From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Lulu,<BR>
Inside Of Me - I really liked it
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Jon, I lose my way is beautiful.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Coujeaux,<BR>
I read Opinionation as you submitted it and have been reading it repeatedly. I find it fascinating.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

jwb71913,<BR>
Hell's Half Acre - breath-taking and thought-provoking.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

jwb71913,<BR>
I just read 'Soft Place To Land' and loved it. The line "I will catch you, even if it kills me" and the verse "It is cold here, and dark, and frightening; I cannot stay too long, lest the demons overtake; My tortured soul, and negotiate, the deal; The trading of my soul for your life and love" leaves me speechless. The last verse is one I understand and identify with so well. There are moments when I would gladly make a deal with the devil if I could and trade my soul for something that to me seems far more precious at times.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Star of David,<BR>
<BR>
My meager efforts pale when resting next to yours, but I thank you for your praise.  Your rugby player is a fortunate man.<BR>
<BR>
Jon, if you continue to make me cry I will have to continue to read your work.<BR>
<BR>
Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Rennie -- re your last post on the Board ("my Mother once told me that if I kept an argument between me and my husband only we would know about it...") -- wise words -- my father told me the same thing.  It's often harder for your friends and family to forgive your loved one than it is for you yourself, so keeping your quarrels private and working through them together is usually the wisest course.<BR>
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Tanq -- <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.24.19.29.1167">Letter to Cedric Wright</a> -- beautiful -- I had no idea Adams was as gifted with words as with a camera -- thanks<BR>
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Gala -- thanks for the re-post -- glad I swelled yer head a bit :)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Okay, this is midterms week so I'm sorry for the late response.<BR>
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Dana~ Thank you, I have enjoyed all of your pieces you have submitted so far.<BR>
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newfoundlove~ Just read your account, you've been here for a couple of months and I didn't notice you. Anyway, thanks for your comments, I'm flattered. :-)<BR>
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Star of David~ I am running out of ways to thank you. I read "???" and almost cried. Great work.<BR>
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Jim~ Wow, thanks it always shocks me when someone is able to connect with something I have written, espcially when the person is as talented as yourself.<BR>
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Take care...I'm headed back to the library.<BR>
<BR>
-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Echolocation~ I've always hoped to get some wisdom before it was too late, so I started paying attention to these little wisdoms very early in my life. They've seemed to serve me well. Thanks for the comment. Live long enough and well enough, and you can even go back and correct misconceptions with family and those you love. IF they listened the first time, they may be willing to listen again to something more positive and let everyone heal.<BR>
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jim~ I see something of what I know when I read you. Thanks for the reminders. Many of them help me treasure what I do have even more ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Star of David~ You've said some things I've wanted to say with your latest "???" ... good read. Thanks for sharing that one ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=962">Lulu</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Star of David- Thank you, Im glad you enjoyed it.<BR>
Take Care<BR>
~*Lulu*~
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Rennie,<BR>
<BR>
It pleases me that you take some pleasure from my work.  Thank you for all of your kind comments.  Spring is good for all of us, a chance to shed and grow.  The debris of the past is plowed under or burned, and fields are prepared and planted.  Mother Nature, God, or whatever you choose to call her, allows us all a resurrection into the light, if we choose to venture from our dark places.  The time to hide is over for me, I am going to blossom and grow, and one day will love again.  For now, the thrill of knowing that there is life ahead for me, and a good one, keeps me optimistic and hopeful about my own prospects for romance.  All women, both those in my past, and those I have yet to love, deserve a fresh start.  Some in the past were burdened with my own baggage, and I failed to reclaim it.  I will learn from those mistakes, and nuture the new growth of Jim.<BR>
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Sorry to ramble, thanks again for reading my work.<BR>
<BR>
Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

B.K.<BR>
<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.25.16.54.12230">Lip Stick</a> <BR>
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In my dreams I am loved by a woman who will love me like that.  Wish me luck.<BR>
<BR>
Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1062">Vixen81</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

Thank you Dana.  "I'll Mention You Everyday" is very touching. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=35">Star of David</a><BR>
Date: 25 March 2003<P>

jwb71913,<BR>
Thank you so much for your kind words. But if you say that your writings are “meagre efforts,” I am truly surprised. How on earth can you say that? And they certainly do not “pale” when resting next to mine – they surpass mine by far in their excellence. As for my rugby player, thank you for saying he is a fortunate man even though I feel that I am the lucky one...<BR>
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Jon,<BR>
Sorry about almost making you cry. It was just a letter to him... You know, just rambling on and on, writing down the thoughts as they come...<BR>
Rennie Lorca,<BR>
Thanks...<BR>

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