tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72828885684089538232024-02-18T22:02:30.009-08:00Hitchhiking Stories USAA Blog for Interesting,Inspirational, Adventurous, Quirky Stories loosely or not-so-loosely related to hitchhiking days. From Woodstock to The Gorge. 60s to today.handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-54102975348267924892019-06-05T13:22:00.003-07:002021-02-14T14:37:09.441-08:00Hi Noel hi Noel if you found this. Hope you hunt through these and find some of my better stuff<br />
When I get time to find the ones I’m proud of I’ll point them out. There’s admittedly some I need to delete.<br />
I look forward to reading your stuff as well.
I love you. I hope you find my stories amusing, living here in various days, weeks, months, years. And I hope you perhaps through reading them see me from some different angles.handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0451 Lake Louise Dr SW, Tacoma, WA 98498, USA47.161183 -122.57154747.13783876981077 -122.60587927539062 47.184527230189232 -122.53721472460937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-35554848105935301512017-05-11T12:13:00.003-07:002017-05-11T12:13:50.106-07:00<div style="color: #666666; font-family: 'San Francisco', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
<b>There's a brand new chrome military 45 caliber lying on its left side on the desk of the Oval Office.<br />The man who was elected President of the United States si<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ts behind the desk and alone in the room with the background white noise of a moderate Washington DC rain.<br />This man's peculiar hair is mussed up, his face pale, he is slumped back in the leather chair with a despondent, given-up expression on his face, and his eyes are hypnotically focused on the 45.<br />So much has happened to him. Only when he is really alone do these thoughts hound him. And he is alone now. No way out. Everything he's done, everything he's said, as the cliche goes, has here and now returned to hound him...and they are barking louder than the rain.<br />The dark intention sprouts from the seed deep down, and he sees his arm reach towards the object of his fascination, his petite hand grasps the heavy weapon in the manner of use. As the peaceful rain falls outside, the man watches his own hand lift the beautiful weapon towards his own skull, he feels the coldness of the steel barrel tingle against his right temple, he presses it hard, partially distracting himself from his dark emotions, he absorbs himself in an effort to aim correctly. He didn't want to be a vegetable, and he didn't want to have to live with failing at this, too.<br />Moments later the degree of peace on earth was enhanced, and the nuclear clock ticked backwards. </span></b></div>
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handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-75785938255400892542013-04-28T13:18:00.004-07:002021-01-16T17:54:08.831-08:00TRUE LOVE WILL NEVER FADE..Knopfler<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I wonder if there’s no forever</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">No walking hand in hand</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Down a yellow brick road</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">To never never land</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">These days I get to where I’m going</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Make it there eventually</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Follow the trail of breadcrumbs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">To where I’m meant to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">To where I’m meant to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I don’t know what brought you to me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">That was up to you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There’s so many come to see me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Who want their own tattoo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I fixed a needle in a holder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Laid my hand upon your spine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And there upon your shoulder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I drew the picture as your sign</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When I think about us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I see the picture that we made</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The picture to remind us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I worked the rowdies and daytrippers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now and then I think of you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Any which way we’re all shufflin’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Forward in the queue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">They like to move my operation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">They like to get me off the pier</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">And I dream I’m on a steamer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Pullin’ out of here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When I think about us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I see a picture that we made</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The picture to remind us</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #545559; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">True love will never fade</span>handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-10679754166596481902013-04-28T12:34:00.002-07:002013-04-28T12:34:38.413-07:00THE GIFT...The Velvet Underground<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit. It was now Mid-August which meant he had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">been separated from Marsha for more than two months. Two months, and all he had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to show was three dog-eared letters and two very expensive long-distance phone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">calls. True, when school had ended and she'd returned to Wisconsin, and he to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Locust, Pennsylvania, she had sworn to maintain a certain fidelity. She would</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">date occasionally, but merely as amusement. She would remain faithful.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">But lately Waldo had begun to worry. He had trouble sleeping at night and when</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">he did, he had horrible dreams. He lay awake at night, tossing and turning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">underneath his pleated quilt protector, tears welling in his eyes as he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">pictured Marsha, her sworn vows overcome by liquor and the smooth soothing of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">some neanderthal, finally submitting to the final caresses of sexual oblivion.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It was more than the human mind could bear.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Visions of Marsha's faithlessness haunted him. Daytime fantasies of sexual</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">abandon permeated his thoughts. And the thing was, they wouldn't understand how</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">she really was. He, Waldo, alone understood this. He had intuitively grasped</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">every nook and cranny of her psyche. He had made her smile. She needed him, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">he wasn't there (Awww...).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The idea came to him on the Thursday before the Mummers' Parade was scheduled</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to appear. He'd just finished mowing and edging the Edelsons lawn for a dollar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">fifty and had checked the mailbox to see if there was at least a word from</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Marsha. There was nothing but a circular from the Amalgamated Aluminum Company</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">of America inquiring into his awing needs. At least they cared enough to write.