From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=620">Varda</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Firstly, thanks Kirk for putting me one the front page. :) What a nice way to start the month, even if I am sick as a dog.<BR>
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Foolish - Regrets Only was super. I think I commented on it before and I was glad to see it there. :)<BR>
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Savannah Haze - A letter was great. It really lets an observer get into a slice of life. Thank you!<BR>
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Bridget O - Damn Boy! was great!<BR>
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Splatipus - Loved Meteor Shower. I think that the way you've shaped the words is beautiful.<BR>
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And besides the front page...<BR>
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Sushi - I saw Conan too. ;)<BR>
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Misti - God's Bus Stop... raw and tender as a skinned knee.<BR>
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And finally a question: What do you all think of marriage nowadays? Is it still possible to find one lifelong love, or is it a outdated phenomenon? <BR>
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cheers!<BR>
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*V*
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Varda~~ very moving a memorable with The Storm. Sorry about your illness. Illness has been too much a part of my life for too long. Be well. On marriage: These vows are sometimes relative to what the partners, friends and family want to see. Sometimes in unreal expectations ... hopefully not. I think that the real vows often come other than in a marriage ceremony, and in real commitment, kindness, caring and sharing. Words don't always manage to convey completely what a couple feels. Marriage vows are often only the beginning of words of commitment. A look, a touch can help or hurt so much. Marriage can bind and cement, hinder or pulldown, or give a foundation for further ability to share and enjoy everything a couple might want in life. It can be a true way of stating publically that a couple wants the same things, and often wants to bring children in the world with a foundation for the same. No matter how or what I "creatively" write, I applaud the human spirit in wanting to love and share with each other. The world is such a better place when filled with satisfied minds, bodies and smiles. We search for love and the ability to find these things. I think that romance and the feeling it gives is key to opening hearts. Marriage can be a way to fortify and give each other strength and a better view for all the world to see in a couple that nothing else in commitment might provide. It also guarantees a couple rights to see to a partner beyond desires, but for real needs in financial, medical, death that other contracts might not always provide. I always hope for anyone to be able to truly find balance in life ... from hurts or loneliness, unsureness, to real happiness and real companionship and real passion ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Jon,<BR>
Linkcode: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.04.21.10.1172">to whom it may concern</a> <BR>
OH MY GOD....Do you really exist? You send me...<BR>
CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Varda,<BR>
I like your analogy of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.09.47.28577">The Storm</a>...<BR>
CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Varda~<BR>
Thank you. Yes, I think it's possible for two people who have their shit together to have a lifelong love/marriage. It's not for everybody, though. I'm not so sure it's for me. People who have a lot of issues/bruises/scars don't always make the best marriage material. It can be done, but it's hard as hell. My mom is on her third (and final) marriage. "Divorce" is a common word in my family. I used to be a hardcore romantic. I idealized Love Forever! Now I'm more of a realist. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Rennie, Rennie, Rennie...<BR>
You are a hoot...WHAT A WOMAN!  I have a terrible cold and felt down in the dumps until you made me laugh by your submission of <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.04.22.25.25198">THE CHRONICLES OF TICKEDOFT</a>. Thanks for making me laugh!  <BR>
CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Galadrial,<BR>
You and the others really have it going on...or I have gone misty eyed over everything I have read today...Your <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.04.21.13.4017">the elder blossom's request</a> is lovely all the way through and then your ending is astounding!<BR>
CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=845">BeckyAnn1110</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

TJ-- <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.04.23.42.24238">Zarzecki</a> is absolutely wonderful. That kind of writing is why I love poetry. Just wanted to let you know!<BR>
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Becky
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=801">Bridget O</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Bradley~ oh god thanks. and welcome, i see your new here! i hope you can write as well as you can compliment:):):) is there ne thign specific u liked? lol i guess i'm a praise junkie, i love feedback, espically that written by you.  well feel free to email me (included in my info) or whatever pops up. but i must admit, your name has me a little teary-eyed, bad reminder of a long lost love, i guess. but its a niiiiiiiiice name nonetheless.<BR>
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Jon~ "To Whom It May Concern" wow r u SURE your not perfect?????????????
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

OH Bridget O, Bridget O!<BR>
First I want to say that i have a silly sense of humor....although i take <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.14.25.21196">When You Stop</a> seriously...it seems i have been there, done that....<BR>
I can also allow myself to laugh at myself, so I laughed when I read <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.14.25.21196">When You Stop</a> !!!  It made perfect sense to me....Great metaphor!  Second, I like your name Bridget O!  My son's name is Grant, but I call him Grant O...Something about adding O to the end of a name is poetry at it's best!<BR>
CryingShame
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

