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fallin-flcwer · 4 years ago

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JIWON’S TRUTH BOOTH

GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Please state your full name: “Moon Ji Won” 2. Does your name(s) have any kind of meaning? If so, what is it? “My name has numerous meanings. “Ji” can either mean ‘wise’ or ‘ambitious’ and “Won” can either mean ‘beautiful woman, as well as ‘first’. My parents never really decided what it meant, but I just take it as “ambitious and beautiful woman.”” 3. Do you have any nicknames? “Nope” 4. Where were you born? And in which country? “Seoul, South Korea” 5. What is your date of birth? “I was born on June the 22nd, 1998″ 6. Of course, the following question; what is your Zodiac sign? “My star sign is Cancer, I believe.” 7. Do you believe in Zodiac signs? “Not completely, but I still find them interesting to read about sometimes.” 8. Where do you live? “I’ve got a house Lilac Wells, I’m staying in while I’m here. I’ve also got a house in Seoul, as well as in Tokyo but I don’t visit that one often since I’m usually busy in the first two.” 9. What is your home situation like? (ex. do you live with your family? Your partner etc.?) “I live on my own.” 10. Do you have any siblings? “I’m an only child.” 11. Do you have any kind of allergies? “None that I know of” 12. Do you own any pets? If so, what kind of pets are they? “Yes! I’ve got a miniature poodle called Bambi and a bombay cat called Byeol” 13. Why did you apply to St Jude’s? “Honestly I just did it for fun. It wasn’t until I got accepted that I realised how big of an opportunity it was.” 14. Did you had to go through a lot audition rounds? “Not really. I had already debut by the time auditions came. Personally, I think I could’ve done a lot better for my debut, but it still got me by.” 15. What is the current course you’re following? If you can switch courses, which one would you switch to and why? “I am currently doing music and dance. I think acting and fashion would be fun” 17. What is your proudest project you’ve done? “Gotta Go! I think some people my argue that Snapping was the better comeback, but I still see it as a sequel to Gotta Go. It definitely the comeback that started steering my career to where it is now.” 18. What is the proudest project that someone’s else has done? “Singular Act I! I think, especially since Everleigh and I were both opening acts for Ruby, I’ve seen her grow so much as an artist.” 19. Do you like FanCons? “Yes!” 20. What do you like about FanCons? “I like being able to meet fans.” 21. What don’t you like about FanCons? “I don’t really have anything bad to say about them.” 22. A fan memory that always stuck with you? Can be positive or negative. "While I was doing a fansign one fan walked towards me, got on her knees and bowed down. It happened so quickly and caught me completely off guard.” 23. Your favorite event so far? “I love anything halloween, to be honest.” 24. What kind of event would you like to see in the future? “Something in Korea, maybe? We’ve got quite a few K-Pop artists here now so it’d be nice to do something there.” 25. Would you recommend St Jude’s to friends, family. etc? “Yes.”

PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

26. What are your positive traits? “I am very ambitious, approachable, and detail-oriented” 27. What are you negative traits? “Sometimes I don’t know when to rest and I kinda set myself into overdrive until I’m satisfied with everything” 28. What would other people describe you as? “Hard-working, always busy and resourceful” 29. What are your pet peeves? “Does constant, loud yawners count?” 30. What makes you happy? “Seeing a project I’ve been working hard on finished.” 31. What makes you upset? “Seeing people not take me seriously because I’m a woman. It doesn’t get to me as much as it used to, but it’s still gets disheartening from time to time.” 32. What is something you love? “My parents, Byeol and Bambi, and my work.” 33. What is something you dislike? “Having my idol and hotel life interfering with each other. I’ve done a pretty good job keeping them separate, but there have been times where they’ve coincided and it got too overbearing.” 34. What are you strengths? “Singing, Dancing, Working” 35. What are you weaknesses? “I can be overly critical of myself when things don’t go to plan.” 36. A misconception people often think of you? “That everything came easy for me. Yes, I’m privileged, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t work. In fact, it really meant that people expected more from me. I graduated high school and got my degree early, but I worked myself to the bone making sure I was on top of everything. I chose to become an idol as well as working in the hotels, and people gave me hate for it. That’s died down a bit, but still... Both jobs consist of me having to satisfy people, so I have an ongoing cycle of writing reports, writing songs, recording, choreographing, performing, promoting, the list goes on forever and it’s rare that I ever catch time to set aside for myself.” 37. Do you have any fears? “Mice and rats. I’m fine with mice that are kept as pets and stuff, but if I ever found out that there’s a mouse or a rat living in my house. I just might move out.” 38. What scares you the most? “Not being able to live up to people’s expectations of me as the next CEO of the family business.” 39. What do you do to entertain yourself? “I don’t have time to entertain myself, unless choreographing counts, but it’s still work.” 40. What is your MBTI? “I believe I am ESFJ-A” 41. How do you deal with stress? “I think I handle stress relatively well. I kinda just work through it.” 42. Are you a determined person? Are you a stubborn person? “I’m definitely a determined person” 43. Do you consider yourself selfish? “I think sometimes I can be, but after a bit I scold myself for being selfish.” 44. Would you like to be different? “Nah” 45. Are you more introverted (focused on your inner world) or more extraverted (focused on other people and the outer world)? “I’m definitely more extroverted”

ROMANCE QUESTIONS

46. What is your sexual orientation? “I’m heterosexual” 47. Current relationship status? “Single” 48. When was your first kiss? “I think I was about 17″ 49. Do you remember your first date? If so, with who was it? What did you do? “My first date was set up by my parents. It was with a one of their acquaintance’s sons in Tokyo and he showed me around the city.” 50. Have you ever experienced heart-break? “Yes” 51. Have you ever been in love? (If yes, skip to question 53) “Yes” 53. How do you know when you’re in love? "I think it’s when I realise I want to spend time with them outside of work, and I catch myself trying to make time for them despite always being busy.” 54. What would be your ideal date? “A day out exploring. I’m more of a city person, so that’s my preference, but I’m open to anywhere” 55. What is your perspective on marriage? “I’d love to get married one day, but I don’t think I’ve ever have the time for it at this rate. Maybe if I ever quit becoming an idol I will.” 56. (only for non-virgins) Are you a sub, dom or switch? “Pass” 57. What do you think of relationships? “They’re best when both parties are putting equal amounts of effort into it.” 58. What do you think of one-night stands? “I don’t really have an opinion on them. I’m not gonna lie, I’ve experienced one or two before when I was younger, but it’s not something I plan on doing again.” 59. Are you still a virgin? “No” 60. Most attractive trait in a different person? “A nice personality” 61. What matters most to you when it comes to a relationship? “Honesty and loyalty. I’m also an incredibly busy person, so I hope that they can be a bit patient with me too.” 62. Are you comfortable with PDA? Or would you be comfortable with PDA? “I think so? I’m relatively private when it comes to relationships but I think once I have the confidence to go public I’d be fine with PDA.” 63. Are you more of a type to be asked out or the type to ask the other out? “I’d rather be asked out.” 64. How do you express love to the other? “I change my schedule up to make time for them.” 65. Who is your celebrity crush? “Sung Hoon”

GETTING DEEP QUESTIONS

66. Do you regret anything? “Yes” 67. Is there something you would like to re-do? So, start all over again? “Pass” 68. What is something you would never share with anyone? “As rewarding as my life is, it can get draining.” 69. When was the last time you cried? Why did you cry? “I definitely had a mental breakdown sometime between after Boxing Day and New Years. I got into a little argument with one of my Dad’s competitors during an event in Seoul and I had a little breakdown when I got home.” 70. Most memorable event that happened in your time in St Judes? This could be anything: “Winning Female Artist of the Year at Spotlight. Since there were so many artists nominated that had a big impact on St. Judes I was 100% certain that I wasn’t going to get it.” 71. One thing you wish you could do all over? “High school. To be honest, I didn’t really make many friends growing up, since I was so determined to rush through my studies.” 72. Someone you miss? “My mother.” 73. Something you wish you could forget? “My past relationship” 74. Who has the biggest impact on you? “My parents” 75. What is your perspective on love? Is it beautiful? Does it scare you? “Love can be risky, but if you play your cards right it can be rewarding.” 76. What has hurt you in the past that you don’t want others to go through? “Pass” 77. What is something you have gained, something you have lost and something you let go of during the past year? “I think I’ve gained a lot of direction as to where I want to go as an Idol in the past year. I haven’t necessarily lost anything, but I’ve let go of a lot of the negativity people usually give me when it come to my role in the family business.” 78. Have you ever lost a friend? do you wish you would still be friends? “I’ve definitely neglected some friendships because of my workload. If I got the chance I’d love to reconnect with them.” 79. Do you have any triggers? What is the history behind these triggers and are they related to any disorders or mental illnesses? “Nope” 80. If you could meet your 16 year old self, what would tell them? “Keep pushing through the same way you do, but don’t be afraid to relax whenever you need to.”

RANDOM QUESTION ROUND

81. Summer or Winter? “Winter” 82. Cats or dogs? “Dogs” 83. Beach or mountains? “Mountains” 84. Phone calls or texting? “Phone calls" 85. Have you ever skipped class? “No”

#stjudestruthbooth

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frankics · 5 years ago

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hello all you lovely lovely people ! thanks again for applying to this rp, you have NO idea how excited i am to get this going. i’m lily, i’m newly 20, in the est timezone and my pronouns are she/her. i love trash tv, my puppies, and the collected works of the greatest band in history (one direction). this is my trash daughter frankie, she truly belongs in the garbage but i love her so much. below the cut is my long ass intro for her, i forgive you if you don’t read it all because looking at it now i wouldn’t want to either ! anyway, if you’re interested in plotting with me and frankie, hmu on discord and you can check this blog for some connections i would love to see !

( alisha boe, cisfemale, she/her, MUSE E ) — oh my god, i totally just saw FRANCESCA ARCHER walking through greenwich village! you know, she plays SKYLAR ELLIS on that new netflix show, the village? i can’t believe they’re already famous at TWENTY-ONE. i’ve watched all of their interviews, and they totally come off as IMPERTINENT and RECKLESS, but they can also be ROMANTIC and WITTY. based on their social media, i’d describe FRANKIE like ( worn out black high-tops, mischievous smiles, nails painted different colors, peach vodka, swimming in an ocean during a storm ) — totally makes sense that people call them THE SPITFIRE.

important links: bio. statistics. filmography. muse posts. social media.

warning: death tw on the 5th bullet point!!

the frankie archer story begins in 1996, when her mother yasmiin moves from her home of somalia to brooklyn to pursue an art career. she moved into a tiny apartment halfway across the world, knowing nothing and no one, looking for inspiration. she found it in the form of lorenzo archer, her next door neighbor. they dated for two years, but neither family approved of the other as a match: yasmiin’s family wanted her to return to somalia, and lorenzo’s roman catholic family were not pleased about their son selecting a non-catholic woman. but lorenzo and yasmiin didn’t care, and got married at new york city hall with the court appointed witness. two weeks later, yasmiin was pregnant with frankie.

francesca simone archer was born on june 9, 1999. she is a gemini sun, a scorpio moon, and an aries rising. she was named francesca for her grandmother on the paternal side, and simone after nina simone, the singer that was playing on lorenzo’s record player when they first met. her two siblings, nala archer and zahi archer, were born in 2001 and 2003 respectively.

her childhood is generally quite happy. lorenzo and yasmiin were born to be parents and they love frankie, nala, and zahi endlessly, the type of supportive love that makes children thrive. frankie possesses a natural wit and excels academically, nala is the star athlete, and zahi is a wizard with watercolor. frankie loves the movies and decides she wants to be an actress when she grows up, so lorenzo and yasmiin enroll her in acting classes and improv camps. things chug along in the archer family beautifully.

