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We Are Better Survivors Than We Give Ourselves Credit For

Shiva @Shiva49 (28387) • Singapore 8 Jun 21

We have the will to fight when our back is against the wall with a sense of unity of purpose that we lack otherwise. Even then, self-preservation is upper most; maybe, with a take others were slower off the blocks. The winner...

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What is your takeaway?

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169487) • United States 5 Apr 20

What are you learning with all of the medical crisis and financial and social crisis over covid-19. What comes to my mind is "resilience". Learning how to deal with situations that are beyond what we had imagined. Do you have...

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Book Review Primo Levi The Drowned And The Saved

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Oct 19

Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. 1986 Abacus Press. Harrowing essays by one of the most literary of all Auschwitz survivors, penned shortly before his own suicide. Levi felt enormous guilt at having survived, as that meant...

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Happy Cancer Survivor day!

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 4 Jun 19

June 2nd was Cancer Survivor Day! Wishing a happy day to all it applies to. I know it's belated, however I feel (like with birthdays) it should be celebrated all month long! My prayer is for a cure for all types of cancer...

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Broken Beginnings: Prologue: Rewrites (Not posted Elsewhere)

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 23 May 19

First of all this is only my first rounds of rewrites, and no I haven’t posted them elsewhere! I will be leaving them up for a short period of time! So I hope you enjoy Prologue: “Naomi. Naomi Elizabeth!” The voice...

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You know it’s not your day when…..

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382258) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jun 18

You survive a shipwreck only to be mistaken for felons and shot by a search party. This happened in 1853 to three shipwreck survivors at Four-Mile Beach on Tasmania’s east coast. The Swan River Packet was carrying timber...

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Holocaust Survivors

Yanzalong @yanzalong (19091) • Indonesia 1 Jan 18

Indonesia consists of many an island, which used to be one big island. It is said that holocaust of volcano eruptions seperated the island into many thousand islands of today. The Holocaust survivors were swept away to many parts...

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Carpe' Diem Evening

Diana B. @BloggerDi (3121) • United States 7 Nov 17

My daughter called me at noon today to invite me to attend an event with her, my son and his partner. It started at 7 pm. I almost declined because I had other plans. But I decided that I should not miss this opportunity. We had...

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Only two Okra's Left

LK2018 @Letranknight2015 (52665) • Philippines 6 Mar 17

Two to three months ago I've planted over more than eight seeds of Okra. For almost two months I've tried to keep them alive as much as possible. Because the last batch of Okra's died in the pot. I thought they're going to make...

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my brother has cancer

Zane @davincii (12) • United States 2 Dec 16

i am young and still studying. i cant work now to support my family. my older brother has stage 2 pancreas cancer and i hope he will recover.and i am trying to do my best to raise funds for my family..by doing online stuff....

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Doomsday IV: Nuclear War

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20363) • Fairfield, Texas 22 Oct 16

More than likely it would be a US/Russian conflict. Russia would send IBM's (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles) to explode 300 miles into the air to cause electro-magnetic pulses that would explode electronic devices across the...

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A Much-Needed Checklist

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128837) • Gainesville, Florida 20 Aug 16

Following the death of my father this past week, I found myself at a complete loss of how to handle all the arrangements for his funeral, as well as how to sort through all the financial details that needed attending to. And on...

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The Last Ship On Hulu

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 21 May 16

Season 1 and 2 are now on Hulu. It is about a navy destroyer on its way to the Artic. They may be the last survivors because a virus has wiped out more than half the population. A cure must be found to save the survivors....

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The last lunch menu (on the Titanic, too!)

Cahaya @cahaya1983 (11116) • Malaysia 8 Oct 15

Who would ever thought that one of the Titanic survivors happened to be a menu for the last ever lunch served on the ship? The menu belonged to Abraham Lincoln Salamon, who survived after boarding the notorious lifeboat, Lifeboat...

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BBC Shows

TrvlArrngr @TrvlArrngr (4044) • United States 16 Oct 11

They have great shows on tv in the UK. The BBC has had some great shows like Robin Hood, Dr. Who, and Survivors. Luckily I have Netflix so I can watch a lot of them online. Right now I am re-watching the Survivors series about...

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Japan Earthquake

wickedspies @wickedspies (965) • United States 21 Mar 11

I have been watching video's of the earthquake and i have mixed feelings about it . Its both a marvelous and tragic thing. Now before you start jumping on my comment about it being marvelous , the...

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Maus by Art Spiegelman

AliaKane @AliaKane (97) • United States 17 Oct 10

I really recommend it. Before you stereotype comics and graphic novels as "cartoonish" and "funny" and "heroic," read it. The book is about a Holocaust survivor. But that's one of the sad part, not the interesting part. This...

do you like it when people survive in horror movies?

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 30 May 09

i have watched a few recently where there were no survivors which seems like its rare since they always seem to have one stupid person live through everything (usually the one you DONT want to make it)and then use them for the...

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House explodes in Allentown, PA!!

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 25 Nov 08

And the two men inside the house SURVIVED!!! The story doesn't say how badly hurt they were, just that they were conscious when taken to the hospital. I'm assuming one of them was wheelchair bound because a wheel chair was blown...

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Cancer....... I Wish There Was NO Such Thing.....

Wyldrose @Wyldrose (1216) • United States 25 Sep 08

I pray that one day "they" (whoever "they" are) will find a cure for cancer. I am soo sick and tired of this horrible disease taking my friends and family from me. My little brother died of leukemia when he was eleven years old....

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