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Hello again Daniel, I can understand what depression is like. My big brother Carl has schizophrenia and depression. He lives in a personal care home. Fortunately, he has a delightful roommate Andy who is 94 and a real gentleman. They look out for each other and get along well. I have sort of adopted Andy and enjoy talking with him.

I do understand how you will miss those beautiful little jewels. I have fed the birds for years and enjoy watching them and the squirrels and rabbits. Nature is very relaxing when people annoy us.

It was wonderful to see that Justin Jones has his seat back, I believe they are going to vote on the second Justin tomorrow. Glad to know that the R's in TN weren't happy. They got what they deserved.

I am going to give you my email address so that you can contact me whenever you want. It is zither@verizon.net. Hope you have a good day.

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Thanks, Charlotte. Hell yes, we’ll have to stay in touch.

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Hello Daniel, just checking in to see how things are going with you. Wasn't it so wonderful that we had another one of our daily shootings. I am beyond disgusted with the R's and their shit. And then there is Greg Abbott trying to pardon a murderer who killed a protester. Well enough of that, we had beautiful weather in Pa today and I enjoyed hearing the birds singing. Hope you are doing okay. Take care.

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Charlotte, you folks on here are really special to me. All of you. If it wasn’t fir y’all, I don’t know if I could have possibly have survived. I swear, I was really going to a dark place, and I haven’t been that far down ever in my life. This is really tough.

Yea, I had Mediacom here this morning hooking up my internet and tv. Right when he got the tv working and turned it on to check it, MSNBC is covering another shooting in KY! I can’t put into words what the technician said, then he apologized to me. I told him absolutely no apology necessary. He was talking yo a veteran cop, and this s**t pi**es me the hell off. He told me he was a veteran, and his late wife was a cop here in Albany that was killed in 2011 responding to a mass shooting.

Yep, time for the birds to come back and start singing. I’m really going to miss my hummingbird and my bird feeders. I always liked staring out my windup watching them. We even had done build nests in our, and our neighbors shrubs. I’m truly going to miss watching my birds.

Thinking if you, gal! Talk more later. I can’t wait for the posting tonight about todays activity in TN! Yahoo, one of the expelled was sworn back in. I want you to know there was axSrnate full of pi**ed of Republicans in TN today! Made my heart feel good!

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YAY Daniel! So glad to hear that you have a place of your own to stay. Best news I had today. Keep me posted, I enjoy our conversations. Sending good vibes your way.

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Thanks, Charlotte. I appreciate that. Yes, something good comes out if being homeless, I guess. Last night was the first good nights sleep I’ve had in a long time. Actually slept in my bed!

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Hello Daniel, so very sorry to hear of your situation. It is so sad that in a rich country like this that people like you can end up homeless. If Congress had any ethics at all they would address important matters like this, instead they focus on allowing more guns and other stupid shit. With a few exceptions, they disgust me. I will keep you in my thoughts and hope things will work out for you. Please let me know how it goes.

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Thank you for the wonderful reply. Yiu are absolutely correct. This Congress we have now is interested in one thing only. Destroying Democracy. That’s it. There’s way to many bigger problems in this country than the across the aisle bickering that’s going on now.

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How are you doing, Daniel? Has anything changed for you? I am hoping for a good outcome and that things will go well for you. If anyone has paid their dues, you surely have. Just letting you know that I am thinking of you and wishing the best for you.

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Charlotte, I greatly appreciate the prayers. I need all I can get right now. My son has set me up in an apartment that I’ll be able to afford on my income. So at least I have a roof over my head. He was able to get what little stuff he could from the house where I had to vacate in a hurry. The realty company my daughter was renting from understood the situation and allowed him to go in and get the stuff, what my daughter had left anyway, which wasn’t much. But it’s currently stacked up in the little living room here so I can slowly work on it seeing what’s there and putting it where I want it or throwing it away. He got my hospital bed put together last night before he had to leave back to Florida so I got a good nights sleep anyway. Sure beats sleeping under a wet bridge!

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I think we all live on the edge, Daniel; the only difference is that some of us and I include myself here, are more aware than others that there is a cliff just beside my right foot. Keep in touch my friend.

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, it’s a very slippery slope we walk in each and every day.

I shall stay in touch.

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An honest, hardworking, diligent person ought to be able to make a reasonable living in the United States. Not being able to do so causes righteous dissatisfaction because it’s just plain wrong that the connivers get to loot The People. Equality doesn’t mean that we all have the same amount of whatever there is but it should mean that there’s equality under our laws and that law breakers are held equally responsible. It doesn’t mean that at this time.

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Very true. And, it’s not hard in this country to lose everything. No matter what your profession is/was. I was a law enforcement officer and firefighter. I ended up losing everything. Living under a bridge, bathing in a river, sleeping in the woods. I fully understand what the homeless people I dealt with, when in law enforcement, had to survive through, now.

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You gave so much and you’re still holding your heart and mind up in bravery. Thank you, Daniel.

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Hello Daniel. I don't knwo what to say my man. We've exchanged likes and comments in passing and I saw that you were from GA where I was sent as a teen. You know on the south side of Chicago, you can get sent down south for a change of pace if you act up enough and have relations down there. Straightened me out enough to recognize that most of friends were losders and I joined the USMC. Anyway, I went to Bainbridge High and lived in Attapulgas, GA.

Attapulgus is a city in Decatur County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 454.

So, I am sending you positive energy and good on your relations for looking out. There is a Japanese word: giri. (Giri (義理) is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English."

I take giri to mean "duty to one's family" and take it seriously. So do your son and his wife. Good on them. Do well. Let's stay in touch eh?

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Absolutely, Adam. Thanks for the response. Of course, we’ll stay in touch in here, I’m sure.

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Sending positive energy to you, Daniel. You have been a high quality person, generous and solid and here we have built a society that gives only crumbs to the best of us while allowing the grifters to steal the treasure you have earned. Yours is a legacy of honor.

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Thanks for your kind words. Means a lot to me.

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Hello Daniel, checking in to see how things are with you. Another beautiful day in Pa and my crab apple tree is blooming. I also have two redbud trees getting ready to blossom. Sometimes I wonder if these people who live on their phones ever look up to see the beauty all around them. Then I say probably not, but it's their loss. Sending good thoughts your way. Take care.

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Thanks loads, Charlotte! Wow! I wish I was there to see those trees blooming. I bet the birds are flocking to them, too. I can just picture it.

No, people are to busy in their phones. If you even watch them walking down the street they’re looking at their phones or the ground. No one appreciates the God-given beauty around them, right in front of them. It’s a shame, because once it passes by, it’s gone forever!

By the way, here’s my email:

tasmanian.6490@gmail.com

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