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Hippie
Hippie | Barry Miles
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An illustrated celebration of the 1960s counterculture captures the political fervor, historical events, slogans, sayings, fashions, styles, music, artwork, and other characteristics and personalities that defined the era from 1965 to 1971.
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TheBookHippie
Hippie | Barry Miles
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Royals
Hippies

My princess Margaret book is out on loan again 👀
📚📚📚📚

Leftcoastzen Love! 9mo
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Hippie | Barry Miles
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IndoorDame 🙌🙌🙌 11mo
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Perfect sign for my house ☮️✌🏼♥️🎉👏🏼👀

Thank you so much @dabbe it is PERFECT!!!

The way I hollered when I opened this!!! ♥️

willaful EEEEE! Me and my longhaired-hippie-weirdo-freak husband need this! 11mo
dabbe Yay! I saw it and knew exactly who needed it! 💙💚💙 11mo
SamAnne Love this! 11mo
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AmyG Very you! 🙌🏻❤️✌🏻 11mo
Hooked_on_books That‘s hilarious! 11mo
IndoorDame So perfect!!!❤️ 11mo
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TheBookHippie
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I‘m putting all my notes in a binder to save because they are this cute. Also a reminder. This monolingual student receiving a pencil - A PENCIL- of her own.. meant the world to her and alll this effort to write to me in my language at 6 years old was to show her gratitude.

dabbe 💙😭💚 12mo
DivineDiana Great job, Christine! 👏🏻❤️👏🏻 12mo
kspenmoll Touched my heart! 12mo
IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 12mo
UwannaPublishme Awwww! ❤️ 12mo
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TheBookHippie
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Alternative school student 😭♥️👩🏻‍🍳

IndoorDame ❤️❤️❤️ 12mo
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dabbe ❣️ 12mo
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Prairiegirl_reading Did you teach them the peace sign? ☮️ 12mo
CarolynM ❤️ 12mo
TheBookHippie @Prairiegirl_reading why of course. 💜☮️ 12mo
julesG ❤️ 12mo
Prairiegirl_reading @TheBookHippie love that!! 💜 12mo
SamAnne Oh wow! 12mo
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Hippie | Barry Miles
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Reminder- I'm a Social Justice Activist. From birth. First protest against the war in Vietnam. I started going to protest alone at 18 during the early 80s AIDS crisis ..
I continue to fight for
Women's Rights
Immigration/rights for migrants in my community.
Literacy, Education, the right of books to be in libraries.
I was a volunteer doula for 28 years
I've mentored at risk youth 35 years
PRIDE events
So yah I‘m 👏🏼
Unfollow button top right.

