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Babylena retweeted
別府の公衆浴場に初めて行った日、私は偶然、町内の人たちが互いに口をきかなくなる原因を作ってしまった。
私は文房具店の上にある小さなアパートに引っ越してきたばかりだった。毎晩、店主が町内会への不満を口にしていたが、何があったのか尋ねると、いつも話題を変えた。
ある土曜日、玄関のドアに手書きの貼り紙があるのを見つけた。
「地域の皆様へ。協力する意思のない方からの夏祭り実行委員への参加申請は、今後受け付けません」
私は委員への参加を申し込んだことすらなかった。
文房具店の店主に尋ねると、彼はため息をついた。
店主：「祭りで使う大きな提灯を持ち出したのが、君だと思われているんだ」
私：「提灯ですか？」
その町では、約50年にわたって、手作りの巨大な提灯を夏祭りで飾っていたらしい。それが保管場所から消え、私が大きな箱を建物の外へ運び出すのを見たという人がいたのだ。
私が引っ越してきて、まだ2週間しかたっていなかった。
実行委員長は、私と直接話そうともしなかった。代わりに、近所の人を3人も介して伝言を送ってきた。伝言は、届くたびに厳しい内容になっていった。
日曜日の夕方には、見たこともないものを盗んだ犯人として、町中の人に疑われていた。
そのとき、隣の部屋に住む年配の女性が訪ねてきた。
女性：「自分の疑いを晴らしたいなら、明日の朝、一緒に来なさい。ただし、委員長には行き先を言わないで」
Babylena retweeted
Weekend in Taipei (2024)
A DEA agent returns undercover to Taipei and unexpectedly bumps into the woman he once loved-now married to a dangerous drug lord. As passion rekindles and loyalties blur, they're forced into a high-stakes chase that puts everything on the line.
Babylena retweeted
When my wife suggested we open our marriage, she gave me one condition: neither of us was allowed to fall in love with someone else.
Eleven months later, she was standing in our kitchen, crying because the woman I was dating had just told me she was pregnant.
The irony? My wife was the one who insisted that we stop pretending we were happy with monogamy.
I'm 36, and my wife, Lauren, is 34. We'd been married for six years without children. We had good jobs, a comfortable house, and a marriage that looked perfect to everyone around us.
Behind closed doors, however, Lauren had become increasingly dissatisfied.
She wanted excitement. She wanted to meet new people, go on dates, and experience the kind of attention she said she had missed by marrying young.
I wasn't interested.
But after months of arguments, she finally told me she couldn't continue feeling trapped in a marriage where her desires didn't matter.
Babylena retweeted
I'm 21, my husband is 72, and I love him. I need people to hear that first, because everything after it will sound like I'm lying.
We met when I was 19, working the front desk at a hotel where he stayed every month. He was the only guest who ever asked how my day was and waited for the answer. He was gentle and funny, and he made me feel like the most interesting person in any room. Within a year we were married. People said what you'd expect: gold digger, daddy issues, phase. I stopped defending it, because he was the first person who ever made me feel safe.
The problem is that he runs a company, and the company runs him. He's gone two or three weeks a month, sometimes more. I rattle around a big, quiet house, talk to the housekeeper because she's the only one there, and eat dinner at 9 p.m. in front of a screen.
I tried to hide it. But one night he called from a hotel in another city and heard it in my voice. I broke down and told him I was lonely.
He didn't get defensive or tell me I was being dramatic. He said, "I hate that I did this to you. Let me fix it."
Babylena retweeted
HR: “Your employment has been terminated due to downsizing.”
Me: “After 12 years of service, what happens to my severance pay and pension?”
HR: “You are not entitled to the benefits you are requesting.”
Me: “But my pension contributions were deducted from my salary. Where did the money go?”
HR: “You will have to take that up with management.”
He refused to give up and took his former employer to court.
The day my divorce was finalized, my ex-husband called me crying, asking for money to pay our daughter’s school fees.
Two years earlier, he had sent me away with nothing but a travelling bag and our three-year-old daughter.
He told our families he was tired of the marriage and wanted peace. I begged him to reconsider, but he had already made up his mind.
After the divorce, I struggled to survive. I started selling food from home, saved every little profit, and paid our daughter’s school fees without asking him for help.
Sometimes, I went to bed hungry so my daughter could eat.
Then, one Monday morning, my phone rang.
It was my ex-husband.
His voice was shaking.
Babylena retweeted
Honestly this is how life is supposed to be cause there is no need to oppress the poor when you're rich cause in the end we are all going to leave the earth with nothing treat everyone with love and respect
