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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Toast for friends
- Message-ID: <OLSON.93Jan26230900@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:09:00 GMT
- References: <93025.145858KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
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- In-reply-to: 's message of Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:58:58 EST
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- In article <93025.145858KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> <KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
-
- >Magda puts a dollar bill down on the bar and, after thinking
- >for a moment, requests a cherry brandy. Slowly she walks to the
- >chalkline and stands staring into the fire for a moment.
-
- [lots of really bad news deleted]
-
- >"There are other tragedies and heart-breaks I'm dealing with now,
- >but they weren't such a shock to me. Anyway, this toast is for
- >all of them. Friends, to the survivors! To those who must stay
- >behind when friends and family ride westward, to those who are
- >left behind when others leave them, to those who are taken from
- >those they love against their will."
-
- Castellan goes over to Magda and gives her a long hug.
-
- "I know at least a small part of what you're going through... last month, a
- friend of mine at Simon's Rock of Bard College was shot and killed when a
- student decided to take a stroll through campus and try out his new assault
- rifle. The thing I'm most thankful for is that I was told by a friend before
- seeing it on the news.
-
- "To survival! To finding the strength to carry on in the face of tragedy.""
- <crash!>
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- -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
- This article is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and
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- be considered flaws or defects.
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