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Is that urban planner yelling into the Internet again? // @grenadine.bsky.social
Detroit area!!!!!
Joined April 2007
Here is some context for Oakland & Macomb being unwilling to spend a dollar south of 8 Mile on the RTA.
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There's a stereotype that renters are bad for an area, that we don't care about our homes or our neighborhoods. As someone who has had to fight tooth and nail to get sewage removed from my building, it's the LANDLORDS who don't care about their homes or the block.
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Honestly the way that the entire federal government discussion about removing mask protections on transportation has focused on PLANES and not city buses tells you every goddamn thing you need to know about those who are calling the shots in this country.
JUST IN: Federal judge strikes down the CDC's mask mandate for travel on planes and other forms of public transportation
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Hi I’m a constituent of wonderful @RashidaTlaib and a descendant of Holocaust survivors. Stop using Jews as a bludgeon to hit outspoken Muslim women with! I love my Congresswoman and my badass activist survivor grandparents would have, too.
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@suesswassersee Apparently the comms department at a university here was making students write wikihow style instructions AND UPLOAD THEM TO WIKIHOW and wikihow actually contacted the department and told them to stop.
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All of those "oh renters don't care about their possessions, they don't take care of their housing" "renters don't invest or put effort into the community" stereotypes are actually true statements about LANDLORDS, not tenants. Make and *enforce* policy accordingly.
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@juliettemitchel @MoniqueK___ @LosFreaklander Someone stole a shipment of senior indoor cat food off my porch last year. Whoever stole it probably has a nice shiny coat now.
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@chaeronaea I got a “no offense but you don’t understand what tired is” Facebook comment out of the blue a few months ago from an acquaintance who is a new mom, who never interacts with me otherwise. .
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@chaeronaea . I live with chronic pain and spent the summer recovering from a concussion. Yes I do know what it is to be tired.
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@punished_cait As someone who used to run a historic preservation organization this is a real thing!! . Especially for certain types of older/softer brick . Replying partly to reassure u before the “well actually”s flood in.
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Which one of us doesn't care about the building: . Me, the person who has spent over two weeks on the phone and considerably harmed my own sanity trying to get the sewage and mold removed, or the absentee landlord that needed two layers of government to compel him to clean up??.
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Which one of us doesn't care about the community:. Me, a person who made graphics to help people know about the ballot dropbox and who aggressively got a bunch of my neighbors vaccine appointments, or the dude who lives an hour away in a white flight community & takes our money?.
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@NifMuhammad I was a spelling bee kid. I once asked them for a definition because I wasn’t sure if the word started with A or E, so I wanted to see how far they opened the dictionary to give me a hint.
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@TomKilianArt A current cat and a late cat of mine also would mess with my abuser, going so far as to trip him and semi regularly stealing his glasses. They knew.
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@DeeLaSheeArt I saw a thoughtful tiktok from a music teacher about how the lack of both music and theater training for the kid was immediately obvious to her, and how the parents could have absolutely afforded that training if they wanted to put her out there like that.
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Landlords should be required to let you live in their house while they make your place liveable again. Bet it'd be nice real fast.
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@ScottHech @NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor Ramsey Orta, who filmed the killing of Eric Garner, does not even have toilet paper right now. He’s at the state prison in Marcy. They are purposely denying him hygiene.
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In "remember this city" local history FB groups I see posts from ppl who white flighted out that "no one cares for their property anymore.". It's not the ppl who live there, it's likely yr next door neighbor in the white flight burbs who isn't investing into their rental property.
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Actual anti-semitism is dramatically on the rise in this country, but the only time when conservatives pretend to care about Jews is when a Muslim congresswoman opens her mouth. Fucking stop it. We don’t consent.
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Accurate (said with affection).
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@TomKilianArt Aw, one of my cats was by my side as I recovered from surgery. Both of them came running to check if I was okay one night when I was screaming from a pain flare.
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@birdbrainmd3 I had to go to war with a landlord a couple years ago and was texting him summaries of our phone convos to create a written record. She just. emailed you. She just wrote it out!.
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Sorry someone told you to pull a mask up over your nose when you were flying across the country again!. High risk people without cars just want to safely get to work.
