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<description>Lost love. Missed chances. Unrequited love. Never meant to last. Doomed from the start. Wishing I had the nerve. Still thinking of you. Never forget you. I left this for you. I want you to know. My Heart still aches for you. I thought it mattered.
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        My first GF<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1119748">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Went to the Crow Bar with my co-workers last night to have a late night beer only to run into you out with your new girl. Froze solid with terror as everything I never wanted to see happened right before my eyes. I couldn't speak. You barely said a word to me but grabbed her and made a quick exit. I cried in my beer and my friends tried to make me feel better. I knew you didn't care, I knew you were with someone else and thats why I hadn't heard anything nice form you in weeks. I just wanted to have beer. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/81118">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        i thought it would be sweet, i was home early and it was dark enough still to not get caught, took some silver spray paint and sprayed my boyfriends name in jumbo cursive letters across the concrete wall in the parking lot.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3086">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        comforter-style picnic blankets, whiskey in plastic bottles and secret romances that shouldn't have happened but did. we watched one heck of an amazing meteor shower  at sunnyside park lying on the grass, stayed up late just to see the stars fall down. a  slow sticky august a few years ago. this boy and i still don't speak to eachother any more. still the only person i ever dated that won't talk to me. frankly i dont blame him at all.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3087">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-02 15:31:48.365892+00:00</dc:date>
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        we fought (again) i tried to blow it off, pretend like everything was fine. tried making you watch near dark with me but you were tense and wanted to talk. we talked and i cried. i sat on your lap and told you i loved you and gave you litle kisses on your cheeks.
later we watched the snow fall. hidded behind the curtains no one could tell what we were doing, things felt good again and afterwards you were feeling better<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/4895">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-12 18:01:06.1047+00:00</dc:date>
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        What a heart break someone had.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/48517">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-26 19:03:35.841319+00:00</dc:date>
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        We would spend hours driving around the winding narrow streets between the tiny old villages south of Lisbon where you grew up and still live. You drove like a demon, cutting corners at 50 miles an hour, and wildly swerving around old grandmothers walking slowly across  streets in front of the car. You were my only companion for the two months I lived in Portugal. We met each night but never once spoke on the phone. I hated your driving, hated the way you drove fast and furious  making me cry and hide in my seat. You loved to scare me. Laughing good naturedly at my terror until I cried and then pulling the car over. You would mumble a thousand apologies, kiss my hands and face and repeat the word for "Joke" over and over while stifling giggles.
It was a nightly ritual, I would sit all day reading by myself and wait for you to get off of work and then we would drive aimlessly. There was nowhere to be and no one to care what we did. I couldn't speak a lick of Portuguese and you spoke no English at all. For two months we talked with our hands, our bodies, our eyes and our kisses. 

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        i think it was the first night we hung out, or maybe the second. we ate dinner on the floor of the repair shop, listening to kanye west with the disco ball for our only light. we stayed up all night talking. while biking home i suggested we trade bikes and i tried to run off with yours (a joke) you jumped up on my back and we fell over on the ground.  you lied and called in sick to work the next day so we could hang out. you never got caught.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3111">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-12 18:15:49.528801+00:00</dc:date>
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        You swept me off my feet.  I was young, you and me were set on self destruct.  It's better now that it's just friends, but oh how I miss the adventure.  <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/76760">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        My lover and I took the neighbor boys out for their 18th birthday. She took the nice twin and I took the bad twin.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/83415">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        i was putting vinyl heart and seashell stickers on street signs and telephone poles. gave you a handfull to stick as well then i asked you if you wanted to go for a walk. standing and looking at the cars race i tried to steal a kiss. earlier i had fallen down the rain soaked front porch stairs right in front of you. i was so embarassed, i even tried to say i did it on purpose.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/7116">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-09 21:17:29.857106+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>i was 14</title>
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        i walked in the rain with you. sort of changed my perspective on everything. we were both 14 and young and we might have been in love. i keep seeing you and keep hurting for the hurt i caused you. but we've changed since then and cant go back. still, it could be a template for something better<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/82179">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-13 10:58:22.676927+00:00</dc:date>
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        February 1987. I had been invited (by email!) by ******** to come help paint the ceiling of an apartment in the building she just bought. Friday was The 13th; Saturday was Valentine's Day; Sunday was the Full Moon. Did we jam, or what!!! (BTW, we're still together after more than 20 years!)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1752747">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-06-26 23:17:50.314107+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Burgers and Making Out</title>
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        We got some BK burgers and ate them in the back seat of his car. Hottest make-out session of my life.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34707">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        At the free spot near the dumpster on 34th and Belmont I stumbled across your soaking wet clothes, shoes and some other things you had left out for people after you moved out of your house. Spent a few minutes going through your stuff and saw things I had seen you wear once or twice. Missed you so much at that moment I could feel it in my bones. It reminded me of death somehow.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/31789">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-10 18:15:04.245152+00:00</dc:date>
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        You had drove through the night, the rest of the band asleep in the back, I was up front with you half dozing, half listening to the crazy radio show about aliens and psychic manifestations that you love so much. I made you promise to wake me as soon as we got to New Mexico. It was what I had waited the whole trip to see. We crossed the border from Texas just as the sun was coming up...the sky was sea green and shiny....the dirt a certain dusty shade of gold. I tried over and over to photograph the sun rising to no avail.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34633">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-02 15:11:02.780761+00:00</dc:date>
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        I was 17. He bought me an ice cream at the Dairy Queen and told me he didn't really love me. I didn't really believe him, but I didn't say anything.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34706">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-11 14:53:19.026305+00:00</dc:date>
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        The year was 1987.  It was the end of a long hot summer.  I convinced a friend to drive me down to Des Moines (without telling his parents) ostensibly to see Henry Rollins and the Rollins band play.  He loved Henry Rollins, I loved a songwriter and editor of a local punk 'zine.  He saw the show, I walked off into the night with my love and found this spot next to the river behind some bushes off of a little walkway.  It was liberating, intense and passionate.  Lots of hot sweaty leather moments.  I can still remember the lovely smells of that night.  We made love for so long that when we returned to the botanical center, my friend was terribly upset with me--he was really late getting home which blew his cover and he was grounded for a month.  On the long drive home, he angrily berated me while I strummed on a guitar dreamily and sung her songs.  By the end of the drive he was singing along too, and the romance had even rubbed off a little on him too.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34745">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-09 20:34:26.348491+00:00</dc:date>
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        Spent the night. Had to borrow one of his shirts in the morning. Later that day I decided that I liked the shirt better then the man and didn't see him again. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34824">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        we hadn't talked in months.  i sat in dead grass, rocks and dirt.  it made me sick (everything did).  you told me that you wished that i liked nature more.  i hated the earth.  

you were disappointed in me again.  i remember thinking you were more beautiful than anything in that city.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35121">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        we wanted to hang out at the library.  we scoured all of the music magazines looking for nine inch nails articles - i coughed as you ripped out the pictures.  we read through the dictionary of slang.  "23 skidoo" was when i knew i loved you.

