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Robin Aldan
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“I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers,
and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”
God had made a mistake. That was the very first moment in my life that I realized that I was not alone, that there were others who were different - in whatever way they might be so.

The young girl's name was Kristin Chenoweth.

🙏❣️ @kchenoweth.bsky.social ❤️💐
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
...this small little girl who had been running after him. She froze as she saw me and the thought that popped into my head at that moment was (exactly), "Finally, a fellow alien." She eventually ran past me and into the home.
Not knowing that I was a homosexual, I simply thought that, with me...
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
...coffee, I went outside to kill time. A few minutes later, his friend runs by me on his way to the door and I remember my reaction being the equivalent of, "Damn, another mouth-breather." A few seconds later, I heard a voice calling after him and as I turned I was stopped dead in my tracks by...
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
...get along and become friends. It was not to be as he was, definitively, a future heterosexual and he could easily tell, even though I was only about nine-years-old, that I was not. While he was waiting for his best friend to arrive for a play date and my mother and her friend rebonded over...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Please forgive me in advance if I have related this before:
In 1970/71, my mother took me to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (not far from where we lived on the (then) south side of Tulsa) to visit her best friend from high school. She had a son a little younger than me and it was hoped that we would get...
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
a man and a woman hugging each other in a room
ALT: a man and a woman hugging each other in a room
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Greetings, Glenda❣️
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I was lucky enough to live in New York from 1984-2000 and saw the 1989 screening of "Napoleon" at Radio City Music Hall. Would happily stand in line for hours to have a chance to see it a second time.
www.nytimes.com/1989/06/18/a...
FILM; 'Napoleon' Campaigns In the Battle for Preservation (Published 1989)
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thank you(❣️) for bringing all of us such a consistently quality product.

P.S. already looking forward to making my Super Lucky 2026 Black Eyed Peas early on New Year’s morning.
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Reposted by Robin Aldan
At their nadir, it’s been written, she and her children foraged for salad greens; there are multiple stories of travelers encountering the Empress in third-class train carriages and public buses.

Today, I was reminded of all of this because of another headline.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Famed Florentine diamond surfaces in Canada after century-long disappearance
Empress Zita brought stone to Canada as Nazis took over Europe in 1940s and it remained in bank vault ever since
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My grandma would heartily agree with you about salad; when my aunt asked her to add a vegetable to her dinner every night, she popped a bowl of popcorn and chased it down with a good-ish bourbon on ice.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I completely agree!
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Bless you❣️
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Goodnight, Glenda❣️
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Wonderful❣️
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thank you (❣️) for bringing this to our attention; I just ordered my copy.
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM