ha ha, fortunately not a coed killer :)

Well, I struggle with that - I hate injustice - I get depressed when I see others being oppressed - and sometimes I get depressed with my own moments of insensitivity. As Big Daddy says in Cat on a Hot

I don't know if you can love without suffering, Arthur - it's actually difficult I think to love and be loved back, at least with commitment. And I think struggle and suffering are part of the joy of life

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On the surface, it seems an innocent fall romance with bitter-sweet overtones but only in Harlequin films do boy and girl simply meet and fall in love - the complication is the mainspring of the plot :)

It may be the times. I know Leonard Cohen's writing got very dark just before his death. We are living through a very cynical period

ha ha, I agree but then my character has a different take on things. Me? I wouldn't let the GPS carelessly slip through my fingers - I hate being lost

yep, that's a departure from the usual - but so is a mermaid in the New England woods :)

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Hmm...methinks your audience missed the subtext re 1994. What did the hippies say? Let's share the land together? Mind you, they're now retired stockbrokers :)

Having known people who did this sort of thing I would not say it's easy...having 48 hrs in which to do it? Impossibly hard....but who am I to say...I knock myself out all the time, lol

Always liked Charles Schulz - maybe because I identified with Charlie Brown, lol Why's everybody always picking on me? Could be the motive of my male characters...

Selling out to Hollywood, Alan? I find this highly compelling :)

Your first statement is profound and disturbing, Arthur - because we are truly estranged from ourselves simply by living and growing older and leaving behind those younger selves. But if we aren't truly

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you're welcome, Arthur - I enjoyed it

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Yes, I read your story and see what you mean - it began in media res and ended the same way. It was a strange feeling of powerlessness - very Kafkaesque :)

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I know...I do that sometimes myself - I decided to end it where I did because it seemed a more realistic slice of life - we're not always sure in life how things are going to turn out, so maybe stories