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JMCKUSICK

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31. One of my defense mechanisms has always

Reply to summer_in_TX (Reply #27)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 01:29 AM

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Been to try and protect myself from what seems is inevitable disappointment.
While I surely know my body and it's issues pretty well, I've always felt like no one believes me when it comes to professionals.
I pray this time is different.
My rep in Congress is Mary Miller, sort of an MTG without the voice lol. She of the Hitler youth billboard in 2022 in Effingham Illinois.
She's never seen in these parts lol, and I got one am glad because I really don't know how I'd react to such a blatant liar doing so to my face.
I'm not implying violence or anything like that, it's more like I can't do the here I am, please see me as I am to someone so unwilling to even deal in our reality.

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