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Yesterday was a rough one. I went to pick up Tin at school and heard he had had another emotionally rough day and so when we got out to the playground and his friends were playing keep away from Tin and he started crying, I figured it might be best to just come home and chill out. He said he wanted to watch Cars and though this has never been allowed, I said whatever, let’s do it.

He said he wanted to watch it together so we crawled onto the sofa and started watching and halfway through the movie, the TV died. That’s right, it just up and died. And that’s when I thought I would have my meltdown because originally when I was moving out, I didn’t need two televisions, but because I’m trying to rent the house for Super Bowl and Mardi Gras etc. I do need the two. SO now what? Buy a TV for the rental – gadzooks.

So I called my repair guy and I also called Sears to see if the TV was still under warranty. The woman who answered at Sears said we might be able to order you one, because yours is not under warranty and I said I need it now because I’m renting for Super Bowl and she said, I didn’t know people rented out their house for Super Bowl and I said honey, I do what it takes to survive.

She told me that she had lost her job of 15 years with the local bank and had to move out of town because after twelve months of not working she needed to just go somewhere to find work. She’s now living in Mobile, Alabama. But she said she had to pull her child out of college because she couldn’t afford it and needed him to work and help out.

I said, oh do I feel your pain. And then she said this: “I never wanted to be a single mother.”

And I knew that I had found my twin, my soulmate, because she was singing my song. We both lamented what was and could have been and then she said to me, “If I win the lottery, I am going to look you up, sista.”

Later, Ernest came and fixed the TV and fixed the broken speaker and it cost a total of $50. While he was here, my friends dropped by with their kid and my friend who is a huge costumer for Mardi Gras said this year she was going as “Living with the Unknown” as her theme. She told me all the intricate details of what that would look like if it was either cold or hot and I just wanted to hijack her theme because I thought it was so fitting for this year.

Getting comfortable with the unknown. Not knowing. And so forth. Then I put on my ball gown so she could see it since I’m returning it to my friend this weekend, and she took this photograph of me – no make up except for lipstick.

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