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I Refuse to Shave My Body Hair for My Wedding, but My MIL Gave Me an Ultimatum

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I’m in an awkward situation and would appreciate your advice.

I’m engaged to a fantastic man who has always supported my decisions, including not shaving my body hair. It’s a part of my identity, and he doesn’t mind.

We are planning our wedding, and I have fallen in love with a stunning sleeveless wedding gown However, this has become a source of disagreement with my future mother-in-law My fiancé’s parents are pretty rich, and his mother is kindly paying for the majority of the wedding…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

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When she saw my choice of attire, she gave me an ultimatum: shave my armpits for the wedding or she will not pay for it. This demand feels like an attack on my personal principles and freedom of expression. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

I am torn. On the one hand, I want to be unchanging in my ideas and be true to myself.

On the other hand, the financial support is substantial, and I don’t want to cause an argument between the family before the wedding. My fiancé is supportive of me, but he is torn between his love for me and his respect for his mother.

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To my surprise, he suggested I shave my armpits and accept his mother’s offer to pay for the outfit, promising that the hair will come back.

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How do I deal with this situation without losing my identity or triggering huge family conflict? Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

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Babysitter Hears Noise Upstairs So Dad Checks Hidden Camera And Captures A Nightmare In His Kitchen

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The babysitter hears a noise upstairs. So Dad checks the hidden camera and captures a nightmare in his kitchen. Arriving home one day, one nanny immediately had the sense that something wasn’t right, so she grabbed the kit she was looking after and made it to run for it. It wasn’t until the child’s father watched the chilling CCTV footage, however, that they fully understood what had happened.

Jonathan Lee and his family live in Irvine, California. Lee and his wife have a three-year-old son together. However, as they both lead busy lives, sometimes they can’t be there 24 hours a day…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

As a result, the couple decided to hire a nanny to look after their little one, and they found the perfect candidate in Jenna Lee Baker. Little did they know at the time just how much Baker would come to mean to them, though.

One day in the summer of 2017, Baker and the three-year-old had been out doing chores. It’s likely the pair couldn’t wait to get home after completing their tasks, but they had no idea what was waiting for them there. When Baker opened the door, she had a feeling in her stomach that something was wrong.

However, before she knew it, the little boy had already skipped into the house. Convinced that danger was present, Baker urged him to come back, and it’s a good job she did, because just then, Baker heard footsteps pounding down the stairs.

Consequently, Baker dashed into the house, picked up the child and carried him out. From there, she ran straight to a neighbor’s house to get help. I turned around and I grabbed him, Baker said as she reenacted the scene for Inside Edition in August 2017.

With child in tow, the nanny then fled down the driveway and onto the street without even stopping to put her shoes on. Baker’s instincts had told her that something was amiss in the house. It wasn’t until later, though, that she would know the true extent of the peril that she and the child had been in.

Yes, it was only after the child’s father returned home and checked the CCTV footage that the unsettling truth was discovered. The footage revealed that while Baker and the boy were out, a burglar had broken into the Lay family home.

From there, he’d walked into the kitchen, where he had found the nanny’s purse. The intruder then proceeded to empty the bag out onto the counter to see if there was anything worth stealing.

What’s more, this thief was a thorough thief, and he ensured that no stone was left unturned. Once he’d finished in the kitchen, the offender walked through the rest of the house in search of valuables, and he even checked the children’s room for items that’s my wife’s purse.

He’s got his hand to have him going into my kids’rooms and just walking in is most scary for me, Leigh said as he rewatched the footage. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

Later, upon hearing Baker arrive home, the burglar must have realized that he’d overstayed his welcome as he then made a run for it, heading down the stairs and out the front door. In fact, the footage showed that he left the house just moments after the nanny and child following the burglary.

Local police confirmed that they were looking for a suspect in relation to the incident. They listed him as an African American male aged around 18 to 25 years old. Police also added that he had a polka dot backpack and likely weighed some £170.