that is, until frankie gets a high school scholarship to packer collegiate institute, located in the affluent neighborhood of brooklyn heights. she takes it, of course, with her parents’ full support. but she is nothing like anyone else who attends packer, and for a 14 year old who wants to blend in, that is the worst possible thing. she is suddenly, painfully aware of her worn-out clothes, her used books, her strange mother with paint stains on her bleached out jeans. frankie lashes out, screaming and storming off and slamming doors. she and her mother are hurricanes and the rest of the family simply battens down the hatches. one day when frankie is 15, she tells her mother that this family is her worst nightmare. it is the last words she will ever speak to her mother.

a few hours after, the archers get a call that yasmiin has been in an accident. it was a hit and run: a drunk driver t-boned her, and they’re rushing her to the hospital. when the family arrives, the doctors break the news that yasmiin is comatose and that things aren’t looking good. lorenzo refuses to take her off life support, insisting she’ll recover. she is in a coma for nearly a year and a half before he is convinced to pull the plug.

and now, the part of the frankie archer story that everyone knows, the serendipitous hollywood beginning. she’s just a charming, talented, grieving, all-american girl from brooklyn, heading off to juilliard in the fall. on her 18th birthday, the first one spent without her mother, she attends an open call for a role in an indie film called thursday mourning. she thinks it’ll be a fun way to spend the day, or at least distracting enough. and then she gets the fucking part.

long story short, the film blows up. it’s shown at venice, winning the golden lion and a prize for frankie as the most promising young actor in the festival. it’s nominated for four oscars, including a best supporting actress nom for frankie. she doesn’t win, but it’s created a path for her to do whatever she wants, acting-wise. she does three more films in the next two years, gaining a reputation as an indie darling before realizing that indie films don’t make all that much money.

and she needs money, because her father is drowning in hospital bills from yasmiin’s death that he can’t pay. that’s when the offer comes through from her agent: a starring role in an ensemble cast netflix show called the village. she’s planning on throwing the script away. she’s not interested in any television show, much less a teen drama. she’s a serious actress and she certainly doesn’t want to be the next veronica lodge, made fun of on the internet by strangers with discerning taste. but with a little coaxing from her agent, she reads the script, and the role is good, the writing strong. so she takes the village, even though she wants to do movies more, even though she might get memed into oblivion. one episode will halve her father’s debt.

frankie was tapped for the village because while she’s definitely not as famous as some of her other castmates, nor does she have the hollywood background, she has consistently received acclaim for her performances. the producers think it will bring them some clout with the critics, and she has a sterling reputation as a hard worker on set.

so that’s the basic bio of frankie! now onto her personality >:-)

first of all, and most importantly, if you call her francesca you are DEAD.

frankie’s described by the media as a spitfire, and she definitely lives up to that description. she’s not particularly patient with interviews or paparazzi, she has a nasty mouth and an acerbic sense of humor, and to the general public she probably comes across as quite guarded and private about her life. she got into this business to be an actress, not a celebrity.

nevertheless, if she wanted to be a celebrity, she could probably be a pretty beloved one. frankie has a very charismatic, charming way about her, that probably lets her get away with more in the public eye than she should. there’s just something about that hollywood story that makes people relate to her and root for her.

the number one defining characteristic of frankie is her passion. she throws herself intensely into everything she does, feels emotions too vividly, fights for what she wants. she cares so much about everything. acting is her main passion, her forever love. it’s why she’s so good at what she does: she’s not the most talented, she doesn’t have the most training, but she feels so intensely. it also makes her very emotional (classic cancer!) if you’re close with her

also because of this passion, she’s probably the most competitive person you’ll ever meet in your entire life. she’s like, slightly insane about it? she wants to win everything, but she hates losing even more than she likes winning. she’s the type to throw a tiny tantrum if she loses a game of uno.

frankie’s always been bold, likes to live life on the edge, but it became something much uglier after her mother’s death. she’s reckless to the nth degree: doing her own stunts, drinking and partying the night away. she’s not suicidal, but in some ways, it’s like she doesn’t have a huge regard for her own life.

in her private life, frankie is pretty different. it’s not so much that her negative qualities disappear -- she still swears like a sailor and is less than patient. but rather, the flaws become less apparent when you get to know her. she’s sort of a goofy little marshmallow wearing a giant suit of spiky armor.

one of the most loyal people you will ever meet, because she throws herself headlong into friendships and relationships. she’s sort of an all or nothing type gal, so if you befriend frankie expect it to be a very close relationship whether you like it or not.

she is kind of the crazy friend? she’s baby? like she’s absolutely the person who’s encouraging everyone else to do dumb shit, and she’s always coming up with ridiculous ideas and pranks. side note give frankie a prank buddy on set!

she’s really quite witty. she absolutely loves twitter, which is basically the only glimpse the general public would get as to who frankie is in private. her twitter filled with her dumb jokes and random thoughts. in another life, she might have been a twitter comic.

she is a hopeless romantic, which she will never admit to anyone in the world unless it’s layered under 100 miles of sarcasm. the only relationship she’s really ever known is her parents’ relationship, and they were madly in love til the bitter end. she desperately wants something like that, but hasn’t quite found it. she’s been in exactly one pr relationship, but nothing particularly real or long-lasting.

she loves fashion. her mother taught her to sew and she sketches and makes some of her own clothes. her absolute dream is to collab with a designer on a fashion line: some of her favorite labels are marc jacobs, jean paul-gaultier, sies marjan, and moschino! she’s also had a lot of positive press for her red carpet looks.

she has a dog, who she loves more than anything! his name is duke, he’s a staffie rescue, and she brings him on set frequently. she’s lobbying to get him cast as someone’s dog.

she’s playing skylar ellis on the village, and because this is literally so long you can find some info about skylar at these links: statistics, muse posts, social media. i haven’t finished writing her entire bio yet but here’s the rundown: skylar appears to everyone like the pretty princess who has everything she could ever want. her parents are rich, she’s beautiful and smart, and she has a perfect relationship with phillip. but on the inside, she’s drowning. her dad wants her to take over the family company but she wants to be a writer, and the worst part is that she’s good at writing and horrible at business! she’s always been content to go with the flow (aka, what her parents want) because things are good in her life, but after her encounter with james over the summer, she’s realizing that she is completely trapped in a life she doesn’t want in the least. now she’s a conflicted mess of emotion trying to figure out what to do.

#click on her name for a fun lil surprise ;)#this is SO LONG i'm sorry

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lukeskywaker4ever · 5 years ago

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King Pedro V and the British Royal Family

D. Pedro V, who reigned in Portugal between 1853 and 1861, remained in the history of Portugal as "the Hopeful" and the "well-loved". Son of D. Fernando de Saxe-Coburgo-Gota, he had very close family ties both with Queen Victoria and with her husband, Albert, Prince-consort of the United Kingdom, since his father was the son of Fernando de Saxe- Coburg, brother of Queen Victoria's mother and Prince Albert's father.

Even before Pedro was born, shortly after his marriage to D. Fernando, his mother, Queen D. Maria II

exchanged correspondence with Queen Victoria, mostly about their domestic lives and, more rarely, about the political situation their countries. When D. Pedro was born, D. Maria II kept her cousin up to date on her son's developments. Queen Victoria, however, was not as convinced as the cousin of the advantages of having children, as the following passage from Maria Filomena Mónica's book "D. Pedro V" reveals:

D. Maria II thought that the benefits of having children outweighed the costs. In one of the letters she sent to England she stated (...) “'when the cousin has children she will understand better what I say and see how sweet it is to treat children, hoping with all my heart that this will happen to you soon'”. But Queen Victoria did not share these feelings. When she told D. Maria that she was not only afraid of childbirth, but was suspicious of the pleasure of having children, she was so surprised that she admonished: “'I think that when you love your husband, you want and love having children.' “For Queen Victoria, the fact that she loved her husband did not mean that she had to accept, with delight, successive pregnancies. (...) On November 22, 1840, when Queen Victoria asked her about whether she wished to have more children, D. Maria II replied: "I consider that when a woman marries, it is to have children and therefore, it is natural that we wish them and, besides, I love children extraordinarily ".

D. Maria II made the traditional distinction between the pleasure of having a son or a daughter. When Vicky, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, was born, the Portuguese monarch told her cousin that it was a pity that she had not been a boy before, something, moreover, that would soon take place, with the birth of Prince Albert Edward, whom Bertie's petit-nom would be put. D. Maria then prevented her cousin from the possibility of Vicky becoming jealous of her brother, something she had noticed in D. Pedro, when Lipipi was born, the diminutive that the family started to use to designate D. Luís.

D. Maria II ended up dying very young, on November 15, 1853, when she gave birth to her eleventh and last child who died shortly afterwards. D. Pedro V was only sixteen years old and, since he was still a minor, a regency led by his father, King D. Fernando II, was formed.

Before officially ascending the throne, on May 28, 1854, D. Pedro V set out on an educational trip through Europe and the first destination was England. In her biography of D. Pedro V, Maria Filomena Mónica describes this trip, also using excerpts from the diary that D. Pedro wrote at the time:

"On the 2nd of June, the [boat] Mindelo was going to Southampton. It was 11 pm when D. Pedro received, on board, the visit of the Portuguese ambassador, Lavradio, as well as several personalities, including Colonel Wylde (assistant of Prince Albert), who knew Portugal well, because he was here for a few months in the service of the British crown. The next day, the princes went by train to a station near London, where they were awaited by Prince Albert , having proceeded to Buckingham Palace, where Queen Victoria was waiting for them. (...)

Here is how the reception is registered upon arrival at the royal palace: "It was noon when we entered Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Duchess of Kent were waiting for us on the stairs and, shortly after, Princesses Victoria, Alice, Helena and Luísa and princes Albert and Alfred." He continued: "We saw the garden, which is beautiful for its disposition rather than for its intrinsic qualities." Upon returning from the walk, a servant appeared, announcing the arrival of the Duke of Wellington, the son of the general who had fought against the French in Portugal. Then, with some of the English princes present, they went to lunch."

D. Pedro started a relationship - with Uncle Albert - that would prove to be extraordinarily important. On that first day, Queen Victoria's husband showed him his library, drawing attention to Gauer's work on the Natural History of Birds in Australia, which the two leafed through with pleasure. In the afternoon, D. Pedro went to visit the Duchess of Gloucester [Augusta de Hesse-Cassel, daughter-in-law of King George III], the Duchess of Cambridge [Mary of the United Kingdom, daughter of King George III], and the Duchess of Kent [mother of Queen Victoria], after which Colonel Wylde showed him some pictures belonging to the British crown."

In the following days, D. Pedro went to visit other places in the country.

"After this foray, he returned to London, where the Count of Lavradio was waiting for him at the station. On the 1st of July he went for a horse ride with his uncle in Hyde Park and, at night, to the English theater, where he watched a play which didn’t go down in history, after which he said goodbye to members of the royal family and to the Portuguese residing in London. It was 6:00 am on July 3 when Mindelo left Woolwich on his way to Belgium. England, the country would come to occupy the top of his preferences."

#king pedro v of portugal #british royal family

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idasessions · 6 years ago

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Famous Muses & Groupies in Rock Music Pt. 38

MUSE: Phyllis Nesmith (born Phyllis Anne Barbour)

Back by popular minor demand, I am reviving this series! So sit back and enjoy some more chaotic classic rock gossip. Phyllis was born on July 30th, 1946 in Long Island City, NY and spent most of her upbringing on US military bases in Europe where her dad was an educator. In her private life, Phyllis practiced Christian Science, as did her first husband Michael Nesmith—whom she met while they were both attending San Antonio College of Texas in March 1963, when Phyllis was 16 and Mike was 20. A year later they married on June 27th, 1964 when Phyllis discovered she was pregnant. Their first son Christian was born on January 31st, 1965 about a year after the couple moved to Los Angeles, CA to expand Mike’s aspirations of a music career. Only 10 months later Mike was cast on the show-turned-real band “The Monkees” (1966-68) where he was both an actor and musician on the affiliated records. When the show/band first got famous, Mike was known as the ‘married Monkee’ because he was originally the only bandmate with a wife and child. Like most pop/rock couples in the 1960s, Mike and Phyllis were regularly photographed and profiled in teeny bopper magazines as a cute celeb couple. She also sang back-up on the track ‘Auntie’s Municipal Court’ from the 1968 LP ‘The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees;’ attended both the taping of the (godawful) TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee (1969) and the movie premiere of Head (1968); and traveled with the band for the parts of their 1967 US/UK tour.

