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Tuesday, May 4, 1999
Now tornados in Oklahoma. I've been near to tornados (a few miles) but that's about it. They are scary. I always feel close to what's happening in Oklahoma as I used to live there. I went to highschool and a couple years of college, then worked a couple years and after getting divorced moved back to live for ten years. Oklahoma is a place with a lot of heart as they showed after the Murrah bombing. I wouldn't want to move back there, though. It's a little too much "we're just down home folk, and we think everyone should be just like us". Sweet, but I'm just not all that downhome. I like the midwest and I love the people there but I always feel like they are not quite approving of me. I have the feeling that they just don't know where to put me in their hierarchy. I'm such a sweet little gray haired lady but I just don't fit. It seems like nobody fits that well anymore. Maybe people never fit, they just fit in because they had no choice. I'm an atheist, conservative, prolife environmentalist. Sort of. I know plenty of people who don't fit the little categories that we set up, even midwesterners, but too many people still expect everyone to fit in their categories. The older I get the less I'm surprised when people don't fit where I expected them to based on first impressions.
Biked - 8 mile
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