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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 2/4

    My weight plummeted to 160 pounds and then slowly returned to 180 where it stuck—give or take a pound or two fluctuation—for the next twenty-three years.

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 1/4

    I am one of about 4.3 million Americans with a vegan lifestyle, which is about equal to the gay population in the US.

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    Twisting History for Fun and Profit — maybe?

    Many people that go to movies worldwide read nothing about history let alone read books and they walk away from seeing movies believing this is how it really was.

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    Greed is Universal – a human trait

    Someone had stolen her Social Security number when she was age 9 and set up false identities and more than 42 accounts. All of them had defaulted to the tune of $1.5 million dollars.

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    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: According to Vietnam: Looking Back at the Facts: “About 5,000 men assigned to Vietnam deserted and just 249 of those deserted while in Vietnam.” Then there were crimes other than rape. Near the end of my 1996 combat tour, the armorer of our gun company was caught selling weapons on the black market…

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    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: “Rape and the mutilation of women’s bodies are evidently part of the usual military fare in war. During the Vietnam war, rape was in fact an all too common occurrence …” Source: Karen Stuldreher, Political Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle For example: “An August 1967 atrocity in which a 13-year-old Vietnamese child…

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    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: I started writing my next novel “Running With the Enemy” in 1981 as a memoir of an American Marine serving in Vietnam in 1966. In 1981, I was working toward an MFA in 20th century American literature/writing at Cal Poly Pomona where I earned a teaching credential in 1975 – 76. I never…

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    From Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” to God’s chosen

    About 1% of the US population is gay while there are more than 310 million Americans and 75% are fat and a third of those fat people are obese—that’s more than 232 million people.

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    Barber Shop Quartets and Amazing Acappella

    Their motto is “Life is music and music is life.”

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    Stunning and worth sharing.