I guess I'm Minnie!!

I'm a cultural chameleon. I love other cultures and I'm good at integrating with any cultural group; I believe it to be one of my greatest qualities. I'm quiet. Usually. Unless I'm feeling confidently adventurous. I'm proud but I will always swallow it down because I hate being mad at anyone. I'm told I'm too smart for my own good - I don't feel I should have to pretend to be daft to win people over. So, perfecting my people skills is an ongoing effort for me, but, practice makes perfect. I like peppermint tea and peppermint patties and peppermint-flavored lip gloss. Cinnamon is to me what catnip is to a feline. I love animals, and I get really giddy when it comes to giraffes, elephants and penguins. I have ridden an elephant and I *almost* fed a giraffe. I'm a humanist but not a secularist, and I'm one of those people who hates to waste food because I always picture the little starving children with swollen bellies suffering in Africa. I personally know the person who has the cure for AIDS, but no one will ever hear about that person or that cure. I am easily irritated and won't hesitate to show it. I was raised Catholic until Pope John Paul II died, afterwhich I abandoned the religion completely. (But I still do the sign of the cross sometimes--force of habit.) I believe in respecting religion in its theoretical form but I don't believe religion is bettering the global society. As such I have no religion - I am what I like to call a pluralist. I collect the fortunes you find inside fortune cookies. I don't like chocolate all that much like most girls do. I own a cat, and my dog is in an urn. I 100% support inter-racial marriage because it makes life richer and more interesting. Spongebob Squarepants is one of my heroes. As a kid I looked like D.J. from Full House. I am the most loyal of friends, and though it is difficult to befriend me, once it happens my friendship with you will always be the shining example of loyalty. I seek inner peace and tranquility with my surroundings the most in life. I eat rose petals. My greatest treasures are my family and my best friends (you know who you are) who always help me to remember that I'm worth it and to keep my head up.
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Some quotes for your soul:
.: As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ~ Virginia Woolf
.: There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~ Nelson Mandela
.: "The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present." ~ Robert F. Kennedy
.: The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
.: A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. ~ James Keller
.: Piensa en mi de vez en cuando, porque soy una especie en extincion. ~ Mikel Erentxun
.: I would not leave this earth until God promised me that my hands could always touch the face of anyone who suffered. ~ St. Francis of Assisi
.: I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. ~ Nelson Mandela
.: What we think is less than what we know: what we know is less than what we love: what we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are. ~ R.D. Laing
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