Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know we should vote. We understand what our civic obligations are and what government "of the people, by the people and for the people" means. Yet finding a compelling argument to move us from "should vote" to actually voting is tough. Guilt, by itself, is a weak motivator because it fails us if there are other things we feel more guilty about not doing. For example, one could rationalize: "They might have died on the beaches at Normandy for my right to vote, but I'm going to fail if I don't write this paper...
...love for my daughter--and a year of internal turmoil--brought me to PFLAG (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays). Educating myself through experience and through PFLAG has been the best thing that has happened to me in terms of coming to understand who my daughter and my nephew are. I believe, at this point, that being gay is not a choice. Why would somebody choose this lifestyle only to be persecuted...
...always understand what I learn from my interactions with the gay community, but I never close my mind. And listening to the different stories of family rejection or personal courage, I realized just what it takes for anybody who is different from you or me simply to find a place in this society, and to be treated with dignity and respect...
...everyone who is reading this to understand that it took me time and education to come to acceptance. I ask you to be open-minded. I invite you to educate yourself on gay and lesbian issues; seek out PFLAG or another organization...
...long as they still have a pulse, a band/singer can churn out a greatest hits CD, regardless of how many major hits they've had. Case in point: Snow. We all remember his infectious little ditty "Informer" from back in the early 1990s. A masterpice! We couldn't understand what he was saying, but it didn't matter because the song was just so damn catchy! However, only a few more will remember his follow-up single "Girl I've Been Hurt," which rode on the coattails of "Informer" for a time and then faded into obscurity. Two little known...