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One year since surgery 🫀

I painted one of my heart scans because February was congenital heart disease awareness month !

This was the most fucking painful tattoo by far but my favorite 🥺 My niece was born with CHD and has undergone 3 heart surgeries and a handful of procedures. I wanted to do something special for her and my artist went above and beyond.

My university club is hosting a virtual event this Friday! All proceeds raised from ticket prices will go towards helping Aliyah get treatment for her congenital heart disease ❤️🫀

I've had a slew of terrible experiences of online dating. I don't want to discourage anyone from trying it themselves. If you believe it's working for you, then that's great. My time on multiple dating apps has been checkered. I've had my fair share of verbal abuse and bad dates. I've made bad decisions and it ultimately led me to a very uncomfortable, irresponsible, scary, and humiliating sexual encounter. I think it's important to bring this conversation into the mainstream. Especially for men. Socially, men are taught to be tough and in control of everything so they can provide, be confident in their sexual ventures, and refrain from expressing any concern or inadequacy. Let me be clear: my sexual encounter was 100% consensual, but it doesn't mean it didn't deserve any less self-examination of my emotions after the act. Dating and building a connection with anyone is hard. It's the greatest blessing and task we are asked to do on Earth. We all deserve love, gay or straight. The number one rule for any couple is respect and safety. I hope to find my significant other the old fashion way, and anyone one scouring the internet for love, I wish you good luck, just be cautious.

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Lucas the Lionheart at 7.5 weeks old. 3 open heart surgeries later & he’s still trucking right along, we may even be getting out of the hospital soon! 💙🦁❤️ #LUCASTHELIONHEART #CHDAWARENESS #CHDWARRIOR #HEARTWARRIOR #HEARTBABY #HEARTMOM #HEARTPARENT #CONQUERCHD #CHD #CHDAWARE #CHDBABY https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnur9xAhRDV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14dz21pdhojr2

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