Donald Armstrong
1 min readDec 19, 2021

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Any chance that you are from Hawai’i? Fuck is the go-to word here in the islands. You can pretty much insert any variation if it into practically any sentence and nobody will raise an eyebrow. A young island boy used to work as a valet at a nearby restaurant. My partner and I would frequently stop and chat (“talk story”) with him as we walked home. Eventually, we started making wagers on how many times he could work that word into a two minute conversation, such as: “Eh brah, what the fuck you guys up to? Fucking beautiful night, no—except I smoked a little before I came to work so I’m pretty fucked up right now … so anyways, oh fuck man, the boss he came out and that fucker stood right next to me so he could like smell my fuckin’ breath … so I gotta be careful ‘cuz if he fucks me over I gotta go back and work for my old man and like there’s no fucking around with him …” The restaurant closed during the pandemic, but damn, I miss that kid!

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Donald Armstrong
Donald Armstrong

Written by Donald Armstrong

Moved by a conviction that we humans--gifted with reason--can do so much better than we are; asks how both politics and faith can better serve humanity's needs.

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