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Poignant story. Covid exposed who your real friends are. You are better off without them.

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Mar 13Liked by Bridget Phetasy

Welcome to the middle. Everyone is welcome.

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Mar 13Liked by Bridget Phetasy

A lesson about not being, or hanging out with self righteous jackasses. Big egos, moral posturing and then the chickens come home to roost.

I don’t even know if I have sympathy, if this person didn’t have the cysts she might still be an ignorant grandstanding liberal lecturing everyone.

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Mar 13Liked by Bridget Phetasy

Beautiful story. Wonderful self-awareness. Bodes very, very well for you.

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Mar 13Liked by Bridget Phetasy

This commentary lost me at the end with the use of "compassion". Compassion = naivete'.

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The cult like behavior over a vaccine made no sense then. It's absolutely crazy now, and there are still people who think like that. If we're living in a simulation I would to formally request a transfer to a different one where Trump was never president. Because I think that just broke everyone's brains.

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Sadly this isn't a surprising story to me. I've lost quite a number of friends for not going along with the CoVid narrative. Definitely makes me less willing to go hang out with many people.

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Massachusetts, and Harvard, were founded by Puritans who were fanatical zealots, and those roots run deep. Thank you for your inspiring letter and your courage in facing your mistakes. We all make them, but only the wise learn from them. You sound like you'll be a wonderful mother. Keep speaking up for a better future!

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You can feel pain over the loss and still understand and accept, that these are not true friends. Covid was a true test.

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With me, it started with defending the Covington kids to my old friends from high school. We sure did some stupid stuff almost half a century ago, maybe cut these boys some slack? (This was before the full details came out). Oh no. THESE boys were evil. Total reality check.

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Well done! Wait till you start thinking about economics. Then the lib %# really hits the fan.

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Call me smug.

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