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It was a New York company. You could go anywhere in the mails. Then it struck</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">him. He didn't have enough money to go to Wisconsin in the accepted fashion,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">true, but why not mail himself? It was absurdly simple. He would ship himself</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">parcel post, special delivery. The next day Waldo went to the supermarket to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">purchase the necessary equipment. He bought masking tape, a staple gun and a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">medium sized cardboard box just right for a person of his build. He judged that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">with a minimum of jostling he could ride quite comfortably. A few airholes,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">some water, perhaps some midnight snacks, and it would probably be as good as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">going tourist.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">By Friday afternoon, Waldo was set. He was thoroughly packed and the post</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">office had agreed to pick him up at three o'clock. He'd marked the package</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Fragile", and as he sat curled up inside, resting on the foam rubber</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">cushioning he'd thoughtfully included, he tried to picture the look of awe and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">happiness on Marshas face as she opened her door, saw the package, tipped the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">deliverer, and then opened it to see her Waldo finally there in person. She</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">would kiss him, and then maybe they could see a movie. If he'd only thought of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">this before. Suddenly rough hands gripped his package and he felt himself borne</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">up. He landed with a thud in a truck and was off.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Marsha Bronson had just finished setting her hair. It had been a very rough</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">weekend. She had to remember not to drink like that. Bill had been nice about</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">it though. After it was over he'd said he still respected her and, after all,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">it was certainly the way of nature, and even though, no he didn't love her, he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">did feel an affection for her. And after all, they were grown adults. Oh, what</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Bill could teach Waldo - but that seemed many years ago.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Sheila Klein, her very, very best friend, walked in through the porch screen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">door and into the kitchen. "Oh gawd, it's absolutely maudlin outside." "Ach, I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">know what you mean, I feel all icky!" Marsha tightened the belt on her cotton</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">robe with the silk outer edge. Sheila ran her finger over some salt grains on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the kitchen table, licked her finger and made a face. "I'm supposed to be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">taking these salt pills, but," she wrinkled her nose, "they make me feel like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">throwing up." Marsha started to pat herself under the chin, an exercise she'd</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">seen on television. "God, don't even talk about that." She got up from the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">table and went to the sink where she picked up a bottle of pink and blue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">vitamins. "Want one? Supposed to be better than steak," and then attempted to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">touch her knees. "I don't think I'll ever touch a daiquiri again."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">She gave up and sat down, this time nearer the small table that supported the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">telephone. "Maybe Bill'll call," she said to Sheila's glance. Sheila nibbled on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">a cuticle. "After last night, I thought maybe you'd be through with him." "I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">know what you mean. My God, he was like an octopus. Hands all over the place."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">She gestured, raising her arms upwards in defense. "The thing is, after a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">while, you get tired of fighting with him, you know, and after all I didn't</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">really do anything Friday and Saturday so I kind of owed it to him. You know</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">what I mean." She started to scratch. Sheila was giggling with her hand over</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">her mouth. "I'll tell you, I felt the same way, and even after a while," here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">she bent forward in a whisper, "I wanted to!" Now she was laughing very loudly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">It was at this point that Mr. Jameson of the Clarence Darrow Post Office rang</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the doorbell of the large stucco colored frame house. When Marsha Bronson</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">opened the door, he helped her carry the package in. He had his yellow and his</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">green slips of paper signed and left with a fifteen cent tip that Marsha had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">gotten out of her mother's small beige pocketbook in the den. "What do you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">think it is?" Sheila asked. Marsha stood with her arms folded behind her back.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">She stared at the brown cardboard carton that sat in the middle of the living</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">room. "I dunno."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Inside the package, Waldo quivered with excitement as he listened to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">muffled voices. Sheila ran her fingernail over the masking tape that ran down</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the center of the carton. "Why don't you look at the return address and see who</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">it's from?" Waldo felt his heart beating. He could feel the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">vibrating footsteps. It would be soon.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Marsha walked around the carton and read the ink-scratched label. "Ah, god,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">it's from Waldo!" "That schmuck!" said Sheila. Waldo trembled with expectation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Well, you might as well open it," said Sheila. Both of them tried to lift the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">staple flap. "Ah sst," said Marsha, groaning, "he must have nailed it shut."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">They tugged on the flap again. "My God, you need a power drill to get this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">thing open!" They pulled again. "You can't get a grip." They both stood still,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">breathing heavily.