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July First 2023 Will Celebrate

July first 2023 will celebrate... our sixth anniversary at Highland Manor Apartments Subtitled: The perspective of one festive folky fellow friendliness ofttimes prompts me when crossing paths with another to say “hello,” whose demeanor trends toward being mellow courtesy about eight medications unaffected whether weather overcast or sunshine reigning down bright yellow. Our present habitat digs, (per this mister and his missus), a psychic boon dock - located at geographical coordinates, (circa 1684 folks wove cocoon) 40.2562° North, 75.4638° West, out of virgin forests log cabins hewn, still a vestige of Pacific rural life lock, especially fauna and flora abounds during month of June. Across American landscape usurped from indigenous peoples, underming storied traditions in cold blood eponymous namesake affixed to honor exploits of “European Outsiders”, co-opted land sinker, liner, and hook with each constituent treaty a dud mortgaged to industrialization contributing to lowlands to flood comprising one of many complex edifices – at latitude and longitude not prone to flood this repurposed elementary school into affordable housing sans low income good lee managed by Grosse and Quade, which facility nestled far from any hood, gang or foo fighting beastie boys lacking manners with actions lewd thus within the pastoral enclave of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, there prevails a tranquil mood with concomitant safety, such that an inhabitant can patter about (in their apartment) nude though prudish older occupants may object, and especially be prude dish, snapping, popping and moaning with unsolicited mutterings mostly rude claiming to lack comprehending the habits of younger generations 'liberal at tee tude nonetheless, the sprawling range “Penn's Wood.'” Eager immigrants brought native brought seeds of white lily to transplant preserving vestigial tidbits scantily quoted in text books writ from a biased Western European slant rightfully, the Elysian Fields of lush, resplendent and transcendent hue Kant argue against snatched, stolen and swindled with hollow promises – immediately nullified treaty(ies) relegated inhospitable land extant with absolutely zero compensation given, where prevaricated misdeeds against slandered “red men” intruders did chant. Twas plain and simple genocide whereat spirits of vanquished “noble savage – in spare copse hide to borrow a tagline from Jean Jacques Rousseau – predating inside edition (which if fair), would waver to admit how fore parents lied and long entrenched perspective adopted, viz pilgrims and/or puritan pride, parcelled of acreage courtesy how average male didst stride yet this passive quintessential renegade scrivener senses ghosts of “Indians” swoosh at high tide unseen immortal souls corporeal essence long since trampled world wide.

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