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Rowdyboy

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5. What a breathtakingly beautiful story. And what an honor to have known

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #3)

Tue May 14, 2013, 02:37 AM

May 2013

such a person. The answer to your question is that you really don't have a choice-to deny hope in the face of her life is to defy reason.

I've known older special people too-maybe not with that compelling a backstory but certainly well worth appreciating and their overall opinion on life echoes hers. If not for hope, then most of life would be unbearable.

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You hear the gunshots, and pray it is fireworks [View all] FrodosPet May 2013 OP

Then you go cover a fire nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #1

Thank you FrodosPet May 2013 #8

have 2 friends both had their freshmen in college sons shot dead. Sunlei May 2013 #2

When I was young, the Mother of one of my friends had passed through the death factories. . . Journeyman May 2013 #3

The best possible reply Hekate May 2013 #4

What a breathtakingly beautiful story. And what an honor to have known Rowdyboy May 2013 #5

i live north of phoenix in the county. DesertFlower May 2013 #6

Geez, I'd move DiverDave May 2013 #7

You live where you can afford to live FrodosPet May 2013 #9