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Posted On: October 31st 2026, 02:04 am

Get out and vote baby
#vote #2026election #mlm #dem

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13 hours ago

mlccsa

💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 ⭐GO VOTE ⭐

13 hours ago

Queridos americanos, Vocês não estão sozinhos. Nós brasileiros estamos com vocês! Por favor, votem pela democracia! Votem pela dignidade das pessoas! Votem contra a guerra! Votem pela justiça social! Votem!

3 days ago

itsmarleedavis

That’s riiiiight 👏👏

3 days ago

metrodetroitmara

Ayyyyyy bayyyy bay

3 days ago

jackruewhyte

I called you those out of endearment

3 days ago

haoinseattle

PeriodT

3 days ago

shawn_lt

Who tf called you ugly???

#view #niceview #beautifuldestinations #wonderfulworld #amazingplace

Ik gebruik graag tweedehands, vintage en oude spullen in mijn kerstversiering ✨️🎄. Maar dat is best onhandig als content creator. Want de meest gestelde vraag is natuurlijk: 'waar heb je dat gekocht'? Of 'mag ik een linkje'? 😬

Heel vaak is het antwoord: dat heb ik al jaren. Of dat heb ik op Vinted gevonden, in de kringloop of in een brocantezaakje. Sorry 🥹. Ik vind het ontzettend leuk om naar oude spullen op zoek te gaan. Niet alleen omdat het beter is voor de planeet. Maar ook omdat oude, doorleefde spullen zorgen voor diepgang en persoonlijkheid in je interieur. Júist omdat ze uniek zijn en je ze niet overal tegenkomt.

Ik zou je daarom willen uitdagen! 😄 Als je een mooi filmpje of een leuke foto ziet, denk dan niet meteen: waar kan ik precies hetzelfde kopen? Maar vraag jezelf eerst eens af; wat spreekt me hier nou zo in aan? Hoe kan ik dat op mijn eigen manier thuis toepassen? Misschien zelfs met spullen die ik al heb? Of door iets wat ik zelf kan maken?

Mocht je trouwens nog inspiratie zoeken voor het gebruik van tweedehands spullen in je kerstinterieur, reageer ff met het woordje 'oud' in je zin. Stuur ik je een linkje naar een blog met allemaal ideetjes! 🎄

#vintagekerst #kerstversiering #kerstdecoratie

Chapter 38: The Neighbor

How well do you actually know your neighbors?
Not at all. And they know even less about you.

A long visa process isn’t only bureaucracy. Part of it is deliberate — months of waiting, so you find out whether you actually want to go.

I never found the doubt. What I found was time.

My course started later in the year. Every document I owned was already in an inbox belonging to Papi’s secretary. There was nothing to do but wait and answer questions about why.

Then I went to the consulate to fix a line on a form.

The waiting room was full of people watching a number on a screen as if looking harder would move it.

My neighbor was there.

Same building, same floor. Married, easily twice my age, and we had never once said good morning.

He was called up before I found a seat. I caught three things.

A destination. A date. Something about documents still missing.

Then he lowered his voice.

He came back and sat down.

Men look. Not all of them and not always, but enough that you stop noticing. He didn’t look. Not once, in twenty minutes, four seats away.

I know that for a fact, because I was watching to see if he would.

That was new.

Then his number came up again.

He picked up the folder and stood.

And walked to the door instead of the counter.

I’ve thought about it since. The boring version is almost certainly true. They’d told him something was missing. There was nothing left to do in that room.

He wasn’t hiding anything from me either. We’d never spoken. He owed me nothing, including an explanation.

At the time I didn’t want the boring version.

I went home with a man, a folder and a destination, and I’d invented most of it.

I was also home at hours I never used to be, which is how you learn a building. Who leaves early. Whose dog that is. Which neighbor takes the stairs.

He took the stairs.

That week I started saying good morning.

He said it back. That was the entire event.

And I started taking the stairs.

Nothing happened. He was polite, and always on his way somewhere.

And I kept doing it.

#movingabroad #visaprocess #neighbors
#anaschuwaltz #anachapters

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