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$40 cider drinks are so chic right now #fallfun #basic #howdopeoplegooutduringtheweek #tired #old

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻👽🖤 #halloween #zombies #monsters #spookyszn #bronchitiscantholdmedown

raise your hand if you’re shocked Karen got up at 8 a.m. on a Sunday to HIKE 🙋🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🧗🏼‍♀️#worthit #lovethem

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every year I write a sappy caption for my niece Jessica on her birthday, and explain how my sister had her when I was 15 and how she falls somewhere between my niece/pretend daughter/great friends. Really though, look at what I post, and you know who and what is important to me - and she is surely prominent on that list. Jess, I couldn’t be any more proud of who you’ve become, and all the hard work you put into yourself, your loved ones, and now the Little loves that fill your classroom ♥️ I’m impressed daily by your intelligence and grit at your age. May your 22nd year keep you on your upward path and make your wishes come true 😘🎂🎉🥂🎁 10/10 #happybirthday #memories #22ndbirthday #onwardandupward

This testimony has brought out really strong feelings of my own that I honestly didn’t expect. When I was 9, I was riding my bike with friends on the side street near my house when a 27 year-old man walked up to me, exposed himself and tried to get me to touch him. I was so scared that I was silent and frozen. He then ran his hands across my chest but walked past me as he saw one of my friends down the street. She turned and screamed bloody murder, so he ran. In his court sentencing, after I had to testify - without the safety of my mother or father in front of a courtroom full of strangers - his parents said he had the IQ of a genius and I was lying about what happened. At 9, I had no idea what sexual assault - or sex -meant, but I did after that. He was released and tried to rape a 5 year-old not long after. It hurts and angers me to see ignorance about why she wouldn’t come out or report it - ESPECIALLY from other females. Statistically, 94 of 100 rapes go unreported and aren’t prosecuted. And for those that are - Brock Turner, anyone? “How would she even remember that, I can’t even remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday?” Guess what - that’s kind of how traumatic events work! You cannot forget even when you want to for some, and even still and for others, your mind blocks out certain painful details at times. I was nine - 9‼️- and called a liar. The worst part is that I ended up feeling LUCKY he didn’t rape me that day. This woman is NOT having the time of her life, in fact, it’s being ripped apart. As always, this world could use a little more compassion and self awareness... #ibelieveher #saynotokavanaugh #sexualassault #believesurvivors

apparently it’s #nationaldaughterday today ~ so it would be blasphemous not to celebrate the girls my sister so kindly mothered (while I get all the aunt benefits of feeling like they’re mine) ♥️🧡❤️ I couldn’t be prouder of the amazing women they’ve become and love them so much; I am grateful every day. I love you Kristen & Jessica 😘

took my prince to see some knights #medievaltimes #royalty

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