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30 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm gonna watch Mrs. Brown's Boys only because you told me not to.
Pray for me.
Guys, I'm Brazilian. I've seen soooo much worse. I'm tough.
Hi.

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Celia was a 19-year-old enslaved woman who lived in Missouri. On June 23, 1855, after repeatedly requesting Newsom, her master, to stop sexually coercing her - with no success, she struck him twice with a large stick.

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Do you also get sick of people sometimes and wish you could be living in a Tibetan monastery
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"Mexico, 1953

My dear Mr. Diego,

I’m writing this letter from a hospital room before I am admitted into the operating theatre. They want me to hurry, but I am determined to finish writing first, as I don’t want to leave anything unfinished. 1/
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No, I was already a maimed woman when I lost you, again, for the umpteenth time maybe, and still I survived.

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🇧🇷Thread.

1. Gerhard Kretschmar nasceu em Pomssen, na Alemanha, em 1939. Cinco meses depois, Richard Kretschmar (pai) escreveu uma carta para Hitler pedindo autorização para que seu filho fosse morto.

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Hitler, que há muito tempo já expressava seu desprezo pelas pessoas com deficiência, enviou seu médico pessoal para investigar o caso.

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Aktion T4, como veio a ser chamado, foi o programa de eutanásia que matou aproximadamente 300.000 pessoas com deficiência de 1939 até 1945.
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