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HAPPY 21st Birthday to my nephew, my Mucha Lucha (trademarked), my baby love, the Andrew Milton, Drew, Drewski 🥳🎉🎊 WOW ‼️ My FAVORITE boy is now an official adult 😲

To my FAVORITE nephew!! The one and only!! My big brother’s son!! Bevie’s baby boy!! My Mommy’s little fellow!! Did I mention… MY nephew!! Mucha THE lucha!! My chocolate face!! My first baby, who isn’t even a baby or even in his teens anymore… I just can NOT!! 🥹

I’m SO honored God chose me to be your ONE and ONLY Aunt!! God made YOU our legacy, we’re connected by more than blood, YOU are our ancestors wildest dreams come to life, a Shorter man 💙

Young Man of God, God made us FAMILY, God made you in His image, and THAT is wonderful!! I love you with my whole ❤️ I thank God for the man you are and who you are becoming!! Be bold about your faith kid, keep God at the center of your life! Be a man of great integrity and don’t conform to the things of this world! Be a light in your generation, a great man who is loving, respectful, loyal, kind, humble, and caring!! Be a leader amongst all men!! And I know it’s hard, but as you strive every day to be a man of great of good character… God reward you with favor and blessings on blessings!! 💯

I wish Daddy could’ve met you on earth and we could’ve seen you interact with him. I know he would’ve loved and poured into you 😢 I wish Mommy (Grandma Lo) could’ve had more than just 14 years with you… she would be over the moon PROUD of you, I can see her 😬 at how handsome and grown you are. Her little fellow!!! 🥹 I promise until my last breath to continue to pray over you, encourage you, annoy you with texts, calls, bitmojis and memes 😂 Mucha I’ll be here for you ALWAYS!!

Know that my assignment as your FAVORITE Aunt isn’t taken lightly!! And if Gods will is for me to be a Mom, I hope you know that kid will be BLESSED to have a cool big cousin like YOU! And if not, I will cash in on what we’ve discussed…

LOVE YOU always and forever, more than you will ever know, a bushel and a peck and a 🤗 around the neck!!

Your, ONE and ONLY Aunt Jessi 😘💕

P.S. I posted this on 4/30/25 around 11pm (MDT), so it still counts as your 21st birthday 😉

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Grief… I can only imagine… 🙏🏾

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Because why not? Life is hard & every day is a gift 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Bravo!!! #DailyReminder Rumble girl rumble ‼️ #SurvivorStatus 💕💓💞💗💖 #GodTheGreatest https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqOPmHLiAH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This is my brave!! *another ☝🏾 Ten years ago… she/her was smiling through the pain! This pic was an example of that tenacity I had whole fighting for life!! But on Valentine’s Day 2013 - it was finished ❤️ Yes it’s the day of Lovers…but for me it means SO MUCH MORE!! This girl right here…with her hair growing in & burnt skin (it got worse) - but I made it to last daily radiation treatment for stage 2A idc #breastcancer on Valentine’s Day 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ NOW 10 years post active treatments I CELEBRATE her/she/ME 🙌🏾🎊🥳 Body worn out from fighting for 11 MONTHS!! Double mastectomy with muscle expanders placed, 6 cycles of aggressive chemotherapy infusion every 3 weeks for 3 months, breast reconstruction surgery with implants, and finally daily radiation treatments 😲☹️ But God!!!! Bruised, peeling, hurting, discoloration, fatigue, white meat, ointments, bandages & all!! God covered & kept me!! He’s STILL doing ‼️🙌🏾 Another bc milestone met, I’m proud of you Jessica Nicole 💞💗💕💓😘🥰 I know Mommy & Daddy would be too!! 😭 Look at me Mama, I’m making it 🙌🏾 🥹 #HappyValentinesDay #Brave #SurvivorStatus #Survivor #ThinkingThroughPink #TenYears #Thriving #Grateful #Blessed #Healed #Remission #GodDid (at Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqNonnrMAk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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⭐️ Life Update (kinda long) ⭐️ I’ve been officially flying high in the friendly skies for the BEST airline since October 2021!! God has been faithfully blessing me on my Delta journey since I applied in July 2019 🙌🏾

Not many people know the WHOLE story! All the joy from extreme highs and the depression that came from the extreme lows of 2020! I’m beyond grateful for my life and health and promising career! I went through a longer than normal process to get into my passport plum to be able to ✈️ the world!