dabbe Now I'm 👏 ... for you and your tireless service. ❣️ 13mo
Chelsea.Poole ♥️ 13mo
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Aimeesue ❤️❤️❤️ 13mo
IndoorDame ♥️♥️♥️ 13mo
Deblovestoread You, my dear, are a force to be reckoned with. And I thank you 🙌🏼 13mo
mrp27 Is there a mic drop emoji? 13mo
TheBookHippie @mrp27 😅♥️ I wish 🎤 13mo
Texreader You do you my friend!!! 🤗 13mo
Hooked_on_books I love that you do this! 13mo
jamield1911 Wow 👌 what a superstar! 13mo
ChelseaM6010 Wow! That‘s so cool! Thank you for all that you do ❤️🙂 13mo
CarolynM ❤️ 13mo
Larkken Fighting the good fight(s) ✊ 13mo
TheBookHippie @Texreader I try!!! ( without online hate, deleting several comments is a pain, I like to keep my profile public, however I have to take it private at times like this and unfortunately block people who come after me. I'm fairly open who I am and what I stand for, shouldn't be a mystery. Always puzzles me that this is a shock to people.) I absolutely love the support you give to my students there are no words to express the enormous gift it is! (edited) 13mo
willaful Can I follow you twice? 😁 13mo
UwannaPublishme 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 13mo
kspenmoll You are a positive force to be reckoned with! Thank you for all your decades of service- 💕💕 13mo
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Read4life Wow! I‘m in awe of all you‘ve done/do for others. I look at this list and think “now that‘s a life well lived and still going!” 💙 13mo
TheBookHippie @Read4life Awe. Thank you. 13mo
Meshell1313 Amazing! 🙌 13mo
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audraelizabeth I agree with @read4life. I never gave much thought to certain kinds of nurses but now i appreciate hospice and memory care nurses so much. 13mo
TheBookHippie @audraelizabeth my years as charge nurse third shift in the locked unit of my dear elderly patients were the most rewarding as a nurse. Long term memory was so real and they would tell stories it was learning live history and the dear ones who could no longer speak could still sing old songs and would just light up upon hearing them. I worked 9/11 and a sweet man said “Is it war, don‘t worry sugar they do end.” He had no idea what year it was. 13mo
audraelizabeth Exactly, my grandpas nurses are now family and hes been gone almost 3 years and they still check in on my grandma even asking her to volunteer with them. 13mo
TheBookHippie @audraelizabeth Awe. I‘m so glad. ♥️ 13mo
audraelizabeth Me to. 13mo
UwannaPublishme Wow! What amazing experiences you‘ve had! You have touched so many lives. 🙌🏻❤️ And you REALLY do loathe doing dishes!🤣🤢🩸 13mo
TheBookHippie @UwannaPublishme I hate it. 🥄🍴🥣🍽️🫧🧽🚫 13mo
UwannaPublishme If you cooked any of your signature homemade meals at our house, I‘d gladly do all the dishes! 😉😁😋 13mo
TheBookHippie @UwannaPublishme ♥️👩🏻‍🍳♥️ 13mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 13mo
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@dabbe I said to Mr Book Hippie send me a pic of me so I can show the front of my hair with a scarf … 😅😵‍💫🤣😝🤦🏻‍♀️👀 his idea of my beauty is well… love goggles apparently.. and um this is a barrette 🤣🤣🤣 also no clue why I look like I‘m zoned out… just look at the hair. Also this is why we must have pictures of ourselves 🤦🏻‍♀️and for decades he has taken pics of me on escalators 🤷🏻‍♀️I love him.

dabbe Absolutely GORGEOUS! What I would give to have luxurious, wavy dark hair! You could be on the cover of the BEST romance novels! (pardon though if they put you in a skimpy dress with your thighs showing! 😂) Thanks for sharing! #loverly 1y
TheBookHippie @dabbe I inherited good genes -my great grandmas and grandma and dads hair … none of them turned grey til in their 80s so here‘s hoping! 1y
CBee If I grew my hair as long as yours it would look similar! Lotttts of hair and super wavy. It used to be auburn but when I had kids it went brown (I‘m still mad about that 😂). 1y
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TheBookHippie @CBee I used to be more auburn then menopause… 1y
dabbe @TheBookHippie You did indeed! You look lovely! (love that your hubby takes pics of you on the elevator--I see a photo book in the making!) 😄 1y
TheBookHippie @dabbe I made him a huge collage one year it had 20 pictures me on escalators ♥️😵‍💫 1y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick There's my beautiful friend! I love that Mr Book Hippie has a penchant for taking your picture while on escalators. It's so wholesome and adorable. 1y
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Hippie | Barry Miles
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So here's me in a coffee shop with Mr Book Hippie on our fall Whitman adventure aka our legal wedding anniversary in October...
Part of our memory sharing today. This is his favorite this year......
I try to explain my hair.....this is a good way.......

SamAnne Love it! 1y
marleed Love your hair! 1y
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TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit and yes I got those current knots out 😝🤣 1y
TheBookHippie @marleed thank you! ♥️ 1y
dabbe Love your hair and your outfit! Have to ask: do you have a headband on, too? 😊 1y
TheBookHippie @dabbe yes I always am in long scarves or headbands of cloth. ♥️ 1y
dabbe @TheBookHippie I now want to see the front! Beautiful!!!!! 1y
TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤣🤣I think I may have one wearing that scarf… hmmm (edited) 1y
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I have 2 children that were born earth-side almost 18 years apart, grandson who is almost NINE, a DIVA elderly English bulldog name Winifred aka Winnie and a Mr Book Hippie who I finally married several decades ago even though I don‘t actually believe in marriage♥️

I have countless children who call me MA, friends who are family, and we have all created our own tiny circle of connection.

