Some MEN lose themselves trying to prove they're enough for someone who was never ready to love them💯
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As an adult, why do you cry whenever a nurse or doctor is about to give you an injection? 😷 Why are you so scared of niddle? 😃
What’s the first thing that enters your mouth every morning?
Good morning lovelies 🤗
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Imma find a way anyhow 🏃
“I can’t wait to leave my parents’ house and have freedom.”
Ask me How far guys? 😂
How’s adulthood treating me now? 😭
I am free at LAST 🤸🏃🥳
Finally left my father’s house after 24 years of washing plates and doing unpaid labour. 😭😂 Freedom is sweet 😇
She arrived in New York with just $50 and a job as a domestic servant.Years later, she was riding through Queens in a Rolls-Royce.Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912 in Tong, a small village on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.She grew up in a large family in a community where fishing, crofting and hard physical work shaped everyday life.Like thousands of other young Scots seeking opportunities abroad, Mary Anne eventually looked across the Atlantic.On May 2, 1930, she boarded the RMS Transylvania in Glasgow.Nine days later, on May 11, she arrived in New York.She had just turned 18.Passenger records described her occupation simply as “domestic,” and she reportedly entered the country with only $50. She went to live with her older sister Christina in Astoria, Queens, and worked as a domestic servant for several years.Her circumstances changed dramatically after she met Fred Trump, a New York builder and property developer.The couple married on January 11, 1936, at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Their reception was held at the Carlyle Hotel.They eventually had five children: Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, Donald and Robert.As Fred’s real-estate business expanded, Mary Anne’s life became very different from the one she had known on Lewis.The family lived comfortably in Jamaica Estates, Queens, and Mary Anne later became known for driving a Rolls-Royce bearing personalized “MMT” license plates.Yet she maintained connections with Scotland.She returned to Lewis repeatedly throughout her life and continued speaking Gaelic when visiting home. People who remembered her there recalled that she had never entirely lost the language or her connection to the island where she had grown up.She was also active in charitable and hospital work.Mary Anne volunteered for years at Jamaica Hospital and played an important role in its Women’s Auxiliary. She was also involved with the Jamaica Day Nursery.Together, Mary Anne and Fred supported organizations including the Salvation Army, Lighthouse for the Blind and medical charities. The couple contributed buildings or property connected with Jamaica Hospital, programs for people with cerebral palsy, and housing for adults with intellectual disabilities. A nursing-home pavilion at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center was eventually named in Mary Anne’s honor.Her life therefore contained an extraordinary contrast.In 1930, she crossed the Atlantic as an 18-year-old Scottish immigrant listed as a domestic worker.Within a generation, she was living among New York’s wealthy and raising a family whose name would become known around the world.But throughout that transformation, part of Mary Anne MacLeod remained connected to the small Scottish island she had left behind.#AmericanHistory #ImmigrantStory #MaryAnneMacLeodTrump
My plans for today:
- do 1000 skips
- go to church
- go to the market
- cook Egusi soup
- support my mutuals
- backtest
- read some books How about You?