Because of the Monkees’ TV shoots, tours and recording sessions, Phyllis spent a lot of time at her and Mike’s Hollywood Hills home raising Christian on her own as a housewife. If you’re starting to get déjà vu and feel like this sounds familiar, it’s because this is basically the Texan version of the John & Cynthia Lennon story. College sweethearts, unplanned pregnancy, shotgun wedding, both Cynthia and Phyllis became blondes as rock wives, family life at the helm of Beatlemania/Monkeemania, etc. And as we all know, John and Mike were friends for 15 minutes in 1967 while the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ and the Monkees’ ‘Headquarters’ were being composed. Mike and Phyllis even spent a week staying at the Lennons’ estate when they visited London for the first time. In Cynthia’s 2005 memoir John, she complains about how Phyllis would give passive-aggressive suggestions on her cooking (lol). Mike was famously at the epic recording/filming of the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ track ‘A Day in the Life,’ with Phyllis tagging along on the side with fellow rock SOs Cynthia, Pattie Boyd and Marianne Faithfull.

Just like John, Mike was the smart-ass of his band with a dry sense of humor and also shamelessly cheating on his wife. But he took it an extra step by knocking up another woman while married. In 1967, Mike and Czech-Israeli groupie photographer/band friend Nurit Wilde had a sporadic affair for the next couple of years. But about the time they met, Phyllis became pregnant with their second son. So on February 4th, 1968, Mike & Phyllis’ son Jonathan was born, and only seven months later, Mike & Nurit’s son Jason was born on August 7th, 1968. Oh, and this was all the same year Phyllis experienced a near-fatal car crash….what the FUCK. Mike’s lucky his public image wasn’t completely tarnished like what happened to Billy Crudup in 2004. Then again, I don’t think most people outside of the band’s circle even knew about Jason’s existence until the 1980s. But…still….jrhrgnfdgf. Mike ended up choosing Phyllis in the end (and ultimately becoming a deadbeat dad to Jason until he was 5 years old). They even had a third child, daughter Jessica, on September 10th, 1970. Things officially came to an end in 1972 when Mike and Phyllis separated and finally divorced in March 1975. The final straw was, you guessed it! More cheating. This time with Mike’s future second wife Kathryn Bild (what a gd mess). Miraculously, Mike now has great relationships with all of his kids (including Jason), making him the luckiest SOB alive. In his 2017 memoir Infinite Tuesday, he blames himself for all of the messed up drama he caused. His song ‘Nine Times Blue’ is supposedly for Phyllis.

But now back to the lady of topic. After experiencing one of the worst marriages of all time, Phyllis went into politics in the late 1970s, and became a professional aide to senators like John Tunney and Alan Cranston. By 1990, she switched over to business and ran her own communications company with Winner & Associates. Showing she’s super awesome and too good for Mike, lbr. [Still love you, boo.] Ironically, Mike’s mom was also a very successful businesswoman. Phyllis also married again in the late ‘80s to a man named Bill Gibson until her premature death in 2010 at age 63 of ALS. (Five years before Cynthia would die of her own serious health issues too.) She’s survived by Christian, Jonathan and Jessica. What’s weird/interesting is that none of Mike & Phyllis’ kids have children of their own (kind of like how both of John’s kids are childless too.) I wasn’t planning on making so many Lennon-Nesmith comparisons with this entry, but the parallels are like…strikingly similar.

Fun fact: Christian used to ‘play’ Jimmy Page in the famous Led Zeppelin tribute band Led Zepagain. The son of my fave Monkee cosplaying as my fave LZ member, wowowowie.

#phyllis nesmith #phyllis barbour #michael nesmith #mike nesmith #muses #i have the WORST taste in men istg kjfdhggfn #this shit's going to effect my personal life eventually #ok next up pamela or maybe sam #or maybe a movie muse/gf #musesandgroupiesseries #John Lennon #Cynthia Lennon

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Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director and designer who reigned in theater, film and opera as the unrivaled master of grandeur, orchestrating the youthful 1968 movie version of “Romeo and Juliet” and transporting operagoers to Parisian rooftops and the pyramids of Egypt in productions widely regarded as classics, died June 15 at his home in Rome. He was 96.

A son, Luciano, confirmed the death to the Associated Press but did not cite a cause.

Mr. Zeffirelli — a self-proclaimed “flag-bearer of the crusade against boredom, bad taste and stupidity in the theater” — was a defining presence in the arts since the 1950s. In his view, less was not more. “More is fine,” a collaborator recalled Mr. Zeffirelli saying, and as a set designer, he delivered more gilt, more brocade and more grandiosity than many theater patrons expected to find on a single stage.

“A spectacle,” Mr. Zeffirelli once told the New York Times, “is a good investment.”

From his earliest days, he seemed to belong to the opera. Born in Italy to a married woman and her lover, he received neither parent’s surname. His mother dubbed him “Zeffiretti,” an Italian word that means “little breezes” and that arises in Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo,” in the aria “Zeffiretti lusinghieri.” An official mistakenly recorded the name as “Zeffirelli.”

Mr. Zeffirelli grew up mainly in Florence, amid the city’s Renaissance riches, and trained as an artist before being pulled into theater and then film by an early and influential mentor, Luchino Visconti. Mr. Zeffirelli matured into a sought-after director in his own right, staging works in Milan, London and New York City, where he became a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera.

His first major work as a film director was “The Taming of the Shrew” (1967), a screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But Mr. Zeffirelli was best known for the Shakespearean adaptation released the next year — “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in the title roles.

He reportedly reviewed the work of hundreds of young actors before selecting his two stars, both of whom were still in their teens. With a lush soundtrack by Nino Rota, and with its equally lush visuals, the film won the Academy Award for best cinematography and was a runaway box office success. Film critic Roger Ebert declared it “the most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made.”

It “is the first production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I am familiar with in which the romance is taken seriously,” Ebert wrote. “Always before, we have had actors in their 20s or 30s or even older, reciting Shakespeare’s speeches to each other as if it were the words that mattered. They do not, as anyone who has proposed marriage will agree.”

In the opera, an art form already known for its opulence, big voices and bigger personalities, Mr. Zeffirelli permitted himself to be deterred by neither physical nor financial constraints. “Opera audiences demand the spectacular,” he told the Times.

Mr. Zeffirelli had notable artistic relationships with two of the most celebrated sopranos of the 20th century, Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. But certain Zeffirelli sets seemed to excite the opera world even more than the performers who sang upon them.

One such example was his production of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” an extravaganza set in 19th-century Paris and famous for its exuberant street scene and magical snowfall. After its 1981 premiere at the Met, it was said that the audience lavished on Mr. Zeffirelli a grander ovation than the one reserved for conductor James Levine and the singers who played the opera’s bohemian lovers.

“For the first time,” Mr. Zeffirelli told the Times, “audiences will have a sense of the immensity of Paris, and the smallness of this little group’s place — the actual space of a garret. The acting is now intimate and conversational, which is exactly what Puccini wanted. Since the garret is raised, every whisper and gesture will come across clearly in the theater.”

His production of Verdi’s “Aida,” performed at Milan’s La Scala in 1963 with soprano Leontyne Price and tenor Carlo Bergonzi, featured 600 singers and dancers (including scantily clad belly dancers), 10 horses, towering idols, palm trees and sphinxes littering the expanse of the stage. “I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. DeMille could offer,” Mr. Zeffirelli told Time magazine, referring to the Hollywood director’s biblical epics, “but in good taste.”

It was sometimes said that Mr. Zeffirelli was beloved by everyone except music reviewers, some of whom disparaged his style as excessive to the point of taking attention away from the music. Writing in the Times, Bernard Holland panned Mr. Zeffirelli’s set for Puccini’s “Turandot,” set in China, as “acres of white paint and gold leaf topped by the gaudiest of pagodas” and quipped that “if the gods eat dim sum, they certainly do it in a place like this.”

In time, the Metropolitan Opera replaced some of Mr. Zeffirelli’s productions, although the modernistic newcomers — notably Luc Bondy’s dreary “Tosca” in 2009 — did not always prove as popular.

“It’s like somebody decides that the Sistine Chapel is out of fashion,” Mr. Zeffirelli told the Times. “They go there and make something a la Warhol. . . . You don’t like it? O.K., fine, but let’s have it for future generations.”

As for those who had criticized his direction of “Romeo and Juliet” for similar reasons, he retorted, “In all honesty, I don’t believe that millions of young people throughout the world wept over my film ... just because the costumes were splendid.”

Mr. Zeffirelli was born in Florence on Feb. 12, 1923. His father, Ottorino Corsi, was a Florentine businessman, and his mother, Alaide Garosi, was a fashion designer. Her husband was a lawyer, and he died before Mr. Zeffirelli was born.

His mother continued a fraught relationship with Corsi, once attempting to stab him with a hat pin. “The opera? My destiny?” Mr. Zeffirelli observed in a 1986 autobiography, “Zeffirelli.” “I think there is a case to be made.”

After the death of his mother when he was 6, he became the charge of an aunt. He recalled his upbringing in the 1930s in the semi-autobiographical film “Tea With Mussolini” (1999), which he directed and which starred Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright as English expatriates in Florence who take in a parentless child during the era of fascist rule.

Mr. Zeffirelli attended art school before studying architecture at the University of Florence. His studies were put on hold during World War II, when he fought alongside antifascist partisans. His interests shifted more toward film, particularly after he saw Laurence Olivier star in the 1944 Technicolor film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” which Olivier also directed.

“The lights went down and that glorious film began,” Mr. Zeffirelli recalled in his memoir. “I knew then what I was going to do. Architecture was not for me; it had to be the stage.”

He met Visconti while working in Florence as a stagehand. Visconti, with whom he lived for a period, gave him his push into professional work, hiring him to work as a designer for an Italian stage production of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1949.

Mr. Zeffirelli soon began designing and directing at La Scala and later the Met. He designed, directed and adapted from Shakespeare the libretto for the production of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” that opened the Met’s new opera house at Lincoln Center in 1966.

Mr. Zeffirelli said he found it invigorating to shift from one art form to another. His theatrical productions starred top-flight actors including Albert Finney and Anna Magnani. On television, he directed “Jesus of Nazareth,” an acclaimed 1977 miniseries with a reported price tag of $18 million and a cast that included Robert Powell as Jesus, Hussey as the Virgin Mary, Olivier as Nicodemus, Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene and James Earl Jones as Balthazar.

Mr. Zeffirelli received a best director Oscar nomination for “Romeo and Juliet.” (He lost to Carol Reed for the musical “Oliver!”) He also garnered a nomination for best art direction for his 1982 film adaptation of Verdi’s opera “La Traviata,” starring Teresa Stratas and Plácido Domingo, one of several such operatic film adaptations he made.

His other notable films included “Hamlet” (1990) starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. Less acclaimed was “Endless Love” (1981), starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt in a tragic story of teen romance, which Mr. Zeffirelli admitted was “wretched.”

Politically, Mr. Zeffirelli positioned himself on the right, serving as a senator in the political party Forza Italia. “I have found it an irritating irony that those who espouse populist political views often want art to be ‘difficult,’ ” he wrote in his memoir. “Yet I, who favor the Right in our democracy, believe passionately in a broad culture made accessible to as many as possible.”