I think that‘s enough 😂😝😆👀 about me

#AuldLangSpine

dariazeoli I think it was a smart idea to break your about me into many posts! You‘ve led an interesting life so is really ever enough? 🤔 1y
TheBookHippie @dariazeoli I left out so much 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 1y
monalyisha Great to learn more about you! Also…I love English Bulldogs. My parents had one towards the end of my high school/college years and he was so wonderfully dumb, and sweet, and perfect. Miss his snores (and I even mostly miss his sneezes in my face)! 💓 1y
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TheBookHippie @monalyisha This is our third one. I love this breed. Mine is currently snoring 😂🐶💤 1y
Amandajoy @TheBookHippie @monalyisha bulldogs are the best! 1y
TheBookHippie @Amandajoy seriously they truly are. 1y
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TheBookHippie
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Zen for me is California walking along the ocean

#AuldLangSpine

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TheBookHippie
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The absolute love of my life isn‘t a person it‘s a city

Chicago is the love of my life 💙🏙️

BkClubCare I love Chicago, too. 💖 1y
TheBookHippie @Sparklemn 💙🏙️💙 1y
TheBookHippie @BkClubCare 💙🏙️💙 1y
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Hippie | Barry Miles
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I‘m pretty much the definition of altruism and the above quote is how I try and strive to live. I was raised multifaithed and raise and have raised my children the same way.

This upsets many people ♥️ gotta love people.

#AuldLangSpine

Trashcanman ❤️❤️❤️ 1y
TheBookHippie @Trashcanman ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 1y
Bklover Beautiful quote. ❤️❤️❤️ 1y
TheBookHippie @Bklover Always with me. 1y
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TheBookHippie
Hippie | Barry Miles
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#AuldLangSpine

I‘m a Social Justice Activist. From birth. First protest against the war in Vietnam. I started going to protest alone at 18 during the early 80s AIDS crisis ..

Things I protest now:
Women‘s Rights -including and especially Roe
Immigration and rights for migrants in my community.
Literacy,Education, the right of books to be in libraries.

I was a volunteer doula for 28 years
I‘ve mentored at risk youth 35 years
PRIDE events

TheBookHippie I go to every LGBTQIA protest PRIDE and support them however they tell me too. As an ALLY that‘s my place. 1y
TrishB ❤️❤️ 1y
JenReadsAlot ❤️ 1y
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TheBookHippie @TrishB 💜 💜 💜 💜 1y
TheBookHippie @JenReadsAlot 💜 💜 💜 💜 💜 1y
Singout Me too! I was too young and too Canadian for Vietnam, but got into advocating for queer rights in my *rural* church in the 80s, and then apartheid just as the system was ending in the early 90s. I‘ve done lots of work on eco-justice, refugee rights, imprisonment, Indigenous solidarity, and gender and queer rights. Mostly from my home now, but that‘s needed too. Hoping to get out to a protest against police eviction of an encampment on Thursday. 1y
TheBookHippie @Singout ♥️ Peace to you as you head out Thursday!!!! 1y
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TheBookHippie
Hippie | Barry Miles
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#AuldLangSpine

A couple of posts about me✌🏼

I am a Reading and Literacy Advocate in a Title One Public School.

Bklover I‘m always impressed by you! 1y
tpixie How lovely! Keep up the great work! 🥳💖📕 🦸🏻‍♀️ 1y
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Singout This looks amazing. Essential and life-giving. So many kids need someone like you doing this! 1y
TheBookHippie @Singout ♥️ it‘s pure joy. 1y
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Hippies seek to free themselves from societal restriction, choose their own way,find new meaning in life. Hippies way of dress is often a visual symbol of their respect for individual rights. Through their appearance, hippies declared their willingness to question authority, and distanced themselves from segments of society.Personality traits and values that hippies tend to be associated with are altruism, honesty, joy,nonviolence...
This is me✌🏻

