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You Need Oxygen! You Don’t Need Men!
“No woman is scheduled to drop dead from being single for any significant amount of time. None! In fact, women are dying due to men, not due to the lack of them!”
This Sunday afternoon I went grocery shopping and ran some errands. Now I usually do not look forward to buying food, but today felt different. I felt happy to invest in my health by way of my grocery cart.
If you must know, I eat a meat-heavy diet and the regular consumption of red meat has been an essential staple in healing my body. While everyone labels beef as the big bad wolf of the food world and instructs us to run knees to chest away from steaks, burgers, brisket, and ribs, I ran in the opposite direction towards those beautiful cows and I have yet to regret it.
So once I was home stowing away pounds of beef and chicken in my deep freezer it dawned on me that I literally need red meat to maintain my health. Suddenly a popular love song from the early 2000s popped up in my head that describes romance the way I would describe my need for food, and the chorus began to play in my mind.
’Cause I can’t breathe when you talk to me
I can’t breathe when you’re touchin’ me
I suffocate when you’re away from me
So much love you take from me
I’m goin’ outta my mind
