On the subway in NY recently, a nice guy offered to give me his seat. I think I was only a few years older than he, but I have totally white hair. He doesn't. No, I am not that old, but my genes (and who knows, life stresses) have led me to white so much earlier than most people. It has been hard to accept. I don't even have grandchildren yet. Lots of people tell me to color my hair... go back to brown, or go to blonde they say. I tried that for a few years... too much trouble, too messy, the gray grows out in a couple of days. I think it's gross to see people who color their hair and if you happen to see the crown of their head and there are the gray hairs sticking out.... it looks bad.
Why do we all want to look younger? Because being young means feeling more attractive, more desired, more admired. What happens when a women "gives up" and lets her hair go gray and her wrinkles show? Actually nothing. My husband likes me just as much (even more, he says I'm more "natural" ) - and old guys seem to flirt with me more. I don't respond, but it does feel good to know that even though I'm no longer a skinny 30 year old with brown hair, I am still ok looking.
And no, there won't be any plastic surgery. I will go into the future normally, no alterations. I want to remain who I really am. If someone admires my nose or my hair, I can honestly say it's mine!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/fashion/29Skin.html?_r=1&hpw
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Will this baby benefit from the Dream Act ??? - A legal question :
I watched this story unfold in the National Geographic Channel : a Happy Birthday, Multinational Birthday Party trough the Border Fence. Two worlds apart, and a cake is divided for the guests.
A robust and healthy Super Baby like three years old is in the United States.
Mommy is in Mexico, and they pass the birthday cake pieces, through a small hole in the border fence, with a wire net like what I have used for my hens, chicken and even for my pigs.
The Super Baby is happy healthy sturdy fatty, there are many reports that Latinos in the USA are healthier than the TRUE UNADULTERED PURE Americans. This has been researched by the most serious scientists in Public Health and is not BS ( see my MILENIALS.COM for the Latino Paradox of Public Health and many links of Scientists, this is not blather ! )
Is it that the lower human subspecies are very strong apes ??? ... Like Gorillas, Orangutans, Chimps, Bonobos ??
The Birthday Party is very happy with lots of singing and eating cake and ice cream, but Mommy weeps when she leaves the happy event.
She says that she doesn't want to live in the USA, too many risks in crossing and some tough, rough guys that give the UNWELCOME. She doesn't want to end her life with a bullet inside her head in the loneliness of the desert.
MEXICO LINDO Y QUERIDO is more peaceful ( she is not in the drug wars ), and life walks at a lower pace that in the running race of the USA, the lady says.
Better to sleep a beutiful siesta in Mexico, than meet the Coward Scoundrels, also called Minutemen in the USA.
But things are changing very fast, as fast as cells multiply inside bodies. And as Geraldo Rivera recently said : Latinos are going to transform American Society at the end of the 21 century.
Geraldo was not talking of the Spanish Language replacing the English Language, he is not an idiot like many foolish racists that live a life of Paranoia and Fear. Geraldo is a man of kindness and humanity for all. No need for scapegoats and underdogs, that is for LOSERS and FAILED LIVES.
I hope to get the birthday party in video, so that you can enjoy it, and shed a tear at the end.
More tender and beautiful stories and plenty of material to laugh and weep :
Raciality.com
Vicente Duque
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