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Yesterday I found out that my great-great-grandpa served in the Civil War.
Our family FB group (don’t know most of the people in it, but we have the same last name) posted a record of his absence during a “company muster roll” due to a wound that he suffered in Murfreesboro, at which time he was sent to the hospital by the resident surgeon.
He served in the 29th Mississippi Regiment of the Confederate Army.
Not a lot of FB comments, except about the wound.
When I told my dad, he seemed really interested. “So he was a rebel?” he said. “Now I know where I get it from…Lots of rebels in our family, haha.”
“Yeah,” I said, “you know what else there’s a lot of in our family?”
“What?” he asked.
“White people…”
“Oh, I’m sure we mixed it up in there somewhere,” he said.
“Oh yeah?” I said. “Doesn’t look like it…Looks like we just got started.”
Except that now I’m dating a very good-looking white man who currently lives in the great state of MS.
It’s funny how history works like that.
Always coming back.
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[You will fall out of love. You will fall in love. You will fall out of love.
– Fielden Nelson, from “Failure Map” (via the-final-sentence)
You will run out of money. You will be glad it’s always warm. You will stare at the sea. You will stare at the sun. You will stare at the birds breaking up blue.] You will stare at the wind leant palms.(via myquotelibrary)
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also, THIS:
[minus the annoying ad for a singing cat]
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Redneck Margarita
Mix equal parts:
Frozen limeade
Sprite
Corona
Tequila
This lovely little southern concoction is getting me through this week. ;)
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Well, at least that’s one thing accomplished today.
Me: Ugh…my mom just complained to me about an agnostic woman in her book club.
BF: What’s agnostic, again?
Me: I think it’s when you don’t know if God exists, one way or another…I think that’s a totally justifiable viewpoint. If someone said they were atheist, then it’d be harder for me to…
BF: But I think it’s when you also don’t care to know.
Me: Really?
BF: Hold on. The Internet says it’s when you think God probably does exist, but you can’t acknowledge any tangible evidence. Hey, that’s…exactly how I am!
Me: Haha, exactly…
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Also, he has not committed suicide, so that’s a positive development.
–I’ll take “Out of Context Things That I Have Said Today While Being Completely Serious” for $200, Alex.
This has been a fucking week.
(via fullcredit)
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We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lesson. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping and that even the biggest failure, even the worst mistake, beat the hell out of never trying.
– Grey’s Anatomy (via myquotelibrary)(via myquotelibrary)
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hilare.
(via unicornfandancing)
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Reposted from FB
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no eye make-up;
90’s style messy blonde hair hair;
focus is on taking a drag from that cigarette;
yes.
