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Dear Centenarian Mary,
Congratulations! We made it to the big ten-oh. I hope 2065 is treating us well and that we haven’t run out of money. Seriously, we’ve lived 8 years longer than our financial planner modeled. (I hope I didn’t fuck us by retiring at 58.)
In case you’ve forgotten, 2024 was quite a year. If the United States is now a dictatorship under Baron Trump, it’s not due to lack of effort on our part. We worked hard to try to stop his wretched orange father from overturning democracy.
Hopefully things took a turn for the better in 2025—the year we turned 60. Hopefully. Fingers crossed that we get to go out on a high note.
Love,
Middle-aged Mary
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I’ve always wondered what he thinks when he looks in the mirror and sees that orange face staring back. He keeps going back to the well. It’s baffling.
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Hopefully he’ll be seriously regretting all the women he’s assaulted when he looks at his bloated orange face in the mirror tomorrow. The E Jean Carroll money is due Monday! 83.3 M!! Karma, finally. All hail E Jean.
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Dear Centenarian Mary, If Baron Trump is the dictator at that time, Canada is always an option if it has not been taken over and made into the 51st state. Regards, Greco😁
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Thanks Canadian friend. Believe me, I thought about it in 2016!
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Fingers crossed his awful orange father won’t become leader for a second time. This is the first election that we’re actually scared. 😦
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Fingers, toes…cross everything! It’s terrifying that he could take over again.
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