Backwoods Boy
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I love the detail and substance you bring to your story. In order to have those good qualities, it can't be rushed to conclusion. Rather than being impatient for the next chapter, I'll spend the week savoring this one.
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How well I know. One thing I always do is edit a printed copy (usually several times) before I post. I always find more that way than on a computer screen.
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An interesting twist. Last line in Max's letter: "I just, I was expecting my best friend to be in a wheelchair." Did you mean "wasn't", or am I missing something?
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Delightfully ambiguous
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Backwoods Boy replied to Mikiesboy's topic in Mikiesboy's Drop in Centre's Topics
Enjoy your day, tim, in spite of the weather. Other than the perpetual east wind, it is sunny today and slightly above freezing, Perhaps spring is on the way, or will we have a white St. Patrick's day. -
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Yes, there are limits. From what little I've written, I understand completely that all good things come to an end, and never-ending stories don't work. However, there will undoubtedly be more good things -
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No, we will just expect a sequel. -
Photographs and Chocolate Cake
Backwoods Boy commented on Mikiesboy's story chapter in Photographs and Chocolate Cake
I look forward to this every week. I hope it continues for a long time. Thanks again for sharing your talent with us. -
I suspected the wheelchair because of something Issac said in one of the last two letters, I don't remember for sure which or what. It wasn't a surprise. The letters are becoming even more interesting
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I had jury duty once once several years ago for a drug-related case, and it was a disappointing experience to say the least. So I got tapped again a couple years ago just before my seventieth birthday, to report two weeks after said birthday. Well, it happens that in this state, you can get a permanent exemption after age seventy. So in addition to pleading short attention span, frequent urination, and a couple other things, all true, I requested the exemption. They didn't send it until the day of my birthday, and it was the best birthday present of the year. I do a lot of volunteer work, but my civic-mindedness ends at the courthouse door. -
Excellent chapter, tim. And I see I wasn't the only one looking up recipes as I read this chapter. And I admire Don for putting the bureaucrats in their place. I did foster care once for a short time as a single male foster parent. Fortunately, the social workers were more reasonable or it wouldn't have happened.
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Excellent chapter again.
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The recipe sounds really great. Unfortunately for me, there are more than six ingredients ... -
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Sounds like a perfect time to get rid of aggression and hostility. -
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As they say in British movies, "Quite". -
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Maybe it's like one of those quotes about the internet attributed to Mark Twain and/or Abraham Lincoln. 😒 Now I better go have breakfast before my cynicism really overflows. -
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The cynic speaks: Not only is someone trying to pad their community reputation count, they can't even remember how they did it. Time for an IQ check. 😒 -
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x Maybe it's not laughable, but you definitely made me laugh. -
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I got rid of everything about twenty years ago. The only wasteland worse than television is Facebook. I use a service called "DVDs". And most of them are British, for some strange reason. -
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This is a new one on me. While they likely have different roots, "grift" seems very similar to "graft". -
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Quite marvelous, thank you Thorn. I have lots of reading and domestic things to do, and the temps are above freezing (barely) so I may not have to shovel today -
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A few years back, the neighbor kid had a ten-dollar car with a five-thousand-dollar stereo system protected by a car alarm that went off every time a mouse farted, which was usually in the middle of the night. And in the end, the alarms have little value, mostly because no one pays attention to them or because the perp circumvents them. I truly believe that if a cost/benefit analysis were to be done on car alarms, including human misery in the "cost" factor, car alarms would be the most worthless thing every invented. Next to garbage disposals. I better stop. I haven't had breakfast yet. -
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I don't have any impetus to go outside today, as we are having yet another late winter storm. Instead, I am going to sequester myself inside the house. -
Having read both versions of this chapter, the change is very noticeable. Extremely well done, my friend.
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Backwoods Boy replied to Mikiesboy's topic in Mikiesboy's Drop in Centre's Topics
What Kitt said. Do you know what they call the medical student who graduates last in his class?
