From: Rachael<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Hey everyone! I enjoyed reading your writings...they were great...thought I would add some of mine to see if you liked them...Together Forever and Reality...comments are welcomed.<BR>

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From: Rachael<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Larissa-  If he really loves you and its meant to be...he will always come back for you and the only real person he will want to be with is you...even if he finds someone there he will always compare them to you and realize no one can take your place.  So just give it time and if you two love each other then everything will fall into place and you will be together forever!<BR>

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From: terry<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Tara, Dreamheather, Elizabeth and Michael thank you for the acknowledgement of my subs. Your support means more than you probably realize!<BR>
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terry
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From: Elizabeth <BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

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 Terry,<BR>
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 Your very welcome! Keep instilling the muse through your<BR>
 beautiful poetry. Talk to you soon!
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From: Diem [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Recently, I saw this poems that I love so much but I forgot how it goes. So, can you please find it for me? <BR>
I know a few paragraph. And it goes something like this:<BR>
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"I may be able to speak the languages of human and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisey gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have the faith to move mountains - but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have and even my body up to be burned - but if I have no love, this does me no good."<BR>
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Well.....it goes something like that! And I need the full and ending of the verses. It is very important and I need that poems for something that I can not tell. So, please find it and sens it to me as soon as possible.<BR>
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I really appreciate all this and for your help too. Thank-you :-)<BR>
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Your sincerely,<BR>
Diem<BR>

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From: The Frosted One<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Hey everyone! <BR>
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***Abe*** "Playing your fool" is great peice of work. It explains everything. Keep up the great work! :)<BR>
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***Misti*** You've done it again. "Stuff That Matters Most" is awesome. You truly have great talent. Also, "For Julie Kate" was so....emotional, I cried. <BR>
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Always <BR>
The Frosted One<BR>

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From: dreamheather<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

terry..<BR>
  You're most welcome.<BR>
   dreamheather
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Date: 23 August 2000<P>

I wish you had leann rimes's songon here. "I need you". 
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

guppy-  winter harvest was wonderful - slightly haunting...i'll have to read it again to know exactly what to make of it. (in a good way - it's really good)<BR>
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and for you rainy people....jealousy abounds...north texas is breaking drought records, and MAN is it HOT (like the seventh circle of hell hot....)
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Misti: Circus Penis is fabulous. I love the ending "just to show how tough you aren't." If only i could have found those words so many times....i particularly like the flow of this one, it seemed as if the words were coming faster than you can write. my favorite kind of writing.<BR>
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Abe: Playing the Fool...bittersweet - optimistic and loveable, you are. That's marvelous and a little dangerous. I wish you the best of luck. And more poetry!
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Kevin and Will: It amazes me that people can be so beautiful is such tight writing. Kudos to you.
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From: Megs<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Hello all of the Blender-<BR>
I don't see many names I recognize in the last three days of posts-  FGM? Dee? Kev? Ash? You still out there...???<BR>
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But I sat and skimmed through the last month or so of stuff and I have to say WHOA Chris and Misti-  I am happy happy happy for you (I DO have a bit of personal interest vested in this y'know :)  I expect at least one letter between the two of you.<BR>
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I am back up at school and since evil Bell Atlantic is on strike I have no phone (YIKES!!!) and no Internet.  I am bumming computer time from the school like MAD (LOL)<BR>
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Sharing an apartment with Calvin (for those who remember that name)  He is my ex now though sooooooooo its a bit awkward.  There IS a new guy in my life right now (has been for about a month)  I am BLISSED out in that way I thought only Misti and Chris had dibs on.  He is DIVINE.  My soulmate really...<BR>
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So one day there will be more poems from me...I am writing like MAD just don't have the means for submission.<BR>
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Everybody take notice--- [email-masked].<BR>
Email me!!!  This isn't one of those addresses that will disappear overnight either.<BR>
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Love you all...<BR>
Megs<BR>

