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Name: Lyndasushan

Birthday: January 30

Gender: Female

Status: Single

Ethnicity: Other

Religion: Spiritual

Location:
New Mexico
United States

School:
I've attended many schools in my lifetime, life.. itself has been quite an education! I never could decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, so I decided never to grow up..then I decided to grow up, but not to grow old, and still, not to settle for just one thing! Who made up that rule anyway?

Work:
Currently I work with an agency whose goals are to address the needs of the senior citizens in my state of New Mexico. We work with the Aging and Long Term Services Dept., with Counties, Cities, with private nonprofit organizations, with state and federal agencies to design and administer the programs that meet seniors' needs today and plan for the future. I love my job!

Hometown(s):
I was born in Grand Island, Neb., but I have traveled and lived all over the world! I've been sort of a gypsy, but I've settled in the beautiful state of New Mexico, for now. I learned a long time ago, the one thing you can count on is "change". The wind may call my name, and tomorrow I could move to.., well, that's tomorrow!

Quote:
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" "We are what we pretent to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." "Mother Night", by Kurt Vonnegut

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About Me

I'm single, live alone, love my job and get to travel alot thanks to my job. Mostly I travel around my state of New Mexico, which is great, because it is beautiful. We have the most amazing clouds here, I could watch them forever!

Interests:

I used to exercise at Curves and laugh alot with the other women there!! But now due to some health issues I must take it easy! Belly dancing, latin dancing, country western line dancing, and good old rock and roll....I still love to dance, just at a slower pace!! I love to read, mostly mysteries, who dunit's and why! I love movies!!

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David's final return

I couldn't sleep one night, so I just sat up looking out my little window. I remember it was raining and I couldn't see out very well. I remember the car lights coming and I knew it was the middle of the night, and everyone was sleeping, so this made me curious! So I got on my robe and slippers really fast and snuck down the stairs to see what was going on and who was this late night visitor to the orphanage!I couldn't help myself, I did so want to be a spy when I grew up, I remember smiling at the thought!

I couldn't get very close to the front where the doors were, but I could see the people and hear the rain. I recognized the evil one, (the headmistress) and then I saw David! He appeared to be with the two adults who took him away, but I wasn't sure, everyone had on rain coats. David looked so small and he didn't look so good, he looked sickly. I got scared, something was wrong, I thought. Then I thought, if I got caught I'd really be in trouble, adults, only pull really sneaky stuff like this, in the middle of the night, cause they don't want you to see them! If I got caught, it'd be curtains for me! I scurried back to my room and hid.

Although I tried to sleep till morning, of course my active imagination conjured up all sorts of scenarios, so I didn't get much rest. Come morning when I did have to get up, I had to try and appear calm (ha!) that's a laugh!

Later I found David in the sick ward, he was very sick. He couldn't talk or wake up. I got scared. I hid under the bed and listened, they said he had pneumonia. I had that when I was really little, I knew it was serious, my Grandma said I almost died! I hid under his bed for a long time, and prayed for my friend not to die. I cried and cried, then I crept back to my room.

Then next morning I tried to sneak back to check on him, it was Sunday, so there was no class, but he was gone! I went down to the kitchen, there was a lot going on, I hid under the counters, so they wouldn't see me, but so I could hear them. They were talking about the "poor little thing" "he's gone to be with his mother now", blah,blah...blah..." What! his mother was dead---all this time he waited for her and she was dead! they never told him! I lost it I came flying out from from under the counter..Stomping my foot like some angry elf, demanding to know "who is gone to be with his mother?" Were they talking about David? Tell me! Tell me now you evil Penguines! "Who is poor thing?"

They looked at each other, the fat cooks and mumbled "oh my" or something else stupid, then said "Votre petit amie Cheri ", I screamed, I cried, I shreaked, and in my mind I really told them off. I told them that his name was not poor thing "He had a name and it was DAVID!" In my mind for years after that, this is the way, I saw that. In truth, now that I am much, much older, they were so upset by my rampage and scurried around trying to catch me, and I was crying and screaming, that they probably never even heard what I was actually saying, but in my childish rage, I really felt like I had told them off!

In my mind they were as guity, as if they had killed my friend with their own hands, because they hadn't told him the truth about his mother, they just let him sit there day after day waiting for her, and they knew she wasn't going to come, she was dead. If he had known maybe he wouldn't have gotten sick, maybe he could have gotten on with his own life! Instead, David came back to the orphanage, only to leave again, this time never to return..... I lost my friend again, for the last time.

Added: February 10, 2009
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