Francesca Borella
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. - John Trudell
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Deep trauma (opens the original)
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First of all, I feel like I shouldn’t have anything to contribute to the 9/11 stories, that I was not physically affected by the attacks, or even knew anyone who was. But the truth is we were all traumatized by the terrorists attacks that day, that we were not isolated and safe from this kind of thing on American soil. I decided to write this because it took me by surprise when talking about it today how emotional I got.At breakfast this morning, I was telling John and Ray about my memories of t
Finding joy (opens the original)
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For Better of Worse (opens the original)
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It’s been a rough month since I retired. It has not been an easy transition.John has GIST. This is a condition that gives one a small tumor in your stomach. The doctors only found it my accident. John constantly does throat clearing and that drives me crazy. I told him to get checked for food allergies, acid re-flux, etc. After a ton of test they decided to do a scope exam. It’s the kind where you have to be knocked out, a tube goes in and the scope goes down. That’s when they found it. Supposed
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