After surveying the CCTV footage, Lee believes that the man wasn’t working alone. He was on his cellphone the entire time, he told ABC Seven Eyewitness News. From the time he came into the backyard, all the way into the house, all the way up into our room and back down, he was on his phone.

Lee explained that the suspect had at first tried to gain entry to the home by breaking a window fitting, but when that failed, he simply broke through a glass door. Shockingly, a whole series of events happened in broad daylight.

The father added that the incident had left him shaken to the court. The burglar tore down my whole sense of security that I had in my home, so I feel very violated, Leigh said.

It’s not known what might have happened if Baker had crossed paths with the burglar, and for Lee, that possibility doesn’t even bear thinking about the fact that they were home and he was inside the home was the scariest thing to me, he said. Now the family are just happy that things panned out the way they did and they are immensely grateful to Baker for saving their little boy. Of course.

In fact, they now describe her as their supernatural, according to Inside Edition. What she did for my son and what she does daily, it’s unbelievable. I am so grateful that she’s in our lives. However, Baker insists she was simply doing her job in caring for the little boy. I don’t think of myself as a hero, she said.

I love him when his parents are away, they put their trust in me to keep him safe.

 

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He followed the strange hissing noise around his house. He had never heard anything like it before. It led him to his backyard. James froze. He ran to the shed and grabbed a garden tool with a long, sharp edge. He poked the mysterious patch of grass and watched in terror as it moved. When he discovered what was hiding inside, he stood in shock.

But before we start, smash the like button and make sure to subscribe if you haven’t, and hit that notification bell so that you won’t miss any new stories. James Carlington and his wife Sarah were coming back from church on Sunday morning when James noticed something strange in his yard. As a businessman with a loving wife to keep him company and his hobby for gardening to keep him busy, James loved nothing more than to kick back in his garden on the weekends, even if that garden was hiding something horrific…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>

 

It was another beautiful morning in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. The air was fresh, the sun was shining, and the wind was calm and gentle. After a long night of stormy weather, James was exhausted. He hardly got any sleep under the constant pelting of rain and howling wind. Regardless, he got himself up and ready for another relaxed Sunday. Little did he know, his day would be anything but relaxed.

James and his wife ate breakfast and left to catch their weekly 10 a.m. church service before coming back to the house to garden and do miscellaneous chores around the house. On the drive back from church, James began to make a list in his head about what needed to be done in the garden. With two kids all grown up and gone, he now devoted all his care and attention to his modest yard. The couple arrived back home and walked from the car to their front door, but just before James turned the handle, he heard something.

“Do you hear that?” James asked Sarah, bewildered.

“Yeah, what is that?” she replied.

It was a hissing noise, unlike anything they’d heard before. James stepped away from the door and followed the eerie sound. It led him around his house to his backyard. As he turned the corner, the noise got louder and louder. Suddenly, James froze.

“What the…,” he muttered. In front of him was a big patch of grass that seemed to be rising. He dug his heels into the ground in complete confusion before inching closer to the bizarre scene. James tapped the strange thing with his foot and watched, horrified, as the patch of risen earth moved beneath his foot. He jumped back in panic. His wife followed suit, and they both stared curiously at it.

Once it stopped moving, James tentatively kicked it again. It wobbled once more before coming to a standstill. Then he said something he probably shouldn’t have.

“What the hell,” he said. “It’s like a bubble or water bed.”

Feeling emboldened, he took off his sandals and walked on it. The weird mass moved under his feet like a giant slab of jelly. James got so carried away with the fun sensation that he started to jump on it. But on his third jump, he heard an awful, unhinged sound. A loud pop filled the air, and the mass beneath his feet got bigger. James quickly got down, realizing that he had no idea what he was standing on. He hoped that sound wasn’t anything serious, but it was.

