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Today is my (Original Post) xxqqqzme Feb 2022 OP
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Gimme five NJCher Feb 2022 #12
I was reflecting on the last 20 years xxqqqzme Feb 2022 #18
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You got me beat by 5 weeks Martin Eden Feb 2022 #14
I was turned on to DU xxqqqzme Feb 2022 #15
Two decades later, we're still here Martin Eden Feb 2022 #16
Yah, like everyone else has said....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!! 👍🏻 a kennedy Feb 2022 #17

NJCher

(35,620 posts)
12. Gimme five
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 02:17 AM
Feb 2022

Xxxqq…



It’s nothing to sneeze at that so many of us, you, Frances, and me, too, have been here so long, watching the political scene together. I’m 21 years.

Sharing information, having our say, and all of us learning and watching together.

Oh and did I mention making fun of republicans?

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
18. I was reflecting on the last 20 years
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 07:41 PM
Feb 2022

yesterday.

In 2002 my:
two children were single;
house was under renovation to accommodate my disabilities;
guide to adulthood, primary supporter and defender, my Grandmother was living. We would have her 2 more years;
parents were living;
physical therapy continued after the auto accident causing my disabilities (let's hear it for aqua therapy ).

Since 2002:
both children married; (son '08, daughter '11)
have two grandsons and two granddaughters;
sold my house, Moved 6 times;
spent 5 years on the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party;
ran for State Assembly (lost);
had to sue my daughter when I discovered she stole my inheritance of $313,000; Only recovered $69,000)
have lost too many friends and family to cancer, six in the last two years, Miss all of them

Martin Eden

(12,847 posts)
14. You got me beat by 5 weeks
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 08:29 AM
Feb 2022

My 20th will be March 26.

I was turned on to DU by subadude Ron, an old college buddy who no longer posts here.

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