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[robertsloan2]

Deposit made. I'm killing time till I know for a certainty that my funds will be available, before I go to PayPal and make a $120 payment to John Houle for The Kill and Archaeopteryx.

The Kill is a large refined realist graphite drawing of a male Smilodon fatalis sitting up proudly, his scruffy little mane fluffed by the wind, next to the enormous

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[eternalism]

Hee, I'm glad I could help. You've helped me understand a lot of things these past few days, too, and I'm very grateful that you took the time to talk to me and let me blather on. :p

[robertsloan2]

Thanks. I think we turned into the "Survivors of the survivors of the Depression as parents" support group. The pattern's the same. As I write about these things and recognize common elements in your stories, I'm able to identify what happened and see that the parents from the Depression came out themselves wounded -- and many never recovered