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Please Generalize People

All blondes wear diamond rings and drive Mercedes so old. All brunettes wear green straw hats and plant marigolds. All tall people play golf on Saturdays and are Methodists winkers. All Americans are overweight donut-eating, chocolate milk drinkers. All Africans wear their hair in braids, and despise tattoos of a girl. All Mexicans like hot taco sauce and dance in a frenzied whirl. All old people want to be young, and resent their mother. All only children want siblings, wishing they had a brother. All men want a crazy, out-of-control woman in their bedroom. All divorcees want to marry a millionaire who is not full of gloom. All Republicans want a dictator to be president who is angry and blue. All liberals want to give free food to the undocumented, and do. The minute you think of people as a group of “all” you are wrong. Please memorize this poem, and sing it as a song. If you cannot see this by now, then I must join the throng. For I have written this poem entirely wrong.

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Date: 8/8/2021 9:32:00 AM
Hmmm...lots to think about here, Caren. I loved your rhymes, and I know your intentions. No, you haven't written it wrong, you wrote it like it came from your heart, and I know you are not one to generalize people...but so many do.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 8/9/2021 2:45:00 PM
Thank you so much Hank. I see that you get it.

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