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  Deborah Young Love December 6, 2014 at 9:37pm

  Evelyn...I see your new picture...do you have color on your hair.  It looks good...as always.  You are your "mother and father's" child.  Ooooooooh......the new grandbaby is Shannon's son.....kuckle head me....I forgot...but it hit...that's one response you don't have to answer...hahahahaha....

  love ya girl-----Deb
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  Betty Joyce Mcgowan Culbreath November 8, 2013 at 3:33am

  Thanks I have been off line for a while but I'm back.
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  Gloria D (Toliver) Freeman May 30, 2013 at 5:45pm

  My dear beautiful friend Evelyn, let me thank you for changing your profile picture, not that it wasn't good enough or pretty enough,,,, cause it was.  The new pic shows real true beauty that comes from within, just who you really are.  You know,  you could actually be a face  model for real.... My mom never allowed me to wear makeup while growing up, she said "it will make you age faster," it appears your mom felt the same way. even now I wear very little make up if any at all. We cut, wax, color, clip, pluck, straighten, shave, and curl. We lift, curl, run, squat, and sweat. We spend far too long staring back at that person in the mirror, scrutinizing, worrying, and wishing. Wishing that our stomach could be just a little bit flatter, that our arms could be a little more toned, that our legs could be longer. Wishing we could look just like that woman we see in the office, the grocery store, the mall. Fantasizing and pretending, telling ourselves "if only." It happens because we’re getting messages thrown at us everywhere we look – we watch shows that tell us we’re not good enough, we read magazines that tell us to work harder, and we take diet pills that only take off our self-esteem. Ad campaigns for stores and clothing lines feature women who you wish you could look like in your dreams.

  We feel worthless, repulsive, flawed, and never good enough. We’re exhausted both physically and mentally both day in and day out from everything life gives us. We constantly compare ourselves to others and fall short of the images we see, our ideals, and expectations. We aim so high and are shocked when we can’t make the mark, when in reality, our own beauty isn’t dependent on who we would like to be. So where does beauty come from? Where can it be found? I can assure you it isn’t hidden in the words of any beauty, diet, or fitness magazine article. It doesn’t come in a 12 can pack and promise a smaller waistline. It’s not something that comes out when it is covered up with makeup or ejected from a needle, and it doesn’t come included with jewelry or price tags. You won’t find it on a treadmill or in the weight room. No – beauty is what lies within you.  Your hair is gorgeous,

   Real, natural, strong, and powerful beauty comes from within your heart. It blossoms like a rose in spring and encourages such an alluring, captivating, exquisite spirit that cannot be contained. A confident woman is a force to be reckoned with! Nothing can stop her, and nothing can get her down. I have both witnessed and experienced this. I have been where many of you have been, currently are, and, sadly, will be. I have hit rock bottom more than once. But I have come so far where I used to be with the realization I am about to share with you. From one woman to another, take these words fully: you are beautiful, just the way you are. You, right now, as you are reading this, are enough. In this moment. Today, tomorrow, and forever. Just as you are. Be confident with the person you have grown to be. There will never be another you, so why would you try to be like someone else? Beauty comes in different forms for every woman. Natural, wonderful, healthy, fabulous, unique. That’s what you are, and that’s what beauty is.  What tops it off is, when I'm dressed to go out and thinking about lines, and age spots, and tummy tucks..... my grandsons tell me how beautiful I look, it actually makes me blush.  I can just hear your sons telling you the same things!!
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  Gloria D (Toliver) Freeman February 25, 2013 at 10:07pm

  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy--they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Thank you so much Eve....... You are one of the charming gardeners who makes my soul blossom!!
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  David Lee Herron February 11, 2013 at 5:07am

  Hello Evelyn,

  Hey it has been along time sense I've seen are heard from from you.Looks like life has treated you well.I noticed that on one of your photos that you have a picture of my brother Benny Perry with Charles Wilson,and some more guys.Would you e-mail me copy of that photo. 

  Thanks,

  David L.Herron
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  Harold Don Smith February 7, 2013 at 12:38am

  Evelyn G. it has been too long! Thanks for your welcome ! We go waaay back girl.Good to see and hear you are well !!! Holler at me sometimes as I willyou.
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  Charles Richard Wilson January 30, 2013 at 5:31pm

  Thanks Sister Taylor for thinking of me on my birthday....had a wonderful day!
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  James A. Lyons January 5, 2013 at 10:32pm

  thanks for your prayers. we're stronger because of them
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  Deborah Young Love January 4, 2013 at 2:26am

  Hello my sister Evelyn:  It was so good  and heart warming to read your comments.  People need to know one's history and you never fail to mention our longtime friendship.  Thanks for the beautiful comment(s) and prayers for our family for you know I would do the same for you.  We are a village/product of Project individuals who never failed to come to the aid of friends.  (Even when they live on the same street)----hahahaha.  You are a true and dear friend to me Evelyn and you always will be.

  Keep inspiring people with your words of thought and of thanksgiving so that they will continue to know that God is real and he is alive.  Just accept him and open up your heart to receive him.

  Love ya - Deb Young Love
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  Deborah Young Love December 20, 2012 at 5:33am

  Since I was late....boy do I hate to be late on anything.....well's here's another HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU Evelyn.  I'm glad you had a wonderful birth-date....gotcha ya...and I'm glad you celebrated it with loved ones....like you always do each year.  So continue to celebrate...celebrate....it's your birth-date.

  I guess you have not received the information yet, but my sister Mary Young Johnson is low ill.  She is at home on hospice care.  Please pray for the Johnson and Young families.  Love ya - Deb