I absolutely agree with you on point #3. That poor girl (and her mother, and her siblings) is going to need some real, ongoing therapy to deal with this trauma. I just…I just wanna give her a hug, you know? Why should anyone, but especially a 15 year old child, have to shoulder all of this? WTF is wrong with folks?

Imma let my man Denzel speak for me…
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Someone who should not be overlooked is the late Sharon Jones. I mean DANG.

The single most perfect quote about this whole mishegoss, from Adrian Bott:
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I am FEELIN you man. My parents both died within a couple years of each other. My MIL passed away this spring after an extended fight with Alzheimer's disease. I don't mind telling you I wouldn't wish that isht on my worst enemy. Mrs. Orca and I have talked about this and if I get to that point, just put me on an…

Delurking to say this here is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

That is the picture of a woman ain't got time for your foolishness.

When I was a teenager, my uncle dropped a bomb on me, a bomb entitled "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Thank you, Uncle T, wherever you are. In any just world, Baldwin would be universally regarded as one of the great men of letters of the 20th century, every bit the equal of Tolstoy or Steinbeck.