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‘I never felt like I belonged in the U.S.,’ says 62-year-old who fled to Bali
Marketwatch ^ | November 25, 2019 | Catey Hill

Posted on 11/27/2019 8:42:50 AM PST by nwrep

At age 60, she wasn’t entirely sure where Bali was. By age 62, she was living there.

Sherry Bronson, now 69, spent much of her life in Minnesota, where she raised three daughters and worked in real estate. But she didn’t love it: “I have hated the weather in Minnesota since I was a child,” she says. So in 2010, when her oldest daughter, who was teaching in South Korea, asked her to come to Bali so they could celebrate Sherry’s 60th birthday together, Sherry — after, she recalls with a laugh, Googling “Where’s Bali?” — jumped at the chance.

It didn’t disappoint: “The first thing that struck me as I got off the plane was the air — it was chewable, humid and warm with a scent of incense,” she says. “It was sweet and spicy and magical.” The next morning, she awoke to roosters crowing and the swooshing sound of a woman sweeping flower petals that had fallen in the night.

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: bali; indonesia; minnesota
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To: nwrep; ChicagoConservative27; Red Badger

Become a Trump/America hater and you can become a fake headline news item in America:

I never felt like I belonged in the U.S.,’ says 62-year-old who fled to Bali
11/27/2019, 8:42:50 AM · by nwrep · 22 replies
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41 posted on 11/27/2019 9:13:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nanzi Pelosi Thinks/Says Americans Are Too STUPID To Elect Their President! Time for #DCEXIT!)
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To: nwrep
Ooooooooooo .... she does YOGA.

She must be enlightened and at one with Bali, or something.

She does know that the USA encompasses more than the frigid tundra of Minnesota, right? We have beaches and deserts and stuff. And humidity.

42 posted on 11/27/2019 9:15:22 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
TRANSLATION: America is bad because of all you deplorables!

There's not even a hint of that sentiment anywhere in the article. She even notes their healthcare is very substandard.

43 posted on 11/27/2019 9:16:27 AM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: nwrep

I was in Bali a few years back, and drove up a road that looked interesting and saw a pipe spewing sewage and toilet paper down a hill like a brown waterfall. Not everything is as clean and idealic as it may appear.


44 posted on 11/27/2019 9:16:37 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: GraceG

She could have taken a couple of hundred Somalis with her.


45 posted on 11/27/2019 9:17:03 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: nwrep
I hate the winters where I live.But I sure as hell wouldn't solve that problem by moving to Indonesia (which I've visited).

This woman's a moonbat.

46 posted on 11/27/2019 9:18:27 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Grampa Dave

This loser is obviously a LIB lunatic. Did she give up her USA citizenship? It is good for this country that she left. Now...if she only stays gone.


47 posted on 11/27/2019 9:18:43 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Wuli
Her views reflected not reality across the U.S. but what the media wanted her to think.

What views are you talking about? I didn't read any negative views.

48 posted on 11/27/2019 9:19:47 AM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: nwrep
OK lady, whatever floats your boat.
 
49 posted on 11/27/2019 9:22:00 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: nwrep

A little late to be going through “the change” isn’t it?


50 posted on 11/27/2019 9:23:18 AM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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To: nwrep

51 posted on 11/27/2019 9:24:14 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: nwrep

One less emotional, post-menopausal, leftist vote in Minnesota.

Bye!


52 posted on 11/27/2019 9:24:24 AM PST by PGR88
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To: nwrep

Divorced five times...that’s all I needed to know.

I sure hope she no longer votes back in the States.


53 posted on 11/27/2019 9:24:24 AM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: nwrep
Three daughters and 4 grandchildren in the States, but she doesn't fit in here and has to fly halfway around the world to fit in with strangers.

There is a reason for the 5 marriages and her emphasis on drinking. She's nuts.

54 posted on 11/27/2019 9:24:46 AM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She identifies as a Bali. Good riddance babe! We won’t miss you


55 posted on 11/27/2019 9:25:00 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: nwrep

I’m happy that she is happy.
May we all be happy in a place of personal happiness.


56 posted on 11/27/2019 9:26:25 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: Lurker

Lol! You made me think of a scene from the movie Baseketball.


57 posted on 11/27/2019 9:26:33 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I thought the same. For that I’ll allow her to be “not guilty”.


58 posted on 11/27/2019 9:27:44 AM PST by Wright Wing
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To: nwrep
I don't begrudge her moving to Bali. Throughout the article, she really doesn't carp about America or say she hates it...only the headline suggests that. It seems like she needed a cheap place to retire to and Bali fit her. She also seems quite happy and very fit in the photos of her in the article. Good for her!

The very last paragraph explains a lot about her:

When she was younger, Bronson says she was expected to get married yet never felt that the role of wife fit her. “But I kept trying to squeeze into the mold. I married and divorced five times.

59 posted on 11/27/2019 9:29:22 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nwrep

“fled” denotes being chased.

I seriously doubt that.


60 posted on 11/27/2019 9:29:53 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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