Tag: love
group name: randommusings
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August 29, 2006 02:15 AM EDT --
It happens.
The people you thought as pillars of your life
Dissolve like columns of salt with the first gush.
Those you loved with a passion nearly insane
Turn away to cracks between . . .
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August 16, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
I was about four when Daddy let me set a place setting at our cafe. I wasn't really tall enough to reach the counter. I would stand on my tippy toes and carefully place the napkin and silver . . .
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July 29, 2007 12:53 AM EDT --
What do you say when a marriage is over after pretending that it wasn't for years; once you finally get the nerve up to say it out loud? Do you say you're sorry, even if by that . . .
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February 05, 2007 08:08 PM EST --
Okay sappy I know. But here is a girl that married me when we were both young because she knew she loved me and trusted me to love her more. I had just gotten dumped by a fiancee when we met and later . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
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*This brief essay is for Wendy S., whose article referenced above made me think about my own Big Problem with Dating.*
Recently I have been thinking about . . .
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October 16, 2007 08:24 PM EDT --
I'm 53 years old. Mother of 3 grown children, and grandmother of 9, and I'm gonna buy myself a lunch box. The kind that kids used to take their lunches in, to school.
Yup. . . .
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September 11, 2008 01:25 AM EDT --
I remember 9/11, 2001 like it was yesterday. I arrived at work at 8:45 a.m. on that morning with coffee in hand and booted up my computer as usual. Shortly after 9:00 a.m. ET, my colleague . . .
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November 03, 2007 06:59 PM EDT --
My friend Phil is dying. He may last the weekend, he may not. He's in hospice as of this writing. It's been 4 years coming, not untypical of warriors like Phil who endure the tyranny of cancer, . . .
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October 12, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
I wrote this 8 years ago in a foul mood, as a single mom on a really bad day. Constructive criticisms welcome.
Here I am, 41 years old, and I don't seem to have a clue about love. When I was . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:11 PM EST --
The mysteries of the stars are kept
In files of immense singularity,
Just as one thought of you and me
Would fill up all the spaces of my mind
Am I a mystery to you?
You are a must to me!
How may we . . .
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January 04, 2007 06:18 PM EST --
Today I was thinking about my first car, which had a few eccentricities. Someone had broken the antenna off under circumstances never disclosed to me, with the result that it picked up . . .
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November 02, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Taking this from another Gather member:
What was the last promise that you made and did you keep it?
My las promise began with giving Terry a "Promise Ring" and was continued on with a . . .
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August 02, 2007 02:57 PM EDT --
I am the earth that pulls everything towards me
I am the waves that wash it all away
I am the wind that blows through the leaves
I am the tree without branches
I am the fruit . . .
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January 25, 2007 11:02 AM EST --
Recently I entered into A Pleasant Arrangment with a woman of my acquaintance who seems to want exactly what I want right now: an enjoyable, part-time, drama-free, no-stress Affair. . . .
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May 10, 2008 08:03 AM EDT --
If you see a woman dressed immodestly, indecently, provocatively,
Do not curse her, revile her, denounce her, speak evil of her.
Do not spit upon her or stone her to death.
If you see someone flaunting . . .
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March 08, 2007 10:03 AM EST --
Whew, I think I can safely speak for Jenifah, ShoLANA, and myself when I say: THANK YOU GOD!!!
Last night we had our Pharmacology Final, I stayed alive with a "B". By far this . . .
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October 03, 2007 04:56 PM EDT --
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
©Robert C Burnham
I never got to know you
But you took my heart away
Leaving me just an empty shell
Wandering through lonely days
I have no lasting substance
No fearless . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:04 PM EDT --
True, perfect love is rare. So rare, that I've never seen it between two people. Oh, I've seen love. The normal kind. The yes, I love you, until death do us part as long as you do what I . . .
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October 10, 2006 02:00 AM EDT --
Comments/criticism welcome
Taking a deep breath, she carefully began to discuss the details of the divorce with him. Afterward, she got up to refill her wine. She glanced away briefly . . .
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November 25, 2006 10:55 AM EST --
We burried Daddy on Monday, it was a nice service. I wrote the Eulogy and my friend read it, Another friend sang two songs for us "Swing Low" and an original song written by her titled "Then" . . .
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