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Life in The Upside-Down's avatar

Fucking awesome. Thank you for this. I'm hungry for more.

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Life in The Upside-Down's avatar

Wahoo! Can't wait.

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Mark Kureishy's avatar

Any woman voting for Trump is beyond my ken. Any woman at all.

Brilliantly put, Maria!

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WomanofNoImportance's avatar

Femicide is bout to be popular again…. F these people.

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Keith Fey's avatar

For someone far from USA...your views are very welcome...Ducking Foresome!!!

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Maria Lachapelle's avatar

Keith! You hail from lands unknown and untouched and yet you found me and Dear Mrs. White Lady, sitting in a marsh in the Lowcountry.

Thank you for reading my work. Doubly so for taking the time to comment.

I am enjoying your poetry and your photos, paintings, pressed flowers—your views of the natural world around us. We need such views right now.

We need lovely folks to remind us that there is still beauty in this world—even as we ourselves feel discouraged, disconnected and heartbroken.

hugs, -m.

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Keith Fey's avatar

Some of the most beautiful Souls live in the marshlands..

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Maria Lachapelle's avatar

Awww 🥰

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Catherine Valencia's avatar

Brilliant piece! Frightening, but Brilliant. Thank you.

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Judith Abingdon's avatar

He has already put language into one of the bills regarding gender that decides gender at conception due to chromosomes, in effect making abortion murdet. Slipped that one by.

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Ruth's avatar

One quibble: pulling our girls out of activities they love (if they love them) will be devastating for them. It also amounts to obeying in advance, IMO.

Other than that, brilliant piece. I’m menopausal, but maybe I should start stockpiling those meds for other women. Hadn’t thought of it til now!

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Linda's avatar

So it's good to be prepared but pointless to panic. Some of this stuff has been in the background shuffling around for years (like the bit with you name and your birth cert matching) but has never been tested legally. A married woman, when she gets her driver's license has to prove provenance so she shows her marriage license with her birth cert to get her married name on her license...right..you all hear me...right. So be prepared but don't panic.

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James Moore's avatar

Miss Maria, it’s a sobering representation or understanding of how life is going to be for women minorities undocumented people in this country over the next four years, because it seems to me everything that Trump is planning on doing affects women and minorities and undocumented immigrants to this country. The only safe people I foresee out of the information you presented in this essay is white men. white men are safe. white men have nothing to worry about. you know this is a huge defeat for America and equality for natives, blacks Asians, Hispanics. This is just a horrible day for America. And you’ve hit the nail on the head.

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