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@crulge @EladNehorai I am so sorry. My old landlord was around 90. He lived downstairs from me and would watch SO MUCH Fox. He believed the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse were coming.
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@kittynouveau The Wendy’s I go to just closes at 4 now and everyone deals, somehow society has not collapsed.
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@RobynElyse @suesswassersee It’s even worse for kids who are Black. Or kids who are homeless. Shoutout to the draconian dress code and security at the mall by the library where I used to work, ugh.
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Anyway this feels bad. If anyone has Mao's number let me know.
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@gabrielledrolet This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Especially how all the riverfront parks in my city close at 10. Sometimes I need to be near the water and think at night!!.
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Please stop calling appropriated AAVE something gen z came up with. Most of the words on this map came from Black people. It’s embarrassing how many times I hear my fellow white ppl poorly riffing on young ppl speak and it’s just AAVE, often terms that started w queer Black ppl.
??? this was definitely made by a millennial. also god damnit I fucking hate corporate memphis style, with the stylized polygonal people, cut this shit out already
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Damn. This article says the little recycle arrow symbols on most plastic were created by the plastic industry to promote the idea that all plastic could be recycled, and they made things harder for the recycling industry
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@MohamadZoror @punished_cait This is Yazzy! She was riding around under the hood of a Ford Focus during the Michigan winter until we lured her out. It took FOUR HOURS for us to convince her that a can of tuna was better than staying inside the car, but now she’s ours!!!
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HIGH RISK PEOPLE HAVE LIVES TOO, ASSHOLES. WE WOULD LIKE TO STOP WALKING ON EGGSHELLS BECAUSE YOU VALUE NOT PUTTING A MASK ON OVER OUR ENTIRE WELL-BEING.
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@cyreejarelle Also do folks think people with chronic illness do not also have mental health? I would love to go out and Do Things and feel different too, and yet.
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@pangmeli I read that post and I think about it periodically too, like when I look at my carbon monoxide detector I think about that person.
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The corned beef egg roll was invented by Vietnamese immigrant Kim White here in Detroit. They are AMAZING.
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God I love historic preservation .
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I am very lucky to have car access because at this rate I have no idea when public transit will be safe for me to ride again. As a chronically ill person in an ONGOING PANDEMIC. I am so angry.
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Already seeing people say Tr*mp is ideal because he will lose. Bestie, as a Jew, I do not want this hateful man platformed for the next year and a half.
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@bundlandia @riseandgrindcor My godfather John passed from AIDS when I was really young. I mostly just remember how safe I felt around him. In memory of the Jo(h)ns 🕯️.
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@pervocracy @sarahthemoose I’m boosted & I helped dozens of people get vax appointments. But I feel like “don’t help unvaxed people at all” is aimed at an archetype that doesn’t reflect my city—the reality of getting ppl their shots and building trust in light of medical racism, is complex & not easy.
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@spoonful116 @BeingCharisBlog I feel so bad for the housekeepers, the continual exposure of them is not okay.
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Why go to war with Detroit over pizza when Chicago should be fighting its natural pizza enemy, St. Louis.
You're making the right decision, @GretchenWhitmer: traveling 300 miles just to get better pizza.
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There is a concept known as “thin places”, where it is said that the veil between this world and the next is thin. You can sense the numinous around you, even if you cannot describe it. Where have you been that felt ‘thin’?.
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@LUSHHFOREVAA 20 is a "child," but Tamir Rice at 12 and Trayvon Martin at 17 were not seen as children by their assailants. Oh.
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@medickimw @jenneccentric We’re even getting to the point in Detroit…. I saw someone post a 2 story house for $55k and thought “What’s wrong with it? Is that a scam?”. You can get a janky one that needs work for that, but not a finished tidy one.
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@shannonstacey @readinglibraria As a former library worker you have some of those patrons who just plow through stacks of the books they love at top speed!. We had one patron who would check out six to ten books several times a month and the impression I got was she made it through them all.
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It’s mulberry season in Detroit!!. It’s wild to me that you can just go outside on your block and get free nutritious food that grows all over the city as what many consider to be a weed tree. 📳 tweeted from twitter for Mulberry
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@courtneymilan @roslyntalusan My mutual’s UPS guy warned him it’s coming bc he gets a lot of temperature controlled packages.