He described himself as homosexual, preferring not to use the word “gay.” In 2000, he adopted two adult sons, Pippo and Luciano, both former lovers, according to the newspaper the Australian. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

Looking back on his life and career, Mr. Zeffirelli once told The Washington Post that he was struck by “how much is risked to become something” — “to make something of his life,” he continued, speaking of himself in the third person. To show that “he’s not a bastard.”

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Our story

So i was really scared to start writing on here, but i think its time for me to share my story. My sons father and i met when we were 15 and 16. I was really good friends with his younger brother who is the same age and me. Well lets be honest we didn't have that OMG love at first sight at all, it was actually the complete opposite. The first time we saw each other i didn't think id ever see him again thats for sure, but that didn't stop him. Michael tried for a very long time but since he didn't stop i finally gave him the time of day. Once we started dating everything was good for the most part, until one day my mom went to pick him up from work at 16 years old and she took him home to find all of his things on the side of the road ready for the garbage men to come and take it all. My mom was not having that so she picked up all of his things and packed it all up and brought it back to our house, I was at work. Well i come home to him sitting in my room and i look around and see all of his things so i ask whats going on and they tell me what happen and my mom ends with Michael will be staying here, Well her husband didn't agree so therefor Michael was hiding in my room for almost a year! FAST FORWARD 2 YEARS Michael is now 18 I'm 17 and we decided to move out onto our own!!! WE STRUGGLED just like everyone normally does when you're first out on your own, at times we didn't think we would make it. I moved out a few times and went back home, but we always came back to each other. WELLLL here comes SUMMMER OF 2014 and we went to Cedar Point to find out almost every ride i rode made me sick... and for anyone who knows me know I LOVE CP. Well i get home and he gets me a stick to pee on and what do ya know it says I'm not pregnant. Next day i just felt the need to take another one so i did and it came out positive. We were having a baby!!!! 8 Months goes by its the middle of winter and we just bought our first house together as a family. Perfect Picture right?! it wasn't perfect at all.. there were a lot of times during both my pregnancies with issues in our relationship due to trust being broken. After our second son was born i was at a doctors app. and my grandma is driving me home ( i had c-sections with both boys) so i couldn't drive and we get a call from Michael and he's telling me he just signed up for the Army..... WHY. HOW. WHEN. I had so many questions and I didn't agree with living the army life and moving away due to all our problems in our relationship. Well our son was 2 months old... Mike is gone. here i am 20 years old still in Cos. school no job 2 kids and LEFT.. no one to help. That was one of the biggest and hardest times in my life besides motherhood. But you know what I DID IT. I managed to make it work. I GRADUATED, i walked across a stage to get my certificate to look out and see my two handsome perfect little boys. I did it for them, not just myself. Michael came back for the holidays after Basic Training, we said we wanted to get the help we needed to be a family again, since being in the Army we got married December of 2016. Divorced June 2018. We work better Co parenting than together and thats fine. So now i am a single mother again living in our house just the boys and me. There are days i want to give up and there are some days i don't want to end. My boys are now almost 4 and 2 and a half. i just got a job things are starting to look up for us, its been a emotional roller coaster the last few years but i think we are finally getting off. I have my days where i struggle but i know i have two boys who need me, and at the end of the day i need them. On that note I'm going to end it at that and i will continue next time!

xoxo

Mama Bay!

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Let Me Be Kind

[Never cruel, never cowardly. Remember hate is foolish, and love is always kind.]

January: Turning 24 promised greater things. Turning another year older just as the world grows another year older seems like I was meant to do greater things. If you were to ask me at 15 where I would be by now, this is probably not where I thought I would be. But I really have no complaints. I was happy, had a stable job, and somebody who cared for me. Maybe I wouldn't end up alone after all. Amarrame - Mon Laferte ft. Juanes

February: Sometimes there seems to be more questions than there are answers. And the worst part was that I was mostly afraid of asking the questions that needed to be asking. Sometimes, that is what we do though; we turn a blind eye to the questions that scare us the most, because mainly, we are too scared to be right about the answer we don't want to hear. Don´t Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes

March: So this is what it feels like to be brave? Brave enough to ask the questions that are necessary, to leave relationships that are toxic to us, to learn to forgive, and to learn to hurt the time that is necessary. Always remember that we suffer only because we want to. I think more than anything, I learned to be brave with the questions that I needed answers to because, not only was it the right thing to do, but because it was also the healthy thing to do. Un Pacto - Bersuit Vergarabat

April: I think my most creative outbursts have been juxtaposed to moments of immense uncertainty and sorrow. I don't think I have learned how to deal with pain and hurt; but I have learned how to use my work as a displacement for pain. The more I worked, the less time I had to think. There are two types of people in the world: the overthinkers, the ones who aren't I was the former. And I still am. But now, we have a different word for it: workaholic. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

May: The magic of time is a very powerful force. Time heals most wounds, teaches us how to be patient, makes wine age better… But more than anything, time teaches us that we should strive for better each day. I think time has taught me to be more humble, each day that passes by. Look What You've Done -- Jet

June: Life is wheel, and you must roll with it. What is born, is born to die. And to die, means to be reborn again. It is a tale of coming and going. Lost Stars -- Adam Levine

July: My daddy will always be larger than life in my eyes and in my life, and I forever his little girl. A lot of who I am and where my life is headed is because of the example he's given me. And the older I get, the more I realize how much of him I take on. I'm told he was loved by many, for how kind and gentle he was, and I can only hope to do the same in my lifetime. And with this, I say goodbye to the city that has made my dad, seen his life and passing, and the city that I love so much. I will forever carry the kindness of you all in my heart. Awake My Soul -- Mumford and Sons

August: Did the last two months even feel real? Was this whole year real? Can You Feel My Heart -- Bring Me The Horizon

September: Nostalgia is dangerous. Because it tells tricks us into thinking that things were better then. It makes us believe that the bad really wasn’t that bad. Being nostalgic and realistic is tough. It’s a constant battle between missing something so much that you can be consumed by it, but also realizing that you’re not the type of person to fall once again into the past, no matter how good the picture seemed to be painted. I am different now than who I was back then. I know I could never go back, but sometimes, I just wish I were a little bit more naive. Maybe then I could be happy. I am not sure of how the universe works, but I suspect my daddy is out there looking out for me. He’s probably stressed as fuck. Thank you for keeping me safe when I was sure I was going to die. Is This Still Love -- Danny Jones

October: October was always exciting to me. It may not be fall in the southern hemisphere, but it was definitely how I associated it. October meant crispy leaves, falling again once more. October meant cinnamon-everything. October meant that the end of the year was closing in. Lorelai Gilmore, in the Gilmore Girls revival says in the third episode, “I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, where I was going, what I was doing, and why I was doing. But lately, things seem hazier.” I am still growing into my skin and accepting who it is that I am, flaws and all, but this is the month where I learned how important it is to be kind above all else. Let me be kind, let me be kind. Cold Song -- Good Charlotte

November: I’ve always thought that at this age, the ripe age of 24, I would finally have a handle on what it means to be an adult. I’m nowhere near prepared for what the world is about to launch at me, and yet, I still find myself here, fighting. Because, in reality, there is nothing else. I still find myself sad about things that don’t matter anymore. Still Young -- Neon Trees

December: The beautiful balance of having a stable economy, a rewarding social life, and an exciting romantic interest is nonexistent. It is like the omniscient green light in The Great Gatsby -- a myth, and forever unattainable. I am excited about where my life is going professionally. I have regained a newfound interest in what I want to do and what I am doing at the current moment. I have loving friends and have found a niche in which I feel most comfortable. I am opening my horizons as much as I can. BUT,

I am too tired to be waiting for a love that is only half of one. I am too tired of waiting for the penny to drop. I am growing weary, just as much as I am growing old. I have too many things that I am already worrying about, and to add to that kind of stress really isn’t worth my time. I am worth more than just a few messages left on read, and I am most definitely worth more than just the shitty excuses I have been making for people for their poor behavior. But nobody tells you how much it sucks to be on the receiving end of an unrequited love. Nunca es Suficiente -- Natalia Lafourcade ft. Los Angeles Azules

And so, for the following year, I wish for myself nothing but growth. Happiness will come when it must, and as for the rest, I will settle for nothing less than butterflies.

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purplesilver69 · 7 years ago

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Us Weekly Subscribe Now LOVE LIVES Iman Won’t Remarry After Losing David Bowie: ‘He Is Always Going to Be My Husband’

By Dan Clarendon October 26, 2018 Model Iman (L) and musician David Bowie attend the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 7, 2010 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Iman is still mourning the loss of husband David Bowie — and she’s resolute that the glam rock icon will be her last husband.

Most Shocking Celebrity Deaths of All Time “I will never remarry,” the 63-year-old told PORTEREdit in a newly-published interview. “I mentioned my husband the other day with someone, and they said to me: ‘You mean your late husband?’ I said, no, he is always going to be my husband.”

That said, Iman is not necessarily opposed to finding romance again in the future. “I do feel very lonely,” she observed. “But do I want a relationship? I can’t say never, but no, not now.”

Iman, born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid, married Bowie in 1992 and welcomed their daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, in 2000. She’s also the stepmother of Mute director Duncan Jones, Bowie’s son from a prior relationship.

Iman and David Bowie at Hammerstein Ballroom during Keep A Child Alive’s 6th Annual Black Ball hosted by Alicia Keys and Padma Lakshmi on October 15, 2009 in New York City. Kevin Mazur/WireImage Bowie died at age 69 in 2016 after a protracted battle with liver cancer. Even two and a half years after the “Space Oddity” singer’s passing, fans are reaching out to Iman with overtures of support. But the model told PORTEREdit many of her well-wishers also invade her privacy.

Just Like Us: Celebrity Moms “People take pictures of me in the street, and say. ‘I am so sorry for your loss,’” she said. “I’m like, ‘Don’t touch me. You just took pictures of me, how can you be sorry?’ I get the fans’ grief, but it’s not the same. They have lost someone they look up to; we have lost a husband and a father.”

“And sometimes, I don’t want people to know how sad I am,” the Somali-American beauty added. “People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re so strong.’ I’m not strong — I am just trying to keep it together.”

Iman also revealed that Alexandria wants to join Duncan in Los Angeles but also wants to continue supporting her in New York City. “One of her biggest fears is leaving me,” the model said, sighing. “I tell her: you are not responsible for me. It’s the other way around.”

Celebrities and Their Look-Alike Kids In the wake of Bowie’s death, a friend of his told Us Weekly that the duo “were romantic until the end. They made time for date nights. He would write her letters and poems. It was like they were still young lovers.”

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1/21/2022

Precursor note: this “boy” needs the word “fuck” in front of it. He’s a loser. He took advantage of my heart break from 10YDB just to slide in the DMs and lead me on and then dropped me like a hot potato out of no where then had a new girlfriend 2 weeks later. He literally runs away in public with his tail between his legs. He’s gross. Big mistake but good lesson.

Hey there world, lets chat.

I've got some things on my mind and facebook or snapchat are not the places to share it all. I tried pen and paper and sometimes it works but sometimes I want somebody, ANYBODY to see whats on my mind. I naturally, as an emotional mellenial born in 1992, have this undying pre-teen angst of being misunderstood. I know someone here will totally get where I'm coming from.

Currently, I am feeling so defeated in this ongoing failed attempt to sway this boy. I say boy, he is a man. We are almost 30 for fucks sake.

After everything I have been through in relationships for the last 15 years, I really find myself in a place where I need to have someone who just wants to say "Fuck it, let's get married and live happily ever after no matter how miserable it may get sometimes." Because realistically, who the fuck really believes in fairytales at this age? Ideally, we would like to, but a real relationship is built on a foundation of, "Hey , this thing your doing is really upsetting me, can we talk about it?" And honestly, I could be with just anyone but I'd rather be with the guy I've crushed on for 9 years, who apparently crushed on me too and our lives lined up just so perfectly for us to finally have an opportunity to be together. Unfortunately, his ex is a psycho and he fell for the wrong girl and is still healing from the bullshit she put him through.