⭐️ Abridged version ⭐️ My process started with my application for Delta’s “historic” Class of 2020 in July 2019 with my application, next candidate assessment, then a recorded video interview, live internet interview and finally I received an invite to the final F2F (Face to Face) group interview in December 2019 that resulted in my CJO (conditional job offer) on the spot! 🙌🏾 By Christmas 2019 I received my training class date and starting prepping for my journey to begin the first week of March 2020!

On March 2nd, started with my “I” classmates and we were set to graduate 6 weeks later in April 2020. But then the COVID-19 pandemic happened and the world stopped and masked and quarantined globally! And after 3 weeks of rigorous training we were sent home because the pandemic - suspended for 18 months - without any notice it was over and no restart date in site! It was devastating after all the hard work we put in and the jobs we left to go back home without our wings and it wasn’t anything we could do about it 😢😩 But in true form and following it’s core values Delta brought us back and I started with “C” class 2021 in the beginning of September 2021 and after starting over for 6 MORE long, rigorous, stressful, challenging, but rewarding weeks I EARNED MY WINGS and became a certified flight attendant for Delta airlines. God did it!!!

I never knew what the future would hold when I applied for this dream job…career with Delta. But God!! I was able to met my forever friends/fam in 🔺 and I’m traveling the country and soon the world every week! In a year like NO OTHER! I MADE IT 🙌🏾 I’m still surviving and thriving and racking up air miles, pictures, magnets, hotel points, souvenirs, new experiences and memories while I travel to sometimes anywhere between 1-3 cities a day, multiple states weekly and I’m loving it!! It’s tiring but worth it! I’m losing my pandemic pounds from all the walking and hustling with my luggage through airports! I’m able to stay in some really nice hotels on my layovers and I’m meeting interesting customers and a good amount of fun coworkers. I’m a wiser traveler and still learning my best practices for working an energy draining job where you spend most of the time in the skies! I’m stronger mentally than I was in April 2020 and I’m happier because I’m living the life I dreamed of for the greater part of two years!

⭐️ Summing it up⭐️ Just look at me now! It’s 2022!! I’m just two days shy of 4 months “on the line” and enjoying racking up thousands of sky miles, flew SO many states, 2 countries, touched down in over 22+ airports, in over 22+ cities, and one continent! Sometimes I fly from one time zone to another and have to remind myself where I am…what state did I wake up to and where will I sleep at night. I spend way more time in hotels then in own my bed. But I’m enjoying it! So here’s to flying MANY more cities, states, countries and continents in ‘22 and beyond!!

Thank you God for this opportunity!! And Jesus please continue to cover and keep me as I travel, work, play and experience new things all over the world ✈️❤️💜

