Don’t know about now and I’ve never lived on the Cambridge side but I can feel the vibe when I go there. The only thing I like about Cambridge are the wacky student scientists at MIT.
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I loved the book stores, the Red Line, the variety of restaurants and the walkability of the area.
There was a large used book store on Mass Ave near Davis Sq in the mid-90s. It was there I started reading sci-fi as a relief method. I started by reading every Hugo and Nebula winner. The store would refund 50% to return the books. I remember that entire experience with great fondness.
Oh, I also met and lived with a lesbian in Somerville. I was an experiment for her and she was a novelty for me. I’m proud to say that after I left her in 97 she never dated a man again. I guess her experiment was a success.
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I’m reading/listening (audible) to America Before at the moment and I’m amazed, stunned, and disgusted with the wholesale destruction of the America’s and its peoples by the European Conquest. Thousands upon thousands of earthworks and sacred sites have been eradicated for the express purpose of $$$.
I’ve been sick of the Love of money for a very long time and regret that I didn’t Homestead.
I’m not sure why but I have been agitated of late and have been posting my frustrations and random thoughts. I think my sub conscience is telling me to talk to a professional… 
SEE!!! WTF man
Amen and Amen and So be it.
I wish more people would do that.
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Where I live in the U.K. we are big on recycling and it has become a way of life. We have a brown caddy for kitchen waste, a green bin for garden waste, a large blue bag for cardboard and paper, a black box for plastics and tin and our main black bin for everything else which is collected once a fortnight with the cardboard. All of the rest other than the garden waste is collected weekly. The garden waste is collected every other week during spring and summer. I try hard to avoid certain types of packaging but with some things like certain foods there is no other option. I try to buy biodegradable bags etc and always reuse zip lock bags and the plastic boxes with lids that certain take away foods come delivered in. I remember the days before all of this excess plastic packaging so I know it’s often totally unnecessary.
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That is the funniest damn thing I ever heard. Sounds like you were her final,“One last time to make sure” experiment 
LMAO. Now my mind is reeling with all sorts of curiosities but I won’t cross that line…darn it!
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Yes, I remember my dad bringing home deli meats and other goodies wrapped in wax paper with an outer brown paper wrap and taped shut with masking tape. Over here it’s a plastic ziplock bag now. I reuse them the best I can, too.
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Yes, that definitely is still a plus. I can’t remember the name but there’s a fantastic Italian Pizza restaurant in Davis Sq that serves liquor and other Italian dishes. The pizza add-ons were unmatched anywhere else. Always stopped in for pizza and a beer when in the area.
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Cool, another Graham Hancock book. Agree, I can’t believe how much precious information the Spaniards ignorantly destroyed for the sake of either money or religion.
If Graham is right about important info being passed down to future generations through math (the universal language) and codes maybe we can find the missing pieces to the puzzle through modern day symbols like the crop circles. IF it was all created by some higher, intelligent ET civilization they certainly would be aware of their past creations being destroyed. That’s a big IF.
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@Lucas_James_Holden we have a less robust program, but the thing to wonder, is how MUCH of what we recycle, IS actually recycled ??
What percentage of recycling actually gets recycled?
According to the EPA, Americans generate more than 267 million tons of solid waste every year. In 2017, only 94.2 million tons of that waste was either recycled or composted. That’s only about 35 percent of the total amount, and when you take into account that only 8 percent of discarded plastics were recycled that year, things start to look more unsettling.
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That’s exactly what I was to her. For my part I was introduced to the lesbian culture and it was interesting though not very welcoming.
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I loved that place! I can’t remember the name either. How about the theater right there in the square? I saw so many good movies there. It was the best movie theater in the entire Boston area, imo.
I do miss the culture of Boston very much… 
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Well, that’s too bad. I was introduced to gay men’s culture and the hardcore (bears in leather, etc.) ones were not very welcoming but in other circles I had a young man plop himself down on my lap and throw his arms around my neck 
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I live in Torfaen South Wales in the U.K.
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A peaceful area at times, though I spent more of my childhood in the north and mostly on Anglesey.
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It has its good and bad points like most other places but it’s mostly good. I am not from Wales myself but moved here from Royal Ascot in Berkshire so it was a bit of a wake up call to say the least but the people are mostly friendly and made me feel welcome so I can’t complain. Luckily my Grandfather was from the area and was well known and respected so I think that helped a great deal with me being accepted so well.
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He gets into that aspect a lot deeper in this book “America Before” and it’s quite fascinating.
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I dated a woman that had two lesbian roommates and they hated men and didn’t mind telling me. I liked them and persisted in my kindness toward them without ever wanting anything in return. I genuinely liked them and helped when I could and at the end of our knowing each other, they liked and even professed their love for me. The only man they would love they used to joke.
Anyway, I mention it because you said they weren’t very welcoming and I found that to be true but they are accepting when they get to know you. A lot of them have been brutally abused by men on more than one occasion.
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As was the woman I was with. In her case it was her father. I once read that gay men are born while lesbians are created. I believe there is some truth in that.
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That’s odd: I got my Northerness kicked out of me from studying Law in Reading.
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Not quite sure about those statistics. I worked with abused women of all types and the majority were straight. Some were abused in early childhood (incest, rape, etc.) and some as adults. Then there were the lesbians who had loving fathers and brothers who just seemed to prefer other females. Maybe they loved their fathers so much they wanted to emulate them 
Seriously, if either one of us had all the answers we’d be millionaires. So me thinks.
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That’s because the majority of people are straight. It really doesn’t matter how anyone chooses their preference anyway…as long as they stay away from my sheep.
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