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Good evening my darlings! I hope all has been well for you. I haven’t been here for a long, long time and a lot of things have happened in the past few years. 

For starters, I’ve moved to Seattle from my home in Ohio last year. It was a crazy and scary year! This year, I got married to the loves of my life on Halloween and things are wonderful there. 

My mundane life has been draining as hell. Work is stressful and I’ve been working on my dreams--my writing. I’ve been working on my author platform all year and in the process of asking for Beta Readers etc for my first novel--which as been in the working since 2010. 

I’m also pursuing some exciting paths in my spiritual life. These things are taking a lot of time. As I’m sitting here looking back at all these lovely Marilyn photos etc., I’m thinking I may let go of this blog. 

It’s mainly because I no longer run it, and the new tumblr guidelines. My personal blog--which I’ve had for years with 30k posts--has a high chance of being in trouble because of the Lolita fashion I wear and reblog a lot of. You’d think that fashion as modest as Lolita would be safe, but with its negative connotations here in the US, tumblr won’t have any of it. Which is asinine. 

I’ve already seen some of my Marilyn posts and reblogs being flagged when in reality, they’re not adult content at all. It’s quite annoying. Hell, even one of my vintage geisha posts dressed in full Kimono--no adult content at all--was flagged. It is absolutely stupid. I’m backing up my blog and thinking about it. I’m not 100% positive I will delete just yet.

Anyway, before I go on a rant and rampage, I just wanted to thank every single one of you for joining me on this lovely Marilyn journey. You all are so wonderful and I wish you the best as you trek forward on your journeys. Love to you all!! 

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Joe and Marilyn in 1953.

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Happy 90th Birthday Marilyn - 30 Reasons To Love Marilyn Monroe

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Happy 90th birthday, Norma Jeane Mortenson aka Marilyn Monroe 

June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962

Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others– one’s own truth is just that really-one’s own truth

- A poem by Marilyn. Even if only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, Marilyn has forever touched our hearts and world.

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                                                                     Happy 90th Birthday!                                                                         Marilyn Monroe                                                                             June 1, 1926                                                                  Norma Jeane Mortenson 

“I was very, very drawn to her. To me, she was like a golden child. She radiated light and vulnerability. She used to gravitate to me at parties because she knew I was not very secure either. She was fragile. I was very touched by her.” - Jane Fonda

“I think Marilyn is bound to make an almost overwhelming impression on the people who meet her for the first time. It is not that she is pretty, although she is of course almost incredibly pretty, but she radiates, at the same time, unbounded vitality and a kind of unbelievable innocence. I have met the same in a lion-cub, which my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her, since I felt that it would in some way be wrong…I shall never forget the almost overpowering feeling of unconquerable strength and sweetness which she conveyed. I had all the wild nature of Africa amicably gazing at me with mighty playfulness.” -  Isak Dinesen

“Marilyn was a field of wild flowers, a gamboling puppy in the back yard, a pink sunset in June. She was glorious, and we had to look. Is that talent? I don’t care. It was magical.” - Marlon Brando

“She was the realest person I ever met.”  -Evelyn Moriarty

“Well, I thought she was wonderful. She was a gal who was late on the set, but at the same time, she was getting ready for Marilyn to be on the screen. She wanted her to be perfect at all times. Once she was there, she was cooperative. She was wonderful. She never gave anybody any trouble. ”  - Donald O’Connor

“Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman- trust me.” - Lauren Bacall

“A warm human being, impulsive and shy, sensitive and in fear of rejection, yet ever avid for life and reaching out for fulfillment.“ Lee Strasberg 

"She always was for me what every woman, not only me, must dream to be. She was gorgeous, charming, fragile.” -Brigitte Bardot

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Marilyn Monroe would have been 90 years old today - born June 1, 1926. Pictured here at home in Hollywood, 1953. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #MarilynMonroe

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Happy 90th Birthday Marilyn! Dance with the angels and have a wonderful celebration today!

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Marilyn Monroe celebrates her 36th birthday on the set of Something’s Got To Give, 1962.

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“If you ever thought about her at all, no matter who you were, if you had any heart at all, it would make you cry. She was everything beautiful and sad in this world. She lost babies and husbands and she drank and took pills and she had a light pouring out from under her skin, like her spirit was too bright for one persons body.” - Francesca Lia Block

“To understand Marilyn best, you have to see her around children. They love her, her whole approach to life has their kind if simplicity and directness.” - Arthur Miller

“She knows the world but this knowledge has not lowered her great and benevolent dignity, it’s darkness has not dimmed her goodness.” - Dame Judith Sitwell

“I thought I’d seen them all; being in the business I’d seen so many models and actresses. But I’d never seen anyone with that tone of voice, that kindness, that real softness.” - Milton Greene

“She was a beautiful child. What she has - this presence, this luminosity, this flickering intelligence… It’s so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by camera. It’s like a hummingbird in flight; only a camera can freeze the poetry of it.”                   - Constance Collie

“She’s wonderful. Cosmological. I wanted to put a picture of her in my latest book, as a celestial object.” - Stephen Hawking

“I have an admiration for Marilyn Monroe that—no, it’s more than admiration. I have a love for that woman. For me she represents the highest point of femininity. There’s something childish and sincere and overwhelming with her, I never saw anyone who gave off so much charm and warmth and tenderness and femininity all at once.”  - Catherine Deneuve

“My sister was a very hard working person. She was very beautiful. She was very..wonderful to everybody. She loved people. She loved animals. And she was very serious about her work.” - Berniece Baker Miracle

“She is so wise. She is deep and she is soulful. And she is really creative. I think that one of Marilyn’s greatest qualities is her vulnerability and maybe one of her worst. But she stood up for her power and her talent. She was way ahead for her time. I just think she is really special. We all do.” - Kelli Garner

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Happy Birthday, Marilyn.

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Hi everyone! Sorry I haven’t been active on this blog at all for a LONG time! I’ve been pretty lazy about it, and I apologise. I’m going to post a little today in honour of Marilyn’s birthday, but if you’d like to get a hold of me if I’m not on here, my personal blog is HERE, and I run a tarot blog HERE. (Yes I offer readings in my shop!) 

Hope everyone is doing wonderful today! 

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Marilyn Monroe, Press Conference Photographed by Ave Arnold 1956

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Don’t Bothher To Knock (1952)

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Jack Cardiff 1956

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Marilyn photographed in 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1953.