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Lizzy (2)

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  Because I was more or less trapped in this one-horse town, I ended up renting a 2-bedroom efficiency apartment several blocks from the main drag. My intention was to stay three years until my husband returned from overseas. Hopefully, we would move west or north by at least two state worth. I had never lived in this part of the country before, and, to tell the truth, I was finding it to be quite foreign. The appearance and the language was the same as mine, but I soon realized most of the social norms of the region were somehow still in the 1960s. I had already lived that decade thirty years prior. Now, seeing it as an adult, it was a slightly different experience. Lizzy seemed to fit right into the society of the burg, although not as one of its model citizens, more like one of the poor and downtrodden. At least, that was the persona she exhibited when I went with her to various stores a couple of days after I got settled into my new abode. She took me to her home, explaini
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DNA Craze

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  DNA is one of the current crazes of society. Everyone is mesmerized with the research of finding who their ancestors are. People are even buying DNA kits, convinced the kit will prove their relationship with someone famous in history. Will a DNA kit honestly verify something like that? Ancientry.com wants everyone to believe that anyway. I doubt the accuracy of the kit. DNA is similar to fingerprints. Matches can only be made if the DNA sample is registered. Additionally, the DNA within families is so similar, mistakes came easily be made. Can those mistakes go as far as third or even fourth cousins? That would mean the relationship could be disproportionately flawed. According to the hearsay within my own family, we have a touch of Sioux blood running through our veins. Not enough for any of us to reap any benefits now that my grandmother and mother has passed on. My grandmother was one half Sioux. There’s doubt that she could have proved it, however. For one reason, she d
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Lizzy

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    Many years ago, I befriended a woman. To be accurate, she actually befriended me when I showed up without any ties to family or friends. Because I feel that it is wrong to brashly point out people publicly, I'm giving this woman the name, Lizzy, Lizzy Falk. Besides, I don’t want her coming after me. Lizzy didn’t always have the last name of Falk. She started her life out with the last name of Riley. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this right now, but there it is for you to file for a possible later date. Lizzy wasn’t a beautiful woman. Nor was she ugly either. Her dark auburn hair was unduly curly without being kinky. The entire time I’ve known her, I don’t remember seeing her in a dress except for one time. Her normal attire was a man’s t-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. The first time I met her, she was sitting at the picnic table on the back deck of a relative’s house. Like me, she was an in-law, but I got the immediate feeling that she considered herself a cut abov
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Trending Styles

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  As I stated in my first post, I doubt I’ll get much traffic and, chances are, not any comments on this blog. I believe the main reason is I’m not selling anything on my pages. According to Intuit MailChimp , “The most common type of blog is the small business blog. These blogs are written to market a business's products or services to prospective customers.” From what I’ve learned through my visits to blog platform websites, this statement is accurate. Approximately fifteen years ago, this utterance wasn’t truth, although the signs that it was headed in that direction were obvious. Back then, the number of person blogs outweighed the business ones. Having a personal blog is hopefully going to self-validate my ability to write; will establish the soundness, accuracy, legitimacy. At least, I’m hoping it does for me. Whether it has that effect on anyone else is of no consequence. Anyway, not at this point in the experiment. I question the strategy of having categories,
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The Analysis Starts

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  The last time I published a blog post was 01/16/2023. At the time, I had come to the conclusion the hours spent writing posts, reading the blog posts of others, and the general ordeal of appearing online in hopes of drawing readers wasn’t for me anymore. Unwittingly, by leaving the internet, I found myself groping for words more often, wondering what more I could write in the current piece I was working on, and, by and large, losing all motivation before I was even half done with the piece. Writing became an albatross I was having a terrible time lugging around. Now realizing the negative aspects of my absence from the blogging habit, here I am, once again, stepping into the realm of putting words out there for everyone to see. I still don’t want to deal with all the pageantry of social media, or even bother with comments for the most part. Neither one should be that much of a problem, seeing I’ve never been that popular on the internet anyway. The experiment begins.
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