From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1507">Irish</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

At the risk of waking up you-know-who and opening up another political discussion, I couldn't help but wonder at the timing of this latest terror alert.  Coming on the heels of the Democratic convention.  It sure took John Kerry off the airwaves, didn't it? :&gt;)  Hmmmm....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

You know who is only worried about one thing. Protecting his tax chunk. I understand it's over 100,000 for every million. Anyone professing to have a conscience, that votes for that (I erased what I just wrote so use your vivid imagination there) is either IGNORANT or just like him. These people are not CONSERVATIVE. Four more years of them will bring the world down on top of us.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Hey all...<BR>
I actually read through everything last weekend but didn't quite get around to assembling the issue. (Technically I'm not late on the schedule, since the issue is due after the first full weekend...but still.)  Anyway, I guess there's some weird poetic whatever in making an issue of the love blender on the day by divorce is final...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Oh c'mon Kirk,...there's no more perfect timing than coincidence...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

My divorce was final April 15, a taxing day to say the least.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

I don't remember the date my divorce became final. Sometime in April. It was quick and relatively painless.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Well, it gives me a "hook" to write about in the intro...better than writing about the weather which is like my default.<BR>
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Misti...I dunno.  Not to sound assish, especially because I haven't made a point of studying the details of what happened with you all, but I think the one walking away is likelier to have easier time of it than the one walked away from...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Kirk,  Having been on both sides of the 'walk', I agree.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Kirk,<BR>
I know. But even though I left Chris for my boyfriend, I did mourn the demise of our union. And Chris is engaged to be married. And I'm not.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

In respect to all who have commented;...It still hurts as Kirk will discover, there's that particular song, that cliche in a film, that...whatever...it WILL hurt...but that's why were here!!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

September 19th.,  1992......OUCH!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=644">wordley</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

SORRY TANQ,  WE'RE IS WOT I MEANT
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

I've always been open at this site, in my poems and on the Board. Anyone who has read my poems knows that I was miserable in my marriage and so was Chris. We are both better off now. Again...Chris is engaged to be married and I am struggling because I left my boyfriend to make some changes in my life. It took my leaving Chris for him to find a woman he is extremely compatible with. I guarantee you he is grateful that I left.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.08.04.15.46.19981">regardless</a> ...reading this poem led me to make the above comment. Thanks.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Misti, I know, I'm just projecting.<BR>
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Re: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.08.04.15.46.19981">regardless</a> -- there's a Missy Eliiot line in "The Rain" that's like "I'll break up with him before he dumps me"...I dunno, there's something sad but strong in her delivery of that...also its use of "Can't Stand The Rain" is really terrific.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=141">wistful</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

I'm not old enough to be divorced for 11 years, and yet here I am... my only comfort is that when my ex-husband went to try to get the marriage annuled so he could marry his pseudo-Catholic ex-mistress-now-fiancée, it was denied, even though we had no children.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 4 August 2004<P>

Thanks B.K.,<BR>
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<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2004.08.04.17.30.12937">FREEDOM BUST</a> was just what I needed to hear.  I've wasted so much life loving people who were gone, knowing that if they came back there would be nothing there, and now I wonder how many opportunities I've missed.
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