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agingdem

(7,850 posts)
11. I'm a 72 year old widow, mother of 2, grandmother of 5
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 03:01 PM
Oct 2020

child of Holocaust survivors...very little scares me...Trump doesn't scare me...he's a vile aberration...a mirror of the worst of the worst...and still I'm not scared...we are bigger and better than Donnie and Mitch and Barr...and we will win...I learned to count from the numbers branded on my parents' forearms...I listened to my mother scream at sight of a train...my grandmother didn't make it to the camps...when the Nazis rounded up the Jews, my grandmother was pulled out of the line and she was tied to a horse's tail by her long red hair, dragged until she was skinned and decapitated..this while her family was forced to watch in horror...oh, and Dr. Mengele "stitched" my mother's twin brother and sister together by their thighs and "observed" them until they mercifully died...I was raised to anticipate the next Hitler..and to survive...no I'm not scared...I'm pissed as shit...

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