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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT

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Founder & ED: Blackpackers(501c3). Writer: ( @backpackermag + many more) Hiker trash: CT ‘20 PCT 22 TRT 22, WEMT, CIG, & LNT IL2, outdoor ed adjunct

Colorado Springs, CO
Joined February 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
“Blackpackers is really just community pooling our resources together…”
@ABCGMA3
GMA3: What You Need To Know
2 years
The non-profit Blackpackers is on a mission to create economic equity and representation in outdoor spaces. #GMA3
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I don’t want to be that person but it’s 485 miles, lol
@CBSNewsColorado
CBSColorado
4 years
Colorado Woman Hikes 330 Miles From Denver To Durango
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2 years
Okay so I need to find and purchase this book
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5 years
I'd clap Old Bay in the air like I was LeBron
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4 years
It’s an easy mistake. That’s the driving distance by highway. The Colorado Trail goes up and over and around mountains so it is longer.
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4 months
Finally. My answer to storing bacon instead of the silly packaging it comes it. (It’s stainless steel btw)
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He wasn’t saying that for us he was saying it to his ex.
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philip lewis
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Jonathan Majors on Meagan Good: "She's an angel. She's held me down like a Coretta [Scott King]. I'm so blessed to have her."
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5 years
They guy who pulled all Nike gear from his store in Colorado Springs because of the Kaepernick ad? He is closing down his store. “...perhaps there are more [Kaepernick] supporters out there than I realized.”
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
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@BarkyBoogz A ww (also my city council member) told me that college kids should be able to call black women ugly because it is free speech and just "mean words." I told her her face was aging like tapioca pudding outside at a summer barbeque since it is just words. I'm blocked.
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4 years
I DID IT!!! I WALKED FROM DENVER TO DURANGO!!
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@CBSDenver Thank YOU!
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2 years
@boozan
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With the help of many great people, I wrote a book! It's an illustrated poem/gift book to reassure the mothers in your life that they're actually doing great. Pre-order it now, or wait until April and steal it from a store.
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2 years
Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder day is observed in Colorado on January 27th of every year.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
5 years
The floor is black feminism.
@WhoresofYore
Whores of Yore
5 years
Captions please. X
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Y’all would have to follow Colorado Twitter to see this but...this is a much different vibe than any other tragedy. I can’t explain it but it feels both angry and resigned. I’m speaking specifically to my Colorado folks when I say: I love y’all, I see y’all.
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9 months
It’s official!! I’m a homeowner!!
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4 years
Today, five years ago, my arson charges from setting a confederate flag on fire were dropped.
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1 year
Mark Curry was at The Mining Exchange in downtown COS and apparently they harassed him in the lobby. Bro was here putting on a show literally a block away. Mind you, the lobby is a bar and they advertise it as such.
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@TheBaddestMitch My son has “biracial” in his tik tok profile and the way I am so embarrassed. Not him making it his personality 😩
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3 years
I’m officially a wilderness first responder!!! Goodbye Estes, I’ll miss you
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5 months
People with anxiety and trauma immediately understand the beta blocker comment
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VOGUE India
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Mia Khalifa’s relaunch as a verified fashion girl has been a baptism by fire. Headlines have scrutinised her every move in the past and the comments section of her Instagram can feel like a battleground. “I tell myself I have made it through a lot worse,” she says on dealing with
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I’m hollering at Rihanna performing at the Super Bowl as a fucking sidenote to her current life. Told us she’ll stop by our little halftime and then get back to minding her business.
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2 years
Free lunch for kids, legalize shrooms, but get that bingo the fuck out of here, damn it.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
Had to send an email to one of my son’s teacher this lovely first day of BHM.
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2 years
Ya. Girl. Did. It.
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1 year
Y’all. Colorado Springs has a Black man for mayor.
@spencersoicher
Spencer Soicher ABC 10News
1 year
Williams says he’s called Mobolade to concede. Yemi Mobolade will be the next Mayor of Colorado Springs #copolitics @KRDONC13
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
4 years
I’m sorry this is so wild to tweet. The people who show up to protests with gas masks and fire off teargas at protesters is now AGHAST that protesters are now wearing gas masks too? It’s only fun if they are defenseless, huh?
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CSPD is hoping for a peaceful night, but we are being told that protesters are now donning gas masks. .
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I’m so proud of my son. I told him to never make statements to cops without an attorney. He did that at the school and now everyone is flustered. My 15 year old said “not without my attorney” and I’m about to go buy him a new skateboard or something cause that was BRAVE.
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3 years
Time to pass out
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@MeWeFree_
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith.
4 years
What is the whitest thing you can think of?
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6 years
Single mothers getting thrown under the bus when it’s married women out here roasting their kids like chestnuts to save their bogus ass marriages.
@THEKayVega
the baddie next door.
