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February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch

February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage would make laughingstock of forecasting how Jack Frost feigned being out to lunch, whereby inaccurate weather forecasters outsmarted courtesy Mother Nature, where snowfall accumulation tallied one for the record books, a veritable blizzard found meteorologists to scrunch erroneous reports and quickly retract how surprise Nor'easter did quickly captcha and wallop unsuspecting sleeping out of towners whipping surprise out figurative sleeve when dziadek mróz (Belarusian: ???? ?????) in the Belarusian language in league with Jackie Frost, both personifications getting last laugh cuz women feel snubbed, shortchanged, excluded, and being bossed around feeling pinched at emotional, physical, and spiritual cost with million plus women marches that did exhaust, yet brought more equitable treatment, and now risk being lost in space at the outer limits of the twilight zone or tossed into the maws of Earth vis a vis donning miner for a heart of gold, where a frayed life line offers tenuous hold nonetheless, despite risks to life and/or limb females can experience em bold dinned journeying exposing them to in extremis cold and worthy bets at gambling halls upon casino bluffing, thence, slapping (with poker face) upon table a winning hand abruptly forcing game to fold grinning ear to ear while she scoops up gold repudiating ugly rumors stereotyping women, within which many other arenas the devastatingly constricting mold now upon many another proving grounds non verbally, smugly, and proudly assert" I told you so" garnering, inviting, and kickstarting kudos where, their overdue praiseworthy virtues extolled which hard fight now pits more gals to enter the scrum letting actions speak louder than words as bragging rights allow them to keep mum though insinuating rightful opportunity to whisk plum ming access, where once (and still to a lesser degree) men didst unfairly prune and hurl cruel names like hey “scumbag," and/or other unflattering brickbats versus increasing plaudits showered from on high spelling victory toward equality effacing glum scowl into smile breaking out finding more men grudgingly bestowing deserved accolades re-evaluating experiencing the fairer sex lobbing smart aleck nuggets of wisdom, now despite being a youthful looking roam'n lxv year old married heterosexual underscoring, befriending opposite gender making ladies in waiting tubby a worthy chum now, this bum seeks Alma Mater dames and graduates of Hard Knocks School Alum.

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