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Widowed Compassion

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From the moving movie, "Viva"

Said the old widow cook to the drag queen son feeding his/her dying abusive dad, while offering her nurturing donation: "I don't want your money. We're not savages, yet." Other words that might have come to desecrating mind: not for sale, yet not that victimized not that wounded not that uncivilized not that poor not that disenfranchised not that disempowered not that unenlightened not that devastated not that resourceless not that dispassionate not that judgmental

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