Those first years of experience and exploration are so intense and sensory

This has all changed now: my childhood home is a shopping mall and we know what is happening to the elephants. Kenya shaped my psychologically, too. The racial conflict was very complicated for me. This was the 1960s, the post-colonial decade, and there was a lot of blatant racism, maybe a bit like the South here?
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Mayme:
I ask her if she's ever hurt anyone.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
But she got talking about her ex and how he hurt her.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
She was flirting with me and she even put her hand on my thigh.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
We bumped into each other at random and we got talking with a few beers.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
And as they say; You never get over your first love.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
You know everyone has one of those persons that just sticks for whatever reason?
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
She wasn't my first girlfriend, but she was my first real love.
(16 August 2016)

Mayme:
I met my ex for the first time in 2 years.
(16 August 2016)

Dodie:
Why do they call peanuts peanuts when they don't have peas in them?
(16 August 2016)

Mariella:
How to know--or find out--if I'm being used just to get a green card?
(16 August 2016)