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Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s okay.

    Really messed me up, tbh. Told that my purpose as a woman was to get married and “please my husband”, no matter what.

    As a teen, my desire to like boys never manifested. My youth pastor would preach about how women were princesses whose desire was to be saved by a knight, and men were knights seeking adventure. I always wanted the adventure, and I was completely ostracized for it.

    Imagine being told that your purpose is to be loved, then realizing that your true self is something nobody will ever love.

    It’s disturbing, and I was severely depressed throughout my entire young & teenage years.

    (it got much worse, but I don’t want to go over that. Just know that I escaped that shit eventually.)















  • I’m banned from Hollister.

    As a teen, my sister & I were trying on clothes, and we realized that it was nearly the alloted time when our mom was going to pick us up. If we were late… there would be hell to pay and we wouldn’t to be able to go out for a while. So I scrambled out of the clothes, and, in a rush to not drop any of the stuff I was trying on, I stuffed it all into a pair of pants and draped it over the hanger for clothes you don’t plan to purchase outside of the dressing room. We thanked the attendant and headed for the exit.

    Suddenly, she was following us. As we exited the store, she yelled from the entrance “You are banned from ever setting foot in here again!! I will call security if I ever see you!!!” pointing at me. I was already in a rush, so I was confused af.

    The only thing I can think I did was putting clothes in the pants…? Did she think it was a shoplifting attempt…? But I had legt it behind…? I dunno.

    Anyhow, I’ve literally never purchased anything from there before or after. I hung with goth kids. I was just there because my sister liked it. Lol Plus, it was so ridiculously dark in there, you could barely see anything anyhow. No desire to shoplift their tiny, low-quality clothes. Ever.

    It closed down years ago. I still remember that angry woman & how stunningly confused I was lol

    EDIT: oh… the title says “fun places”… oops.

    Well… to make up for wasting people’s time, I also got banned from our local county fair because my sister’s idiot friends were throwing coins at people from one of rides that went up in the air.