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I agree with your comments and I worry about the young folks that buy into those internet sites and the pictures and comments. Also, though, I think of the makeup industry. All those products so we don't look our age or so we "improve" how we look. I'll tell you now, I'm proud of every almost 72 year old wrinkle. I've earned them. I've cried, I've laughed. Each one is a memory of challenges that almost broke me or of the happiest moments of my life. Keep writing, Dascha. I love the forum you have created for making me think, for gaining perspective and for sharing ideas.

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Thank you so much, Laura. People get to see the real, unadorned me. No make up. I agree that we've earned whatever our faces have to show.

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I started writing a story about a woman whose home is so large that she didn't realize she had a squatter 😄

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That's brilliant! I love it.

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Thanks! One day I'll finish it. It's in the midrange of the to-do list.

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I have so many book ideas sitting in that midrange. And another, new idea in development!

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Do you have any available presently?

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The only book I have published is from 2013. It's on Amazon. It's called "The Hundred." I would certainly write it differently today, but it's decent. There's a short story on Amazon as well, called "Chameleon." I still really like that one.

My current series is 4 books in. I'm either going to serialize it (a new platform, to which I've been invited to beta, is in development but taking much longer than anticipated), or release all 4 at once with the first free. I still have lots of revision for book 4 which I'm hoping to get to next month.

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Cool! I'll check out what you've got on Amazon.

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A squatter! Didn't see that coming. I bet all the empty homes could be put to good use, maybe not? Hmm

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People need somewhere to live. Why not use homes that are sitting empty?

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I didn’t know busking paid that well. 😉🎸

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Yup! You should give up teaching and busk full time. Maybe you'll find an abandoned mansion!

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Yeah. That will happen. 🤣

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