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I am just a retired sergeant from the United States Air Force who moved (back) to Tucson in Dec 03 I was stationed here for a long time, but not during my last years in. Currently I'm living off just my pension and VA disability compensation. have various medical problems, that include a heart condition, arthritis in my shoulders and chronic back pain, but I'm still alive, with a roof over my head and am not going hungry so I'm better off than many in this world and things (money wise) seem to be improving, so I have been loaning on Kiva to help others in this world.

I have a cat named Electra she is an old Cornish Rex cat of undetermined age (she has a lot of age grayed hair) who was adopted from a cat shelter (Electra was the name she had when adopted, but most of the time I call her Dinky Doodles, that weird for me). She has chronic skin problems with hair loss, problems with malformed claws, white hazy scaring on her eyes likely caused by ocular herpes at sometime in her past and most of her teeth are gone. She is the only cat I've ever really liked, which was a surprise to me, as I generally don't care much for cats. I figure it's because she's not perfect or cute. Most people when they first see her say "cool looking cat. But she's ugly" I say "F*** you she's not ugly, she's the princess of all the known Universe".

Arizona-Rick

"Knowledge is more than just knowing"

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