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Sugar Smack

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5. I'm lucky & pleased to also have friends like you.

Reply to Kali (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 11, 2019, 01:47 PM

Dec 2019

I've told my louder women friends about the megaphone (I'm getting one for me, too) and they love it. They'll be able to hear me in a group now (LOL). I'm a short, physically-strong old broad, too. But so often confused for a timid creature. Oddly enough, since I turned 50 this year, I feel a tad freer to shout. Thanks for the words about what each thing represents. I want to tell all these women I want them safe, and their voices heard. And their heads warm.

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For my dearest soft-spoken, female friends: Mini-megaphones on keychains. [View all] Sugar Smack Dec 2019 OP

Even on a non-political front - I'm a soft spoken woman and 'often Peregrine Took Dec 2019 #1

On a non-political front, it can be exactly as useful. Sugar Smack Dec 2019 #3

I am soft spoken, too - most of the time csziggy Dec 2019 #4

You're not going to get a lot of arguments from a horse ;) Sugar Smack Dec 2019 #6

as a loud-mouthed, physically-strong old broad, I never had that problem Kali Dec 2019 #2

I'm lucky & pleased to also have friends like you. Sugar Smack Dec 2019 #5

too bad it is often only age that finally allows some to begin disregarding the life-training Kali Dec 2019 #7

Watching the live inquiry. Sugar Smack Dec 2019 #8