My son would love to take de debil up on his standard package.  There
was a time when I would have too.  The things that make love hurt so
much may be the assumptions we make about each others' choices.
Choosing hard regular work and a reasonably secure life looks like
selling out to a 19 year old.  Planning on doing a deal with de debil
looks like stupidity and sloath to a 50 somethinger.

And the 75 year old tells the 50 year old to relax and let it run its
course.  Them damned know it alls!

-jc


On Jan 3, 2006, at 6:23 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

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>> Then I noticed it - a long letter "Dear Mom and Dad" propped up on
>> the
>> chair, carefully double-spaced, in a familiar neat script.
>
> Be blessed that you get a note. Possibly some intelligent designer
> will
> send a note to the 9th Ward New Orleans? Or, de Debil did it?
>
> A chance and mundane comment recently brought me back to the exact
> moment when my stepfather proclaimed that he had finally given up
> on me
> completely. There were only two of us to mark that occasion in the
> lower
> driveway. He was sincere. In many respects it marks the beginning
> of my
> adult life.
>
> All that aside... I have noticed that love hurts some of the time.
>
> A friend recently commented that she raised her children to be
> independent but regretted that they left home in their early teens,
> not
> to return.
>
> ][<
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