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Those Turkeys Look Perfect

Everyone wears tuxes and evening gowns on the beach and high heeled shoes or highly polished winged tips in magazines, anyway, the beautiful people. Can you imagine walking or even trying to walk in sand in high-heeled shoes? Or how extra pretty your long dress will look after it gets into wet sand? Here they are. The ultra rich on the cover of a prominent magazine flaunting their evening gowns and high heels in a beach on the sand. This reminds me of something my cousin told me once. You know those turkeys on magazine covers that you look at around Thanksgivings time? They look perfect! We can never get ours to look the same. Okay. Here is the rub. Those turkeys are PAINTED. They are RAW. Did not know that did you? Sometimes what we see is not what is real at all.

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Date: 6/30/2019 6:16:00 PM
Great proof for the lie that 'Seeing is Believing!' :) gw
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Date: 6/30/2019 1:46:00 PM
great message, CAren. It's all about "the look" for the magazine or whatever. I liked your analogy to the painted turkey. (my captcha reads CUK. Like cluck cluck or a poor spelling for Cuk those turkeys.
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Date: 6/30/2019 3:12:00 AM
I giggled at the imagery of the wet dresses and trying to walk in wet sand - its all for show and I bet they wear a fake smile too and their lines and wrinkles and wobbly bits are all airbrushed out lol I'd heard about the turkeys being painted Caren not everything we see or read is real yet we are easily deceived:-(hugs Jan xx
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