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Dear Jesus… 🙏🏾 “Speak to me when the silence steals my voice/You understand me/You understand me… So I throw all my cards before You/My doubts and fears don’t scare You…You’re BIGGER than I thought You were!” There are NO limits, NO boundaries!! Thank you God for being BIGGER than I thought you were…BIGGER than I thought!! 🙌🏾 “So I stop ALL negotiations/with the God of ALL creations/cause your bigger than I thought you were!” I will rest in the Father’s hand/Leave the rest in the Father’s hands” 🙌🏾 I cast my cares on you, because you care SO much MORE for me!! 🙌🏾👏🏾🥲☺️🙌🏾 #GodTheGreatest #Bigger #Passion #Christian #Believer #NewLevels #Blessed #MyStepsAreOrdered #GodsWillBeDone #Preparation #SkyHigh #LordITrustYou #InYourHands #HappySunday Some lyrics above from: *Song: Bigger Than I Thought (feat. Sean Curran) *Artist: Passion (at Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSmVGdPh8bT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“People let me tell you ‘bout my best friend…she’s a warm-hearted person who’ll love me to the end!” 🎶  One time for birthday girl!!! ✨ Brace yourself, Jessi is goin’ in again… So it’s a special thing to have a friend that you’ve done DECADES with!! Through the ups and downs of life to know that they will be by your side, literally and figuratively!! To go some time with out talking, but then spend 4 hours plus on the phone catching up and keke-ing!! Someone who will act up with you in spirit and in person! Someone who is both a little hood and holy - who will kill ‘me with kindness but also read them like a book!! Someone who will encourage you and speak life into you on your darkest day!! What ya know about those deep belly laughs that make your face and tummy hurt?! 🤣  But for real for real, FOR REAL, those July babies…them rubies childddd, born on the 10th of July, one year apart, with the same middle name… whew!! 💃🏽❤️😜 My fairy glam mama and my rider for life!! Always in my corner from crayons to coloring books…my chic, caregiving, compassionate, courageous, confident, cool, cute, classy, certified, cultured, caring, cheerleader, calming spirit, captivating, Cancer ♋️ , confidant!! 💯 **come on somebody with the alliteration** 🙌🏾  Well here she is Mrs. Erica N. Lewis! 👑 muva herself 😍 Y’all know I could go on and on, but honestly I couldn’t ask for a better friend and sister to share my special day!! Happy 3️⃣8️⃣th Birthday my dear!! You already know we catching flights to celebrate with each other one year. Sipping on the beachside!! Booked and bougie 😜✈️🍹 I thank God for you and I love you to the end!! Thank you for checking up on me, encouraging me, praying with me and hyping me up!! If I had books of all the wisdom you share, they’d fill up a book shelf 🤓 Enjoy your celebrations and keep shinning babe!! Love you to infinity ♾ I’ll keep the real secrets for when we sitting on a screened in porch with our tea cups…in another 40 years, with our legacies all around 👵🏾👵🏾 Basking in the sun and light of the Lawd 😉 (at Mind Your Business) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRMRmrSLaGD/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It’s November 8th when a 👸🏾 was born!! My Queen!! My heart!! My best friend!! You always loved and deserved to be celebrated 🎉 Happy heavenly Birthday to my Mommy!!! 🥳 Today was just ok...I made it through. But dang I would’ve LOVED to hug you, kiss your face, dance with you, sing to you, give you at least two mushy cards & celebrate you like we always did!! Gosh I miss you SO so much sometimes! I still feel like it’s hard to breathe. I feel the hole in my heart and it aches on days like today💔 You should’ve been able to live and see year 6️⃣4️⃣☹️ Yet this is another tough & sad milestone...it doesn’t get better. Ugh this is the 3rd Birthday of yours without you here 🥺 And next up the holidays 😭 But thankful for Milton, my big bro and the strength we have to make it through together. Even though it’s unspoken, I know he feels it too. We will carry on your legacy as your beloved children. We will always remember you!! LOVE youuuu!! Always celebrate you!! Always remember you!! 😘 Love your baby girl, Jessica Nicole 💋 ❤️💜💛💐🌹 #HeavenlyBirthday #HappyBirthdayMommy #RestInPeace #NovemberBaby #Topaz #JazzyLady #Lorraine #TheCleoToMyNicole #MommysGirl #BestMomEver #MissingYou #HappyBirthdayToYa #SixtyFour (at Largo, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWzThUh2Wh/?igshid=15idlhgu2nvw9