TheBookHippie To all of those insisting I must be one political party or another... um nope. I am not. 3y
GingerAntics Why must we all be divided into parties? I don‘t get it. I especially don‘t get registering to one party or another. That‘s way too nazi party for me. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Control, assumption, labels, right to hate... yes NaziParty 🤷🏽‍♀️ 3y
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RamsFan1963 @GingerAntics Jefferson said political parties would be the downfall of the USA, and he was correct. Any politician who puts his party before his country is NOT a patriot and should be removed asap. I mean by electoral process, not by physical violence of course. 3y
CarolynM Modern politics seems to be all about the party rather than the policy. It stinks. 3y
GingerAntics @RamsFan1963 100% agree!!! 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @RamsFan1963 I will never join a political party and people don‘t understand why. Hello, Germans who didn‘t join the nazi party were persecuted, too (not as bad obviously, but the point remains). It‘s creepy. I‘m with Jefferson. All these parties are going to destroy this country. The two major parties we have are already doing that. I don‘t understand these idiots who want there to be MORE parties. 🤦🏼‍♀️ (edited) 3y
TheBookHippie @CarolynM Exactly. Common good has left.. 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh I miss the common good! 3y
SamAnne My sweetie says Hippie stands for Highly Intelligent Person Practicing Inner Enlightenment! 3y
TheBookHippie @SamAnne 🤍✌🏻 3y
Chrissyreadit 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 3y
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I read this quote & then received an absolutely lovely note/gifts from one of my cheerleaders.
I have just now started to relax a little although still aware of my every move and surroundings. Being a known activist has its price. I‘ve found out what four years of immense fear has done to my body and soul-not good things, so getting to rest just a little and receive such support is a gift I cannot repay. How wonderful for bibliophile friends.

RavenLovelyReads That package is absolutely perfect! ❤️ 3y
GingerAntics 💙💙💙 3y
Megabooks How wonderful!! 3y
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TheBookHippie @GingerAntics On goes the fight nice to have someone(s) in your corner 🤍 3y
kspenmoll I truly believe things come to us when we need them the most. 💙💛💜❤️ 3y
TheBookHippie @kspenmoll So so miraculous🤍 3y
GingerAntics It‘s always good knowing you‘re not alone. 3y
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#ALLABOUTME
1. It was given to me a long time ago by a little girl and it stuck
2. Full time volunteer mentor for at risk youth ages 4-19 in title one and alternative schools ❤️ I am also a nurse I stopped nursing in 2006.
3. Cooking -yoga -music -journaling -homeschooling -reading -binging series- board games - organising -list making
4. Everything
5. I highly recommend journaling and yoga
Also letter writing

Everyone welcome to play❤️

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 I see your insomnia has you up also!! 4y
TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😫🤷🏽‍♀️ I‘m making bread too 👩🏽‍🍳 4y
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Well @kaye : I am a Hippie ✌? here I am in Haight Ashbury ...

A little girl caught me filling her little free library "You're the BOOK HIPPIE that fills our library!!!" She then gave me a weed she picked and told me to pretend it was a flower...name stuck I'm usually "that liberal hippie or that feminist hippie" people are fun ????????‍♀️✌?my name comes from ....

Suet624 💕💕💕 much love to a kindred spirit. 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awww I just love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 5y
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TheBookHippie @Suet624 🙌🏻🙌🏻✌🏻❤️ 5y
Kaye Love the picture ! 5y
kspenmoll Love your story! ❤️❤️ 5y
TheBookHippie @kaye it's a favorite !! I love it there. 5y
TheBookHippie @kspenmoll thanks ❤️ 5y
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It's HOT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼#familiesbelongtogether

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And the hubby just added another peace tribute to the backyard! Let your freak flags fly, my Litsy pals! 😃✌️

Leftcoastzen ✌️☮️💜 6y
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@AmberWB I have your pin on my lanyard💗

kspenmoll What a great idea! Love your pins! 6y
MissAimz_55 Omg I love collecting pins and I have total pin envy. 6y
TheBookHippie @MissAimz_55 I switched them up today :) 6y
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AmberWB Oh good! It just seemed right for you. 😉 6y
TheBookHippie @AmberWB That's the response I got today too 💗💗💗HAHAHA 6y
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I'm headed here this weekend: a bucket list thing for me 💗
🛫Saturday!

