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"When I was six years old, I had a vision where I saw everything that was going to happen in my life. Jesus showed me that my life was going to be very tough, but if I stuck with him, and prayed, and cried when I needed to, and ate lots of chocolate, I’d be OK." "Where were you when you had this vision?" "At the feet of my foster mother. She was kicking me in the stomach."

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I’m an adult, but not like a real adult

anyone between the ages of 18 and 25 (via prettyboystyles)

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LAFAYETTE, Colo. – An elementary school principal says she was fired for protecting children from humiliation.

Noelle Roni says she fought against a policy requiring kids to get their hands stamped if they don’t have enough money in their lunch account. She was fired from Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette in the fall.

“The kids are humiliated. They’re branded. It’s disrespectful. Where’s the human compassion? And these are little children,” she said.

Roni was principal for nine years before being fired. She calls it a wrongful termination, and wants her job back.

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A party without cake is just a meeting.

Julia Childs

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#decadent #queen's #trifle #britishchristmas #merrychristmas #berries #custard #chocolate #alcohol #ginger #dessert #yes #fromscratch (at The Kitchen of a Genius)

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Alftavatn, Iceland | Johan Luce Travel Photography

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#tbt to that time my life was #awesome ...although i guess it's still okay now #bakerylife #bread #naturallyleavened #crunchy #woodfiredbrickoven (at Pleasanton Brick Oven Bakery)

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Drug addiction viewed more negatively than mental illness, study shows

"Only 22 percent of respondents said they would be willing to work closely on a job with a person with drug addiction compared to 62 percent who said they would be willing to work with someone with mental illness. Sixty-four percent said that employers should be able to deny employment to people with a drug addiction compared to 25 percent with a mental illness. Forty-three percent were opposed to giving individuals addicted to drugs equivalent health insurance benefits to those afforded the public at-large, while only 21 percent were opposed to giving the same benefits to those with mental illness.

"Respondents agreed on one question: Roughly three in 10 believe that recovery from either mental illness or drug addiction is impossible...

"The more shame associated with drug addiction, the less likely we as a community will be in a position to change attitudes and get people the help they need," says another study author, Beth McGinty, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health. "If you can educate the public that these are treatable conditions, we will see higher levels of support for policy changes that benefit people with mental illness and drug addiction."

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I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy (via theglasschild)

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So much wisdom at such a young age.

with any luck, i will have a daughter just like her

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"When I was fifteen, I was raped by three boys while competing at a gymnastics tournament. I was so ashamed, that I stood on a train track, and waited for the train to come. At the last moment, I tried to jump away. I woke up after a month. It was the middle of the night, and I could immediately tell that something was missing. I started feeling all over my body, and that’s when I realized that I’d lost my arm. Now I counsel teenagers who have been diagnosed with HIV. I’m normally the first to meet with them after they get their results. I try to explain to them that there’s a way out of even the most impossible situations."

(Odessa, Ukraine)

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A casual walk to the grocery store on a Friday evening in my neighborhood -- mind you, it's literally on the block next to me: a grill and chick-fil-a cooler in the window display of the theater they're renovating next door, a woman on her stoop who I'm pretty sure is a participant in the alcohol/STD study I work for, a man asking for money who had to rephrase his sentence at least three times before he could clearly muster even one intelligible word, a man nomming down on some fried chicken in the corner in the entrance of the grocery store, an endless shuffle of supermarket-line confusion, a proclamation of the superiority of ice cream to toilet paper, an inexplicit, simultaneous crash of all of the self checkout computers save one, a manager lecturing an employee about how to properly clean up a plastic bag off the ground, a woman vivaciously dressed as a high-heeled cat, a drunk in a taxi enthusiastically exclaiming this sight to his driver, and so many others. I did get a, "You enjoy your evening, beautiful" towards the end there (followed by a different man across the sidewalk asking, "Huh?"), so in case there was any question to begin with, a thorough slew of definite winning moments. Here all I wanted was a pint of ice cream to close out my week, and yet, in the space of maybe ten minutes and not even a full city block, I got so, so much Balti-more. And yet no one understands what it is about this town that is just so charming; I may hate city life, but sometimes this place is simply priceless.

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If there’s a bowl of good chips and guacamole … I lose my mind.

The President of the United States, y’all.  (via washingtonpost)