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⭐️ In the words of @hamiltonmusical #LinManuelMiranda “We won, we won, WE WON” ‼️‼️‼️ Congratulations President ELECT @joebiden & Vice President ELECT @kamalaharris 👏🏾🇺🇸👏🏾 THANK YOU PA, GA, MI, MD, DC, VA and all the other states that allowed this moment!! Philly STAND UP!! Detroit STAND UP!! ATL STAND UP!! 👏🏾 *To The naysayers that are saying “there is still litigation from the trump administration...this is just a projection...it’s not over...” WELL UNLESS it legally changes WE WON TODAY!! We deserve THIS moment after these past 4 years and 2020 🤦🏾‍♀️ Our 46th President will be Joseph Biden and THE FIRST Woman of color, BLACK WOMAN Vice President will be Madam Kamala Harris ‼️👏🏾 @kamalaharris you will give women & girls for generations to come a HOPE for the future!!! #ThankYou #BidenHarris #AllVotesMatter #WeWon #GodBlessAmerica #ByeDon also they can line up the moving trucks on BLACK LIVES MATTER PLAZA in Washington, D.C. and that will be the icing on this 🎂 My Mommy’s 64th Birthday would be tomorrow and I voted in her memory when I filled in my bubble for Joe & Kamala 🥳 She would’ve voted for them and been thrilled for this moment!! Happy 64th Birthday in heaven Mommy!!! 🎉💕❤️💙💜💛💗🖤💖💚🎈😘💋 #46For64 this win is for YOU MOMMY 👏🏾👏🏾 #United Let’s get back to that 🇺🇸 (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHTKeb8BMb1/?igshid=1f9mh0km0x3o3

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We @cleonicolejewels celebrate all of October because it’s #BreastCancerAwareness month!! Our Creator/Owner/Founder @jessi_nicki considers her #SurvivorStatus as a blessing & her journey is a reward 💖💕💞💗💝 ✨We WILL celebrate because... •Our Owner & Creator @jessi_nicki is a 8 years young breast cancer SURVIVOR!! **She 27 years old when she was diagnosed in March 2012 with stage 2A IDC breast cancer** 🙌🏾💪🏾 •She has lost 2 young survivor friends to bc 💔💔 There will be one TOO MANY survivor sisters/brothers to die from bc, every year!! 😡 •Over 250,000 women living in the US today were diagnosed under 40. •In women under 45, breast cancer is more common in Black women than whites women. Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer! •It’s estimated that about 30% of newly diagnosed cancers in women will be breast cancers!! 😡 •1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. •Men can also have breast cancer, because a man’s breast cells and tissue can still develop cancer. (1% of all breast cancer cases develop in men & only 1,000 men will ever be diagnosed.) •There are stages to this ish... once a person is determined to have a malignant tumor or the diagnosis of breast cancer, their healthcare team will determine breast cancer staging to communicate how far the disease has progressed. *There are more than four types of breast cancer including MBC, DCIS, IDC, TNBC, IBC. **FAQ & STATS sources => www.nationalbreastcancer.org/what-is-breast-cancer & www.breast cancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics <=** 🎗 We will HONOR and CELEBRATE the legacies of those Survivor sisters & brothers who we have lost TOO SOON to this stupid disease 🙏🏾💗💗💗💗💗 #BreastCancerSurvivor #SurvivorStatus #8YearsLater #ToGodBeTheGlory #SurvivingAndThriving #BumpCancer #BreastCancerSucks #SaveYourBoobs #CheckYoSelf #BCA #Blessed #Grateful (at Prince George’s County, Maryland)
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#PSA Be kind to us! Be kind to one another 🤗❤️💕 #BLM #Emotional #2020 #TwentyTwenty #SorryNotSorry #GodBless 🙏🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CEiTzjRBUCj/?igshid=v65ui3kf7s4m

