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Pausing to Remember ...
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Pausing to Remember ... |
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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
At this hour, 2-00 PmM. in Austin, 24 May, 1974, Graduation day, the school for the blind in Texas. They made me send out a million invitations to "relatives" I knew would never even bother coming. I didn't even know their names. Tammy was the valedictorian. What did she say? What day of the week was it? Friday maybe? What did we have for lunch? I can't remember. We had been practicing the motions, the presentations. I remember walking down the aisle with Donie Davis, my first roommate at the school when I was 10. So very, many things had happened since then, the emotional travails of those nine long years, the way it happened, the way it went down. Of course, nobody came except Mother and an ant. And I remember the music ... Sunshine on my Shoulder ... All I Need is the Air That I Breath ... Hooked on a Feeling ... The Sting ... Come and get Your Love ... Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot ... My name is Cindy. When we get married We're gonna have a baby or two. We're gonna let them visit their grandma. That's what we're gonna do. In the playground of my mind. It was freedom, at last. The best I ever knew. But darkness were the nightmare years to follow. |
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TerryW Senior Member
since 2000-03-23
Posts 779Louisville, Mississippi, USA |
Very touching and deep. I know this feeling very well. I have been in exactly the same place before, and you captured it perfectly. Thank you so much for sharing! ~Love ~Terry ~you reached inside, you touched my heart, |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Jaime, this is indeed a well remembered thought for the month[s] of graduation. I graduated in June, in the year 1969, I was 17, and it was Friday, the 13th. That evening, among family and friends, a thought crossed my mind and changed the next nine years of my life. It's easy to look back and say...whoops! It is sometimes better, though, even in the darkness that we mere mortals stumble through, to admit our own fallacies. I don't believe you have many of those, Sir. Because you have been blessed with an inner light. And the rest of us are better for it. |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
this is very good. and a life will be so very bright when you understand it and when you love it. you see what others have ignored and you feel what others have lost the sense of. You may not know what color white is, but you know what pure is. You may not know what color pink is but you know what softness is. You may know what color green is, but you know what youth is. you write beautifully. |
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