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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Stranger #45



Meet Cookie.

"When I was a baby, I was a chubby baby, and my grandmom used to call me kuckla. Kukla means cake/cookie in yiddish, and it just stuck with me. My real name is Karen, but everyone knows me as Cookie. I even had my chhecking account changed to that name and all. I've been retired for 5 years, but before I retired I was a controller for a law firm. Now that I'm retired, I do whatever I want! I go to adult centers to mingle, but I should exercise more. I've been married to my husband for 38 years, and he is my best friend! I have one dog whose 8 years old and his name is mini-max. I have 3 children, and the youngest is 39. I also have 4 grandchildren, the oldest is 26, and the youngest is 16. It's so different now that they're grown, they're not babies anymore and they all have their own lives. I dont own a cellphone, or own a computer. I'm not into the whole social networking or technology thing. It's not that I dont know how to use any of it, because I could learn, but I just dont want to.  I'm more spirtual than religious. I just dont go for the dogma. I do follow Kabbalah. Kabbalah is about doing good in your heart, and to get to God if you believe in God. If I'm a good person, I'm a good person. It doesnt matter what you believe in."- Cookie

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