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I am a 76 year old woman. Retired from an administrative position in HIV/AIDS division of San Francisco General Hospital. Previous to that, many years computer programming, testing, release management, and technical writing. Mother of one - a wonderful daughter who is old enough and emotionally together enough that I believe my mothering job is over. Vaccinated and double boosted and still very worried about catching this ever changing scourge! On the other hand, don't want to spend the remainder of my life locked up in my abode wearing pajamas. So, it is a dilemma.

Still legally married to a man who finally allowed himself to realize that he was gay only after his parents had both died, and by then we had been married over 35 years. Financial considerations and many years of therapy have allowed us to live separately and date freely and still remain legally married. Marriage is just a social construct, after all. When the pandemic hit, we both stopped dating (since neither of us had a permanent romantic/sexual partner, and breathing random people's air had become potentially deadly). We were already living next door to each other, and we became even better friends during the pandemic. We probably saved each other's sanity (such as it is).

SAV provides a place for me to put my incredible anger at people who think nothing about putting other people's lives in jeopardy! Also, to meet all you other lovely people.

Okay, I'll add here. Some of this I've posted elsewhere, but not in one long comment.

My mother and father were both in the Navy when I was born (at the time she was bounced out due to Navy rules). As a Navy brat, we moved around a lot.

I started school in an all-white segregated school in Maryland, but my mother wanted no part of that little bit of racism, so she moved my sister and me to Michigan. I attended a one-room school until I finished second grade. While I was in second grade, my father was killed in the Vietnam War. We had no friends other than my five cousins who lived a mile away.

After that, my sister and I lived with my maternal grandparents while my mother went to college at the University of Michigan to earn a degree in clinical psychology. Afterwards, more moving around.

I became an exchange student to Brazil in my junior year. There was no money to send me, but my mother lucked out and won the Michigan Lottery.

At eighteen I went into the US Navy as an aviation electronics technician. Got out after six, got married, went back in.

I was medically discharged after nearly seventeen years when I developed epilepsy. My wife divorced me on the grounds of demon possession, the court banned me from seeing my son due to atheism, and I was left homeless.

That state of affairs changed when my current wife married me eleven years later (she did something about veterans homelessness).

I picked up a not-well paying job (bodice-ripper Romance editor), then we moved to where we live now.

I ran for my village board (city council) to fill a vacated seat in 2012 and won. I was reëlected in 2014, but lost in 2018 by three votes when I was outed as an atheist. I am now running to regain my seat in the November election.

We like to travel, so in the time we've been married, we've made trips to Florida, Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts, California, and Alaska by car (the trusty Smart). We've also travelled to Germany and Poland. We're planning a road trip for late summer to Canada's Maritime Provinces. (If you see a black Smart on the road with Nebraska Gold Star Family plates, that's us.)

37 mother from New Zealand. I am a SAHM to my 8 year old daughter who has autism. I also suffer from chronic migraines, asthma, and hayfever, so unvaxxed idiots who believe their 'freedoms' are more important that my health REALLY piss me off.

When I'm not reading online about antivaxx stupidity (or riling them up for funsies on FB or Reddit), I pretend to write trashy romance novels, play games on my PC or Nintendo Switch (you can pry my Pokemon fandom out of my cold dead hands), or hiding in my bedroom with the blackout curtains drawn and an ice-pack over my eyes. Nice to be here with you all!

Melania bad. Thought forum vas nice to meat. Melania so dumb sometimes.

Hello everyone, my name's Delusional (Hi Delusional!), and I'm an SAV addict.

I was born in the wagon of a travelin' show, my mama would dance for the money they'd throw. Papa would do whatever he could, preach a little gospel, sell a couple bottles of Ivermectin.

Retired 2020 from a State job that I really enjoyed, wife retired couple years before. She sings in a band, just now picking up a few more gigs, after maybe only a half dozen since Covid hit. We have a farmers market business for last 12 years, it's wonderful, making friends, watching kids grow up on our produce. Live in my smallish home town, blue state, but red county.

Like wine, weed, good food, all types of music, and reading mysteries. And fond of you all too.