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Hekate

(97,344 posts)
9. I have always chosen my battles, being small and female. Now I'm in my late 70s. You do you.
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 10:41 PM
Jan 2025

I don’t “cower” but I also don’t go out of my way to have individual confrontations with aggressive strangers.

Did you see the protests several years ago where a man about my age stood in front of a line of marching thugs? Lifelong peacenik. Stood out in front of the young thugs and they didn’t just keep going, one of them straight-armed him in the chest and he went over like a felled tree. Hit his head so hard on the sidewalk that blood ran out of his ears — a very bad sign of a serious brain injury.

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