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your ink should come in a constant stream. it can't be any other way. i think you have eyes that see through people as though their walls were transculent. sometimes that scares me, can you see through mine? maybe i've built it too thickly. either way, grow, grow, grow. you're already planted, you just need to grow. that's up to you ... i'd have it no other way.
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Dafremen
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THE_FAREWELL
How could I have forgotten you, lovely aphrodite? You, who have been my stalwart friend behind the scenes (Cappy style) for so long? Your little DOT lighting up on my Trillian console always sends warm waves of friendly comfort through my brain, accompanied by their gentle, but persistant lapping at my heart. Now I call you friend, and present that title to one of the loyalest, and most honest that I have had the pleasure of knowing. Thank you for being there for me, on those crazy nights when I left you sitting around for hours...while you patiently went about your business, but always with an eye to your IM console, always there when I returned, always with a smile, always with a dedication to friendship that couldn't help but break my heart for having put you so far down in my priorities. You are TRUE BLUE and not, blather blue, but it's same shades, 10 times more royal, 100 times more cerulean...and knowing that you're still going to be out there..a little dot with a big heart on my IM console, is just the thing this old windbag needed to ease his "leaving blather" blues.
11:11
Daf
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In response to your email:
You're amazing. And you are a TRUE friend.
Thank you, it would be a pleasure to meet you. I'm afraid I will be leaving that group behind soon...things are afoot, and I've really got to think about doing something for you all and for my own.
So I am, and I will, and some day, you and I will meet in a park somewhere.
There will be hundreds if not thousands of people there. They will have their children and their grandchildren with them, and it will be one HUGE family picnic where those that have will be all of us, and those that don't will be none of us. Those with food will bring it and those without will bring themselves and together...we will prove to each other that it CAN be done...that we CAN cooperate and take care of one another. When that day comes, chicklette, I hope you come to sit on my family's big blanket and enjoy some of what we will have brought in our (best Yogi bear impression) pik-a-nik basket. This is not a dream any longer. It is a movement and it is picking up steam.
Earlier in this letter, I said that I would be leaving the group behind, but I think we both know that isn't true.
See, while some feel the need to talk out their dreams and ideas and opinions, I will be turning 35 in 6 days. My glass is only HALF full anymore...and every drop is liquid gold to me.
I won't be leaving you guys behind, because I will be taking your dreams and hopes (or my quite possibly mistaken impression of those) with me, and so I will be taking you all with me. When that day comes lady, know this...I cried...and I cried hard and doubly harder, because I knew, as every father that must leave his family daily to earn a living knows, as every firefighter that leaves his wife behind to do his duty knows, and as every child that must make the decision to have their parents' life support turned off in order to spare them further suffering knows...some things are HARD to do, but they are right, and they are necessary.
Blather and that board are places where sprout the wings of dreams.
My wings have dried, for I have been discussing this dream for many, many years before I came to know you all. I must fly now, or die with those wings folded on my back, never knowing if they would have supported the weight of our dreams.
I'll be around a little bit longer, then..as I did with blather, I will have to say goodbye until I meet those people in person.
11:11
Daf
P.S. I'm posting this on blather...under pralines_and_cream..
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You will always be my best blather bud, I hope my disappearance didn't alarm you. It is for good, but having received several emails (none of which was from you!!), I had to come back for a few more parting blathes.
, daf
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Thank you, daf. You had no idea how good it was for me to read this. I wasn't alarmed; I knew what you were doing, and are still doing, but I was sad, to say the least, that you were gone from here and AIM, and the disappearance of your pictures from the rehtalb album (which I thought you had done) was kind of like the nail in the coffin and it all seemed too ... permanent.
I meant to send something to you that I've had for awhile, but somehow the disappointment stopped me. It's just a little token, but I think I'll send it now.
Oh, I've started going by Adriana on here now, finally come clean with myself I guess. You can reach me at Aphrodite7717@hotmail.com or campos.a@neu.edu, or, of course, here.
Good luck with everything, remember I'm always here.
a big fat sigh of happy relief.
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