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@alexjenny_ Lmao I love places like that although that doesn’t help you out at alllll. My all time best key cutting experience was a guy at a hardware store here in Detroit who cut 6 keys for me without setting down or putting out his cigarette. All the keys worked.
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Ripping away protections on transit. The way people get to work and school (it’s the school bus in Detroit for many) and to see their parents & friends. I wonder how much of it is contempt and disregard for disabled people and how much of it is simply not thinking of us at all.
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@frogs4girls @hannastasia My fav worker at my neighborhood grocery store has told me about how knowing how hard you have to work in America was one thing he had to consider when deciding to come here from Yemen. (He has indeed run a grocery store while getting a masters degree on the side).
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I’m sitting here thinking “hmm is ours Saline or Ypsilanti” when I live in HAMTRAMCK.
Every state in the US must give at least one town a pronunciation that is inexplicable and specifically designed to easily identify outsiders.
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Even for those of us lucky enough to work from home, even for those of us who have eliminated entire aspects of our personhood to stay safe, “just stay home haha” and the policies that come from it means we can never fuck up….
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One of my least favorite & most "This is weird, why do people not talk about it as weird" things about the Detroit area is how the Pointes & burbs north of them have privatized the shore of Lake St. Clair. You pretty much can't go to it. It's a giant lake & I forget it's there.
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The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue is coming to kill you. Choose one (1) other world monument as your champion to defend you
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That Hayden transit guy is on this affordable housing space I’m listening to. Someone who has done a lot of work in low income housing in Vancouver just gave heartfelt testimony about the issues there and Hayden laugh reacted her.
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Let me share one of my favorite photos I took at the Wayne State encampment over the weekend.
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I cannot overstate my respect for the woman who called in to the DDOT Community Input Meeting FROM ROSA PARKS TRANSIT CENTER today to tell them what is wrong with it. They asked clarifying Qs and she's like "I'm here right now! Let me see. ".
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…We can never need anything unexpected, anything outside of the tight little routines we’ve been forced to weave for ourselves. Bc people won’t even mask for us.
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@roywoodjr I had a driver tell me his city layout conspiracy theories / metaphysical theories. I’m an urban planner so I was like OKAY LET’S DISCUSS. Pressed him for details but he didn’t have any.
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I have been putting off RSVPing to the wedding of a friend I’ve known for over 20 years. Saying no… is just… I’m in denial about it. But this eliminates any pretense that flying would have been okay 💔.
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@TheAngryEpi @Arrianna_Planey I knew the guy who owned one of the first bars in my city to go smoke free, and I asked him how it was going and he said business was up 15%. They really claimed it would kill business and they were wrong. Just like now.
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@coff33detective @inaoifeble Strongly agreed. As a former local gov't worker, I tell people contacting my fellow bureaucrats to be polite, firm, and RELENTLESS. Don't start w trying to cuss out whoever answers that phone, but make sure they realize you are not gonna stop until things change.
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Reminder that the man who filmed the murder of Eric Garner is still in prison as retaliation for it. He gets out next month. Let's welcome him home with support.
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This has to feel so good if you’re a house.
saw this on fb, very much here for the people gutting out grey crushed velvet houses and restoring them to their original style.
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Once again, anything before buses that show up frequently and on time.
Detroit will become the largest US city to accept cryptocurrency payments for taxes and other city fees. The city will use a secure platform managed by PayPal. Detroit is also inviting blockchain entrepreneurs to pitch ideas for civic applications to pitchdetroit@detroitmi.gov.
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@__MrMarshall Hi Gene! I stopped paying rent because I haven’t been able to live in my apartment for over a month, after over a foot of sewage came into my building during a flood and the landlord ghosted us completely for multiple weeks. I really don’t care what my landlord “”goes through””.
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In local food news, there’s a curbside Polish dinner at the church in my Hamtramck neighborhood. You pull up, give them cash, and they bring out your meal(s) to take home. I assume they would be okay with walk or bike up, they were pretty chill last time. Everything homemade.
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The full moon pictured with my primary spiritual advisor, the Celebrity Car Wash sign
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@ElSangito My sister is a high school teacher and the kids are DELIGHTED when she uses that one.
