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International Women's Day March 8th 2018

less than half a dozen hours remain here in Lake Woebegone, an idyllic enclave, where legal tender, liquid assets, minted monies by the metric ton loot, et cetera replaced with sharing home good humor spun prevarication, or a pun where this Norwegian bachelor farmer, now sets timer counting down to the one hundred and fifth International Women's Day, hence dada's taxi service necessitated (asper my own volition) none forsaking a substantial block of time to ferry (via 2009 Hyundai Sonata) thine eldest (of deux darling damsels doggedly, diligently, and definitively) whose maternal hue ma in instincts (staking out vocational, interpersonal, Jew dish hiss lee courting biological objectives Since matriculating At University Of Pennsylvania she seriously eyed the engineering curriculum, and as an inherent high achieving civilian, this rugged cerebral terra firmae terrain emitting a signal calling she knew tubby meant foe her, thus this proud papa his new wish availing self less father summoned, pressed, and mustered joyriding glommed within mental motor queue thus despite experiencing a minor panic attack (with nausea more pronounced than usual), aye did not want Eden (her first name) to feel disgruntled toward pop (hood rather die) as opposed to slacking off where fatherhood concerned strove to be a beneficial guy especially before the stroke of midnight will usher well nigh till next year long overdue attention, now bequeathed during these twenty four hours when non gun shy textile women (shunted subaltern second class workers) in New York (circa 1907), but said event opened to dispute, but less in doubt historical records indicate 1914 International Women's Day held on March 8 since then continued along a linkedin chain in case you wondered why.

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