I am surprisingly already over my ex of 10 years. Granted, he made it very easy considering he was never really in it to begin with. Trying to get my significant other to pay attention and just talk to me became very annoying and he didn't realize it but he pushed me away and rejected me so much that it was over years ago.

Also, within that time, my first love from diapers finally came back into my life and impacted it very heavily. Even telling him we can't be too romantic because technically I was still in throes with 10 year douchebag, keeping it friendly I still fell for him. And he fell for me. Finally, I felt like I was headed in the right direction. Taking the time I needed to build on something and I think he needed to do the same. As much as I didn't want to, as soon as I realized I was falling for him, I made space between us. I went about 6 weeks without speaking to him at all and in that time he moved to ABQ, NM. I hate that he left. I told him in May how I felt about him. 2 days later I told him I had to choose 10 year DB because he was in NM and wouldn't be back until November. He was crushed, told me he stopped using, told his friends and co workers about me and I made him actually want to settle down. He wasn't the settling type so the fact that he wanted that was a BFD. After that, our talks weren't as every day as they had been before. I thought about it long and hard. I decided when he came back in November I was going to make the move. I decided leading up to his return date, we would revisit the idea of being together. He texted me June 10th and it was my son's graduation day for 5th grade and I had this big day planned. He wished us well and a "Congraduation" to my boy. I focused on my kids for the summer and still thought about him every day. In my thoughts, I fell harder and harder and confirmed that my decision was made. I wanted to be with him and him only. I texted him July 2nd, "Hey boy heyyy" and he replied with "lol wyd" and I was working so I didn't get a chance to respond. I texted him on July 3rd and told him I was working like crazy, sorry I hadn't replied. I didn't hear from him again. July 4th I was so overwhelmed at work all day and I couldn't stop crying. That night around 9:45pm something hit me really really hard. Like I knew someone was gone. I remember stopping dead in my tracks and my kids asked me what was wrong and I remember thinking "I guess we will find out." On July 9th I found out that he died.

I have grieved him every day. I didn't start to feel better until I started talking to this current guy.

I just wish he would want me back. I know God's timing is everything. I'm sure that this is all part of the plan. I just feel so defeated and confused. Typically by now I would have just given up and walked away, but what if he is the one? But then again what if he isn't? Would God really give me all these signs if he wasn't who I need?

This morning I went to get coffee and I felt this inner urge to get him one too and I just went with it. I got him the coffee, I put a note on it that said, "Dearest you, Good morning ☀ <3, Me." I was going to leave it by the back door I know he walks into but there were two big trucks in the way so I left it on the outside bar. He didn't get it for an hour but I really hope it made his day. He apparently had a not so great morning.

So the trucks.. I've noticed lately there have been a lot of giant trucks blocking my path lately. Like within the last 4 days there have been trucks stopping me from moving forward some how. I wait patiently and then I make my way through. I feel like it's another sign from God. I interpret it as Him telling me to slow down, be patient and then I can go.

It's always amazing the difference you feel between starting to write something and when you've written it all down. It's freeing to let it out. To share. And to actually share in the sense that you know someone is going to read it. Anyone.

I think I'm going to be okay now.

Thanks for listening.

<3, Me

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lavenus79 · 4 years ago

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The ultimate forgiveness

I bought this painting back in March. I wanted to gift this as a mother's day token for my mother. Unfortunately, the remnants of her reproach towards my lifestyle is still an open sore wound. It wasn't until last week of June 12, I decided to paint it. This painting will be a token of all the memories that could have been. I will hang it up on my wall to remind me that hope remains and forgiveness is everlasting. As I was painting, my mind was ruminating the events that led to every decision I made since I was 7 years old. I refuse to label my mother a narcissist, because I know some where deep in that heart of hers, she is capable of loving others unconditionally. I've seen it long before we moved to Brunei. I've seen it again in the span of 18 years attempting to reconcile our strained relationship. I was 7 when my mother introduced me to Christianity. She said I would go to hell for being disobedient. She proclaimed that I needed Jesus Christ as my lord and savior from going to hell. I believed her. At least, I thought that was how converting to Christianity worked. I've always been loyal. Regardless of my idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, I love her unconditionally. I've never fought back during those incidents she had hit me with objects. Having an industrial stapler thrown across your head or a drafting metal ruler struck across your skull or a frying pan across your side are things you wouldn't think any loving parent would use against a child. People would think me stupid for loving an abusive person, but she is still my mother. I know the difference between discipline and abuse. I know my eccentricities and idiosyncrasies are annoying to most people, but I at least try to make amends. I was never successful until I met my current husband. I was 15 when God revealed himself to me in a dream. I followed His instruction. I was the youngest member to be baptized in Pastor Medina's church. My mother taught me to be self-sufficient, self-reliant and to always lead by example. She encouraged me to be the best in everything that I do. Unfortunately, what my mother wants currently from me is detrimental to my health and my faith. That's not something I am willing to sacrifice for the sake of my family and my steadfast relationship with God. I got married at 21. I got pregnant at 22 and became a young mother at 23. With Christ's guidance, I took parenting and self-help classes to improve my life skills. As much as I love to say I had a perfect marriage with Chris, I cannot. Our marriage ended in abuse much like my parent's household. The only difference is, I was forgiven. God sent me a lot of friends and strangers to help me survive my tribulations. At this point of my life, I finally understood the message. God is merciful (Exodus 34:6-7). God is love (1 John 4:16). God is faithful (Lamentations 3:22-23). The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew12:8; 18:11; Luke 5:24; John 5:19; Colossians 1:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Mark 12:28-34; John 3:36; 6:61-65; 14:28; 20:31) I may not be perfect to my mother, but I have been made perfect in God's eyes. I believe Jesus, who died and rose again, has forgiven all of my sins (Roman 5:10; Acts 2:38). When I committed my life to Christ as a born-again Christian, I struggled to fit in. No matter what church I went to, I was criticized, condemned and rejected. The reasons why I teach instead of evangelizing, is not only because of my experiences growing up in the church of my parents' household, but the way the message was delivered to me by other churches. In lieu of emulating the church, I decided that it would be best to educate those who are weak in faith, to know my story. My hopes that my testament of faith will show them that God's faithfulness to those who are poor in spirit, mourning, meek, hungry, persecuted, and being bullied is a gift of redemption and a gift of miracles. Since my mother is part of my story, I cannot stay silent. Otherwise, I would be fulfilling the prophecy of 2 Corinthians 4:4 which is opposite of Jesus’ instructions in

Matthew 28:19-20. I love my mom a lot. I miss her smile and tender-hearted motherly love. Since she has expressed numerous distaste towards my lifestyle, I can no longer be in her presence. In the span of 18 years of my attempts to reconcile our relationship and bonding, she has continued to exemplify Saul of Tarsus and King Lear. As broken-hearted as I am, I am holding on to the hope that God will heal her unforseen struggles. However, I am letting go of the burden she gave me, which has negatively impacted my health and been oppressing my faith. To know if someone has truly forgiven you, it is by their actions. I have forgiven my mother and will be continuing to do so by imparting wisdom to my own child. With that being said, I have been living by example according to Jesus' teaching. I summarized all of my experiences and lessons in one paragraph: My beautiful child. Be kind. Dream boldly. Love unconditionally. Pursue happiness. Seek truth. Live fully. Don't fret when things don't go your way. Some things aren't meant to be controlled. Forgive genuinely. Appreciate wholeheartedly. Respect humbly. Choose wisely. Fall gracefully. Above all else, Be Free. I'm 42 years old. I'm living the best life any Christian believer could ever ask for. To God be the glory. In Jesus' mighty name, Amen.

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100 Intelligence, 0 Wisdom || EHS

☾♔; June 17, 2020 ☾♔; 12:26am ☾♔; sotd: Tuhje Dekha To (DDLJ) ☾♔; cotd: Dick Grayson ☾♔; Elite Highschool ☾♔; Side/NPC Profiles

𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: lol, a summary of all 5 Sheremetev kids

----------->UPDATE: description abandoned. The group was shutdown and I've been kicked from the discord, so there's no point in finishing this set. I'll just make a new one when I inevitably recycle the characters.

Most of their profiles were done anyway, but whatever, I’m not putting any more effort into something I’m not involved in anymore.

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【𝕀ℕ𝕊ℙ𝕆 ℂℝ𝔼𝔻】@ maybones

As always, lolz. Soz for always using you as inspo, but you are the unrivaled Queen of Talent and Set making.

Was specifically inspired by this set: https://urstyle.fashion/styles/2523719 And as always, failed in mimicking it.

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I have made a new version of Tuhje Dekha To: Tuhje Dekha Toh ye jana sanam Main tuhje nufrat karti, kuti kamini

Loose Translation: When I saw you beloved, I knew That I despise you, you fucking bitch

(kuti kamini doesn’t literally mean fucking bitch, but that’s the emotional weight, or inflection or whatever behind it tbh - it doesn’t mean bitch though, like, from a literal translation, it kinda means bitch, bitch, since kuti and kamini both mean bitch)

Lol, ya, it doesn’t really flow with the music, but whatever. I’m fucking pissed and TDT was stuck in my head, so the lyrics went from love to rage.

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𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘

The Sheremetev’s are a unique bunch of siblings, in that not a single one is biologically related to another. All, but the youngest were adopted by Ivan Borisovich Sheremetev, his youngest, and only biological, child eventually passing into his custody. They’re a family of 7, Ivan, their father, Feodor Brezhnev, their butler/emotional grandfather, Rodya, the big brother, Adya, Emil, and Shion, the NOT triplets, and Erasyl, the brat- I mean baby. Because they’re not his biological children, they’re often labelled as charity cases, though they can pretty much brush it off at this point. Since Ivan does not make a blood distinction between his kids, Erasyl is often thought to have been adopted too. Are they just the batfam repackaged as Russian bourgeoisie? lol, yeah.

The House of Sheremetev are former Russian nobility, and in the age of the Empire, were amongst the wealthiest and most influential families in Imperial Russia. They held many high commanding ranks in the Russian military, governorships and were given title of "Count" (Граф graf), which in Russian society was the third highest, the first obviously being the rank of Tsar, followed by Prince (Князь knyaz) - a Russian prince was not necessarily royalty, but more equivalent to a western Duke. Notable Sheremetev's include Yelena Sheremeteva, who was the third and final wife of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich (1554–1581), the son of Ivan IV (better known to history as Ivan the Terrible), and Fedor Sheremetev, cousin of Tsar Mikhail I and head of government in 1613–18 and 1642–46.

During the revolution, the line that led to the current Sheremetev's stayed in Russia. A handful were executed, but one became a party man and ardent supporter of the regime. By the time of the union’s collapse, numerous members of the Sheremetev family had served in the government, military, and KGB throughout the existence of the Union. Boris Sheremetev, father of Ivan, was a member of the Council of Ministers when it was dissolved in 1991, and Anastasia Sheremeteva, Ivan’s mother, was a high ranking member of the KGB. During the upheavel of the economic shift from communist to capitalist, and mass privatization of the Russian and post-Soviet state economies, both Sheremetev parents were killed in highly suspicious circumstances. Their murders remain unsolved, though were blamed on Bratva’s. The Sheremetev’s had already taken part in Gorbachev’s attempt to create a mixed socialist economy, and during the post-Soviet transition period, they bought numerous government contracts and assets, primarily in the arms, oil, and energy industries, quickly establishing themselves as Oligarchs in the new world order. In the modern day, all Sheremetev assets are controlled under the banner of Sheremetev Enterprises (Шереме́тевы Компании Sheremetev Kompanii), often shortened to SKomp. Due to the industries, and their closely maintained friendship with the Russian government, the Sheremetev family is amongst one of the wealthiest in Russia and the world at large.