I'll be looking for bookstores 🤣📖

CoffeeAndABook Have the best time!!! I was there with my best friend exactly two years ago & loved it 💗 Spent hours in a used bookstore & lugged around our haul for the rest of the day 😂 #noregrets 6y
AmyG FUN! I went to the Grateful Dead house. Have a wonderful time. Are you going to visit Phil Lesh‘s place....Terrapin Crossroads. It‘s in San Rafael...close to there. That‘s MY bucket list. ;) 6y
TheBookHippie @CoffeeAndABook me every trip I make 🤣📖💗 6y
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TheBookHippie @AmyG well now I have to look that up and see if I can squeeeeze it in 6y
Leftcoastzen Booksmith is on Haight and wonderful .City Lights in North Beach ,a must see counterculture bookstore. Green Apple on Clement a maze of new and used books. 6y
ElishaLovesBooks Have a great trip!! ✈️ Any chance you want to open our #FeedAReader boxes early? 😀 6y
Susanita The Botanical Gardens there are a good place to spend a few quiet moments or a whole afternoon. 6y
cocomass Second Green Apple books! I love that place 🍏 6y
TheBookHippie @ElishaLovesBooks if mine comes feel free to open it. The mail is problematic 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️hope it arrives this week to you. 6y
ElishaLovesBooks @TheBookHippie I got it! I think I posted about it, but maybe forgot to tag you? 🤦🏻‍♀️ So sorry! Feel free to open mine whenever!! 6y
TheBookHippie @ElishaLovesBooks lols!!!!! Hahahaha I remember now !!! Open it up !!!! Long week no sleep last week!!!! I'm still recovery mode. 6y
ElishaLovesBooks @TheBookHippie No worries! Awesome!! 6y
SandyW SF is my favorite city in America. Have fun! 6y
kspenmoll Enjoy! It‘s been way toooo long since I have been to SF - can‘t wait to hear about your visit! 6y
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TheBookHippie
Hippie | Barry Miles
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I received the name ‘The Book Hippie‘ from a little girl who gave me a few weeds as a present when she “caught” me filling a Little Free Library one day. “You‘re the Book Hippie that fills the library, and I caught you!!! ” “Here‘s some flowers, they‘re really weeds, but you can pretend they are flowers.”
The name stuck. Several other people started using it. I am constantly tutoring reading, rescuing and donating books. #litsyhandle @Chelleo

Bookzombie That‘s so cute! 6y
AlaMich That‘s the cutest story I‘ve heard for awhile!! ❤️ 6y
AmyG ❤️What a sweet story. 6y
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EmilyChristine That‘s adorable! 6y
MidnightBookGirl Best backstory! 6y
shadowspeak17 Oh my gosh, that‘s so cute! ❤️ 6y
mrozzz That‘s amazing! 6y
SandyW How cute! Is keep that name too. 6y
robinb Aren‘t kids so funny...and sweet?! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So sweet!!! 💕💕💕 6y
SpeculativeFemale Aw, that's a lovely way to gain a nickname. 6y
Godmotherx5 Great story. 6y
kspenmoll Love love your story! ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
Chelleo That‘s so sweet! 6y
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Some days one wins over the other today is a definite Hood day. What a week! This time of year is tough for a lot of my "kids" violence also spikes in the holiday season, if you're spirit filled and willing send some good vibes out that we all pull through the season . Peace.

AmyG My daughter is a school counselor and she says the holidays are always a tough time for her "kiddos". :( (edited) 6y
cobwebmoth Sending positive thoughts and vibes.💗 6y
TheBookHippie @AmyG Yes indeed. Starts earlier every year it seems. Gut wrenching just breaks my heart. 6y
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Ha type your name in and meme @MinDea
All our holidays have traditions 😂 we are crazy
Meat
Gray
Chocolate covered ant

TheBookHippie @MinDea my actual name alllll Xrated 😱 6y
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