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Why don't you get a scissor," said Sheila. Marsha ran into the kitchen, but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">all she could find was a little sewing scissor. Then she remembered that her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">father kept a collection of tools in the basement. She ran downstairs, and when</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">she came back up, she had a large sheet metal cutter</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">in her hand. "This is the best I could find." She was very out of breath.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Here, you do it. I-I'm gonna die." She sank into a large fluffy couch and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">exhaled noisily. Sheila tried to make a slit between the masking tape and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">end of the cardboard flap, but the blade was too big and there wasn't enough</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">room. "God damn this thing!" she said feeling very exasperated. Then smiling,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"I got an idea." "What?" said Marsha. "Just watch," said Sheila, touching her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">finger to her head.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Inside the package, Waldo was so transfixed with excitement that he could</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">barely breathe. His skin felt prickly from the heat, and he could feel his</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">heart beating in his throat. It would be soon. Sheila stood quite upright and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">walked around to the other side of the package. Then she sank down to her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">knees, grasped the cutter by both handles, took a deep breath, and plunged the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">long blade through the middle of the package, through the masking tape, through</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the cardboard, through the cushioning and (thud) right through the center of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Waldo Jeffers head, which split slightly and caused little rhythmic arcs of red</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to pulsate gently in the morning sun.</span><br />
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Childhood living is easy to do<br />
The things you wanted I bought them for you<br />
Graceless lady you know who I am<br />
You know I can't let you slide through my hands<br />
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away<br />
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away<br />
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I watched you suffer a dull aching pain<br />
Now you decided to show me the same<br />
No sweeping exits or off stage lines<br />
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind<br />
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away<br />
Wild wild horses couldn't drag me away<br />
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I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie<br />
I have my freedom but I don't have much time<br />
Faith has been broken tears must be cried<br />
Let's do some living after we die<br />
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away<br />
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday<br />
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away<br />
Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday</div>
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<br />handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-38045177775051452842013-04-09T16:13:00.002-07:002013-04-12T18:37:55.265-07:00"I CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYIN' SOMETIMES" - RENBOURN/LEE/COOPER/JOHNSON<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A0kyzKSCukU" width="420"></iframe><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can't keep from Cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I just can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">my heart is full of sorrow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">my eyes is full o' tears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I thought when first she left me I'd worry for awhile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Soon it would be all over I'd journey with a smile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But as get older I think of what I told her and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Said I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My heart is full of sorrow </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My eyes is full o' tears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can't deep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Walking down those highways</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gonna travel Night and Day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With a heart all full of sorrow and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">eyes all full o' tears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My heart is full of sorrow </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My eyes is full o' tears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can't keep from cryin' sometimes</span><br />
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............<u>these Lyrics John Renbourn</u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(Blind willie johnson originally Wrote this song--the above are not his lyrics)</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">--i'm not sure who wrote this...some variations is lyrics between artists</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">including Ten Years After (Alvin Lee), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Phoebe Snow, Al Cooper, Blind Willie Johnson (wrote it)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">...Probably more</span><br />
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While perusing the net I came across this Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) version...and kick myself for not being into them a lifetime ago...guess I'm makin' up for lost time...<br />
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AL COOPER!!! :::::<br />
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and Originally----Blind Billie Johnson<br />
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<b>"Butterflies"</b><br /><i><span>By Tom Rapp</span></i></div>
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Butterflies are very strong<br />They only cry when they're called upon<br />I wish I knew<br />The butterfly in you</div>
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The moth will play with the dirty flame<br />And end up burning inside<br />But the butterfly she is the flame<br />When there's so much pretty<br />There's so much pain<br />I think I see<br />Where all the butterflies must be</div>
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Upon a rock<br />A beautiful thing<br />Until the rocks come together<br />On her dusty wings<br />I think I know<br />Where all the butterflies must go</div>
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Butterflies are very strong<br />They only cry when they're called upon<br />I think I see<br />The butterfly in thee<br />Won't you spread your wings<br />On me</div>
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It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe<br />
It don't matter, anyhow<br />
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe<br />
If you don't know by now<br />
When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn<br />
Look out your window and I'll be gone<br />
You're the reason I'm traveling on<br />
Don't think twice, it's all right.<br />
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It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe<br />
That light I never knowed<br />
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe<br />
I'm on the dark side of the road<br />
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say<br />
To try and make me change my mind and stay<br />
We never did too much talking anyway<br />
So don't think twice, it's all right.<br />
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It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal<br />
Like you never done before<br />
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal<br />
I can't hear you any more<br />
I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road<br />
