Category: Life Stories
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Gay Wedding in Rural North Carolina
On March 23rd, 2016, the North Carolina legislature passed HB2: one of the most (if not the most) anti-LGBT laws that the United States has seen in the past decade. In summary, HB2 defines “classes of people who are protected against discrimination: race, religion, color, national origin, age, handicap or biological…
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The First Other Lena I Ever Met
A trademark of the work I do at starbucks is my disturbing ability to not only remember people’s orders (or incorrectly remember the exact same order for a person every. single. time.) but to also remember their names. And often with my customers, I strike up conversations regarding their names, our lives,…
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Raccoon: 1 – Lena: 0
Backstory: Last Christmas, my mom gave me ‘Brandy Chocolates’ as a stocking-stuffer present, thinking I would love alcoholic chocolate. She was wrong. Brandy has never been a favorite of mine, so after eating one chocolate I decided I was going to give them away to my friend at school who…
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“Where’d Your Name Come From?”
A few days ago at work, one of the customers looked at my name tag and asked, “Your name is so interesting, where did it come from? Were you named after someone?”
Ginger Without Borders 