on the way home we found pictures in the gutter.  you picked them up and we made a book with a glue stick and some paper, telling a fascinating story which these pictures further illustrated.  your fan fell out of your window.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35123">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Every sunday for two weeks he would bring me a root beer float from the "tasty-freeze" two blocks away. We would sit on the hood of his big yellow cadillac, talk and listen to death metal. I was 14 he was 18 and he made me nervous because he liked me too much and I barely knew him. I liked the root-beer floats and the fact that he wrote my name all over his car for the whole world to see in big black scribbly letters. A few years later we ended up working at the same old folks home together. I was a "dietician" (glorified cafeteria worker) and he was a CNA.
He was also very very gay and did a lot of drugs and  wore too much make-up and jewelry. We would joke about how silly he was back before he came out.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35206">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Swept away on the indescribable physiological and emotional current(s) of a particularly tribal Crash Worship show (audience members burning their clothes in a pit fire in the center of the floor), I found myself in one of those filmic situations where your eyes meet someone across the room, you approach each other, you don't talk, you only dance together, erotically, for hours.  When the lights went up, our hoarse, exhausted voices exchanged names and she told me where she hung out in oakland, near her place, and that I should come find her some time.  I trekked out to this bar in the middle of nowhere several times without seeing her, the enfatuation was getting stronger, i was giving it plenty of fuel.  I finally gave it one last, utterly pathetic and embarrassingly silly attempt, I copied up some flyers with her name on it and my phone number, it was almost like a "lost puppy" flyer, or a missing child flyer.  Of course I never heard from her.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35301">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Thought I'd make a (very) surprise visit by cycling much further than I was really prepared for, and ended up hiding in the bushes outside her house watching an argument between her and her ex (who alse seemed to be into surprise visits).  I went to the cafe to call her, no answer, then i see both of them drive past the window.  I had a looooong ride home to let that 'crushed' feeling really settle in.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35370">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-13 00:02:21.21661+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>valentines day</title>
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        we were driving one of those "driveaway" cars across the country for a guy in new jersey who sold a screenplay about a maniac bear ("think Jaws but with a bear" he said when he handed us the keys). right outside of Pocatello, a tire blew. it was valentines day. we spent the afternoon walking from the garage to a strip mall down the road.  you told me to wait outside and you went into a drug store and bought me a sappy hallmark valentines card. it was the sweetest thing, given that you are not into sappy. or hallmark. i kept that card for years but lost it in the fire. i think that was the last valentines day we were so innocent. remember?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/35480">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-14 08:18:35.686459+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Last Pickup</title>
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        My live-in boyfriend always picked me up at the bus stop after work.  That day I thought the worst thing I had to think about was what to make for dinner that night.  Instead of hugging me as I got off the bus like usual, he grabbed my arm and said, "I'm not breaking up with you, but when we get home, you'll see I've already started to move out."  I was shocked beyond belief.  It was just 2 days after Christmas.  He had planned it beforehand, and never ever let on that anything was wrong.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36063">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-21 13:50:42.649523+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sitting somewhere along the river in New Orleans</title>
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        We were on our way to Texas and decided to swing through New Orleans to see the city and your bandmates wanted coffee. It was November, only a few months after the hurricane hit and we were all a little skeptical of what would be going on. Driving into the city was tedious, the roads were alternately deserted and then bumper to bumper traffic. A lot of the roads were re-routed due to flood damage, there was garbage everywhere....people nowhere. New Orleans proper was empty...quiet.
I thought I would never get there and then there I was and I felt so alone. We hadn't spoken in about a day. Our frequent fights had worn us both down to just ignoring eachother. You went off with your bandmates to get coffee and brioches and I went and sat by the river. I wanted to see the river so badly. I wondered if it knew. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36068">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-21 12:31:17.789507+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dirty Blossom For The Broken Ground</title>
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        I remember the rainy days in Tokyo when we first met - though Japan is quite beautiful in the springtime, especially when the sakuras bloom and blanket the ground like snow. I was wandering around Ueno Park, leaving the crowd of people and Hanami parties behind, when you tapped my shoulder and asked me to take a photo of you standing in front of a temple, on top of the hill. You spoke charmingly with a British accent, Chinese-born and living in London. You were amazingly backpacking through Japan on your own for a month. We shared stories of our trips, and then you showed a map of your adventure plans. We swapped emails and addresses. We took pictures of ourselves. When I got back home I received a postcard from you in Nagoya - and later, stories of a dodgy hotel in Osaka, the peril of riding bikes in Kyoto, among other life's off-kilter experiences. I sent winded emails of little things about me, hoping you'll get in touch with me when you get home, but somehow you didn't. Now it's springtime again and I'm thinking of going to London. I want to give you a call when I do make it to the swanky shopping district of London - and hopefully, you'll remember me, still, after the long-distance spell. But my nerves are weak now and "all the umbrellas in London couldn't stop this rain."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36080">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-02-23 02:04:38.84806+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>First Fluff. 1981.</title>
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        I veal nivver furget heem. arrrrrooooooo! I left heem fur TeXXXass und hee married ze ghoul I crowned Homecoming Queen after my reign. I *gnu* hee thot shee was cutenings! I wish zem much joy.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36121">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-21 19:48:43.386683+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>dismembered love</title>
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        nice chunk of a series of murals all around the backside of there buildings that make up the new 'lovejoy pillars' courtyard.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37083">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-27 22:36:20.36418+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hung up on a fakie rock, on vert, met a girl.</title>
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        Fell straigh to the flat on the back of my head.  My hair was sticking out of the little holes in the helmet.  The only person there was Mary Qwapich, she asked if i was alright, we started dating.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37555">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-02 11:00:35.652313+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Be Careful What You Wish For</title>
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<dc:date>2006-03-07 19:42:01.192117+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The first time I heard Portishead</title>
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        We had been secretly seeing eachother for over a year. Even though I lived 8 hours away and you were married and I had a live-in lover. We saw eachother rarely. But talked on the phone for hours at least once a week-- conversations I had a hard time explaining. 
I was in NYC, your wife was out of town. We were in the bathroom and Portishead was playing. I remember being terrified that we would get caught even thought I knew it was impossible. Later on I took a cab to Union Station to catch my bus even though you gave me subway directions and told me I would be fine. I walked in the station and then walked right back out again. I bought the album as soon as I got home. I still think of you everytime I hear it even though it's 12 years later.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/40442">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-11 20:34:35.98146+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Night Drive</title>
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        I drove all night. I'd never been north of LA, had no idea what I was going to find when I got there. I rang her doorbell at 3 AM, she let me in, held me while I cried. I'd been the one who wanted to leave, but it still hurt. Withen a few weeks it was clear that this wasn't going to work. She'd fallen for the musician, but I was just a man, like other men, and that was not good enough. In the end I can't say I blame her though, I didn't know who I was, how could I have expected her to know?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/44841">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-23 22:38:11.302195+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Yes, I was.</title>
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        The people for whom I nannied probably wondered if I was having an affair with this couple they were friends with.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/83418">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-16 10:58:20.1653+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Paige's beautiful art installation</title>
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        Its at Portland Art Center... another art installation by Paige which she of course doesnt tell anyone when she has one and also of course, its incrediblely beautiful work from an incredibly talented, beautiful, inspiring, and insane woman. I think "I" adjectives are in order today...<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/56629">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-09 22:13:43.47297+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Hallway Hug</title>
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        First year in college.  First couple of weeks. I felt really alone/homesick, and didn't like most of the people.  I was talking with her over AIM eventhough she was down the hallway.  We both got emotional and we hugged halfway between our dorm rooms.  She just hugged me for a long, long time.  I really miss that.  That was the best hug I ever got.  It helped start the best relationship of my life.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/58594">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-09 21:52:48.303619+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Secret clearing of the moon lit river</title>
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        Taking a canoe from my home about a mile to the east and 5 blocks from the waters edge, I took my first love across the lake. We glided up the Sammamish river to a secret picnic spot I new of.  