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told<br />
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul<br />
Don't think twice, it's all right.<br />
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So long honey, babe<br />
Where I'm bound, I can't tell<br />
Goodbye's too good a word, babe<br />
So I'll just say fare thee well<br />
I ain't saying you treated me unkind<br />
You could have done better but I don't mind<br />
You just kinda wasted my precious time<br />
But don't think twice, it's all right.</div>
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It must have been the early part of the year 1970 when three young hipsters made the decision to become Universal Life Ministers. The three: Morley Hughes, Timothy Ewing, and myself, DanThomas; all of us about 20 years of age.</div>
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The 'becoming a minister' part of this unforgettable voyage had to have been Tim's idea, but it might've been Morleys. </div>
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Tim and I were from Yakima via Seattle. We got a ride far to the south part of Oregon on I-5, almost to the border, just below Medford: the wonderfully charming town of Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is home to the famous Shakespeare Festival at the Angus Bowman Theater. Ashland, surrounded by the Siskiyous, antiquated houses on nearly all the streets. I have since awakened on bright cold crisp winter mornings, and hot summer days, breathing in fresh mountain air, and just knowing that even <i>in </i> town there are countless enjoyable and stimulating walks i could go on, beneath Walnut trees, to the Angus Bowman Theater, through LIthia Park, or just on any given street. Our friend Morley, whom we had met when he was passing through Yakima in Washington State, awaited us here. Morley and I back then, in Yakima, had enjoyed playing dual guitars and singing alot of Dylan tunes, to me most memorable was "THE WEIGHT" and "LAY LADY LAY". Morley had already made Ashland somewhat his home by then. I'm thinking it was later when I saw him in Portland, it was so long ago my chronological memory might not be true.</div>
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Tim and I had a few friends from Yakima who were young actors in the Shakespeare Festival here in Ashland: Steve Boggess, Alan Fearon and a california friend of theirs, Steve. I forgot that Steve's last name but decades later I saw him on Wheel of Fortune winning about $15,000.00.</div>
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Two very pretty girls shared a small apartment right across the street from Lithia Park, designed by the same fellow who designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Tim and I were lucky enough to end up staying with them. (Yes, ... and Yes).</div>
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The Vietnam war was raging still and young guys like us were seeking ways to avoid that messy thing. So this Universal life ordination idea took root in our minds and hearts. The home of the Universal Life Church was in Modesto, California, founded by the Rev. Kirby J. Hensley, the Baptist and Pentecostal preacher. Most folks of draft age who sought this free ordination into the Universal Life Church just sent him a request by mail. We were different. I'm pretty sure the riding the rails to transport us to Rev. Hensley's Church and then home idea came from Morley. We had Kirby J. Hensley's address in Modesto and got ready to go.</div>
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We each had a moderately sized pack stuffed with what we'd need, which wasn't much. The girls were sweet; they had made us snacks of celery stalks and peanut butter. we were set. </div>
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Morley had more experience at this already. He knew what we had to do. Firstly, avoid the railroad boys.</div>
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We set out at night, just walking down to the freight yard. This turned out to be a walk in the park. No one was around and there was a roofed and wide open freight car loaded half full of fresh cut lumber. I swear to God the photograph above of the ashland rail yards looks like the exact place we climbed aboard! we pulled ourselves up and in and we all took a deep breath, especially Tim and I. This was going to be new for both of us. And perhaps for Morley as I don't think he had ever gone as far as our planned adventure was about to catapult us.</div>
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Somehow we knew this was the California bound freight, but <i>when</i> it was going to leave we didn't know. I think we dove into the celery and peanut butter early on. so we began to wait, while anticipatory thought-dreams careened through our young long-haired skulls. Undoubtedly there was herbal assistance.</div>
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Then it moved! Yah!... throwing me off balance a bit. might've been the jolt of the train linking up with another set of cars or just moving, I'm not sure which. But we were moving. </div>
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It's difficult to recall specifics, but it seems the train went quite slowly for the longest time. I began to size up other things that might or might not happen. What if they shut the door?! What if a killer hops onto our car?! Then I got to the 'Que Sera Sera' end of that thought. Looked like we'd have a wide vista to see the passing scenery through, the huge freight car door wide open. We spread out our sleeping bags on top of the lumber trying both to find a relatively flat area and trying to avoid getting slivers as we did so. Thus began our Great Adventure, which ended up being over 24 hours, and maybe more like 48. a journey so many older and less spoiled men had taken routinely to get from place to place through decades, through the depression.. and for some, a lifestyle, by choice or not. Such are the fates of us diverse individuals both then and now in the United States of America and through time. Soon the perpetual vibration and the overwhelming volume of the roaring of these enormous steel boxes and the gears and huge steel wheels carrying same, a marvelous iron snake rumbling into the night. That as well as the occasionally shifting lumber, commanded us into acceptance. we tried to shout to each other but not for long. we all then wore involuntary glowing and wry grins when we acknowledged that for the length of our voyage we were without an audible language, for none of us then knew American Sign Language. We would be essentially as three deaf young men for the duration. we were <i>moving. Our journey had begun! Like three Hobbits on a mission.</i></div>
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I know I had possibly been to california once by then, on another youthful adventure or two; I'm not sure of Tim. I'm pretty sure Morley had been to Cali.</div>
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The cool night air flew in on it's own schedule. We all wondered if we were missing the spectacular sight of Mount Shasta through the other, closed, door. We did have a crack or a hole in the metal siding wall onto peek through on the East Side. Our open "window" was on the West. </div>
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The thump-thump-thumping and monsterous white noise of the entire long metal serpent continued like a completely present earthquake that would not let up. On it went as we made our private adjustments to our 'condition', and poised ourselves to enjoy the whole thing, complete with all it's encumbrances.</div>
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At night once, many hours later, Morley nudged me and nodded towards a lower level of lumber on the open door side, just inside the sliding door. We had company in this moving world, undoubtedly one already at home at riding the rods. it was dark and I could barely make him out, but there he was. As we struggled to perform a rendition of sleeping, that guy never acknowledged us. Several hours later, he was gone, but we were puzzled where he might've moved to, because the train, by now going maybe 70 MPH or more, had not perceivably slowed at any time. I wondered if he'd been thrown off, but then I figured he knew how to move around on a moving train. He was not where he had been, in any case. Perhaps he was a ghost.</div>