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@pervocracy @sarahthemoose Vax rates are still low here in Detroit. Denying care to unvaxed people would harm communities like this one, which has already been through hell with this thing.
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The rents people are charging for places in Detroit are UNREAL. You know I love it here, it's been almost 12 years here, but you can't charge $1000 and $1500 and $2400 in a city where both the transit and electricity are wildly unreliable. This flooding ass city.
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@ian_c_bell @Kevbot716 @mpdqueer @kittynouveau I bet the curtain door is great for keeping five animals out when you want a moment without them.
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@KSAnimalRescue @RepChuck this is your constituent in Kabul. Please help her contact the person making decisions in Kabul Airport, where she currently is.
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@1goodtern @sleepyknave Coming from a family of teachers, even if “kids don’t have consequences from covid” were true (it isn’t!) uhhh another group of people are famously also in classrooms all day long.
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@MsKellyMHayes A friend I knew in St. Louis was beaten by police to the point that his orbital socket was fractured, for "loitering" aka waiting for his friend outside 7-11. "Loitering" brings violence on vulnerable people.
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@KSAnimalRescue @RashidaTlaib my friend runs this organization in Kabul and they are trying to get their animals out (as well as their staff). They are in the airport, they just need permission to put the animals in cargo.
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@tortellandy @grapejellykelly @geraniumkate @ser_pez @ChadwickNnola @NicoleHenderson I used to work in Flint and hi, the water crisis is not a bludgeon to hit trans people with. You can care about multiple things at once! Like nonbinary Flint residents do! It’s easy actually!.
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He made it to 100 power lines drawings and the 100th one is real good!!!.
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Never ever believe an Ilitch rendering.
10 years ago this week we got our first look at what would become Little Caesars Arena.
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@bergopolis as an actual bureaucrat, my files have: crinkly much-used sheets, varying hues of white paper, paper clips, scribbled notes, etc.
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@StopAntisemites @RashidaTlaib Photos here:. 1) Houses on Georgia and Maxwell, not in her district, demolished several years ago.2) Packard Plant, also not in her district and currently being demolished.3) Not even Detroit.
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@HustleAndFro_ Cash free is ageist, too. Kids don’t have cards. The concessions area in the building where I work makes cash so complicated that it’s effectively cash free, and the kids coming to get tutored end up putting their food back :(.
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@prisonculture List of people to call on behalf of Ramsey Orta, who filmed the killing of Eric Garner and who is being targeted by guards at Midstate Correctional in Marcy, NY:.
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@briangerard13 @LowRhoUfo @AlexGodofsky @cruelsardaukar Don’t forget this architectural banger with its geometric golden screen.
Minoru Yamasaki would have turned 108 this week. Here is his gorgeous Reynolds Metal Company Sales Building (Southfield, MI, 1959). It incorporated as much aluminum as possible to showcase the company's signature product.
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@Kevbot716 @mpdqueer @kittynouveau My mental picture upon reading it was an assortment of actual cool old house doors. This is worse.
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Amazon is delaying opening their new warehouse in Detroit. Those 1200 jobs they dangled over us to get what they wanted have turned to 1100, and who knows when those will even start. This is why preservationists said not to let them tear down the Fairgrounds.
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@TomKilianArt Since this is getting a lot of attention, if you wanna chip in for this protective beast’s vet bills and high five him for sassing my abuser, my cashapp is $OrangeCatDetroit and I can provide PayPal info via DM. He has a granuloma we are treating.
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I’m at the abandoned velodrome. Does anybody need anything
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@latkedelrey There is a mustard museum in Wisconsin! . They have so many kinds in their shop that they will do a mustard tasting for you.
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@revhowardarson @poisonjr That makes more sense. I used to work at a library reference desk and while that was a while ago, "If you're gonna look at wikipedia, check out the citations themselves" was considered just fine advice.
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@Phil_Lewis_ Reminds me of this Lewis and Clark statue in St. Louis, which got the floodplain placement it deserved
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@MatthewSBernier @lingerie_addict Man yeah my old apartment even had a clothesline in the yard… right by the tree I was allergic to.
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One of the great pleasures Detroit has given the world is listening to music in your car real loud.
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