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I told this to 13yo and received an eye roll, a shake of the head, and a whispered "ohmygosh."
Mission accomplished. 
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I told this to 13yo and received an eye roll, a shake of the head, and a whispered "ohmygosh." -
Just placed an avocado in another woman's trolley thinking she was my wife."Je veux mon avocat dans votre chariot." It does have a certain I-don't-know-what.
"Ich möchte meine Avocado in Ihrem Einkaufswagen stecken." German on the other hand....
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I hope more authors will lean into making recommendations of other authors books — art is subjective, so you never know if someone will like the book you loved, but at least they'll know *actual humans* wrote it, read it, loved it.THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green
CUCKOO'S EGG by CJ Cherryh
THE SEARCHER by Tana French -
I love my kid's school.Until 13yo started working on this, I had no idea that the speech I first read a few years ago wasn't Truth's original. Instead, the speech I read -- and probably most US-Americans are familiar with -- was a heavily edited, partially fabricated version by Frances "Aunt Fanny" Gage, a white activist in the women's rights movement.
Gage had given the opening speech introducing Truth to the women's rights convention in 1851, after which Truth delivered her own speech....
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I love my kid's school.I love my kid's school.
In her 7th grade English Language Arts class, their current unit of study is the so-called "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth.
Now, schools aren't allowed to acknowledge Black History Month anymore, but I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence.
One of her main assignments is to compare the commonly known speech (publ. 1863) with the speech that is as close as we can get to the original (publ. 1851).
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