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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • the us military had an usually large presence at my university and it included a pilot training program for the navy and air force.

    interacting with the students made it clear to me that pilots and wanna be pilots seem to be cut from the same ugly-american-esque cloth and i’ve always wondered if it’s the same outside the united states with people like gagarin, since i know it’s the same with the british, french, and argentine.







  • the us border patrol held us for questioning in separate facilities – one for each one of us – for 72 hours when i was 6 years old with immigration officers violently accusing each of us of lying and threatening us with legal action and imprisonment, but i scared so shitless that it all felt like 30 minutes. my sister and i have had to pay thousands of dollars for therapies over decades to overcome it; while my other siblings continue claim that it never happened, but my younger brother’s sudden bedwetting immediately afterwards and my oldest sister’s embrace of substances and behavior also make it clear that they repressed it.

    that experience makes my heart go out to the children that are put in dramatically worse situations like this and i shudder to imagine how much harder they’re going to have to fight to overcome this experience; assuming that they don’t just repress it an act out instead.

    at the very least, it sounds like the spanish are doing better than what the obama administration did.