on, you crazy diamond 💎

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