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ha ha, I know what you mean. Of course dropping the pronoun 'she' produced an unintentional ellipsis...yeah, the perils of the daily poster :)

Thank you, Arthur, for such a gracious dedication. You are as always too humble to acknowledge your own inspiration or giftedness. I'm not sure the people who inspire or give rise to a poem are ever essential

It's funny the way that works - sometimes my poetry answers questions that arise from my stories as if my subconscious is continuing a dialogue in a different key

Your last statement is profound - I'll have to meditate on that - I tend to anesthetize myself from pain as a form of self preservation

ha ha, actually I do drink tea and occasionally Shiraz. I used to use a name generator but now I allow my characters to choose their own names - it's a mystical practice but probably closer to dreaming

Yep....hate that :)

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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