Gosh, I wish I had access to a good quality copy machine that could make color and black and white duplicates of personal documents – medical prescriptions, birth certificate, drivers license, passport, contact information for people in my community, important photographs. Just in case I ever needed those for any reason.

I wish I had a copy of the Constitution of the United States.

I wish I had two extra pairs of afforable up to date prescription glasses kicking around in case one of them was ever lost or damaged.

I also wish I had an unlimited supply of coffee, toothpaste, ibuprofen, feminine hygiene products, and non-perishable food items whose long term storage does not depend on electricity in my home.

And boy wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to safely remove the risk of unwanted pregnancy for up to two presidential terms with minimal side effects that did not depend on a prescription medication, in case I ever wanted to have any agency whatsoever in the timing of the birth of a future generation of my family or the size of the next generation of my family line. I wish I had a way to do this which depended on nobody else’s decision making but my own, no matter how much I trust my partner.

I wish I had a solar panel, maybe even some portable chargers, and a tent and sleeping bag system.

I wish I had a really good quality USB memory drive.

I wish I had multiple methods for recording information which are not digital or anywhere on the internet, such as a notebook.

I wish I had a car whose repairs were up to date and taken care of, with an extra tank of gasoline in the back.

And I wish I had somewhere safe and remote and difficult to access where I could run away and hide if I ever needed to do that which I knew how to get to without using a map.


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