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Happy Birthday
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Gladys Baydala
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Friends, pictured above is Gladys, my mother Gladys, that is. What kind of a woman is Gladys? Let me try and describe her for you. She is not generally a very social woman as far as custom goes and she is quite happy busying herself with her own interests. She likes reading mysteries and building things or fixing them herself. She would like to be called ' Mr Gladys ' or the ' Chief ' rather some some silly feminine appellation. She is a very forceful and determined woman. You do not want to mess around with Gladys lest you suffer her wrath for the rest of your life. That is just one of her features and she has many more. She is very practical and level headed and is also a great economizer. From Gladys I probably learned that it pays to persevere and to finish one's goals whatever they might be. Gladys was a single parent and she survived by working and paying for her own home with no help from anybody so that is just example of her character for you. But, her character is different on the home front; she is given to starting things and not completing them. She is not a great domestic and is not generally interested in housework as such. The reasons for her behavior in this regard she tells me is that she took typing in school and not home economics. Well, that certainly explains things for me. How about you? But, we will not hold this part of her life against her since she is possessed with so many more noble qualities that we can certainly admire.
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Gladys is also a philosopher as we all are of course. For philosophy is simply the way all of us view the world and react to it as we understand it. For example, Gladys does not fear God because she does not believe in such things. She is a very confirmed atheist and you would be wise not to mention religion in front of her, or you will surely suffer her wrath contained in words. She was probably the first philosopher that had a major influence on me. Not only does she believe in the right and wrong of things but she has views on love and marriage as well. One of Glady's expressions that was imparted to me as a young adult was this one:
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" You don't have to marry the cow to get the milk. "
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