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From: The One and Only, Mrs. Bootiehead<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Heya to all of you...This is the first time I have left a message on the blender board.  However, I have visited it several times.  I would like to tell everyone who writes, you all have talent and keep up the work.  <BR>
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~The Frosted One~  guess who sis!!  yea, I finally visited you and Zero #1's favorite sight!!  Anyway, just a hint who this is, I'll see you at school!  HAHA  if that don't give it away maybe this will:  I LOVE LEE!!  haha see ya sisser!!<BR>
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See ya all,<BR>
The One and Only Mrs. Bootiehead<BR>

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From: Crystal [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

I have a question for you all.........When you love someone so entirely much, and they love you but just are afraid of being hurt...How long do you wait for them to realize you would never do that?  Just wondering because I feel like I could wait a lifetime...
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Well Crystal...my two cents worth....waiting a lifetime, or even more than 6 months in my estimation only enables his fear of pain or committment. Six months is enough time for him to get to know you well enough to figure out his own risk level.  There are mitigating factors like his childhood and background that would extend that answer, but not knowing details makes this a bit hard.<BR>
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terry
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

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Crystal------<BR>
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          Commitment issues are the worst..and some men can carry a torch forever...or nurse a grudge against women in general for what one woman in specific did. To be fair, women play the same game----but some men like the concept of shielding their freedom....with their battle scars. So long as the loved one understands that you patience isn't unlimited----no matter how you feel now....you can tough it out.  <BR>
         But after five years of loving someone, and they still can't "trust" you-----how will you feel? a rule of thumb....and just my suggestion...but if a person mourns a six month relationship for six years, you have a real problem.<BR>
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         When you love, you have the right to expect to be loved in return...and waiting for someone to decide---that can be wretched...and very sad. I think that anyone who truly feels that they are damaged goods should remove themselves from the running, so to speak. <BR>
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        Just remember Crystal-----you're a person---not the "cure" to someone's heartache. My mom married a man she didn't love because the one she did love was killed. And my parents marraige was a disaster. If mom had given herself the time to heal, her future might have been far brighter...<BR>
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                                      Gala,<BR>
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                                       Thinking out loud...
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From: elizabeth ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

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Dear Deevaa,<BR>
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    I want to thank you for submitting your beautiful<BR>
 nude woman. She really touched my soul because I sense<BR>
 she has an innocent quality about her. I thought of<BR>
 the madonna freeing herself from all of the worlds<BR>
 suffering. She cleanses my soul and makes me feel<BR>
 whole when I gaze upon her. What is the significance<BR>
 of only one eye. What was the inspiration for your <BR>
 beautiful nude, Deevaa? I need to know. Thanks again!<BR>
 I love your bold use of color! A tremendous piece of<BR>
 art work. You are so, so talented!! Keep it up!<BR>

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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Crystal, sometimes the fear of being hurt is an cover for something more....
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From: deevaa ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

(sorry-- I'd not read Elizabeth's comment before posting my last one) <BR>
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Elizabeth -- thankyou for your kind words, nudes, erotic works and faces are my 'thing' .... I guess it is my trade mark in a sense.<BR>
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What is the significance of only one eye??? hmmmm your guess is as good as mine! Its something I've always done... most of my paintings only have one eye, and mostly the eye is closed -- I like the mood/feeling that it invokes and the flow from eye into nose.<BR>
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Inspiration for that nude? ... that was a working drawing (its oil pastel) for a larger work I was doing.... originally it was part of a series for my show in New York, however I don't think it made the group that I eventually sent.<BR>
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The painting of mermaids referred to in the poem is actually one that is on my easel at the moment... its a large detailed piece that I've been working on for about a week now, I hope to get it finished this weekend.<BR>
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dee<BR>
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From: slug<BR>
Date: 23 August 2000<P>

Deevaa....that was beautiful...i'm speechless and in awe...
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