Life and Taxes

JINGOISTIC is the word Fio has been searching for. She remembers her mother using it to describe a super-nationalism movement that she considered to be ignorant and offensive. Fiorella heard the word again during a UT history class, but she never realized she'd be in the trenches fighting against another such movement further on down the road.
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As a child, your Fio was great at reading maps. She had to be--remember that her mother didn't drive so her father had to be at the wheel the whole way up and down from Texas to Ohio, often a four-day trip. Unfortunately, mother never got the hang of road maps either, so the chore was passed on to yours truly. Fiorella understood from the first that a map was an aerial view of the road system and took it from there. But alas, she's now in the same boat that her mother because paper maps are relics of the past, and Fio is notoriously inept with technology. Translation--cell phone maps and their squeaky voices confuse your girl.
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Congratulate Fiorella. She's finally pulled together all the TRS, ERS, and SS stuff, and has phone calls out to Husband's doctors for a list of their so referrals so she can figure out the mileage and thus reduce her taxes. She'd like to tell you that will finish her off for IRS, but noooooooo--still plenty to do.