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Hi Barbie! You’re invited to my 61st birthday party! July 30 | 5pm 6895 Sabado Tarde Rd, Isla Vista Leave your Ken at home! No gifts please.

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Taylor Swift cured my depression

Hearkening back to last year’s writing challenge about a “turning point,” I want to revisit: The depression that rooted in the pandemic, lifted 3+ years later on my 60th birthday while in Tanzania, Africa. Although there were many steps along the way that contributed to the lifting of my depression e.g. medication, time away from

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UAE

Sunday, May 26 Sweet sleep, a non spicy nibble at breakfast, and a long rest resulted in the best I had felt on the trip. My goal was to have one day that I was well. The conference hotel was Conrad (Hilton) and very fancy. Walking on the sidewalk in the UAE 111 degree heat,

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Taj Mahal

Friday, May 24 Still nauseous, DH2 called an Uber rather than us taking the train as scheduled. Thank you. We traveled 4 hours plus a stop for food of which I did not partake. Arriving at the Oberoi, we snaked through a lush entry to the entrance of a beautiful hotel with monkeys playing in

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Jim Corbett National Park

Tuesday, May 21 We hired the trek driver, Krishna, to continue his service so he drove us to Jim Corbett national park. Along the way we stopped for lychee, bananas, and mangoes, marveled at the cows, and for butter paneer lunch. Our first safari had the most exotic animals. We glimpsed a tiger moving through

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