The spot was a clearing surrounded by trees, thick bushes and a final protective wall of brambles on the outside that makes this place only accessible from the river.

There we unloaded the canoe and set up the tent (complete with inflatable air mattress, big down comforter, and 5 pillows) and spent our one year anniversary sharing the end of virginity.

After, we jumped into the river and skinny dipped then climbed back into the tent and under the covers and waited all nice and warm for the stars to come out<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/64576">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-18 18:34:47.149865+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>For you......Lost you again--I saw outside myself</title>
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        Was thinking I could figure it out. Had an idea and tried. Forgot to remember that I know nothing that I am nothing that I am learning and growing and never really seeing. Stuck being a maker, stuck being a worker. Sorry, I lost out. Sorry I missed my chance. I know I will find another but I still love you and mourn you gone.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/76385">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-30 20:40:25.430872+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>sculpture in the sand.</title>
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        we made things with our hands togeather here.  We kissed and talked the way people do.  It's over but it was an amazing summer to spend with you.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/76761">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-01 21:20:21.689026+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>First Desparate Love</title>
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        I fell hard for CLN in 1982 'cause she was so sweet.  Alas, too young.  I still know her and write often.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/77045">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-03 16:38:46.769681+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>This was the first time</title>
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        This was the place where I first told you, "Uh, I think I really like you." You played it cool, but told me later your heart skipped a beat.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/108152">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-27 07:28:44.003232+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Aravalli hills near Rajasthan, India</title>
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<dc:date>2007-06-24 02:53:09.926426+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>I loved her, she was beautiful, but she didn't see me</title>
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        Biarritz, France<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1807379">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-07-10 16:03:05.436651+00:00</dc:date>
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        Macau<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2488406">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-12-04 11:44:30.440882+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2007-12-04 11:59:42.866944+00:00</dc:date>
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        x<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2502493">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-12-10 23:02:25.853574+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2007-12-10 23:04:06.037831+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Me + You = UTTER DISASTER</title>
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        I spent the night on a friend's couch.  I pulled the blankets up over me and closed my eyes... and found myself missing you, after two years.

I stayed up listening to our songs on my iPod, and when I tried to sleep again, I couldn't tune out the sounds of Fight Club playing in another room.  Then Edward Norton said "Everything's going to be okay" and The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" kicked in loudly, cutting through me like a knife, and I got up to price Greyhound tickets to Arcata.

In the morning, I realized the the algorithm for betrayal.

<center><i>[Transgressions by Party A]</i> <b>x</b> <i>[Party B's Feelings For Party A]</i> <b>=</b> <i>[Quantity of Betrayal]</i></center>
Letting you back into my life would be wrong.  The math says so.  But *damn* it's tempting.

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<dc:date>2006-12-15 22:41:43.954598+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Beijing, China</title>
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        this is where I had my first kiss...<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1119747">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-28 00:18:43.920144+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>emily +/- john sidewalk fossils</title>
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        2 sidewalk scratchings  in from of the lowbrow lounge<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/103414">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-18 13:32:41.462211+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:date>2007-12-04 12:00:38.790751+00:00</dc:date>
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