From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Terry -- I checked out your homepage, good work... the backgrounds you've chosen are pretty out there though!<BR>
&lt;smiles&gt; I read your bio about having poetry overlaid onto art plates do you have an artist in mind already or would you allow me to submit some works for consideration?
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From: nikki high on love<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Hello Everyone...<BR>
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Gala--Woman, I can't believe you only gave us a page...I want more..it's a grabber..keep up the good writing!<BR>
And everyone needs to be silly sometimes..I love Mushy Thoughts :)  I think I like Don't better, though...because sometimes that's all there is...<BR>
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Ashley--For a first attempt at new, I think Untitled is excellent.  Falling Backward caught me too.  Keep 'em coming.<BR>
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Gup--Whine and Cheese makes me want to start back up with my keyboard...I'm not sure why....it just gave me that feeling...<BR>
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Kim Wu--once again you've managed to turn an heartbreaking experience into something great.  I especially like the last line in Couch Calling Your Name. :)<BR>
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Terry--Give Me is so sweet...I love it! You Can Have too...she brings out some awfully good things in you!  <BR>
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Renee--I never would have guessed the ending of The Other Woman...well done<BR>
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Kiwi--To Release You...WOW! I'm with Gala on that one..and it gave me shivers!<BR>
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Microsoldier--I like your take on the whole thing..Love is funny, if you think about it....but it's so much more..and I can't get into it right now :)<BR>
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Toke--you draw such vivid pictures with your words...I can see it in my mind..Casting Spells..thank you<BR>
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And everyone else I didn't mention..I am not leaving you out..Iam running out of steam....keep up the good writing everyone..I love this place more and more every time I come by...<BR>
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in love with life in general...and Chris in particular (not Misti's Chris!)...nikki
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Nikki~ Thank's. It always makes me so happy to know that the talented blenderites approve!  It was inspired by the most wonderful guy I have ever met... he is good for me in all areas, especially the poetry dept. :-)
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Dee,<BR>
As long as you are not one of those high dollar pimps :)<BR>
uummm, as Paul said...my people will call yours....<BR>
will be doing the layouts in Nov. if things stay on track....tragic ending so be thinking deep love and deeper hurt...
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From: Riggs<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

I feel out of place here now. I hardly know any of the names anymore...
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From: nikki<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Riggs--you must have been new at one point in time to the Blender...just jump back in like you did that first time!  I'm nikki, and I'm a spaz, and I have only been posting and commenting for a short time....but I love it here!<BR>
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(does that help any?  :)  )<BR>
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still awake....nikki
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Riggs~ I have to echo Nikki on that one.  I am pretty new to the blender, but I love it and consider it mine anyway.<BR>
I think most of the people here are pretty welcoming. :-)<BR>
Nice to meet you. ;-)
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Riggs, I'm still here and I STILL love ya. (even if you are Australian.)
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

oh and Riggs... don't be fooled... Kiwi isn't one of us... &lt;grin&gt; just loves the bird and the fruit... been through the story!<BR>
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Terry, colour or B&W?<BR>
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dee
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Dee~ That makes me the original one, right? :-P  The REAL Kiwi?  
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From: Microsoldier<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Nikki -- "We're Sick" is cute. You ever hear Jewel's Cold Song? http://www.ecto.org/lists/jewel/angels/ywmfm.html#ColdSong<BR>
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I'll send you the song if you like the lyrics.<BR>
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I'd say more about more people but I'm afraid of MPD.<BR>
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From: Michael<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Gala - "Don't"  -- Nice. I wish I'd gotten warnings like that. &lt;smirk&gt;<BR>
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Kiwi - "To release you" -- your work is always delicious. <BR>
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From: microsoldier<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

kim wu - I love it. I dunno though. The couch seems too good for him. 
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Microsoldier~ I love Jewel! I also love the cold song.  I just thought I'd let you know.  I saw her live... she is amazing!<BR>
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Michael~ Thank you so muchly! :-)
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

kiwi -- umm hell no!
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From: Chris Lake ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

