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Hekate

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5. 25 years ago I hired a young woman who had left what she & her husband called "the State of Miz'ry"

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 07:02 PM

Nov 2015

They were young, ambitious, and came from dysfunctional families in a dysfunctional society. They got the hell out to Southern California.

It's not just minorities who can't stand it there: this young couple was white.

Sometimes getting out is all you can do.

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