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ancianita

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Reply to notinkansas (Reply #12)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 10:56 PM

Jul 2020

Thank you for your sharing your experience. I've had a couple of French students who've told me about the simultaneously positive and negative attitudes the French have about Americans. I've come to realize that being grateful doesn't mean they have to like us. It must be bad enough to them to just witness what we go through, that they must think we're a bunch of rubes.

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Happy Bastille Day [View all] ancianita Jul 2020 OP

Wonderful tribute to a nation that help make democracy real. erronis Jul 2020 #1

The best part of the day WhiteTara Jul 2020 #2

Hey! Happy birthday! You've got a great one! ancianita Jul 2020 #4

Thank you WhiteTara Jul 2020 #6

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Yes, I transplanted my new WhiteTara Jul 2020 #10

Awesome! ancianita Jul 2020 #11

Not some energy as being pressed by Nature WhiteTara Jul 2020 #15

Haha I hear you. Here in FL, there's no such thing as gardening, but 99% keeping Nature at bay. ancianita Jul 2020 #16

In Arkansas, mowing is the main form WhiteTara Jul 2020 #17

I hire someone. ancianita Jul 2020 #18

I got tired of people mowing down WhiteTara Jul 2020 #19

I put brick trim around what I didn't want mowed, which sort of lent garden design to the lawn. ancianita Jul 2020 #20

When I heard Ivanka's advice...people should just find new jobs...the first thing I thought of was Karadeniz Jul 2020 #3

Maybe not, but the sentiment of out of touch leader-grifters is apropos to today. ancianita Jul 2020 #5

I thought that storming the Oval Office after his campaign speech BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #8

Haha... yes. I laugh in a dead serious way, because while we'd never do it ancianita Jul 2020 #9

I was so fortunate to visit Paris several years ago. notinkansas Jul 2020 #12

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During one of my visits to the Normandy American Cemetery beveeheart Jul 2020 #14