James asked his wife to get out her phone and start filming. He was going to burst this thing, but he never expected what they’d capture. Sarah got out her camera while James got an umbrella from the side of the house. He started to prod the mysterious lump, but nothing happened. He needed something stronger. He sourced a garden tool and resumed poking it.

“What if snakes come out?” his wife joked.

What hid inside, however, was much more frightening than snakes. He stood on top of the mysterious mass again and started to pierce the grass harder. The hissing sound began to fade and fade until suddenly, there was another loud pop. James steadied himself as the grass churned, and he felt a big wash beneath his feet. His eyes opened wide as he watched what happened next.

James finally managed to pierce through the grass and burst the giant bubble. James and Sarah watched in amazement as murky water came gushing out. It continued to run from the ground like an endless water fountain.

But the entrancing earth fountain wasn’t all this bubble would reveal to them. After 15 minutes of watching his yard expel water from its underbelly, James began to notice something strange in the opening hole. A black piece of plastic stuck out from beneath the grass. James approached the hole and grabbed the piece of plastic, but as he tried to pull it out, it wouldn’t budge. It looked like the edge of a black trash bag. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

“What is that?” he wondered.

He waited until all of the water drained from the strange bubble to find out. Now he looked around at his garden, which was now flooded. A small river fled from his yard to the street, but the mess was the least of his problems. James went into his garage and brought out a shovel. If this plastic bag was the cause of this strange phenomenon, he needed to remove it. He dug into his beloved grass one shovel at a time until he reached the culprit. He reached his hand in and tried to pull it out again, but even though the plastic bag looked like it had been there for years, it was still as tough as nails.

Confused, James realized that the plastic bag was much bigger than he thought. He continued to dig, hoping to find its end. He followed the plastic bag with his shovel until he stood at the end of his grass. James had no idea what was going on. He walked over to the other far end of his yard and started to dig. It was as he expected; the black plastic lay under his entire grass like a giant sheet. But why?

James walked back to the other side where he had dug a line from the center of his garden to the edge. He took out his pocket knife and pierced a line in the plastic sheet. What he found was staggering. So desperate to understand what was hiding beneath his very own garden, he pulled the plastic sheet back. A strange smell began to waft through the air. His eyebrows knitted at the sight of the old and dirty wooden planks that came into view. James didn’t remember seeing anything like this outlined in the blueprint of his house when he bought it 50 years ago. Things were about to get stranger and stranger.

James called for his wife, who had given up filming some time ago, preferring instead to begin some house chores. She walked to James’s side, astonished at what he did to their garden. There was mud and holes everywhere, but just as she was about to give out to him, she saw what he was staring at. She grew silent, scrunching her nose at the smell.

“What is all this, James?” she asked.

“I have no idea,” he replied. “It looks like some sort of structure. We weren’t told about any of this when we bought the house, right?” he asked.

“Honey,” Sarah interrupted, “that looks like a door handle.”

Alarmed, James turned. “Oh my word, it does,” he agreed. His heart started to pound. It was becoming obvious that his garden was anything but ordinary. James grabbed his shovel and started around the area. Then he grabbed his knife and ripped back more of the strange plastic covering. His wife stood close by as he tried to pry open the bizarre door. His mind raced with theories as he used all of his strength to open it. Was it a bunker, some kind of ancient ruin? He started to sweat with anticipation. When the door finally gave way, James couldn’t believe his eyes.

It opened up to wooden stairs that had fallen apart. James’s heart thumped as chills ran down his body. He grabbed his flashlight and asked his wife to hold his ankles. He lay down and dropped the front half of his body down. It looked like it was an old, small wine cellar. There were still some empty bottles lying around. The place looked completely abandoned, and it smelled like sour milk or fermented fruit. It was obvious that no one had entered this place in a very, very long time. It was definitely the source of the strange smell. When James managed to grab a bottle, the date left him speechless. It was dated in the early 20th century.

