From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1348">blakey</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

rennie, aparajita, ali - thanks so much for the comments. 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1348">blakey</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

twisted_lie, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.02.12.18.27.16395">Dearest</a>: This is such a beautifully written piece. And the one line that really got me was "for your hands to circle around mine". What a wonderful way to describe the protection a person feels while holding hands with their lover - almost as if they were invincible to whatever life throws at them.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1348">blakey</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

not*about*you: I just wanted to say thank you for all of your posting. Some of them really hit home since your experiences in the relationship(s) you have written about are complementary to what I have experienced &#150; or better said, what happened to me. I find some comfort in your thoughts which helps with the healing process.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

thanks blakey! i'm glad to be a source of some light!<BR>
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all the best!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1540">hairdiva</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

lilla, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.02.13.10.00.25467">the last lines were mine</a>: this is superbly written, and written on my heart now.  Thanks for submitting the way I feel, putting it into words.  Amazing!<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=66">willtobe1</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

lilla, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.02.08.07.04.1413">gysophilia in killer snow</a>:<BR>
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What had I to do to pick you???<BR>
<BR>
I reached and reached and reached, but maybe the loudness of it was only in my mind.<BR>
<BR>
I saw you reach for me ... I really did.<BR>
I tried so hard to reach back ... I really tried.<BR>
But I was held down so held down by all the things you said/but never did ... by all the things I should/but never was.  Held down by two I couldn't reach you.<BR>
<BR>
So what had I to do to pick you???<BR>
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[well...not you personally, of course, but the tender gysophilia fading in my own garden of snow]
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Twisted Lie, in "Dearest", although mispelled, i really liked the metaphor, "i've kept your laughter in jar".  May you have enough laughter in your life so that as many times as you may open it, that memory, it remains alive.  I'm still reading through all your work, it may take a few weeks! best.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

oops! and then i mispelled it!<BR>
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it should read, "i've kept your laugh(ter)in a jar".<BR>
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walla!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Re: my poem "Adar" -- <BR>
It's so funny!  I just had an afternoon chuckle;<BR>
since I have a kabbalistic calendar on my desk, <BR>
the months and dates are not like a standard american<BR>
calendar: so that jan/feb is on one page, feb/march on the next, ect.... i wrote my Adar poem (just to show how truly i AM in my own world)somehow thinking we are in the feb/march section!!! hahahahaha! no one could get such a laugh out of this like I!  I actually thought we were in Pisces already!  Geez!  Sorry folks for the confusion... It is still Aquarius!  I realized this while I was on the phone referring to my calendar and looking at March 13th!  Feb & March 13th are both on Tuesdays!  Hahahahahaha!  And I was so looking to pisces, where happiness truly is a choice at that time!  sorry for my long rambling!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=15">Untamed Bird</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Not About You; are you a Saggitarius with a birthday of December 4th per chance?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

untamed bird, sorry, but we don't know each other!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=15">Untamed Bird</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Do you have a red string bracelet to keep the evil eye out?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

red strings come and go in my life,<BR>
but the most potent potion for keeping<BR>
out evil are words!<BR>
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best.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

not*about*you~<BR>
<BR>
Thank you so much for the compliment!  You've made me evening.  :-)<BR>
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I have greatly enjoyed your work, as well.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Ali, thanks... happy V day... hopefully you'll have a happy one.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

not*about*you~<BR>
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Thank you! I am unattached right now, actually--but I do have some very low-key plans.  So, it should be nice.<BR>
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I hope that you have an excellent Valentine's Day, too!<BR>
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:-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1796">not*about*you</a><BR>
Date: 13 February 2007<P>

Ali, although you are "unattached", may your heart, although a strangers, attach you on the special day -- 2 mine.<BR>
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Kisses...<BR>
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