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(From Julie. What do I mean Lolita’s my “GF-Plus”? We actually are married. But this happened in a country that recognizes both same-sex and 16-year-old marriages. Of course, our marriage is not recognized here. But we are almost 18 and soon we will be wife and wife instead of GF-pluses! In the meanwhile, I’m her…
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(Lolita, here. All of my posts have been trending TLDR but today it’s TTLLDDRR! But this is such a seminal post I hope people can take the time to read it. Especially significant is “The Longhouse Constitution” developed by our Second Graders!) Starting backwards, this morning we finished the second of our sessions with our…
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(Lolita, in Oliver. BTW, “Oliver” is the name Kitten and I gave to the small previously owned “all-seasons” RV manufactured by the Oliver Travel Trailers that we had bought. Oh, and Kitten is my pet name for Heidi! Benita and Percy Maracle are Lori’s parents and my next door neighbors. They invited me over for…
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Lolita, 9:30am, in Oliver. The Maracles invited me over for brunch at 10. Heading over soon. My day off! I have so much coursework to finish. I love being an ethnographer (in training). There are so many stories to document about Longhouse Elem. I don’t want to forget any of them! At any rate, I got up…
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Lolita, 9:00am, kids are in clean-up crews, some on breakfast duty, others cleaning the Field before our guests arrive. Breakfast was surreal. I was on the line with the kids (who, BTW, are in clothes, not PJs) and at the head of the line was Chef Dee and some mom-and-dad volunteers. “What’s for breakfast?” “Butternut…
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Lolita, 4:30pm, kids are slowly waking up from late afternoon naps. Very interesting day today! As usual, early in the morning, I got up, did Gongyo, and walked to the Track to warm up and run. In a few minutes out came Lori. “Can I run with you? You don’t have to hold back because…
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Lolita, 4:30pm, kids are slowly waking up from late afternoon naps. Very interesting day today! As usual, early in the morning, I got up and walked to the Track to warm up and run. In a few minutes out came Lori. “Can I run with you? You don’t have to hold back because of me.…
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Lolita, 8am, back home in our Oliver Cave. Yesterday Max let the kids walk around the track before the workers added the third layer. I emailed him this morning to ask whether I can run on it and he said it is dry by now, go for it. So I ran, and ran, and ran.…
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Lolita. I made a mistake in the dating. Will work on this another time I will be working on my posts for many hours today. My mentor at College is very pissed off with me because I had “Let It Go” for a while. I tried to tell her “Nuh fret yuhself.” (Not!!!) Lori is…
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Julie just posted this and it saves me a lot of work! I was planning to write about it as well. But I can sure use the extra time for work and my course. Talking about Lori, she’s a force to be reckoned with. Watch out world, she is heading your way soon! Here’s a snippet of…
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