Ivan Sheremetev, current head of the family and their business, is the only child of Boris and Anastasia. Their respective jobs already came with a level of paranoia and strict safety measures in the family, but their deaths made Ivan far more cautious and obsessive. Ivan was a teenager when his parents died (somewhere between 15-18) and he’s basically become a doomsday prepper, but instead of a Zombie invasion or whatever, he’s more concerned that some goon will invade his house. Bitch has the most insane and overkill security system in the world, plus he does all that martial arts and marvel superhero training. And then he went and had kids, and somehow managed to become even more hypervigilant, makes them all take at least one “bad bitch, kick your ass” type class (judo, krav maga, etc). He rarely drinks in public, fucking nerd even drank gingerale and pretended it was alcohol so he could keep his wits about him. He used to masquerade as a party boy to keep people disarmed around him, but after adopting children, especially once he had the non-triplets, he just acts as the truth; tired father. 100% uses them as an excuse to avoid parties and the media (lol, he’s just a brooding loner type who has maybe 12 friends, and 5 of those are his kids). Ivan is bad at expressing emotions, but genuinely loves his kids, and is simultaneously the most laid back and most helicopter parent ever. The kids are out late? It’s okay, I trust them, and they’ll call if something bad happens. One of them fell off the monkeybars on the school playground? I AM SUING THEM FOR CHILD ENDANGERMENT!

𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐕 ➤AGE: 18 ➤BIRTHPLACE: Yakutsk, Russia ➤RESIDENCE: St. Petersburg, Russia ➤BIRTHDAY: March 21 ➤FACE CLAIM: Simon Nessman

➤PERSONALITY OVERVIEW: Overall, he’s a pretty decent guy. Big, big brother energy, also has a lot of dad energy, and is a mother hen. The type of guy that says “you kids these days”, even though he’s barely a year older. Rather sarcastic, but it’s mostly playful, loves a pun. Is pretty and petty, kind of a hoe, we got a male Anto here. Somersaults and does splits and other flippy shit completely randomly while walking, just ‘cause he can. He’s extra like that. Loves to tease his younger siblings, and will purposefully embarrass them, he will yell across campus to do so, “HEY ERASYL, REMEMBER HOW YOU GOT SCARED BY THE CAT LAST WEEK AND SNUCK INTO MY ROOM!” Has also yelled relationship advice and dating tips. Also more explicit tips. Despite his embarrassing tendencies, hoe nature, and general playfulness, apart from Feodor (the butler), Rodya is the certified adult™️ of the family, when any of the other Sheremetev kids have a problem, they all go directly to him, skipping over Ivan, who also goes to Rodya when he’s got a problem (but has great difficulty owning up to the problem too). Because of their emotionally stunted father, Rodya has become the emotional support of the family, though he certainly wasn’t always good at it. By the time Ivan brought Emil into the family, Rodya (around 13 at the time) quickly grew up to help the traumatized Emil adjust to the new family (lol, they’re all traumatized), and changed his previously dismissive and rude behaviour towards Adya. Because he took over what should’ve fallen to the parent, Rodya has a lot of buried issues himself, particularly a temper, which flares up whenever any of his family or friends are being attacked in some way. Insulting one of my brat’s? Lol, let me teach you what gravel tastes like. Rodya seems like the best behaved of them all, he’s outwardly the most polite and charming Sheremetev, but he’s the most dangerous and vicious of them all.

➤LIKES: Cereal (is possibly addicted to it??? Can eat it for any meal and as a snack, it is genuinely a concern), Tequila (this wasn’t intentional, but I’ve been going through dick grayson memes for inspiration, and I vote Rodya as Anto’s best friend, the Princess can suck it), he a Gucci boy, winter, ice skating, eurovision, Frozen and disney movies in general, will belt those songs out at any time of the day or night, but Frozen has a special place in his heart ➤DISLIKES: Brooding people (got enough of that in his family), clowns, lazy fashion (black suit, white shirt again? Fucking try my dude), teen language constantly evolving (what happened to thristing? wtf is simping?), overpowering scents (like axe, that shit gross yo, have some class) ➤HOBBIES: Gymnastics and acrobatics (has no interest in joining a circus, but it helps him feel close to his parents), boxing (needs to beat up anyone that might threaten his family), karate (black belt), coding/hacking, frolicking (lol, is that a hobby? Hanging out with the friends and the “kids” - his sibs)

➤RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHERS: Rodion gets along best with everyone else in the family, and is pretty much the lightning rod guiding them all back together. He’s grandpa’s (Feodor) sassy lil baby boy forever, and the only other person to sometimes have a brain cell, he’s dad’s (Ivan) pride and joy, not to mention emotional rock. Rodya feels so that Ivan doesn’t have to. He keeps Adya in check, is Emil’s idol, Shion’s best bro, and Erasyl’s actual dad (not really, but he parents Erasyl more than Ivan, so). When asked who’s their favourite member of the family, every Sheremetev without hesitation will answer Rodion (for himself, he’ll refuse to answer, he’s nice like that).

➤SHORT BIO: The first, and the favourite; Rodion was born as Rodion Petyrovich Kirilov, his parents, Petyr and Masha, were members of a contemporary circus (a la cirque du soleil, but smallers, and in Russia), as a rarity in the contemporary circus, the Kirilov’s were a circus family, but that’s more of an arguable point, since Petyr and Masha were individually trained, and they were only beginning to pass on their skills, etc to Rodion when the thing™️ happened. When he was 5, Rodion’s parents were killed in what seemed to be an act gone wrong (though in truth a jealous member of the circus messed with the rigging, causing them to plummet to their deaths). Ivan Sheremetev just happened to have been attending that very show, and also just happened to witness the murderer in the act, and relayed his information to the police. As an orphan himself, though he was much older than Rodya when his parents died, Ivan empathized with the young child, and adopted him on pretty much impulse. Because he is so much dumber than he seems (he eats burgers with a knife and fork), he was able to win over young Rodya due to being “funny”, and they established their own little family, Rodya quickly picking up Feodor’s sassy remarks, and becoming a little darling by Ivan’s side at fancy Russian events.

When Adrian was brought into the family, Rodya was far from the best big brother he is now. Adya came into the family with Rodya was 11 (Adya himself was 10), so for 6 years, he was the only child in Ivan and Feodor’s care, and was certainly spoiled by the two. Adya’s arrival sparked First Child Syndrome in Rodya, who absolutely detested having to share the limelight now with another kid. He was incredibly rude to Adya, and repeatedly referred to him as a replacement, which resulted in Adya lashing out and running away a few times as well. He’s really not proud of this, not to mention, he’s definitely where Adya learned that replacement insult from, and subsequently used on Emil. He eventually got over it mostly on his own, though got a nice little pep talk from Feodor about how all three (Rodya, Adya, and Ivan) are just lost children who need to find a family, and Rodya begrudgingly began extending an olive branch to Adya and trying to get along with him, even being the one to bring him back to the manor a couple of times. He was much better prepared when Emil arrived 2 years later and smoothly transitioned into the “Best Big Brother” mantle he has now, and continued being the best bro when Shion and Erasyl arrived, though the younger ones started having issues with not being the new baby anymore (lmao, welcome to the club you dorks). The day Rodion left for EHS was hilariously emotional, they were all crying ‘cause they didn’t want him to go, which in turn made him cry too. The other kids didn’t talk to Ivan for a week ‘cause he sent big brother away (overdramatic much, they’d be joining him in a year, two for Erasyl, anyway).

𝐀𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐕 ➤AGE: 17 ➤BIRTHPLACE: Moscow, Russia ➤RESIDENCE: St. Petersburg, Russia ➤BIRTHDAY: August 16 ➤FACE CLAIM: Sean O’Pry

➤PERSONALITY OVERVIEW: (1) angry boi. He’s so petty and broken, and like, just needs love? He had a less than stellar relationship with his birth parents, and does not easily trust people. Adrian struggles the most with being called a “charity case”, it’s not really the insult that bothers him, but the implication that he isn’t loved by his dad, because he can’t fully trust that Ivan genuinely loves him as his son (plus Ivan isn’t exactly a share-my-feelings type, so that’s no help). Adya is quick to throw a punch, and has no patience, at all. If something is bothering him, he reacts immediately, usually with anger. On the flip side, he’s also really sweet and a nerd. Like that trope of “Bad boy who picks up cats in the rain”, that’s him, to a T! He loves literature and can recite Shakespeare from memory alone (lol, and has the nerve to call Emil a nerd), and is generally rather prickly, but if you can shave down those spikes, you’ve got a friend for life in him. ➤LIKES: Poetry, plays, literature, shakespeare, history, mythology, tolstoy, dostoyevsky, the beach, whiskey ➤DISLIKES: clowns, drugs (just say no), cops (acab), fire (he’s a tad pyrophobic), enclosed spaces (also claustrophobic), being told what to do (not a fan of being controlled) ➤HOBBIES: Reading, studying (he’s such a nerd), weight-lifting (does that count as a hobby?), mixed martial arts, napping, homework (lol, lil mr. bad boy here is top of the class), drama club (backstage stuff and directing, also script) ➤RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHERS: It's complicated. When he first arrived to the Manor, he had a very teasing, bratty relationship with Rodya (he teased his new big brother, 'cause lol, dad loves me more now, you weren't enough), which Rodya did not like, but underwent the same crisis when Ivan brought Emil home and was much worse about. He has trust issues and has run away from home numerous times, but most of the time he went back on his own, or was quickly found by Ivan (and later Rodya). He deeply loves his family, but struggles with admitting it, and is fearful that they do not love him. He gets along the least with Emil, who was adopted 2 years after him, and frequently, to this day, calls him a replacement (something he picked up from Rodya). As both are aggressive types, he technically gets along the best with Erasyl, often teaming up to pull off shenanigans and teenage rebellion, but they constantly argue, and each views the other as the “stupid” one in their duo (lol, you’re both dumb). They’re also both super scared of Shion (she beat him up for talking shit). His relationship with Ivan is the most complicated, because he wants Ivan’s love and approval, but also refuses to admit that, though he does have it (even though Ivan struggles with admitting it too - they’re all so dumb).

➤SHORT BIO: The second one and resident “bad boy” (LOL, he’s so not), Adrian was born to Andrei and Olga Petrov, a regular working class family. Olga left them when Adya was 2, and Andrei subsequently remarried to a woman named Alina. Alina was a drug addict, as well as a drug dealer (she specialized in Heroin), which is how she and Andrei met. Both were addicts and frequently abused Adrian while high, when in withdrawal, and when completely sober. He was routinely locked out of their apartment and left to sleep outside in the freezing cold. Because of his upbringing, Adrian has had to learn to fend for himself, often resorting to petty crime just to survive. It’s how he met Ivan, as he was trying to steal the wheels off of Ivan’s fancy ass car to sell, but was discovered, and instead of trying to run, idiot decided I’m just gonna attack this guy. Ivan instead, decided to take Adrian in, easily getting custody of him from his birth parents and eventually formalizing the adoption. For this, Adrian is eternally grateful, and hasn’t seen his parents since the night Ivan caught him trying to jack his wheels (or however you say it).

The young Adrian was prone to tantrums, and often ran away from home, but was calmed down and brought back each time, usually by Ivan, a few times by Rodya, and sometimes he would come back on his own. The introduction of Emil in the family was a shocker for him, and made him feel as if he wasn’t enough, ‘cause who needs 3 kids? Not to mention, Emil, unlike himself and Rodya, came from upper society, so he felt a lot of inadequacy, which he dealt with by lashing out. He still dislikes Emil the most, even with Erasyl’s shouts about being the “blood son”. On the plus side, at least he mostly gets along with Rodya now. Technically speaking, Adrian is the youngest of the not-triplets (himself, Emil, and Shion), but having been adopted second acts as the oldest, and gets away with it due to his aggressive and independent nature.

𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐕 ➤AGE: 17 ➤BIRTHPLACE: Greiz, Germany ➤RESIDENCE: St. Petersburg, Russia ➤BIRTHDAY: July 19 ➤FACE CLAIM: Louis Hofmann

➤PERSONALITY OVERVIEW: A very good boy, he is just the fucking sweetest, he could give you diabetes. But he is a Sheremetev sibling, and thus also is PETTY AF! He fucking logs every wrong another sibling has ever committed against him in a digital diary, and has the receipts when he complains to one of the “adults” (aka Rodion mostly, sometimes Feodor or Ivan). Emil is the “smart” one (lol, he’s got an IQ of 187, but will also blindly accept anything Rodya says as fact), and so he uses his brains to psychological torture Adya and Erasyl when they get on his nerves. He’s utterly savage when it comes to a comeback or witty comment, and can be impatient when it comes to letting someone else be in charge of technology (dies inside every time someone types www into the address bar). He makes a conscious effort to model himself after Rodya (apart from Rodya’s hoe-ing), to emulate that nice, caring, dependable thing that Rodya has, and was a super adorable mini-me when they were younger. Has insomnia, from a mix of nightmares from repressed trauma, and staying up online at all hours of the day and night like a typical zillenial. Runs on caffeine and candy.

➤LIKES: Technology, he a computer geek, rococo, baroque, champagne, pastels, sunlight, summer, acrobatics, the circus, von gogh, monet ➤DISLIKES: slow wifi connections, laggy computers (like excuse you windows, but I need those 4 browsers with 50+ tabs each, you know me, figure it out), blood, erasyl ➤HOBBIES: computer engineering (is that a hobby, or just like a life goal? The latter probs), coding, tattling on adrian and erasyl, planning elaborate ways to get back at adrian and erasyl

➤RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHERS: In general, he gets along with his siblings, with two glaring exceptions; Adrian and Erasyl, both of whom view him as an unwelcome replacement, well, for Erasyl, he’s a placeholder (which, I mean, calm down, we all know who dad’s favourite is - Rodya). Emil gets along the best with Rodya, whose parents he saw perform live once before their deaths, upon his arrival to the Sheremetev manor, witnessed Rodya pulling off a similar stunt on the banister (which gave poor Ivan a heart attack) and immediately became obsessed. Because they both had a strong brotherly bond with Rodya from pretty much the get go, Emil and Erasyl argue over Rodya the most. Aside from Rodya, Emil and Shion are rather close, though she doesn’t open up much, the two often team up against Adya and Erasyl.

➤SHORT BIO: Born to Heinrich XXVIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz and Elsa von Hohenberg, the last scions of the Elder Line of the House of Reuss, and born as Heinrich XXIX, Emil is the heir to the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, which was technically inherited by his cousin, Prince Heinrich of the Junior Reuss line (they’ll all named Heinrich in the honour of the Emperor who enobled them - lame). His parents were killed when he was 12; his death was subsequently faked alongside theirs and he was taken in by Ivan, a friend of his parents, for his protection. Emil witnessed his parents' murders and was covered in their blood when he was found by the guards, the incident clearly left him traumatized, and for the most part has shut out the memory, though he still has nightmares about it, which contributes to his insomnia.

When he was first brought to the Sheremetev manor, Emil was very withdrawn and solitary, often staying by himself in his room (with the doors and windows locked) or sticking by Ivan’s side. He was slowly brought out of his shell by Rodya, though this immediately sparked jealousy and insecurity in Adya, beginning their “rivalry”.

𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐀 ➤AGE: 17 ➤BIRTHPLACE: Susaki, Japan ➤RESIDENCE: St. Petersburg, Russia ➤BIRTHDAY: January 26 ➤FACE CLAIM: Dilraba Dilmurat

➤PERSONALITY OVERVIEW: Seems like a brooding, silent, lowkey scary type, but really she’s just introverted. Doesn’t interact if she doesn’t know someone and/or it’s unnecessary. When she talks, she’s savage and witty (lol, despite them not being blood related, that’s a trait all the Sheremetev’s have). She’s honestly super dorky, loves shit like Naruto and One Piece and Batman cartoons (has declared she IS batman). Shion loves messing with people and will always make up shit to throw people off, she loves the whole concept of being the mysterious loner type, and there’s equal chance she’s saying a true fact about herself, or it’s another joke to fuck with you. ➤LIKES: Messing with her brothers, dark colours, ➤DISLIKES: ➤HOBBIES: ➤RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHERS: Quiet. Because she’s generally rather reserved, it’s not quite evident upfront how close or distant she is to her family, since she’s physically generally off doing her own thing, however, like her other brothers, she is close to Rodya, and tends to hang out with him when she has nothing else to do (she be the designated driver for the hoes - she could drive since she was like 12, yes, she had to heels and creative methods to reach the pedals, but she could drive).

➤SHORT BIO: Born as Orihara Shion, Shion is the daughter of Orihara Chinatsu, the former third generation leader of Sesshō-Kai (殺生会), a Yakuza based in Kōchi, her father is unknown, but is or was presumably a member of her family’s Yakuza. From the moment she was born, Shion was separated from her mother and raised in secrecy for her protection, as well as education, as per Chinatsu’s instructions, she was being raised to one day take over the Yakuza.

Technically speaking, she is the oldest of the “triplets”, but is treated as the youngest of the three, having been adopted last, and she’s pretty okay with it. Got to be doted on as the baby before the brat (Erasyl) arrived.

adopted when she was 13 (dick 14, and the other two 13 as well)

𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐘𝐋 𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐕 ➤AGE: 15 ➤BIRTHPLACE: Almaty, Kazakhstan ➤RESIDENCE: St. Petersburg, Russia ➤BIRTHDAY: August 9 ➤FACE CLAIM: Bright Vachirawit

➤PERSONALITY OVERVIEW: ➤LIKES: ➤DISLIKES: ➤HOBBIES: ➤RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHERS: Terrible. He’s very insecure about his father’s affections and always gets into fights with the others, particularly Emil and Adya. He’s scared of Shion, because the one time he managed to anger her, she threw him off a balcony (he’s fine, just traumatized - technically, Rodya once beat him too, but that was to teach him a lesson, Shion was straight up trying to kill him). Erasyl gets along the best with Rodya and is very possessive of him, especially since Rodya tends to pamper him and treat him like a child. Very quickly gets jealous when Rodya spends time with the others, especially Emil (You can have father, but Rodya is mine <- has actually said that, out loud).

➤SHORT BIO: The baby, Erasyl is the only biological child of Ivan

the only biological child (15), a brat, was a real bitch to them all, but started respecting dick when he beat him, and is now super attached to him

𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀

➤MOODBOARD: https://urstyle.fashion/styles/2594157 ➤SCHOOL WARDROBE/AESTHETICS: https://urstyle.fashion/collections/115802 ➤PLAYLIST:

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Engaged Jay Ellis Explains Why He Keeps His Relationship Low Key & How Fatherhood Is Kicking His Butt

In a candid interview with ESSENCE magazine, Jay Ellis opens up about his relationship with his fiancée Nina Senicar and how becoming a first time father while filming for "Insecure." Get it all inside...

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@jayrellis is using self-isolation to recharge. After filming season four of @insecurehbo and taking on numerous other projects including helping his mother produce her very first show— the new dad has chosen to embrace the forced slow down. “When everything kind of hit, it was the first week this year that I had not been on a plane.” Tap the in our bio for more on our new digital cover. Writer: @joimariewrites Photographer: @jassieuo Stylist: @mrdoorsee Groomer: Jhizet Panosian/@ForwardArtists Set Designer: John Geary/Celestine Agency Creative Director: @nialawrence_nyc Social Media: @randa_writes

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Being homebound is new for Jay Ellis.

The South Carolina native was super busy before outside got closed. After wrapping up filming the fourth season of “Insecure,” he teamed up with Tom Cruise to film Top Gun: Maverick, which was just pushed from its original June premiere date to one in December.

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Every revolution has its roots. Meet the pioneers tonight. Me, the cast and the crew are hosting a virtual watch party and live tweeting the first episode tonight! 6pm PT. @mrsam_fxonhulu #MrsAmericaWatchParty #FXonHulu

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He then flexed his acting skills in “Mrs. America” (starring opposite Uzo Aduba), which is FX's Hulu miniseries that recently dropped. He portrays philanthropist Franklin A. Thomas, the real-life former Ford Foundation president and CEO. And because he’s a thoughtful son, he also helped his mother produce her very first show, "Behind Her Faith," on the Urban Movie Channel.

Now, he’s stuck in the house like the rest of us. Before we were placed on lockdown he posed it up for the digital cover of ESSENCE.

“When everything kind of hit,” he told ESSENCE, referencing the state-mandated lockdown in California due to the novel coronavirus, “it was the first week this year that I had not been on a plane.”

The first week he self-isolated himself away from his fiancée Nina Senicar and their 5-month-old daughter Nora Grace Ellis. You may not have known this, but he’s a new dad and he’s engaged! He purposely keeps his relationship low key. And here’s why:

“I have always been like, ‘Yo, my family is the one thing on this planet, when it's all said and done, if it goes away today or tomorrow, it's the only thing that I have that's mine…I never want my family to ever feel they had to sacrifice…I never want that dynamic to change because at the end of the day, as we're watching right now in this moment, stuff comes and goes fast...”

In previous interviews, the “Insecure” star said he's not talking about his Italian model fiancée (then-girlfriend) in interviews because “I keep my personal life personal. I keep things private."

Jay and Nina made their red carpet debut at amfAR's Inspiration Gala in October 2015. Before that, they were spotted together in Milan, Italy and L.A.

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And just like that our lives got a whole new meaning. Welcome Nora Grace Ellis 8.11.2019.

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Fast forward to August 2019 – they’re new parents! They’re daughter Nora was born August 11th. And fatherhood has been kicking his a**, but he’s LOVING every minute of it.

”You get tired and you break down. You need a nap, you might cry, want to be held, whatever it is. But mentally and physically, you're probably stronger than what you actually thought you were,” he said.

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Got dressed up then drank too much... #merrychristmas #badsanta

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“That's one of the biggest things that I took away from it: I can do this. This is going to hurt. My eyes are going to burn because I'm tired, but I can actually do it, and nothing has to suffer. I didn't want to not be there for my baby. I wanted as much chest-to-chest time as I could get. I wanted all the bottles. I wanted all the diapers.”

“I wanted all of that, and I wanted to make my episode the best it could possibly be,” the new dad continued.

Aww!

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FIERCE FEMALEs

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Being on “Insecure” has allowed him to add some credits to his resume. He mad his directorial debut on episode seven of the hit HBO series titled, “Lowkey Trippin’.”

Issa Rae – the show’s creator & main star – offered him the opportunity after he shadowed director Melina Matsoukas during season two’s finale.

“She’s like, ‘Clearly you have a point of view, so I am open to it, if you are open to it.'” He rose to the challenge. And it was challenging. “I had stunts in my episode. I had sex scenes in my episode. It was a lot, especially for a first-time director,” he said, noting he couldn’t have done it without his director of photography, Michelle Lawler (Twenties, Boomerang). “I felt so comfortable. I just felt I was where I was supposed to be.”

Looks like he found another love.

You can read his full interview here.

Congrats Jay!

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Political Figures in World War 1

This is another list for my World War 1 Project. It will go from the most important person in World War 1. That’s basically it.