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✨ @minextchapter Birthday celebration - more flix from #BirthdayEnBlanc 7.15.2020 @ the Carter-Barron! 🎊 🥂 #LeoSeason #HappyBirthdayCB #BEB37 #BEB #BEB2020 #BirthdayEnBlanc #BlackGirlMagic #TheLioness 🦁 #QuarantineBirthday 🎂 *More 📸 #BlackGirlMagic ✨ @beautymarq *my date 😘 @keylolo83 @luvliijonesy @sixfourunicorn @iamedu @kymmieq @anjacks17 @leeleegdc 🎉 (at Upper Marlboro, Maryland)
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The #BirthdayEnBlanc on Saturday 7.14.2020 for my gurlah @minextchapter was such a vibe - cute, socially distant 37th Birthday celebration!! 🎉 You looked beautiful & it was an fab intimate Quarantine soirée 😘 And the food by bro chef - her feyoncé @thejaycarter was absolutely scrumptious!! One time for the chef and his sous chef T-bone 👏🏾👌🏾 All the ladies did an amazing job with the “en Blanc” theme - their tables full of fab decor, the all white outfits & beautiful shades of brown skin girls everywhere 🙌🏾😍 It was great to celebrate for a little outside of my bubble in the Q, dress up with make up (still beautifully bald with no eyebrows) & heels...who am I in 2020?! 💁🏽‍♀️ Cheers to a happy 37th birthday CB 💕 May this new year & season beyond be filled with love, favor, laughter & many more fun events - it’s always a good time at the Carter-Barron! Love you long time gurlah 🎊 🥳 #LeoSeason #HappyBirthdayCB #BEB37 #BEB #BEB2020 #BirthdayEnBlanc #BlackGirlMagic #TheLioness 🦁 #QuarantineBirthday🥂🎂 *Too many 📸 to share online, but here are a few* (at Upper Marlboro, Maryland)
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Challenge accepted!! ✨ Thanks for the nominations ladies ❤️💋 @uptownali @she_shebean @keylolo83 💕 #WomenSupportingWomen 👏🏾 I’m serving #BlackGirlMagic 24/7 now! Cheers to my own magic and re-learning (8 years post bc) how to draw on my own eye brows 🍷 Cheers to the ending of my fav month and the beginning of Chapter 3️⃣6️⃣ #fbf 📸 of a special gift for my J-day on July 10th 🥳
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My NFL team formally known as “The Washington Redskins” has announced this afternoon that we will be calling “ourselves the “Washington Football Team” pending the adoption of our new name. The Redskins name and logo will officially retired by the start of the 2020 season. We encourage fans, media and all other parties to use “Washington Football Team” immediately. In addition, we are rolling out an aesthetic that reflects the direction of the franchise as we progress toward a new name and design scheme.” *Excerpts from email from the organization — read more at redskins.com* Hail to the Washington Football Team?! 🏈 Washington fam/fans what are your thoughts?? 🤔 *I was born into and raised in a “Redskins” fan household & in the DMV!! I’m also seasonally employed by them... so I will be a fan with the new name and any changes! I support those who were negatively affected or offended by our old name. (at Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_yC1yhCCo/?igshid=hfv0hd1jlk9y

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“...It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine...There are times when you’ll need someone/I will be by your side/There is a light that shines/Special for you and me” -Common, “The Light”

🌟I’m using the above lyrics in a platonic way because it describes our sisterhood & how you’re always there for me (in front or behind the scenes) in thick & thin🌟

Better late than never...even though we’ve chatted a few times before & after July 10th ☺️ We’ve been 👯‍♀️ from the Shorter & Anderson residences on CHL in the late ‘80s, to junior church at Lighthouse in the ‘90s & now a pandemic while adulting in the ‘20s & beyond!! 👏🏾🙌🏾 All that from kids crayons to my cancer chronicles & now coloring in adult coloring books!! 😉

Your weekly ‘Rona checks have helped pick me up when I was low over these past 4 months & like Mrs. Obama said “when they go low, we go high” I thank God for you 🙌🏾 Thank you for your wisdom & friendship!! Thank you for listening to my ugly cries & manifesting with me for blessings to come 😭🙏🏾

I’m proud to know you and witness your light & Grace!! You’re awesome my friend & the only other July 10th beauty I’m happy to share my special day with! I admire your strength, wit, & compassion 💖 You’re a diva who can shut it all downnnnn with style & grace plus tenacity to keep on until the work is ✅

You’re a phenomenal Proverbs 31 woman, wife, daughter, sis, auntie & friend! You are a 🎁 to your village! Thank you for being my friend, big sista, supporter, fashionista & laugh/fuss/cut up buddy!! My birthday twin E is better than yours 😉🎊🥳

Happy Birthday Mrs. Erica Lewis 💓 May “The Lord bless you and keep you; make His face shine upon you, be gracious to you; lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” ~Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJV) *My Mommy Lorraine Shorter fav scripture* 😘

Here’s to higher & higher and blessings on blessings 🥂 ‼️

Love,

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