I might be a little bit prone to understate things

ladyshinga:

My mother had five children.

Five sounds like a LOT, right? And she knew that. Whenever she told new people that, they tended to be shocked.

So she’d start bigger. She’d say, “Hi my name is Debi, I have eight children.”

“EIGHT?!”

Then she’d laugh. “I’m just kidding, it’s only five.”

Then they’d laugh. “Oh! Okay.”

Right now I’m thinking about that a LOT as I see the Trump administration go “We’re gonna arrest and detain immigrant families INDEFINITELY. But hey…

We’re not separating the children anymore.”

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