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Jackpine Radical

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8. Your compassion overwhelms me.

Reply to Omar4Dems (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 10:16 PM

Nov 2013

I have been down & out, living in a dead car, alone with a bottle and my memories and PTSD symptoms from Vietnam, and educated. Very educated. It was many years ago now, but I won't forget.

I don't know the backstory here, and I don't need to in order to know this pain. And even is she is somehow faking it, for every such faker there are a dozen or a hundred who are not.

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