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I know I dreamed. Some nightmarish, but on awakening and remembering where I was and that gave me a form of reassurance.</div>
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I do remember, I believe the next afternoon, a nice hot sunny blue sky day, the opposite of our previous night, rounding a lake, perhaps Lake Shasta, and watching people putting about in their own rented houseboats as if they were on television. Looked like something I might like to do someday.</div>
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Nice day, lazily trolling the lake, no worries, Ah!</div>
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I'll add more soon... there's no real climax but good memories...as we were off to see the 'wizard' Kirby J. Hensley.</div>
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coming: the Orange stop and the caboosemen. jumping off @ probably 30 MPH or more! sleeping beneath that beautiful tree near </div>
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sacramento. did we find a Denny's or something? hitching to Rev. Hensley's Church, and then to his messy home..(because he had his wife and daughter attending to paperwork at the church, as we had seen)....no recall of the trip back..have to work on it! may SF?</div>
<br />handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-1081930480773435032013-01-08T14:56:00.001-08:002013-01-08T14:56:59.028-08:00AMERICAN DREAM..This is good. thanks to Bryan. I'm putting it on both my blogs:<br />
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THE DINER COOK'S WAR STORY<br />
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IT WAS 1969, AND A FINE SUMMER TO BE YOUNG AND TRUTHFULLY FOOTLOOSE IN A SMALL BUT FLAGRANTLY ECLECTIC TOWN LIKE ASHLAND. MORLEY HUGHES, MY COMPATRIOT, WHO WAS MORE OF AN OREGONIAN THAN I DID WHAT MOST OF US LONGHAIRS DID MOST AFTERNOONS: HAVING COFFEE AND JUST BULLSHITTING. THAT'S AN ACTUAL TERM.<br />
ONE AFTERNOON WE PARKED OURSELVES IN A SMALL DINER THAT WE USUALLY DID NOT GO TO, OPTING USUALLY FOR THE BETTER COFFEE IN A PLACE CLOSER TO THE ANGUS BOWMAN THEATER WHERE THE ACTORS HUNG OUT FAIRLY OFTEN. I RECALL AN OFF DUTY ACTOR WHO I KNEW PLAYED MACBETH WHO'S ROAR, " WENCH!! ANOTHER FLAGON OF COFFEE!!" IN HIS STAGE VOICE, RESOUNDED THROUGH THE PLASTER WALLS.<br />
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BUT THIS PARTICULAR AFTERNOON WE TRIED THIS LITTLE DINER ON THE MAIN DRAG THROUGH TOWN.<br />
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THE FELLOW SERVING US, WEARING SOME AGE, WAS A FRIENDLY BUT MEASURED SOUL. I STILL DON'T KNOW EXACTLY <i>HOW</i> WE ENDED UP TALKING ABOUT WORLD WAR II. THE POINT IS WE DID.<br />
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AS WE ALL THREE CHATTED, THE FEELING THAT WE ALL SUSPECTED THAT WE ALL MIGHT BE MORE INTERESTING THAN WHAT MET THE EYE SEEMED TO GROW.<br />
IN HERE SOMEWHERE WORLD WAR II CAME UP. I PUT IN ABOUT WHAT I REMEMBER ABOUT MY DAD TOLD ME OF HIS EXPLOITS IN THE PACIFIC AS A EHAD RADIOMAN ON A TROOP CARRIER. HE'D BEEN IN CHARGE OF 58 OTHER RADIO GUYS. THE SHIP HE WAS IN WAS THE ONE THE ADMIRAL HAD CHOSEN TO CALL HIS BASE.<br />
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IN THE BALANCED GIVE AND TAKE OF NORMAL CONVERSATION , THIS DINER COOK THEN PAUSED POIGNANTLY, AND BEGAN TO TELL OF HIS OWN <i>PERSONAL</i> EXPERIENCE IN THE PACIFIC.<br />
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" I WAS THERE, FELLAS." AN INVOLUNTARY SAD AFFECT FELL UPON HIM AS HE CONTINUED.<br />
" ONE BATTLE I WAS IN LEFT ME A MEMORY I CAN'T WIPE AWAY, GUYS. I WISH I COULD.<br />
"DURING A FIERCE BATTLE, SUDDENLY WE WERE ALL BEING FIRED UPON BY HEAVY ARTILLERY, PEOPLE DYING INSTANTLY ALL AROUND ME. EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOKED... AND BLOOD. JAPS 'N THE AMERICANS ALL RAN FOR COVER IN THE SMOKE AND FIREY EXPLOSIONS. SOMEONE'S SIDE MADE A BAD CALL ON THE DISTANCE FOR THE LONG GUNS.<br />
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" IN ALL THE RED AND WHITE FLASHES ALL AROUND ME AND THE EARTHQUAKE UNDERNEATH MY FEET AND THE EXPLOSIONS THAT BLOCKED OUT MY HEARING AND EACH HIT MADE ME THINK THAT I'D BEEN SHOT. THE SHOCK GOES RIGHT INTO YOUR BONES. I WAS AFRAID. MY FEET WERE SHAKING UNDER ME, I REMEMBER. I WAS LUCKY... YEAH..ENOUGH TO FIND A FOX HOLE TO DIVE INTO...AND I MEAN <i>DIVE</i> INTO. PROBLEM WAS, A JAPANESE HAD FOUND THE SAME HOLE JUST BEFORE ME." HIS EYES WIDENED AS HE SPOKE, GAZING OUT THROUGH THE DINER WINDOW PANE ONTO MAIN STREET.<br />
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HE CONTINUED, "BOTH OF US PANICKED ON TOP OF PANIC. WE EACH STRUGGLED WITH OUR LONG BAYONETTED RIFLES, MY SPRINGFIELD THIRTY-AUGHT-SIX AND HIS ARISAKA. WE BOTH DID IT OUT OF OUR TRAINING, BUT WE DIDN'T KILL EACH OTHER.<br />
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" TIME SEEMED TO STOP, EACH OF US KNOWING WE COULD BE ALREADY DEAD. AS THE SHARP POINTS OF OUR BAYONETTES WERE AIMED THREATENINGLY AT EACH OTHER, AND BOTH OUR CRYING TEARFUL FACES, COVERED WITH MUD AND BLOOD, THROUGH OUR UTTER FEAR, TRIED TO PUT ON 'WAR FACES'..SOMETHING HAPPENED."<br />
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THROUGH THE YEARS, AS THE DINER COOK TOLD HIS TALE, HIS STORY BROUGHT NEW TEARS TO HIS EYE. HE TRIED TO IGNORE IT AND MORLEY AND I IGNORED IT, TOO, OUT OF RESPECT. HE WASN'T FINISHED. IT WAS APPARENT THE TRUE STORY WAS JUST UNFOLDING.<br />
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"YOU DON'T HAVE ALOT OF TIME TO PROCESS INFORMATION IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT. BUT WHAT SEEMED TO HAPPEN HAPPENED TO BOTH OF US. BOTH OF US, SHAKING FOR FEAR AND THE WEIGHT OF OUR HEAVY RIFLES, IN ONE MOMENT I CAN'T FORGET... RIGHT THEN ... WE BECAME JUST TWO MEN. TWO HUMAN BEINGS IN THE SAME SITUATION.<br />
" WE WERE BOTH FROZEN. AS WE FOUGHT TO MAKE SENSE OF EVERYTHING THROUGH OUR PARALYZING FEAR, OUR EYES... MAYBE MORE LIKE OUR <i>SOULS</i>...<i>THROUGH</i> OUR EYES ..MET. IT WAS LIKE WE SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT <br />
WE TWO... KOJI SHIMAMURA FROM OSAKA AND ME, FRED ROBERTS FROM MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.. WERE BROTHERS... NO OFFENSE MEANT BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS NOT BROTHERS LIKE YOUR GENERATION IS USING THE WORD, ALTHOUGH IT IS THE SAME IN SOME WAYS... THE MEANING OF THAT WORD, TO THE BOTH OF US THEN, WAS ... YOU COULD FEEL IT.. IT WAS HERE NOW AND ABSOLUTE...AND IT WAS <i>ALL THERE WAS</i>. WE BOTH KNEW THAT WITHOUT WORDS, AND THAT IT MIGHT ANY SECOND BE THE LAST THOUGHT EITHER OF US MIGHT HAVE...<br />
"IF I TAKE ALOT OF WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS, IT'S JUST THAT... IT'S JUST THAT THAT MOMENT LEFT IT'S MARK ON ME AND..WELL, I GUESS <i>NO WORDS</i> CAN RECREATE IT..<br />
"..OK, BOYS, WANT A REFILL? HERE YOU GO."<br />
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FRED LIFTED THE YUBAN TEMPERED GLASS CARAFE FROM THE HOT PLATE AND FILLED OUR COFFEE CUPS, TRYING TO GAIN HIS COMPOSURE, TRYING TO REMIND HIMSELF HIS TALE WAS IN THE PAST, AS HE CONTINUED. THE AFTERNOON SUN WAFTED OVER THE WESTERLY 3 STORY BUILDING AND THROUGH THE MAPLE LEAVES OUTSIDE.<br />
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"...SO THERE WE WERE..." HE REPLACED THE CARAFE.<br />
MORLEY AND I HARDLY REMEMBERED THE COFFEE, WE WERE SO ENTHRALLED.<br />
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HE WENT ON, "I BET YOU GUYS ARE WONDERING IF I JUST MADE UP THAT NAME FOR KOJI TO MAKE THE STORY SEEM MORE REAL. I DIDN'T THAT WAS HIS REAL NAME. EVEN THOUGH I ONLY KNEW HIM FOR A COUPLE HOURS."<br />
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"AS WE SAT THERE AIMING OUR GUNS AT EACH OTHER IN ALL THAT NOISE AND LIGHT AND FLYING DIRT AND ROCK AND SHAKING... WE WERE SIZING EACH OTHER UP. I CAN'T SAY HOW IT HAPPENED BUT OUR EYES... LOCKED ONTO EACH OTHER, AFRAID THE OTHER ONE MIGHT REALLY PULL THE TRIGGER.. SLOWLY, VERY GRADUALLY BEGAN TO SOFTEN. EVERYTHING I ALREADY TOLD YOU HAPPENED, BUT IT'S LIKE IT TOOK US BOTH AWHILE TO REALIZE ..FULLY.. THAT THIS WAS REALLY HAPPENING." FRED ROBERTS TOOK A BIG BREATH TO PULL HIMSELF TOGETHER.<br />
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"I REMEMBER IT WAS KOJI WHO GOT MORE CONTROL OF HIMSELF BEFORE I DID. AFTER ABOUT THE FIRST TWENTY MINUTES, IT'S HARD TO KNOW HOW LONG IN ALL THAT, BUT IT'S MY GUESS TWENTY MINUTES. MIGHTA BEEN LONGER...KOJI, HIS INTENSE STARE FIXED LIKE IRON ON MY OWN TWO BEADY EYES GLARING BACK,... I'LL NEVER FORGET, IN THAT MOMENT HE SLIGHTLY BOWED HIS HEAD TOWARDS ME..VERY SLOWLY. NOW THAT I THINK OF IT, IT'S KINDA LIKE TWO KARATE OR JUDO GUYS BOW AT THE END OF A MATCH. OUT OF RESPECT.<br />