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5. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Yes, we’re talking about this guy again. He was born on December 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria. He basically grew up in a royal family. He was trained from a young age to inherit his family's throne. He fell in love with Countess Sophia Chotek in 1894. His brother, Franz Joseph, did not approve of their relationship. Fortunately for the couple, many people were on their side (Even the Pope! Wow! Relationship goals, am I right?), so Franz Joseph eventually relented under 1 condition! None of their children could become heirs to the throne, ever. Of course, they accepted these terms and they got married. (Yadda, yadda, yadda) Of course, that’s not the important stuff. The real reason this guy is on this list again is because he is one of the direct causes of the Great War. On June 28, 1914, he and his wife Sophia were assassinated by the Serbian terrorist group, The Black Hand.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is placed 5th on this list because he was, in a way, the whole reason there was a war in the first place. I placed him pretty low on the list because he didn’t really do much in the war except for start it.

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4. Nicholas II of Russia / Nikolay Aleksandrovich

Nikolay Aleksandrovich was born on May 6, 1868, in Pushkin, Russia. He was to inherit the Russian throne after his father died. He was crowned the Tsar of Russia on May 26, 1896. Based on what I’ve read about him, he wasn’t exactly an outstanding kid. To put it simply: He was average. Intellectually, he wasn’t much. (Not that he was stupid! That is not what I’m trying to say. I’m just trying to make the point that he was just really average.) He had military education from tutors and was very interested in the ins and outs of the army. (The physical exercises, parades, the insignias, etc)

Despite (supposedly) having a lot of charm, he was rather timid in nature. On the other hand, his wife, Alexandra Theodornva, was more outspoken and had a stronger personality than he did. Of course, how could they not fall for each other? They had 5 children together. 4 Daughters and 1 son. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. (Again, yadda, yadda, yadda. This is not the stuff you came here to read. Let’s get on with the interesting stuff.)

Let’s just say Nikolay didn’t have the greatest first impression on his subjects. On the day of his coronation, thousands of Russian citizens were trampled to death. The couple's oblivion was not appreciated by the public. He made a bunch of other mistakes during his rule over Russia. During World War 1, on December 5, 1915, he dismissed his Commander in Chief in favor of controlling the armies himself. Unfortunately, without any prior war experience, to put it lightly, he didn’t do such a great job. Nikolay’s repeated failures sent Russia into political unrest and the citizens were sick of it.

On March 15, 1917, Nikolay was forced to step down from his position as Tsar. Originally, the plan was to send him and his family to England. Instead, they were detained (Well, they were basically held hostage) in Yekaterinburg. They were sealed away in a house where they would all be killed on July 16, 1918.

He is number 4 on this list because of his attempts to lead Russia. Sure, he tried to lead Russia to victory but he still wasn’t a good leader.

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3. Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill opposed trench warfare. He proposed a new plan of attack that would prevent more men from dying in the trenches. He proposed that they should send in several fleets to invade and capture Constantinople and use that land as a route to give aid to their allies, Russia. Unfortunately due to several factors (Weather, a lack of confidence in the plan, and just other things like that) would lead to a bloodier battle than before. 9 months after invading Gallipoli they had to withdraw all troops.

Winston Churchill is 3rd on the list because of his attempts to fix a bad situation. Also, his failures in this war would lead to the determined attitude he has in the Second World War.

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2. David Lloyd George

(I just realized that I don’t really want to do all the background stuff on the rest of the people. Sorry that you don’t get to hear about their love lives anymore but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. At least it’s easier to get to the point now)

David Lloyd George was a British statesman who got elected as Prime Minister during World War 1. During the war, he quickly realized that Britain needed better military force. He set up various ammunition factories across the country to keep a steady supply to the front lines. He also had a way with words. He kept high hopes in Britain while still keeping a ‘down to earth’ perspective.

He is number 2 on this list because he was a level-headed leader that successfully lead England to victory in World War 1.

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1. Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States. He served his second term during World War 1. He opposed the war in the beginning but when the Germans attacked he basically said: “Enough is enough!” He believed in keeping the peace but when his country was being threatened he stood up to it. Congress declared war on April 2, 1917.

He is number 1 on this list because of his values that led the United States to peace. That might just be the nationalist side of me but I personally think that Woodrow Wilson and his involvement in the war were the most impactful.

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July 3, 2019: Columns

Marie Lenderman was 80, now she’s 90

Marie Lenderman

By KEN WELBORN

Record Publisher

I had the pleasure of attending the 90th birthday party for a remarkable woman named Marie Lenderman on Thursday, June 27, at the Commons area next to the Wilkes Heritage Museum in Wilkesboro.

A good crowd turned out on what was a miserably hot day that seemed to turn cooler just in time for Marie's surprise party. And, a surprise it was.

For this column, however, I want to digress a few years.

I have known Marie for some time, and I was aware that, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, she delivered some remarks to the congregation of the Wilkesboro United Methodist Church on their annual Adult Recognition Day. By all accounts, it was a wonderful speech, delivered masterfully as only Marie could, and she made it a truly memorable day for all in attendance.

Well, recent circumstances (and good luck) have allowed me to actually hear Marie deliver that speech again, and, I too listened in amazement. Amazement at the delivery, yes, but more importantly at the things she shared from her heart 10 years ago.

Her speech is timeless, and, to that end, I want to share some excerpts with you today.

"Good morning, my name is Marie Lenderman, and I have to tell you that I would have never dreamed I would reach 80 years old. But, my friends, that sure beats the alternative!

"Last year on Adult Recognition Day, I barely missed being eligible to be rounded up to be an honoree at the annual 'Pity Party.' By escaping, I thought then...and hoped...that maybe nobody noticed my aging, but now, the whole church knows. But wait, you don't need to feel pity for us old folks...aging might not seem so bad...that is, if you haven't lost your hearing, had your memory take a hike, experience receding gums, or not know whether to take a pill or insert it.

"Or, as the unknown author says at the end of a poem, 'It is better to say, "I'm fine," with a grin. Than to let them know the shape we're in.'

"Another thought concerns my many years of walking by this church admiring the beautiful stained glass windows while on my way to school or my own church. I had never been inside and given the opportunity to appreciate their symbolic beauty until Tom (Lenderman) brought me during our long drawn-out courtship of two weeks (which evolved into 27 years of marriage.)

"I am thankful to still be a part of this congregation and, yes, I am still in awe of the stained glass windows. But...all this beauty does not make the church...it is the people and how they relate to God and to others. This philosophy is actually put into play early on with how we have lived our lives, and the way we judge life's ups and downs. Sure, we've all experienced pain, trials, misfortunes and sufferings, but if we hadn't been down in the valley, how could we experience the highs of being on the mountain?

"Never, never, entertain the dangerous folly of thinking as we go through life's journey ‘I have arrived and reached my destination now and my journey is finished. God has no further use for me.’

"Breathe IN the relish of the moment; Breathe OUT regrets and fears. Stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Laugh more, cry less. Pray and give thanks for your blessings. Breathe IN life's joys as we go along living, and breathe OUT our fear of death.

"May God continue to bless this church and its present day saints, just as He has its saints of the past. Thank you."

May 30, 2010

Marie Lenderman. She was 80, now she's 90; and she's still a wonderful, kind, remarkable soul. She is one of those folks I have only one complaint about—that I have not been privileged to have known her all my life.

Iran Partnering with Russia

By EARL COX

Special to The Record

(Editor’s note: This is in part a message from Magen David Adom, which is Israel's national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service. The name means "Red Shield of David."

The burgeoning relationship between Israel’s most powerful enemy, Iran, and world superpower, Russia, is not good news for Israel. And the news is getting worse.

An Iranian Defense Minister met with a Russian general in Moscow last month, for the purpose of renewing their “determination to bolster military and defense cooperation.”

Iranian Army Commander, Navy R. Adm. Hossein Khanzadi announced that Iran and Russia are preparing to conduct a joint maritime drill in the Persian Gulf.

Israeli media reported that Iran has begun operating a precision missile factory in Latakia, Syria, near the Russian Khmeimim Air Force Base with the support of the Syrian government and Hezbollah.

The assessment of Israeli Energy Minister and security cabinet member, Yuval Steinitz, is that "things are heating up.”

Concerned by intelligence reports that Iran was transporting short-range missiles by boat, the United States sent the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, a squadron of B-52 bombers, and batteries of Patriot missiles into the region following “clear indications” that Iran intended to attack.

The head of Iran’s aerospace division, Amirali Hajizadeh, said that the U.S. aircraft carrier “now it is a target . . .”

We hoped for peace but no good has come,

for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Jeremiah 8:15

Iran has a population of 87 million — nearly ten times the population of Israel — so Iran alone would be a formidable enemy.

But in recent years, it’s no secret that Iran has been cultivating military proxies — helping Hezbollah build an arsenal of 150,000 rockets in Lebanon, funding Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, supporting Syria and Yemen. And now Iran is courting Russia.

Iran and its proxies have encircled Israel, watching for an opportunity to attack. Israel is in real danger.

Your prayers and your outspoken support for Israel are greatly needed. Pay close attention to those running for public office. It’s critical that the United States of America stand in solidarity with Israel at every level of government. God says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who do not. God bless America. Happy Independence Day!

Brothers Found

By CARL WHITE

Life in the Carolinas

Have you ever wondered what would happen if one day you receive a phone call with news that you may have a brother or sister you knew nothing about?

Wilkes County barber Gary Beshears received a call toward the end of 2018 that would be life changing. His son, Josh, had been working on their family genealogy for some time. While he was enjoying the process, he wanted to go further back in time and see if he could find out more about his family origins.

Josh was curious about the possible information that an Ancestry DNA test might reveal. So, one day he ordered the test, followed the directions and patiently awaited the results. When they arrived, what he discovered was far more than he had ever imagined.

Josh was looking for his family’s roots; He was not expecting to find a close family member he knew nothing about, but that’s exactly what happened.

This Carolina story has several interesting twists and it all started before Josh was born. Some 50 years ago in Michigan, a young boy by the name of Dennis Proctor was doing a bit of exploring in his parents’ room. He had no idea that the box he would find and open on that day would set him on a lifelong journey.

The contents of the box lead Dennis to believe that the man he knew as his father was not actually his biological father. Filled with confusion and emotions, he ran to his grandmother’s house; she listened and together they shared tears as she was unable to answer the question as to who his birth father was. That was the start of a 50-year journey that would lead a man from Michigan to the third-generation barber shop at the top of Second Street Hill in North Wilkesboro.

Many things would happen between those younger years and now. Dennis would have many great adventures in life including a career as a history teacher and a passion for capturing images of wildlife. Dennis would also make family trips to the Shelby area to visit the Proctor side of his family.

Meanwhile in Wilkes County, a young boy, Gary, always wanted a brother. He was envious of others who had brothers to go hunting, fishing and just to share life with.

When Josh first called to let him know that he may have a brother, it took a little while for it to sink in. I asked how he felt about it. His very natural and likely common response was, “I’m not really sure how to feel about it. If we had known each other when we were younger, he could have come to visit and spend the summer. At least we would have had the opportunity to grow up together.”

But that’s not the way it worked out.

After several emails and calls, Dennis asked Josh if he thought Gary would do the DNA test as well. Gary agreed and when the results arrived it seemed to make the case even stronger that they are indeed family. With this news, Dennis invited the Beshears family to visit Michigan. He even offered to send the airplane tickets to fly everyone up.

There was only one problem with this offer, Gary always stays close to home and an airplane flight was not an option. With this development, talks of a Carolina trip started and the schedule was set for a June visit that would coincide with the Beshears family reunion.

The day arrived when Dennis and his wife pulled up in Gary’s driveway. Gary said when he saw Dennis get out of the pickup it was just like seeing his dad 20 years ago.

Nephew Josh was also part of the welcome committee. Gary said it was like they had known each other their whole life.

Josh got more than he bargained for when he ordered that DNA test. He now has a new uncle, Gary finally has the brother he’s always wanted, and while Dennis did not get to meet his birth father before he died, he now knows who he was, and he did find a brother and that’s a wonderful thing.

Life is full of surprises!

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