6 years
Maybe the reason so many of y’all having an issue with the fact I would save my husband over my children is because.... y’all having kids before you have husbands/wives 🤷🏾‍♀️ idk just a thought
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2 years
Y’all. I’m crying REAL tears. This is beautiful
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
If I still know how to count (huge if) we have about forty Blackpackers headed to Arapahoe Basin this morning.
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3 years
Blackpackers Juneteenth Campout tent set up :)
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3 years
Hey y’all, The very first Black-owned outdoor gear shop is in trouble. They’ve been hit hard during the pandemic and are in serious danger of closing their doors for good.
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Colorado Twitter gets real fun when we are all trapped inside from weather. Gonna get a little unhinged tomorrow and I, for one, am here for it.
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I’m not surprised nor am I going to give anyone my outrage. If you are doing the work, if you are trying to change the world, if you are working towards equity…keep doing that and ignore the noise today. Better yet, go take a nap. Rest. We need you.
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3 years
I’m in actual hysterics. I can’t I CANT. Lmfaooooo
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
so we aren’t shopping at King Soopers starting next week?
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4 years
Aye y’all!!! I just got word that Blackpackers received their first grant!!!!!!!!!!
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
3 years
@MustBeCharm Okay so I’m not the only one
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1 year
Ayyyyyye we have 50 at Arapahoe Basin today! Most we’ve ever taken!
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3 years
I camped solo a lot and this was one of my favorite solo spots
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2 years
Sidenote: Doing a “who is a real Coloradan” campaign based on fishing licenses is elitist. It isn’t free to fish and it costs more than people think. Not to mention the culture isn’t one of inclusion at ALL.
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@COBlackpacker
Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
1 year
And Happy Irish Birthday to me. For surviving and fucking thriving.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
If you say butter pecan your grandmother raised you
@TodayInSportsCo
TodayInSports
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What’s the GOAT ice cream? 🍦
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You want to experience hell go to REI Denver flagship early on a Saturday morning.
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4 years
Oh and yeah, my son was there to meet me at the finish line
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
4 years
Now watch they gonna get it and not die or be hospitalized and then use that as proof that people are overreacting I can see it now.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
4 years
I’m. Halfway. Done. With. The. Colorado. TRAIL!!! Today marks over 240 miles on my feet, mostly alone ✊🏾✊🏾🤗🤗
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
3 years
Lord not Missy actually replying to me.
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Blackpackers finally officially announced our REI partnership! The partnership includes funding, gear, exclusive educational classes, and other awesome stuff!
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
4 years
I’m currently on a zoom award ceremony about to accept my award for one of the women of influence in Colorado Springs. Let me tell you, I never saw THIS coming. And if you know my relationship with Colorado Springs, you’d be shocked too.
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send me all the good vibes you can. I’m headed towards two big passes and the highest point on the trail. Gonna go slow and pay attention to my body as best I can.
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2 years
Today I met a Black man who said they hiked the CT in 2021(and now he’s on the PCT) because they were inspired by my journey. This is LITERALLY the work we are trying to do and this means more to me than anything. It was a pleasure to meet Donavon Potts (that’s also his IG)
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1 year
Just now noticed the Irish lad smiling at me in the background. He was so sweet. He’s the one I told it was my birthday and then surprised me with the song and all the hip hip hurrah nonsense. You can tell he was pleased with himself lol. He was also cute AF, can’t lie.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
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All these Black men who had to die to allegedly “change the world.” Before we had bodycams and cell phone videos Emmitt Till’s mother held an open casket of her son’s brutalized body. I want my Black men to change the world and die old men.
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3 years
I never answer my phone but something told me to pick this particular phone call up. We just got approved for the grant funding for the Blackpackers aquatics program!!
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4 years
Y’all. My resting heart rate before the Colorado Trail was in the 90s and frequently over 100. Now? It’s 66. Holy crap the trail improved my heart health.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
1 year
My son has a new song where he is talking about “ghetto lullabies outside his front door” and I did not raise him in MANITOU SPRINGS for him to get on an album and talk about how rough his neighborhood was
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2 years
My son is 15 today. My 1 lb 4 oz micro preemie is 15 years old today, on NYE. Try was born before I made it to the third trimester and here he is, all these years later, an absolute miracle.
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3 years
Meet some of the people who made up my family
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2 years
It took me three years but Blackpackers will finally be opening our outdoor school next summer and I am so f****ng STOKED right now. This was the goal all along and my team and I spent these last few years building to this point right here.
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4 years
Will finish Thursday. I am ready, lol
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1 year
Bro. If your employees are "housing insecure" I'm not sure I would bring that up in a debate. Being the CEO of Tattered Cover with impoverished employees is not the vibe you think it is.
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4 years
In my quest to find a hobby that isn’t just the outdoors AND my desire to become as Colorado as possible.... I bought this today
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4 years
Making my way...slowly. Making new friends.
