I think my childhood was actually pretty good, too! We had a lot of arts programs, lots of library activities, some anonymous benefactor took our entire 6th grade class to Bass Hall to see a concert. We learned about periods and some minor reproductive health in 6th grade, and even about HIV/AIDS (real science, not…

Nope, but very, very, very close (location-wise)

I also obsessively post this on other people’s comments whenever they complain about Texas. But it’s crazy! Houston loves Annise Parker! She’s been elected mayor THREE TIMES

Oh...I’m also currently in Texas, and I was like...wait...is one of them FromTexasWithLove?! It can’t be!

That would be weird! My office is very conservative and only one other person would be actively seeking bc, so I doubt it. But it would be funny!

I suppose that’s true (about the afternoon); I didn’t think about that.

I think my work is just too close-knit and therefore nosy where even that would make them ask “what happened?” not out of business-ness, but out of concern. Like I said, they have no problems with it and would actually be very sympathetic if I said I was doing an IUD, I just don’t want them to know.

This may be a stupid question, but how do you take off of work for it? I work in a small office that is fine with you taking off for appointments, but I know they would be like “a doctor’s appointment? for a whole day?”

He has a history of illegal hunts.

It’s streaming on Lifetime!

Nah, you only need to worry if he lures you out of yours.

I think (and I may be wrong) it would all depend on the school and also the relationship between the teacher and child. Some school districts/counties are so poor that I can’t see the teacher being able to do much, if anything (My friend briefly taught at one and 1/3 of the class would be gone at any time, the seniors…

The ones I’ve been to (3 in LA, 1 in TX) have all been super diverse. It shouldn’t be a problem!

It breaks my heart to read this - I sincerely hope you’re doing better these days, if not full-fledged awesome.

When I was in hs, I divulged to both friends and a youth pastor (ADULT) some physical abuse that was going on in my home. NO ONE HELPED ME; in fact, the general “advice” I got was some mix of deserving it to “not seeing it” to just grin and bear it until you are 18.

I had an ex that once had a dream there were TWO of me and they had a crazy threesome with him apparently. The next time we had sex I caught him kinda dazing off and I was like “...you’re wishing there are TWO of me right now, aren’t you?!” and he was like “...yeah...”

I replied with basically the same comment. Glad to know someone else knows the feeling! I always feel super shady about keeping those photos (and how bad it looks to current s.o.s)

I have a lot of photos of trips me and an ex made (skiing, national park) that sometimes include him or both of us in them. I’m loathe to delete them, not because I miss him or anything like that, but b/c I like remembering who *I* was during those times, and the cool things I saw. I do worry however, about how I…

I can’t tell you if you a troll, but you have the right to know why you are being arrested and the nature of the charges against you.

But it wasn’t a lawful order - “Certainly, telling her to put out the cig was not a lawful order. Just saying ‘Get out of the car,’ in and of itself, without an explanation, is not lawful.”