walk on the wild side

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Amanda and her cousin Amy, Valdese, North Carolina by Mary Ellen MarkNorth Carolina, USA, 1990In 1990, Peter Howe at Life magazine sent me to North Carolina to photograph a special school for children with problems. The school was a very strange place because all of the twenty or so children were in the same classroom and their problems ranged from mild behavior instability to severe schizophrenia.Nine-year-old Amanda was the most interesting child in the class. She was my favorite child. Amanda was very intelligent and very naughty. One day I followed her home on the school bus. When the bus stopped at her house, she dashed ahead of me and ran into a nearby wooded area. I continued to follow her into the woods and eventually found her sitting in an old stuffed chair having a cigarette. She thought that I would reprimand her since I was an adult. But I said nothing.The following Sunday, I spent the day at home with Amanda and her mother. Amanda totally controlled her mother. She constantly gave her orders and proceeded to put on her mother’s nail polish and makeup. Amanda smoked openly in front of her. Her 8-year-old cousin Amy was coming over, and she was very excited. All day long, Amanda and her cousin played like children. Every forty-five minutes or so, Amanda would take a break to have a cigarette. Her mother could say nothing; Amanda was the boss.Just before I left, I looked for Amanda to say good-bye. I found her and Amy in the backyard. They were in a children’s inflatable pool. Amanda was taking her regular cigarette break.

perfae:

ilymorgannn:

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w-a-v-e:

I can’t believe this nearly has 200,000 notes, I remember when I posted this. It just comes to show how many people agree…

^almost 300,000 omg

i’ve reblogged this at least 10 times

fuck yes

Over 300,000

ryaninwonderland:

SHE WAS WEARING THIS WHEN SHE HUGGED ME

gsfsoul:

Albert Einstein in Fuzzy Slippers

how can you just scroll past this you can’t

i tried to but as you can see i couldnt

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mellokins:

This is how it got removed in Sweden. People actually called in, all on the same day, and announced that they couldn’t come to work as they were gay and would probably stay gay for a while.

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THIS IS MY FAVOURITE POST ON THIS WEBSITE EVER HANDS DOWN NO DOUBT ABOUT IT I ACTUALLY LOVE THIS

i hate math tests because all throughout the chapter it’s like really easy shit and then you think you’ve got it and then the test is like

if i throw a triangle out of a car and the car is going 20 mph and wind resistance is a thing that exists, how many cupcakes can pedro buy with one human soul

i think i’ve had that test question before^

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