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WndyLady

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I work in with traumatized teens. There are times where they need to be isolated from their peers, but I agree that solitary is not therapeutic. Research and experience easily demonstrate that.

The reality is, though, that these systems are so underfunded and understaffed that these detrimental tactics are the only viable option.

I’m not defending the practice. I would never work in a system that uses solitary confinement with adolescents, but I have the luxury of choice.

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Roku may dispute that the breach and the TOS change are related, but the timing is certainly suspect.

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They better hurry up and remake this so Lady Gaga can get the part.

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“I call Rule 34 on Wolfram’s Rule 34.”

It should be a Rule to include the hover text.

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All the seriously messed up stuff aside, this line made me giggle.

Some inside the White House called McEntee’s staff “the Rockettes and the Dungeons and Dragons Group.”

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Yeah, but if they help themselves to a nap, it’s aiding a bedding.

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When she smiled

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Heya, friend. I identified strongly with your inner monologue, if not from the same cause. I’m peri menopausal. I hope it brings you a bit of comfort to hear that many other women are having the same thoughts and feelings.

If I can share what’s helped me: I went back to a strategy I learned in my adolescent years… Sometimes confidence breeds confidence. I do my best to practice it until it becomes internalized and “exuded.”

As you move through your journey, know some old lady in Baltimore is rooting for you.

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When I was in high school, I hung out with a guy named “Gooch.” Curiosity got the better of me, and I asked why everyone called him Gooch. Turns out, it was his last name, not a nickname as I’d assumed. No lie: I told him with a name like that, he’d end up as a supreme court justice or junky.

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I very rarely use YouTube, but I’ve noticed that when I start listening to older top 40 or contemporary bluegrass, those videos drop in

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