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" AS HE DID THAT HE VERY CAUTIOUSLY, EVEN AS I GRIPPED MY SPRINGFIELD AND IT'S THREATENINGLY POINTED BAYONETTE, BEGAN TO MOVE HIS ARISAKA RIFLE'S BAYONETTE LOWER, AWAY FROM ME. WAS HE TRYING TO FOOL ME? I KEPT MINE ON HIM, BUT IN THE STARE WE SHARED WE WERE GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD GUILE MEANS? IT MEANS TO BE DECEITFUL. CRAFTY. MANIPULATIVE, I GUESS. IF YOU'VE BEEN ALIVE VERY LONG, YOU DEVELOP YOUR OWN SENSE OF IT.<br />
"BUT THERE'S ANOTHER WORD, IN IT'S OWN RIGHT. GUILE<i>LESS. </i> IN THIS WORLD YOU DON'T ALWAYS RUN INTO THAT ONE, BUT WHEN YOU DO RUN INTO A TRULY GUILELESS INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW IT. FINALLY... MAN WAS I SCARED TO TRUST THAT MAN!.. THERE'S A THIRD WORD IN IT'S OWN STANDING: <i>BE</i>GUILE. MEANING TO CHARM SOMEONE...BEGUILING..ETCETERA..<br />
"WE'D BEEN TAUGHT IN BASIC TRAINING THAT THE ENEMY WILL USE ANYTHING TO FOOL YOU, SO .. IT WAS WITH ...I WANNA SAY <i>PROFOUND</i> ...TO MAKE YOU FEEL IT. IT WAS WITH <i>PROFOUND</i> .. WELL, JUST <i>FEAR</i>, THAT I DECIDED TO TRUST HIM. BOYS, THIS WAS THE LONGEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE!" I SOUNDED LIKE A PLEA.<br />
"..YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS, BUT IN ALL THESE YEARS. I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT THIS IS ONLY THE SECOND TIME I'VE <i>EVER</i> TOLD THIS STORY. THE FIRST TIME WAS TO MY WIFE, GOD BLESS HER SOUL.<br />
"SO, AS I WAS SAYING, I FINALLY LOWERED MY WEAPON. I WAS STILL ON GUARD, DAMNED RIGHT! BUT ALSO IN TOTAL FEAR. I GUESS I MADE THAT CLEAR BY NOW, HE-HE.<br />
"THE JAPANESE SOLDIER PUT HIS RIFLE COMPLETELY DOWN ONTO THE GROUND AND, HIS GAZE <i>NEVER</i> LEAVING MY OWN, AND VICE VERSA, HE MADE HIS HAND LOOK CALM AS HE REMOVED IT FROM THE RIFLE. AFTER A LONG MOMENT, THROUGH HIS DIRTY AND BLOOD TINGED FACE, AN EXPRESSION OF RESOLVE COME UPON HIM. HE SLOWLY WITH FINGERTIPS TOOK OUT HIS PISTOL AND LAID IT NEST TO THE ARISAKA.<br />
"I JUST WATCHED HIM, WHILE THE SHRAPNEL FLEW AROUND US..AND THE NOISE.., THEN I PUT MY SPRINGFIELD ON THE GROUND POINTING AWAY FROM THE JAPANESE. I, TOO, AS HE WATCHED WITH HEAD SLIGHTLY BOWED, REMOVED MY MILITARY .45 FROM IT'S HOLSTER AND PUT IT FAR AWAY FROM ME.<br />
"....BOYS? THIS IS REALLY WHERE I WANTED TO CRY.. I DID CRY A BIT EVEN THEN.. I...WILL...<i>NEVER</i>..FORGET WHAT KOJI DID NEXT. AS HE KEPT LOOKING AT ME A SMILE.. NOT AN ENEMIES SMILE, NOT LIKE HE HAD ANOTHER ACE UP HIS SLEEVE... BUT AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.. AN EXTENSION OF TRUST.. I GUESS IT WAS LIKE, 'HELLO.', .BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE SAID NEXT. 'HELLO'. THEN AFTER A LONG PAUSE, HE SAID,' I KOJI SHIMAMURA'. HE SPOKE ENGLISH! GO FIGURE!...TURNS OUT HE HAD GONE TO A UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE WAR.<br />
"OF COURSE BY THEN SOME OF THE VOLUME OF THE ARTILLERY HAD ABATED FOR AWHILE. WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER.<br />
"WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE BOTH REALIZED THIS MOMENT WAS OURS, AND OURS ALONE. NO SUPERIOR OFFICERS TO ENSURE WE EMBRACED THE BELIEFS AND POINTS OF VIEW OF EACH OF OUR COUNTRIES TIL THE MOMENT OF DEATH. AFTER ALL, IN THIS MOMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BENEFIT THE WAR FOR ME TO KILL KOJI OR HIM TO KILL ME.<br />
"I TOLD HIM ABOUT GLADYS, MY GIRL BACK HOME, WHO I MARRIED WHEN I GOT BACK. TOLD HIM ABOUT FISHING TRIPS AND MY GROWING UP ON A FARM. HE TOLD ME ABOUT HIS WIFE, NOZOMI, AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN. YOU COULD TELL HE LOVED HER MORE THAN LIFE. HE HAD NO PROBLEM LETTING SOME TEARS OUT AS HE SPOKE OF HER AND HIS KIDS, BUT HIS ACTUAL FACIAL EXPRESSION REMAINED STOIC. TEARS COME TO HIM BUT THEY DON'T RULE.<br />
"HE HAD A REAL LOVE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.." FRED STOPPED THEN, SUDDENLY TURNING TOWARDS THE MIRROR BEHIND THE COFFEE POT, AWAY FORM OUR FACES. AN UNCONTROLLABLE FEW SOBS GRIPPED FRED. MORLEY AND I GLANCED AT EACH OTHER SOBERLY. FRED TURNED BACK TO US AND CONTINUED.<br />
"SORRY, GUYS!" HE SAID SHORTLY, ENDING THE WORD 'SHORTLY' ABRUPTLY, NOT GET A BREATH AND PUSH BACK SOME MORE TEARS.<br />
"IT'S THE WORD 'PHOTOGRAPHY'... MADE ME THINK OF WHAT HAPPENED AFTER OUR GETTING ACQUAINTED. WHAT HAPPENED..", FRED GULPED BACK EMOTIONS," WAS THAT MY NEW FRIEND OF TWO HOURS AMIDST ALL THE EXPLOSIONS, KOJI, RECOGNIZING MY OWN MAYBE <i>AMERICAN NAIVETE</i>, AND ALSO RECOGNIZING THAT OUR SITUATION WOULD NOT ENDURE LONG BEFORE WE HAD TO RETURN. I MEAN, RETURN TO WHAT AND WHO WE WERE. WERE. ARE. I DON'T KNOW.<br />
"KOJI PULLED A PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN OUT OF HIS HELMET WITH A PREWRITTEN LETTER TO THEM IN CASE OF HIS DEATH WITH THE ADDRESS AND EVERYTHING, READY TO GO.."<br />
FRED SMILED AS HE LOOKED BEYOND THE MAPLE TREE OUTSIDE AND WATCHED THE MOUNTAINS IN BACK OF ASHLAND THROUGH THE GLASS AND TRAFFIC ON MAIN STREET PUTTED ON, BUT IT WAS NOT CLEAR IF HE WAS SMILING ON THE INSIDE.<br />
MORLEY AND I TOOK A SIP TO ALLOW HIM A MOMENT OF REVERIE, THEN I ASKED FRED, "WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, FRED?"<br />
CALMLY NOW, FRED SAID TO US BOTH, " BOYS. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR .. FOR LETTING ME GO ON.. LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IT'S ONLY THE SECOND TIME..."<br />
MORLEY AND I NODDED.<br />
"KOJI SAID, 'FRED. IN THE JAPANESE ARMY WE ARE <i>TRAINED</i> TO HAVE NO MERCY. IT IS INSTILLED IN US FROM THE BEGINNING. ABSOLUTE. KILL THE ENEMY! BECAUSE OF THIS..I WANT YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME, FRED."<br />
I WAS TRAINED TOO, BUT I BEGAN TO GET WHAT HE WAS SAYING AS HE WENT ON. 'FRED,' HE SAID,'TAKE THIS PHOTOGRAPH AND LETTER.' HE HANDED THEM TOWARDS ME, AND I PAUSED BEFORE MY HANDS REACTED AND GENTLY TOOK THE ITEMS FROM KOJI'S HAND.' FRED. I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO YOU IF YOU WOULD TAKE THE PICTURE AND LETTER TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN AFTER THE WAR IS OVER, MY FRIEND.' I COULD ONLY NOD, AS I REMEMBER. THEN I PLACED THEM INSIDE MY OWN HELMET LINER'S NETTING UNDER THE STEEL HELMET. I SENSED KOJI WASN'T FINISHED. IT WAS A FEAR HE WASN'T FINISHED, AND I WAS RIGHT.<br />
'FRED, MY ..BROTHER..' KOJI'S STRONG EXTERNAL DEMEANOR MOMENTARILY FAULTERED AS HE, HIMSELF, FOUGHT BACK HIS OWN GRIEF AT THE WORDS THAT EVENTUALLY ESCAPED HIS DRY DUSTY LIPS. 'FRED. YOU HAVE TO SHOOT ME. BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT, AS I AM TRAINED MORE THAN YOU TO SHOW NO MERCY, I MUST KILL <i>YOU.</i> ALTHOUGH WE ARE BONDED BY THIS UNBELIEVABLE SITUATION WE'VE BEEN THROWN INTO, I WILL. YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND. BUT I WANT YOU TO DO THIS. IT WILL BE HONORABLE. MY FAMILY WILL BE PROUD. '"<br />
FRED STOPPED FOR A MOMENT. " BOYS..." HE GASPED FOR AIR A BIT AND HIS EYES GOT WIDE," I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE TOLD YOU THIS MUCH..<br />
" KOJI TOLD ME,' THE TIME IS ALMOST UPON US, AS THE FIRING IS WANING. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.'<br />
"I JUST SAT THERE AS THIS JAPANESE MAN, A BIT OLDER THAN MYSLEF, I'D BECOME FRIENDS WITH, SPOKE TO ME. IT WAS A DREAM. I'LL TELL YOU, IT'S A DREAM THAT I HAVE EVERY NIGHT. FOR YEARS." AGAIN, FRED BREATHED A LONG SIGH, THEN WENT ON.<br />
"KOJI ... HE TOLD ME,'PICK UP YOUR RIFLE, FRED.' I DID. BOYS THERE'S NO SENSE IN ME TELLING YOU THE REST, BUT MY RESPECT FOR HIM..AND I GUESS NOT WANTING TO GET KILLED MYSELF. I JUST REMEMBER BEING LIKE A ROBOT, DOING WHAT KOJI SAID FOR ME TO DO. A DREAM. LIKE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS FOR PUTTING TOGETHER A TOY TRAINSET. "SLOT A INTO POCKET B.."<br />
OUR COFFEE WAS COLD BY NOW, AND FRED, NOTICING, GOT US FRESH HOT CUPS WITHOUT ASKING. MORLEY AND I COULD ONLY SIT THERE AS AN OTHER THAN USUAL AFTERNOON SUNSET RAY GLIMMERED OFF THE DUST IN THE DINER'S AIR BY MY LEFT ARM. FRED LEANED AGAINST THE BACK COUNTER TABLE LIGHTLY AND JUST GAZED OUT THE WINDOW ADOPTING AN EVEN EXPRESSION, BACK TO HERE AND NOW. AWAY FROM THE PAIN.<br />
I BROKE THE SILENCE.<br />
CAUTIOUSLY. I WAS UNSURE IF I WAS OUT OF LINE. BUT I WANTED TO KNOW, AND I THINK MORLEY DID TOO.<br />
