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I Am Afraid To Get Online

That is a good thing, I suppose, I have been doing my exercises in the morning to delay the time when I need to get online. I hope I continue that practice.

Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons
8 min readJun 21, 2020

It hurts to see the trauma and chaos.

Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash

As an empath, I am crushed by the challenges I see being revealed.

It pulls me back to my school days in southern California.

Good old Bell Gardens and Long Beach.

I know that turf.

It is not “as smooth as a baby’s bottom” like the good old rural Midwest, where people raise families, grow old, and die in the homes they were born in.

Pedophiles and traffic dealers on nearly every corner, even forty-some years ago.

Racial tension was the norm.

I have a love/cringe relationship with Mr. Iglasias on Netflix. Gabriel (Fluffy) Gabe Iglasias is one of my favorite people! As IF I could have such a thing! Sorry Gabe. I have a special…

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Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons
Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons

Written by Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons

Atonement, His (Christ’s) Story, Three Temptations: Addiction, Power-Hunger, and Depression, “Seeing” Truth in the “Unseen”, Living Above the Chaos C U there :)

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