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2 years
Your very housed neighbors are drinking and doing a lot of drugs but you are okay with it cause you can’t see it. Just know it’s not about the drugs or the alcohol *or* the proximity.
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3 years
Life comes at you fast
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
3 years
This is my new dog, Scrappy. He’s a one year old terrier mix from the humane society and I can’t wait to take him camping!
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1 year
You won’t believe this. I came out for an Irish dancing and dinner party and met another American solo traveler…a Black woman…and today is her birthday!!! Meet Mattie!
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4 years
I think about this tweet a lot
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3 years
Whenever someone tells me how progressive Boulder is I lol. It’s damn near Colorado Springs minus open carry.
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3 months
It feels so heavy outside. Every human who has spent a single winter here can feel what’s about to happen.
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3 years
Blackpackers swim lessons started today! Do you see that gentleman in there with his son?! He’s over 40 and learning to swim. This is why we do this!
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4 years
I finally bought a cloth so we can table at events now. Next, a pop up shelter/tent for events.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
1 year
Y'all. I did it. I booked it. I am going to fucking Dublin for my 40th birthday!
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4 years
Two really cool things: I can tell what time it is any time of day without a clock and my circadian rhythm is ON POINT. My sleep schedule is perfect
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3 years
What is negative zero??
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
4 years
Yes but none of us want to hang out in your basement listening to Florida Georgia Line while you complain about your exes.
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7 months
Boulder, CO discovering grits because of Deion Sanders is crazy and proves every point I have ever had to say about them ridiculous up there.
@uchealth
uchealth
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Deion Sanders mentioned in an interview that he loves grits for breakfast. Soon, grits were appearing on restaurant menus all over Boulder, Colorado. Want to try Prime's favorite breakfast food? Try making oven-baked creamy grits at home:
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People on EBT should eat whatever they want to eat. If it’s processed stuff folks complain and if it’s fresh and healthy they complain too. I remember when I was shopping at the dollar store with my EBT card to make it stretch. That food made me sick.
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7 months
Colorado makes it so damn easy to vote early, yet every single election I’m dropping off my ballot midafternoon on Election Day.
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4 years
I didn’t get a chance to share my penultimate trail journal entry because I was 13,300 feet in the air. I wanted to share the story of how a zero day in Lake City restored me in more ways than one. (And also a little about what I do on those days)
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5 months
Live look at Colorado and Maine
@KyleClark
Kyle Clark
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NEW: Maine's Secretary of State, a Democrat, joins Colorado's Supreme Court in deeming Donald Trump ineligible to appear on the ballot due to his involvement in the Jan 6 insurrection. Decision similarly suspended for SCOTUS ruling. #copolitics
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1 year
The Queen of the North!
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3 years
I don’t know why I’m so sad. I’m so so hurt. Of course I’m happy he was convicted but in some way it made me feel more hopeless. All this. All this. George Floyd is still dead and Black people are still being killed and I don’t believe in the system after a single verdict.
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@cprwarner I came out late in life but had been to Club Q several times before because of my friends. When I came out as queer in 2016, I went there first, because I knew I would be accepted without question.
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Sooooo... ....this just happened. I’ve never “won” anything in my life and this one is coming from the Colorado Springs community so it hits DIFFERENT.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
1 year
Thank you for sharing, Governor!
@GovofCO
Governor Jared Polis
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Every Coloradan and visitor who wants to enjoy the outdoors should do so freely without discrimination, and thanks to Blackpackers, many more individuals who want to explore and enjoy the Colorado wilderness can.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
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*whispers* are we ready to talk about funding the rail system in this country yet? Let me know. I can come back. I always do.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
1 year
I am once again, BEGGING this country, to invest in @Amtrak and/or high speed rail alternatives.
@SteveStaeger
Steve Staeger
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NEW: @SouthwestAir CEO Bob Jordan issues a video statement about the airlines troubles over the last week. (1 of 2)
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
6 years
@NotGeauxGabby @Playm8z @YesThatMGibson @LordRilla @Zeetherapy @Penn @PennMedicine @UPenn_MedEthics Like I said, we do NOT play with HIPAA. (I cropped out my own job title, lol).
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
3 years
I haven’t finished getting dressed yet but birthday drink outfit?
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
5 years
@jacaristar Not buying the car, but everything that goes onto maintaining a car.
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
2 years
It's the guns and the bigotry. Simple. So I'm not going to talk about it unless the conversation is centered around that. I have never had any interest in anything about mass shootings that isn't around removing our country's devotion to guns.
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3 years
This is ridiculous. Look at this place. This is my drive from the city of Estes into RMNP every day.
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It’s funny cause you’ll tell Denver people that you are headed back to Colorado Springs and they look like you just said Salt Lake City. “TONIGHT??? Omg drive SAFE”
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Patricia Ann Cameron, NREMT
3 years
My son’s tenth birthday cake >>>>>>
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4 years
Climbed another mountain!
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