After a painful search for his house’s history, he discovered that the wine cellar had to be closed up because it was built without planning permission. But what about the giant bubble and plastic? As James and Sarah later found out, the plastic sheet was the easiest way to recover the yard’s appearance and reintroduce fertile soil without having to write a pricey check to demolish the structure and buy soil from scratch. They learned that the mysterious grass bubble was a phenomenon known as a lawn blister. A lawn blister happens most commonly in lawns that have a plastic sheet underneath the grass surface. This plastic sheet is used in lawns that have bad soil in order to encourage healthy grass to grow. The plastic is placed over the bad soil, and new, fresh soil is placed on top, where grass will then grow and flourish.

But here’s how the strange occurrence happens: although rare, water can sometimes find its way under the plastic layer and get trapped. The water will continue to build with nowhere to go, causing the grass to grow and rise with the mounting pressure. In James’s case, the night of thunderous rainfall did the trick. Luckily, there was no burst pipe. But did James put himself in danger by bursting it? Although they may look threatening, they aren’t dangerous. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be careful. Depending on the size of these lawn blisters, they can end up flooding your lawn. So make sure to pave a path for the water to drain to

avoid ruining your yard with excessive water. And even though James dealt with this situation well, not everybody agreed.

 

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The story of Cudjo Lewis- The last survivor of Clotilda (the last ship to transport slaves from Africa to America)

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Cudjo ‘Kazoola’ Lewis was born in 1841 to a Yoruba family who lived in the Banté region of Dahomey, now Benin Republic. Cudjo Lewis, born Oluwale Kossola, lived happily with his parents, siblings and other family members. At a young age of 14, Cudjo began training with other boys as a soldier and was initiated into Oro, a secret Yoruba male society who guarded the community.…Click Here To Continue Reading>> …Click Here To Continue Reading>>


At the age of 19, Cudjo Lewis went through another initiation in order marry a girl he had fallen in love with but was hindered by fate. In April 1860, while his initiation was going on, his town was attacked by the King of Dahomey, Gezo, and his men. Many people were killed including the king of the town and the survivors were carted away as war booties and sold into slavery.

This was a big turning point in the life of Cudjo Lewis (Oluwale Kossola). He and other 109 captives from different regions of Benin Republic and Nigeria were shipped to America on a slave ship named Clotilda. During this period, slave trade was illegal and so they were transported clandestinely. Cudjo Lewis spent 45 days on the ship and suffered serious thirst and humiliation of being paraded naked. They were landed near the American residence of Mobile and hidden away from authorities.

Cudjo Lewis at his home in AfricaTown in the late 1920s
Cudjo Lewis at his home in AfricaTown in the late 1920s | The Encyclopedia of Alabama

The slaves were sold off to different people. Cudjo was sold to one James Meaher, a rich ship captain in America. Cudjo worked on his ship as a deckhand and this was where and when he picked up the name Cudjo because James Meaher found it difficult to pronounce Oluwale or Kassola which were his birth names.
However in 1865, after the American civil war ended, Cudjo Lewis and other slaves regained their freedom. Now a freeman, Cudjo picked up the name Lewis and married Abile, a fellow ex-slave and had five sons and a daughter. He and other ex-slaves founded a settlement for themselves in Alabama called AfricaTown. Unluckily and sadly for Cudjo, he outlived all his children and his wife who died in 1908. He was indeed a strong man. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>

USA with his great granddaughters, Mary Lumbers and Martha Davis
Cudjo Lewis with his great granddaughters, Mary Lumbers and Martha Davis | The Encyclopedia of Alabama

Cudjo Lewis lived the rest of his life in AfricaTown, Alabama, as a storyteller and historian. He got quite famous when writers and the press published his story. Most of his Clotilda ex-slaves had passed away leaving him as the only survivor of Clotilda, the last slave ship from Africa to America.

Cudjo Lewis (Oluwale Kassola also pronounced Kazoola) died on July 26, 1935 at about 94 years. It had always been his dream to return to his homeland in Africa but he was buried among his family in America.

 

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