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- From: jpalmer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John D Palmer)
- Subject: To new beginnings
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.035710.22260@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:57:10 GMT
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- John steps out of the hole he dug himself into with his writing. He's
- looking pretty shaky and teary eyed, as he walks up to the bar and lays a
- dollar on top.
-
- "Sam adams." He says. Mike smiles and takes his dollar, sliding the open
- bottle across the bar; he'd had one ready. John smiles and steps up to the
- line.
-
- "Sometimes endings are really beginnings.
-
- "Then he turned around again, and Jake was gone.
- "In his place was the beginnings of a sunrise. The darkness before the
- dawn was over; it was the start of a new day.
- "Raphael smiled and walked back into the house with Christine. Jake
- always did have a great sense of timing.
-
- "The End. . . or a new beginning."
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- The bottle crashes into the fireplace.
-
- John/The Crazyman
- "Yep. . . the rough draft is finished."
- --
- "Love is cool; I mean, like, really cool. Like, the coolest thing in
- the universe, where, like, people open up inside and show the world how
- they feel, and they ain't afraid someone's gonna laugh because they, like,
- love themselves already!" --Personality 42, a generic 60's philosopher
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