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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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1 posted on 11/27/2019 8:42:50 AM PST by nwrep
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TRANSLATION: America is bad because of all you deplorables!


2 posted on 11/27/2019 8:44:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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Door knob etc.


3 posted on 11/27/2019 8:45:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Guilty of mis-appropriating another culture ... just sayin ...


4 posted on 11/27/2019 8:47:52 AM PST by 11th_VA
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Good, the more malcontents that leave is good for the rest of us that love America.

Now if we could remove those 30 million fraudulently documented foreigners who broke in.......


5 posted on 11/27/2019 8:47:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nwrep

And she did not like the Vikings or Twins or North Stars?


6 posted on 11/27/2019 8:48:09 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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She could have at least took some more people with her...


7 posted on 11/27/2019 8:48:42 AM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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The place is too hot


8 posted on 11/27/2019 8:49:52 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

North Stars? Don’t you mean The Wild (anymore)?


9 posted on 11/27/2019 8:50:15 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Elizabeth Warren’s cousin?

Princess Crazy Eyes


10 posted on 11/27/2019 8:50:55 AM PST by Regulator
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Living on a government pension no doubt. If she gets sick, she’ll haul her ass back here for the “terrible” medical care.


11 posted on 11/27/2019 8:50:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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She looks a bit like Jane Seymour.


12 posted on 11/27/2019 8:51:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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It sounds like she always thought of herself as some kind of weird princess.


13 posted on 11/27/2019 8:51:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: nwrep

Bloom where you are planted
Be grateful for the gifts around you
whatever they are

If you move, wash, drain, spin, repeat

Bad mouthing where you came from,
speaks volumes about who YOU are
and nothing about where you came from


14 posted on 11/27/2019 8:51:31 AM PST by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about Humanity)
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Somewhere in America there’s a bumper hitch missing its chrome.

L


15 posted on 11/27/2019 8:52:15 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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The air was chewable,sounds delightful./s


16 posted on 11/27/2019 8:53:35 AM PST by Mears
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Airhead


17 posted on 11/27/2019 8:54:39 AM PST by butlerweave
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Unattached older middle-aged women have been known to take these international larks, or even relocate as this woman did, to destinations where she can get sex more reliably from younger men. It’s not front-page news, but it’s not exactly a state secret either.

I don’t know if that’s this woman’s intention, but I made that connection.

It’s a lot like older unattached older middle-aged guys who vacation move to Thailand - there’s really not many legitimate reasons for a man to pick up and hang out in Thailand for months or years at a time. It usually has to do with illicit sex, either prostitution or the sex trade with children or transexuals.

It’s a wide, wide, weird world out there.


18 posted on 11/27/2019 8:55:26 AM PST by Ted Grant
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I’d hit that

Good for her. She found a place to anchor her soul.


19 posted on 11/27/2019 8:55:48 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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She must be a Californian or a Yankee. Both groups are big on cultural appropriation. ‘I always felt like I was a Southerner’.


20 posted on 11/27/2019 8:56:05 AM PST by dljordan
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