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Gets dark so quick nowā¦ ugh
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I have extremely dry/coarse heels. I donāt do anything about them because theyāre in the perfect place to easily scratch my lower legs, which get itchy a lot
Whichever is most convenient (for me)
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I was born in Ukraine during the Soviet Union years, raised in Cuba, my parents won the immigration visa lottery and we came legally to the US. I'm now a US citizen.
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Homies who escaped communism unite!
My family left the PRC, and my girlfriendās family fled Cuba. Weāre big fans of life here šŗšø
I discovered an invasive species of eel as a kid while at summer camp. It was verified by the Smithsonian.
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This is awesome!
I was in a bank when it was robbed on Valentineās Day. And Iām deaf in one ear.
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Iām deaf in one ear too! š§āāļøš¦»Getting a CRoS hearing aid changed my life.
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š¤I canāt swim but participate in many water activities and I can drink many seltzer beers
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Iām ambidextrous and never had a PB&J sandwich in my life. Iām also scared of horses.
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I'm also ambidextrous, a premie, and afraid of horses... Seriously, those things are massive and do not like people
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I snort when I laugh too hard. š½ my friends call me Piggu. š·
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I have a twin who used to talk for me up until middle school so I had to take speech classes in order to get caught up š„² this is why Iām shy
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When I was about 17, one night I was sleeping in my roomāwhen the door flung violently wide open and a red spirit forcefully rushed into my room and pounced straight into my chest. I was spazzing out on my bed, chokingādesperately crying out for help on my head. I could sense the pure evil nature of the spirit...at that point in my life, I was in a mentally, emotionally low point, and I knew that the darkness in my life had drawn the spirit. My family members also had experienced strange things beforeāmy mother got baited into a fanatic religious group in her youth and had weird things happen to her after she left itālike getting choked in her sleep, becoming locked in the bathroom from the inside. My cousin also once woke up to find a pale, long-haired woman on the floor bowing to her. These things from the past send shivers down my spine when I remember them, but it is what it is.
This is called sleep paralysis and is relatively common. Some research has indicated that it could be genetic.
I spend most of my free time knitting š„²
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I am congenitally missing all of my wisdom teeth. I will never develop them.
Lucky! I only had one, but then of course I went and had complications when that one was removed. My cheek got air trapped in it and swelled up like a balloon, looked like a chipmunk for a whole week.
My grandfatherās 1st cousin was the famous ātown crierā munchkin in the Wizard of Oz.
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My birth father was a convicted felon
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Iām also a crack baby and my birth mother was a prostitute. Now Iām in consulting.
I had a dream about a person I had never met in 2015 whom I ended up running into at work three years later and was able to describe in detail (per my dream) the apartment he grew up in, location of the apartment ona n island, nearby beach, the color of the building, number of the building from a group of apartments, floor number, his room, his name before his parents renamed him, scar on his body, exact rib he recently broke etc. I have never been to his place of birth and never met him before the accidental run in at work. We share the name meaning in two different languages and other odd things, like a single genetic black line through our thumbnail etc.
Oddest thing that's ever happened to me, and him I'm sure.
One time I forgot a suitcase at a restaurant on my way to the airport. The police actually located me (I didnāt have my name on the tag) to make sure I wasnāt a security threat because unattended luggage seems to be an actual risk
My favorite biographies and autobiographies are about old US mobsters and itās my favorite era to read about in history. I know way too much useless info
I can do a really convincing large dog bark.
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I've had to have two courses of rabies shots. If I get bitten again, I'll need to get a blood test before I can get it again.
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Wow!!
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I survived being dropped on my head, getting a foot stuck in a moving bicycle wheel and a volcanic eruption. All before the age of 2. Turned out okay though š
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I see you, SM1
Iām allergic to tarantulas; their āfurā, not eating them.
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This is so interesting! I had a friend who had this problem with hedgehogs, only found out when he handled one in college.