"FRED," I SAID. " UM... DID YOU GO TO JAPAN TO DELIVER THE PICTURE AND LETTER KOJI GAVE YOU?"<br />
I GUESS HE MUST HAVE KNOWN WE MIGHT ASK THAT QUESTION, BUT AS THE WORDS LEFT MY MOUTH I REGRET HAVING ASKED IT. EVEN SO I THINK FRED MUST HAVE NEEDED TO GET IT OFF HIS CHEST.<br />
"NO, BOYS. I NEVER COULD FIND THE GUTS TO GO THERE. I COULDN'T FACE HIS WIFE. I <i>KILLED</i> HER HUSBAND! AFTER I TOLD GLADYS THIS STORY I THOUGHT I HAD ..RESOLVED IT, I GUESS. I EVEN REMEMBER ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO..IN THE FIFTIES, AFTER I TALKED TO GLAD ABOUT IT, I THREW THE PICTURE AND THE LETTER INTO THE FIREPLACE. BURNED 'EM UP!" HE SAID, LIKE FINISHING UP A DISTASTEFUL JOB, AND READY TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. LIKE BURYING SOMEONE.<br />
TRYING TO BRING THE STORY TO A SOMEWHAT CONGENIAL END, FOR US AND FOR HIMSELF, HE SAID, "I GUESS... I GUESS I DID HALF OF WHAT KOJI WANTED. THAT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING, AND ALL I ...ALL I COULD MANAGE TO DO. STILL.."<br />
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MORLEY SAID, " MAN, THANKS FOR SHARING THAT. HEAVY....HEAVY..I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY." THERE WAS SOME MORE QUIETNESS BEFORE WE LEFT FRED'S PLACE.<br />
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FRED WAS SMILING CALMLY AS WE GOT UP TO LEAVE. SOME KIND OF WEIGHT HAD LIFTED OFF HIM. SOME, BUT NOT THE WHOLE WEIGHT.<br />
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I GUESS AT THE END OF A HARD JOB, A JOB YOU REALLY CAN'T FINISH, AN IMPORTANT JOB.. THAT WHICH GOES <i>UN</i>DONE CAN'T BE CHANGED. AND WE LIVE WITH OUR DECISIONS.handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-1672469129156857872012-04-05T18:00:00.000-07:002013-03-28T16:08:33.200-07:00IN THE SHAPE OF A HEART (Jackson Browne)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SsBstLRQrvM" width="420"></iframe><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Last night when we were alone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You threw your hands up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Baby you gave up, you gave up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I can't believe how you looked at me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">With your James Dean glossy eyes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">In your tight jeans with your long hair</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And your cigarette stained lies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Could we fix you if you broke?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And is your punch line just a joke?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'll never talk again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Oh boy you've left me speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You've left me speechless, so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And I'll never love again,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Oh boy you've left me speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You've left me speechless, so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I can't believe how you slurred at me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">With your half wired broken jaw</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You popped my heart seams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">On my bubble dreams, bubble dreams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I can't believe how you looked at me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">With your Johnnie Walker eyes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">He's gonna get you and after he's through</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">There's gonna be no love left to rye</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And I know that it's complicated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">But I'm a loser in love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">So baby raise a glass to mend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">All the broken hearts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Of all my wrecked up friends</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'll never talk again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Oh boy you've left me speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You've left me speechless so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'll never love again,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Oh friend you've left me speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You've left me speechless, so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">How?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Haaaa-oooo-wow?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">H-ooow?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Wow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Haaaa-oooo-wow?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">H-ooow?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Wow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And after all the drinks and bars that we've been to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Would you give it all up?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Could I give it all up for you?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And after all the boys and girls that we've been through</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Would you give it all up?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Could you give it all up?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">If I promise boy to you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">That I'll never talk again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">And I'll never love again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'll never write a song</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Won't even sing along</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">I'll never love again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">So speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You left me speechless, so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Why you so speechless, so speechless?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Will you ever talk again?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Oh boy, why you so speechless?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">You've left me speechless so speechless</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Some men may follow me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">But you choose "death and company"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px;">Why you so speechless? Oh oh oh</span></div></div>handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-85687763162393019692012-03-30T19:06:00.001-07:002012-04-03T17:26:34.139-07:00LOOKS LIKE RAIN--g.dead--and Sam's Sushi...I HEART Seattle!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Sam's----mmmm.......</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW07lv2styg6FiCNt50B8JA_9dx1dCb0aM0PwSdCW-FEhx0_U2RO1Cgo7Cgr17jIa1XopV_fq2rOHG1z9sjIy9JcFxUkK3VP0nUJzEfKOuKfaQvWr2LNqQXIAZZbwgp2sKu94yLlhz8H8/s1600/rainsushi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW07lv2styg6FiCNt50B8JA_9dx1dCb0aM0PwSdCW-FEhx0_U2RO1Cgo7Cgr17jIa1XopV_fq2rOHG1z9sjIy9JcFxUkK3VP0nUJzEfKOuKfaQvWr2LNqQXIAZZbwgp2sKu94yLlhz8H8/s640/rainsushi.jpg" width="521" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I just came across this website for perking up your brain in different ways. <br />
It seems they have alot of good backers. After three days of mind improvement games, you can join, if it looks good to you.<br />
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Once you get an account, you play games every day to increase your abilities in different ways.<br />
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THE SONG '<i><u>BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE'</u></i> ON
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.superheavy.com/">SUPERHEAVY</a></span></i></b>, A GROUP WITH MICK JAGGER, FEATURES KEYBOARDIST
<i><a href="http://www.myspace.com/bartroderick/photos/1414657#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A1414657%7D">BART RODERICK</a></i>
FROM YAKIMA, WA.
