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bk">Before the election, I tried my darndest not to think about what would happen if Trump won again.</p><p id="c390" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">My husband and I deliberately don’t have any of the 24-hour news channels running. We pick and choose what we see and hear on our phones and on public radio. We almost never watch TV except for streaming episodic shows and movies.</p><p id="d6e4" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">You see, my husband hates commercials (and I used to sell them — yes, even political ads!) plus we both realize what the barrage of real and fake news does to us. We get forlorn. We get anxious. We get angry and depressed. So, we limit our exposure.</p><h2 id="e150" class="pk pl hd bf pm pn po dy pp pq pr ea ps ox pt pu pv pb pw px py pf pz qa qb hj bk">Premonition</h2><p id="b613" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig qc os ot ij qd ov ow ox qe oz pa pb qf pd pe pf qg ph pi pj gw bk">On Tuesday, Election Day, I was literally under a cloud all day. I was unable to function due to extreme fatigue and brain fog.</p><p id="2fa9" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">In the moment, I chalked it up to the fact that I was still getting over the cold I caught while traveling in October, the cough and sniffling that just won’t let me go.</p><p id="242f" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">I also chalked it up to Tuesday being the anniversary of my mother’s death two years ago. 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