From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

Kirk,<BR>
I read it the same way that Ali read it...<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1498">twisted_lie</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

hello everybody \(*-*)/
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

Kirk - I read the work before I read the comments. I read that it wasn't your first time so it didn't matter.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

Interesting! People have natively picked up on both readings. That's pretty cool in its own way.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

kirk ~ I read it as...it wasn't your first time, but this is the first time it mattered.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

harmonica ~ 'Almost Forgotten'...this is beautiful, touched me deeply....<BR>
Repaying the pain<BR>
A debt owed to a demon<BR>
That lives in the spire and alley<BR>
Of wasted dreams<BR>
...well said love...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=74">Echolocation</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

stack - <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.07.01.00.07.31149">Sharing Grace</a> - don't know how I missed this last month, it's top-notch.  The garden/walls metaphor isn't new but you've given it a fresh spin.  I also tend to like works that have a pattern to them, so that it begins with "a sea of graves" and ends with "a sea of flowers" struck me as particularly apt.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1497">kluless</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

read it both ways - kind of leaned toward the former, BUT<BR>
you've got to love that kind of ambiguity, Kirk.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1385">Harmonica</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

Lady...thank you so much..Sometimes lost love is like a charge card...eventually...you gotta pay the bill...Muwaah...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

Hey Kirk and everyone...<BR>
I can't wait to know how many submissions there were for last month...I had good intentions of keeping up with everyone's, but it seemed not enough time for me to read them all....I am looking forward to the new front page so I can see what I missed...Good luck, Kirk, and thanx for all the time and energy you put towards the blender...<BR>
Pam
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

J.D.,<BR>
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Run quickly while you can still escape!  <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.08.02.15.46.29261">Pina Coladas</a> makes me remember walking around the church wondering if I really wanted to get married after all.   I should have run.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1103">ladyinwaiting</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

yea Jim, i remember walking down the isle and my dad asking if this is what i really wanted to do...i stopped, i wanted to run, but finished the walk instead...however i have two beautiful children as a result...but could have just ask for a sperm donor instead...<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

lady:  both times i remember absolute terror walking...  should have run too (the other way).  like you i have a beautiful, intelligent, adult now daughter that has been my only constant my whole life.  so, i'd do it all over again to experience the joy she's brought to me.  however, i did just have a donor cause he never even once was a father to her, a husband to me, or a contributing member to society in general.  <BR>
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hope you are feeling better by now...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 2 August 2004<P>

B.K.~ we're happier than ever!!! call when you get a chance...hugs to all ..... Rennie
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