CryingShame~~ I hope you are feeling better by now. If you aren't, I made Maggie put her shoes on (oh, oh, durn, she put on the cloggers -- sorry if ya have a headache already), comb her hair, and then dragged her out her for ya once again. Ditto on all the day's comments on the posts/poems today. I have thoroughly enjoyed. Feedback also makes it far more fun to post. I am looking forward to more ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">tj holland</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Becky Ann ~ Thanks, girl! 2nd Lt.Zarzecki is my man, and he is incredible! I'm glad you commented 'cause he's gonna be reading that poem today (I hope) and maybe he'll see that you liked it!! Yay! <BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=835">Liz</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Varda I've been wondering a lot about marriage lately too...I've been engaged to a man for some time and suddenly I have feet that are far beyond cold.  And Rennie, I read your response to Varda, and now I am more sure than ever that this would be a huge mistake.  You really hammered home the communion that marriage should be, and I don't think I have that with my fiance. I have been thinking of our wedding day with dread, and I just don't understand why I am so afraid to disentangle myself from this.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">Splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

BK - shit, was it your birthday too? belated happy birthday! Hope you had a good one!<BR>
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Varda - Loved 'The Storm'. beautifully written<BR>
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Rennie - Didnt get your 'Chocolate' either at first, but it made more sense after you'd explained it. Enjoyed 'The Chronicles of Tickedoft' especially the second verse<BR>
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Jenilee - 'Bitch' (1 and 2) put me in mind of one of my 'best' friends. Somebody who I've been friends with for 17 years. I was always expected to (and did) stop everything whenever she was having one of her many crisis'. However, she was always 'too busy' to support me whenever I really needed her. Her dramas were far more important than mine apparently. A couple of years ago I finally realised how stupid I was being (after other mutual old friends telling me for years) when, after helping her through a particular bad patch and giving her a home for a while, she went and bitched about me and made up all sorts of crap to other friends. Unfortunately, shes also one of these people who can never admit to being wrong so we fell out for a while. We've patched things up since, but I'm very cynical about her and our friendship now and I think she senses that. However 17 years is a lot to throw away cos we did have some excellent times together. It will never be the same but at least I now have the strength not to let her treat me like shit anymore when shes having a bad time.<BR>
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Anyway peeps, its mine and hubbies 6th wedding aniversary tomorrow. ( 6/9/96 - marvelous numbers hee hee!) Does anybody have any idea what the 'material' thing is for 6th (eg paper, wood, etc)?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Liz~~ oh, oh! Would you please tell him you got that info from Holly Day Inn, instead of me? You've gone this long, so let your own words sway you one way or another. Just have no regrets. If you part, try to do it as civil friends (it's possible) even if you never plan to see each other again.<BR>
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splatipus~~ I should have posted Kirk's survey question with that chocolate work that generated that response from me on this comments board ... but I would have waited to ask his permission, and eventually forgotten it again, just as I did last month. Oh, durn! My fella's waving a bottle of chocolate sauce at me again! Gotta go! ..... Rennie 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=801">Bridget O</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

cryingshame~ thanks!!!! When You Stop was just those quick, i-need-to-make-a-submission sumbission, hahaha. but about the origin of my name *clears throat* ha hem! i was in a lit. class and we were writing some pointless dribble that teachers often give (oh so much credit to Richardson) and anyway we needed to make up a pseudonym and i wanted my initials to spell out "bob" so i figured "Bridget O. Blackman" and when it was time to pick a loveblender name, bridget just stuck:) arent i quirky? lol sry i'm in an unuslally good moood woooooooooooooooooo<BR>
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oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to everybody whos had a recent birthday! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Thank you all for the wishes for my birthday. I'll take them out and smile tomorrow as I blow out the candles on the cake..ha.<BR>
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nnium: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.18.14.3455">indigo sunshine</a> This is an excellent entrance to the blender. Welcome and hope you will stay and write more for us.<BR>
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bk <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

splatipus~~ missed thanking you on the crit on Tickedoft when I thanked cryingshame. <BR>
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! ..... Rennie 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Varda ~ I really enjoyed <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.18.10.612">Being first myself, second your own (revised)</a>. I think I might bump it!!<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=932">StillJustMe</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

angiebaludo-are all your poems about the same person?<BR>
I read a lot of your past poetry after reading the submission tonight, and it seems you have a lot of anger. The feeling is definitely coming through.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=918">Jenilee</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

RENNIE~  lol  I understood what you were saying in the poem....I just didnt understand the repetition part of it.  But thanks for taking the time to let me in.<BR>
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SPLATIPUS~ Thanks for the comment.....Her and I havent even come close to making up or anything, and its been over 2 years.....I just could never trust her again.  But trust me, she knows she lost the most loyal friend she had.<BR>
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-Jenilee-<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

oops. I neglected to mention in my latest submission that <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.21.25.8902">Her Soul - a room   Her Hope - wings</a> was a bump to Varda's <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.05.18.10.612">Being first myself, second your own (revised)</a>. Sorry!<BR>
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-Teej 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 5 September 2002<P>

Kirk~~ OOOPS!! Tried entering the first two times and it didn't show on the Granny piece. Sorry, but Minimum Bob probably had a hand in this ... or Pops! Sorry! durn ... Sorry! ..... Rennie
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