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HE'S THE BROTHER OF AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE WHO I DROPPED IN ON THE OTHER DAY.
WHEN THE CONVERSATION GOT AROUND TO BART, DAVID SAID, "DID YOU HEAR BART'S IN
THE ROLLING STONES NOW?" I think bart teaches school in a neighboring town to
yakima. I THOUGHT I'D THEN HEAR A STORY ABOUT A BUNCH OF OLD FARTS WHO 'CALL
THEMSELVES' THE STONES. I WAS WRONG.<br />
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THE wAY DAVID TELLS THE TALE,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="cOEcE8aQxik" width="400" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cOEcE8aQxik"></iframe></div>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen">PAUL ALLEN</a> (SEATTLE
EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT) HEARD ABOUT BART'S TALENT ON THE KEYBOARDS [HE
<i>IS</i> VERY ACCOMPLISHED], AND I THINK MET HIM IN SEATTLE AND JAMMED
SOME WITH HIM, IF I REMEMBER DAVE'S VERSION RIGHT. THEN, LATER, PAUL CALLED BART
AND ASKED HIM TO JOIN HIM ON HIS YACHT, WHICH HE WAS THEN MOORING OFF THE COAST
OF ITALY. APPARENTLY BART (KEYBOARDS), PAUL ALLEN (GUITAR), AND A THIRD FELLOW
(BASS, I BELIEVE)..(I APOLOGIZE IF I GOT ANY FACTS WRONG BUT THIS IS THE WAY I
HEARD IT)... WERE THE ENTERTAINMENT FOR PAUL'S GUESTS.<br />
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE TYPES OF PEOPLE ENJOYING THE PARTY, WINE GLASSES IN HAND.
A LATE ARRIVAL WAS INTRODUCED TO BART, AND I GUESS THEY HIT IT OFF. THIS LATE
ARRIVAL SHARED WITH BART HIS FRUSTRATION WITH A TUNE HE'D BEEN WORKING
ON--FINDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO PARTS, I BELIEVE... OH! DID I TELL YOU IT WAS
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_jagger">MICk JAGGER</a>?..SORRY, IT
WAS.... WHEREUPON BART (AS DAVE TELLS IT) SAID, "WHAT ABOUT THIS?..." AND RAN
HIS FINGERS OVER THE IVORIES.<br />
IN SHORT, MICK WAS IMPRESSED. HE BROUGHT BART TO
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studio"><b><span id="goog_1792482224"></span>ABBEY ROA<span id="goog_1792482225"></span>D</b> </a>, as dave told me [he might've been wrong about that detail], but on record the
album was recorded at
<b><a href="http://www.hensonrecording.com/">jim henson recording studios</a> </b>TO RECORD, WHAT I <i>BELIEVE</i> IS THIS SONG :
<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOEcE8aQxik&feature=related">BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE</a>.</b><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="l_title" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font: normal normal bold 13px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></div><div class="l_title" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font: normal normal bold 13px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></div><div class="l_title" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font: normal normal bold 13px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font: normal normal bold 13px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Superheavy Beautiful People Lyrics
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Hey all you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let your life go by<br />
Spark it up, live it up right now!<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim us down<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim you down!<br />
Spark it up, live it up right now!<br />
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Hmm, my identifications<br />
Been stolen and been taken...<br />
Barely cryptic while I’m singing this song for you<br />
Singing this song for you right now!<br />
So what you gonna do about it?<br />
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Chorus:<br />
Hey all you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let your life go by<br />
Spark it up, live it up right now!<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim us down<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim you down!<br />
Spark it up, live it up right now!<br />
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Watch where you step...<br />
..on my spot...<br />
..carrying loser that I ...<br />
Go for creepy crawlers<br />
Spiderman, Peter Parker...<br />
Kingston London<br />
Now you're a New Yorker...<br />
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Chorus:<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
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Don’t let ‘em dim you down<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim your life<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
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Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let your life go by<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let your life go by<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
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Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let ‘em your life dim down<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
Hey all of you beautiful people<br />
Don’t let ‘em dim us down<br />
Spark it up, live it up all right!<br />
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And don’t let...<br />
Shine out, don’t let ‘em...<br />
Don’t get..<br />
Shine right or let ‘em...<br />
Don’t care if...<br />
Shine right or let ‘em...<br />
Don’t care if...</span>
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handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7282888568408953823.post-10940094681599913442012-03-15T18:51:00.000-07:002012-04-05T18:56:08.398-07:00Always On Your Side (Sheryl Crow)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away<br />
But every now and then you come to mind<br />
Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game<br />
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide<br />
When you knew that I was always on your side<br />
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Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent<br />
My demons and my angels reappear<br />
Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be<br />
Too afraid to hear the words I always feared<br />
Leavin' you with only questions all these years<br />
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But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear<br />
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear<br />
Or are you left to wonder, all alone, eternally<br />
This isn't how it's really meant to be<br />
No it isn't how it's really meant to be<br />
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Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear,<br />
How to pull it close and make it stay<br />
Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away<br />
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why<br />
Even through it all, I'm always on your side<br />
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But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear<br />
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear<br />
Or are you left to wonder, all alone, eternally<br />
This isn't how it's really meant to be<br />
No it isn't how it's really meant to be<br />
<br />
Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear<br />
How to pull it close and make it stay<br />
Butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away<br />
Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why<br />
Was it you that kept me wondering through this life<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>When you know that I was always on your side</div>handy77http://www.blogger.com/profile/15446427150245645540noreply@blogger.com0