To the anonymous poster of the 23rd:<BR>
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Yeah, Misti had her moments before I came along...of genius and brilliance and REALNESS. She still has 'em, as a matter of fact. (So you're familiar with slapping women, eh?)<BR>
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I KNOW why I love her, but just what it is that inspires the cowardly anonymous attacks I'll never know... Show your face (so to speak)! Be a man! (Or whatever you are...)<BR>
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Ooooooooh Deevaa- Your dream made me laugh!!! LOL.  Get me out of the steam room.  I would rather write.  Its safer.  LOL. <BR>
(((returns hugs)))<BR>
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At 7:30 a.m.  the object of my affection (guy #2) watched his ex-girlfriend give birth to his son!!! Ooooooooowwwwww...that throws a wrench into the whole situation!!! A baby I tell ya.  What is God saying with this one?<BR>
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Inspiration plugged momentarily as she ponders the "new arrival"<BR>
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And the baby's name is Breven!!! I think its a crappy name...<BR>
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Or I could just be bitter...<BR>
Megs<BR>
*running not walking away from men*<BR>

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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Gala~ I am loving it!!!<BR>
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Deevaa~ Such hostility! :-P
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Terry~ "Love's Tide", was beautifully written....Sandi is a very lucky woman.<BR>
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Megs~ "He Knows", PROFOUND!!!<BR>
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Kim WU~ sorry I can't remember the complete title...but, I really enjoyed reading your newest one...(something pertaining to 'the couch'. Keep them coming.<BR>
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Kirk, Katy aka. Sympathi and I, both, share Mo's blessed birthday (June 3rd).<BR>
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WELCOME BACK, Kevin...you were missed. And i am soooo jealous you got to meet Katy and heartsong! Maybe next time, i can be included. I am anxious for the pics! *SMILE*<BR>
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Beth and Donovan, i do remember you and Riggs too..welcome back all *SMILE*<BR>
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Kim Wu~ You are wonderful! Your poems make me want to laugh and cry at the same time.  You deserve better than him though... aaargh.... :-)
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Megs -- Breven is a crappy name (but don't tell HIM that) ... I will warn you though, baby will become an obbession for him for the next ohhhhh 20yrs or so...  <BR>
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dee
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From: Paul O : [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Sarah, your poems stun me. Every image seems so real and felt, and the rhythm is so consistently appropriate to the tone of the poems. I've read, and reread,'Spilled beer', 'cigarette roses', 'stagnant' and the rest, and they still stay fresh.  Please keep contributing!<BR>
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Paul O  
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Just got told off for saying in public Breven is a crappy name, after all I am the one with a son named Adetokunbo, and the one who wanted to name her girl child Daisy.<BR>
I take it back.... Breven is a wonderful name for a child to live with.<BR>
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dee
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

DEE~ YOU did NOT want to call your girlchild DAISY! OMG! 
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From: sarah [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

paul!!!!!!!! besides the fact your making me blushy you are making me want to give you a huge big hug!!!!! you know how much your words mean to me, i don't need to tell you, you already know!!!!! thank you, more then you can imagine.<BR>
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sarah
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From: HMS<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

deevaa--<BR>
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Stick to your guns, woman.  Breven is bizarre.  Daisy is kind of sweet.  (I must say I wouldn't want to be your son when he starts learning to write his name, though.)    
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From: Kiwi<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Deeva~  I plan to have two children... and I am going to name them Luca and Violet. :-) (last name being Clooney, of course)  I like different names... Breven is okay... but I don't see anything wrong with saying that you dislike it... and my cat's name is Daisy. :-)
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From: HMS<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Sarah -- "In the Morning" is excellent.  Been there.  Glad I'm not any more.  Nothing is worse than feeling alone in a shared bed.
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From: smoldering AWOL<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Gala,<BR>
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For whatever its worth (that being the comments of a shirker) I liked the opening pages very much. <BR>
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I'm not sure I have the skills to keep up the quality anyway.<BR>
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BUT,  very nice.
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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 24 May 2000<P>

Angel I do TOO!! However, seeing as Daisy is the name of the cow in a famous children's story, its not likely... so Ella is choice number two, after Ella Fiztgerald of course... TK's middle name is Louis after Mr Armstrong. <BR>
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My middle name is May so if TK had of been a girl, I was pushing for Daisy May.... but I was out voted and we'd picked either Ife (said If-air, it means Love in Yourba), May or Ella May... However I'm not planning on more children now.<BR>
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HMS -- Adetokunbo has just started writing his name (well ok, TK...) &lt;grin&gt; he is sooooooo clever.<BR>
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