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shadowconn :
If your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever), please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, good or bad---BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
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That memory still makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :D
(okay, obviously I'm on crack tonight)
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whatever. it totally happened; and I'm glad you were there.
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Sometime in the mid-1980s I was on a road trip into the Northeast. I had never been to Maine, so I decided to drive across the border, just far enough to say I had been there. I pulled off at the first exit and searched for a post office. I wrote some post cards to friends that said not much more than, "look, I've been to Maine now!", and took them into the post office lobby to stamp and mail them.
On the way back to my car, I found a pair of mittens, attached to each other with a long piece of yarn. They looked hand-made and almost new. I found an iron-on name tag inside one of them. I found a phone booth, looked up the name, and called the number. I told the woman who answered about the mittens. She thanked me and asked me if I could wait at the post office so she could get the mittens back.
I wasn't in a big hurry, so I decided to wait and write a couple more post cards. Soon enough, a car pulled up, with a woman and a young girl inside. The woman saw my crappy old car and approached, pulling the girl along with her. She thanked ( ... )
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The temptation was to find something to dislike, but that would be both too easy, and too petty-minded. And there was nothing easy or petty in the woman before her. Her eyes were concentrations of experience and dreams...
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