[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 7 Jan 2018 to 8 Jan 2018 (#2018-9)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 10 09:34:28 UTC 2018


Thanks!



On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

> Second person, as I was addressing Shawnee Moon.
> Dave Hause
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Wilson Gray
> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 11:03 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 7 Jan 2018 to 8 Jan 2018 (#2018-9)
>
> YLF
>>
>
> What does YLF stand for? I know what ILF stands for.
>
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:
>
> So maybe a little room for a NAYLF?
>> Dave Hause
>> -----Original Message----- From: Shawnee Moon
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 1:09 PM
>>
>> But no Native American in me.
>>
>> Warped Irish (like Sean Connery). My neé was Cavnar, I married, divorced,
>> and since I was changing my name, I got rid of Cavnar because of the
>> (cough) great admiration I had for my male genetic donor. Everybody with
>> the last name Cavnar is related, (not that it’s common), one Irishman who
>> moved to the states decided Cavanaugh was too long, and shortened it. All
>> Cavnars have him as our common gggggg grandfather. (Correct number of
>> greats unknown without getting a book out.)
>> County Cavan in Ireland is from whence he came, a descendant of King of
>> Ireland (with more greats than I care to type, hundreds if not a thousand
>> years back.) So I’m a princess, ha! In biker leathers.
>>
>> The rest of me is a hash of Turkish, Polish, Ashkenazi Jew, Norwegian,
>> Spanish, English and various spices.
>>
>> Moon was the surname I chose and legally adopted, from ‘lunatic’ (that
>> hasn’t become obvious?) and I also happen to love that dusty satellite. I
>> wasn’t going out and do great things and have my father’s name to bear.
>> No.
>> Now I just live around bears and don’t do much at all, great or otherwise.
>>
>> Shawnee Holiday Moon
>>
>> Female, 56, living in NW Wyoming
>> ~Former long distance walker
>> ~Cross country motorcyclist
>> ~Attempts Mandolin, Mandriola and Ukulele
>> ~Artist
>> ~Author
>> ~Mother of two
>> ~Keeper of Insane Feline
>>
>> Mailed from the Moon 🌜
>>
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> -Wilson
> -----
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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