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Unwrinkled Lives
Is That Even A Thing?
I’m beginning to believe some people are charmed and live unwrinkled lives.
Not like me.
My life is real wrinkled up and I’m sure anybody who’s looking can tell that. I don’t mean my skin. It’s not too bad given my years on this earth. What I’m talking about goes far deeper than just the surface.
I think some individuals just get up in the mornings and they drink their coffee — which might be the problem right there, or my first wrinkle, come to think of it. I don’t drink coffee. Never have. I drink tea, good old Southern tea but not even sweet like a normal person. Nope, there’s a wrinkle for you! I drink my tea “unsweet.”
In the South, we don’t call it “unsweetened tea” or “sweetened tea.” It’s sweet or unsweet. Just like a coke is just a coke whether it’s Dr. Pepper or some other kind. You just have to be from the South to speak the language.
But anyway. I’m talking about wrinkles and the people who seem to live without them.
They get up and drink their coffee and they go about their lives without any hitches. Go to work, do your job, go shopping, never get stuck in traffic, answer the phone, it’s not about an extended…
