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I’m in My 40s, Child-Free and Happy. Why Won’t Anyone Believe Me?
The New York Times ^
| 07/05/18
| Glynnis MacNicol
Posted on 07/10/2018 12:17:25 PM PDT by Simon Green
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So if this woman wants to live alone,and quite possibly die alone,that's her business. I really don't care. As for me,my daughter stopped by today with my two little granddaughters (5 & 2 years old) they came running in the kitchen door yelling Pop Pop! Pop Pop!,and I'll be damned if I would have it any other way.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:03:47 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
To: Simon Green
I am happy that this selfish, bratty woman has no children. Kids deserve better. But, no, I don’t believe she’s happy.
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posted on
07/10/2018 5:48:03 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Simon Green
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posted on
07/10/2018 9:00:40 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
Our daughter got hired for a TV show. They hired 100 kids for 85 euros a day. The first day they all get filmed storming the stage. Then the second day (which they have to wear the same clothes for) they start getting asked unscripted questions and depending on how well they answer is how long they participate on the show.
She danced twice before on TV but this is a good thing.
To: Berlin_Freeper
Instructions are to wear Autumn clothing because that is when the TV show is aired. Told my wife:Go. Mall. Buy.
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Simon Green; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; CopperTop
a proposal for a memoir about being a single woman over 40 without children Wow! I'll have to put that right on my reading list! Hope it has lots of exclamation points!!!
I may have to get someone to ghost-read it for me!
Maybe Yuri Testikov or Alton Benes can write a forward? Or she can put in a chapter about an affair with either or both of them? Or with J. Peterman? Yes!!! Where's Lipman? Must miss!!
To: Autonomous User; Gamecock
"..I’ve seen her picture. I know why she is alone.."Yes, it's Noreen!
She's been having "trouble" for a long time. d;^)
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posted on
07/11/2018 4:21:01 AM PDT
by
CopperTop
(Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
To: A_perfect_lady
I'm sure you have "helped shape them."
I had a high school English teacher that I really did not like at all. I would have said I hated her guts back then. I always made "D's" and "F's" in English classes. I even had to take three English courses in my last two years of high school just to graduate in the "General" curriculum.
I have had this paragraph on my facebook profile for several years:
In spite of all of the falderal with high school English, numerous times through my rewarding career in telecommunications, as a Senior Technician and currently as a Program Manager I have been thankful for the by rote drilling of Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes in Mrs. Forbes' English class.
I later discovered that someone else had created "The Olive Forbes Word of the Day" fan page on Facebook.
Even now, as an old man, I want to giggle inside when I think about how I hated her then and appreciate her so much now.
To: higgmeister
That’s awesome! I’ve done some Latin & Greek roots, but not nearly enough. I should do more.
To: Simon Foxx
Trust me, anyone who has lived any part of THAT reality understands INSTANTLY what Bob Grant meant when he made that statement.
While I enjoyed Bob immensely, I would never, ever, in a million years take life advice from him. He was a supreme pessimist, after all. He was also a pro-abort and mainly because he felt that it limited the number of dirtbags in society. While he was an amusing character and right about many things, he was also a misanthrope and I would not follow him down that path. If poor life decisions led him there, then that's also on him.
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posted on
07/11/2018 2:16:37 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: dsc
I’ve had people, and I’ve had no people. People is better.
Exactly. And the best is when they're *your people*. There's something inexpressibly beautiful about seeing people who wouldn't be here but for your own "fiat" serving God, serving neighbor, and navigating the snares of the world. There's nothing else like it. You are truly taking part in the divine act of creation.
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posted on
07/11/2018 2:21:50 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: Antoninus
*lol* Yup, I don’t think Bob Grant would disagree with your assessment of him as a “misanthrope.”
(You comment also reminded me of Florence King, who penned the “Misanthrope’s Corner” opinion piece in every National Review magazine decades ago, when it was still a reliably conservative voice......)
To: Antoninus
“You are truly taking part in the divine act of creation.”
Children and grandchildren are a blessing.
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posted on
07/12/2018 10:19:02 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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