TheBanyanTree: and no greater love has the world ever known. . .

[Cecil]

At 5:55 PM -0600 12/24/03, alf at io.com wrote:
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>From: stargazr at io.com
>Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 06:42:05 -0600
>To: spoon at thespoon.com
>Subject: Spoon: Strong Women
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>First, you get down there and roll around in self-pity for a while. Wallow
>in it real good. Get it all over you: in your hair, your mouth, your eyes,
>swathed under your armpits, dripping off your torso. Get down there and
>become one with your self-pity and your sorrow. And then put them behind
>you. Shake 'em off. Pull yourself up, wash yourself clean, and get on with
>your life. The pain will go away one day. It's up to you to keep going
>through the motions of living until it does.
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>"Going through the motions" is the part where the suffering comes in. You
>get up every morning even though you don't want to face another day and you
>do it anyway.

I've been there, Alice. That was years and years ago. You don't need 
any advice from me, and I'm not gonna offer any. You will emerge out 
of the fog and into the sunshine on your own without any worn out old 
saws from this old man. Let's hope it's soon.

Cecil

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