" 'Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you'...that's a mouthful in it's original English, ya know? Did I pass the language test?
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Right, well...uh, listen, I really don't like being around my Grandma too much. But she's the one who taught me that, really she did.
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That my Mama was the passive water and soil and that she accepted Papa as the winds of life carrying seed, growing me, like a hybrid flower of sorts, their zodiac signs are the same masculine/feminine thing. Shame that my mama's from a conservative family and that she's a slut and a traitor...and a...and a...and she sold out, man! Ah yes, agriculture! Two farmers exchanging seeds and calling each-other bad! But grandma never really did like making due with imports...ahhh, cultural appropriation is bullshit, man! That's what Grandma said about inter-ethnic stuff...hey, I really like potatoes...but I failed Grandma! I let her down, man!"
-Magda Zorilla Nagi, definately not sober
