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Recent photo of a little boy visiting the White House. He wanted to feel Obama’s hair because he wanted to know if the President’s hair felt just like his. Obama obliged. Priceless.
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I will say things/get mad at things that make no sense.
#I’m psychologically fucked up
Rooney Mara for all the awards!
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She is just so cute.
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Meet Omari. Two days ago he returned from the hospital after being hacked in the face by a machete defending an orphanage of 35 children by himself.
This man dedicates his life to take care of 35 orphaned children from the ages of 2-17 in Kenya. A couple of days ago a group of thugs raided the orphanage to pilage anything they could find, after beating and slashing Omari’s face for defending the children and himself from a previous attempted attack.
The only thing the children are living off of right now are things growing from their small garden, and eggs from a couple of chickens in their coup. Reddit looked to aim to raise $2,000 a couple of hours ago to help build a concrete wall around the orphanage with a 3 layered barbed-wire coil set on top.
In 3 hours, over $11,000 has been donated - and all the extra money is going to feeding them, giving them an education, keeping these children (and many more) safe, and building a new facility.
Please feel free to donate here:
http://www.longonoteducation.org/
Remember, anything counts!! Lets see what we can do in 24 hours! :))
Up-to-date progress can be tracked: here.
Am I allowed to gush at you all again? Am I? When do I cross the line from being grateful and being obnoxious? Or worse, gloating?
Because I was just talking to my dear sweet friend Sophie about how, even though I’m having another tough day physically right now, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be down. I, for the first time in sooo many years, actually have a future in my line of sight. I dropped out of college a few years back because of this, I haven’t been able to work. I’ve been a useless bum for so long because of my health and I never really assumed I would live for all that much longer. But now, thanks to everyone and your beautiful fucking hearts, my life is so close I can almost touch it. For quite awhile I stopped making future plans in my head - no “when I get old” plans or “within a few years” goals - because I had this mysterious crippling pain that no doctor believed and so I couldn’t see myself having a future. But now I’m already thinking if I should go back to school, and what I would study if I did, or what kind of job to get when I can work again, what career path would I like to go down.
I don’t want to be over-dramatic. Soooooooooo many people have it way worse than I do and I’m not going to sit here and moan and groan about how shitty life is, because fuck! Life is AMAZING! I mean, look what just happened! It’s been three days and my life has done a complete 180 and you all pulled me up out of the mud.
Okay, I really am just rambling at this point. I just want to express how truly, truly, truly grateful I am to everyone. And not just for the funding [of COURSE I’m grateful for that], but also for the plethora of women coming to me and telling me their stories, and everyone that offered doctors’ numbers and social workers’ numbers and hospital numbers… My mind is just blown by how, despite all the ugliness in the world, so many people just want to help, even though I’m a complete stranger that could be lying for all they know. Yeah, I could be a scam, but literally thousands of people would rather lose a few bucks trying to help someone than let them continue suffering. And that is just something truly beautiful. And that’s why I will never fully lose faith in mankind, because underneath it all, we want to have faith in our fellow humans, we want to be able to offer a helping hand or say a few kind words, we care enough to rally together for even something as small as helping me get surgery. When mankind works together, there is nothing we can’t accomplish. And I am truly blessed and forever grateful that mankind rallied together for me.
I just.. Yeah. Thank you.
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