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A swell dug out
taken from a small dug out. in a good swell I send you his address write him soon he is boarding in the Y.M.C.A Club Mr C Y Cleall c/o Panama Banking Co Colon Republic of Panama This appears to be an example of a "
Arkay Ussery
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State Management
The green text on the black screen, embraced by the monitor that smelled like dust and the future, was a portal to a magic world. I could create, I could navigate. The entire world inside the computer was mine to control and modify as I pleased.
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Honk honk
Geese are fun to draw
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From telegram to instagram
White House, East Front, Washington The White House has been the home of the Presidents from the time of John Adams to the present. Washington selected the site, laid the cornerstone in 1792, and with his wife inspected the finished building in 1799. The building is of Virginia freestone. After
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part Two: What Happens When Our Friends Are Electric
My several hundred word post about having a stroke didn't go viral. I didn't receive a mountain of condolences or Get Well Soons. The former would have been disturbingly strange. The latter was actually pretty disappointing.
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How to Make Oracle Cards
Oracle cards can serve as the medium through which we can listen to ourselves and hear what our inner parts are telling us.
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A Bit of Nature
With love Dichie Please take oil cloth & load off my bed for sister. Love from Mother. Addressed to: Bobbie Haase Box 103 Route >>> 2 Farmville Mich Poststamp: ST JOSEPH AUG 2, 2PM 1921 MICH I'm pretty sure this is someone giving someone else chores
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Escaping the Endless Scroll - Part One: The Hard Restart
Something strange had happened. Well, something strange in addition to having a stroke and being in the hospital recovering from it. Social media couldn't have gotten so bad so suddenly. The only thing that had changed since I had last logged on was my brain, but that seemed just so... so simple.
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Kark! Kark!
Kark! Kark! Mr. Elbert Phillippe Coridan, Ind. c/o Edith Avery R.R. Another Elbert postcard! The batch I found has a bunch of these to Mr. Phillippe, so we'll have some of these to go through. The back of the post card is stamped December 29, 1910.
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l.m.Untitled-3
The sky is too big As if it expanded to hold The years of memories I left behind Packed into boxes As brown as the land Under a sky too big
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Can't come around just now
How is this card. A fellow gets in a bad shape sometimes, I am hauling wood today Your friend, A.M. Addressed to: Mr. Ellbert Phillippe Bicknell, Indiana R.RH20 I've been wanting to handle this postcard delicately because there are some things that I think about it
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Undercover in Diversity Training
As someone with a handful of intersections often talked about in diversity trainings, I sometimes feel a bit like I'm undercover when I attend a training related to an axis of my identity that isn't visible or otherwise obvious about myself.