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fiddler · 05-20-2015, 08:01 PM

Okay

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Jen,

I got your package, the boys really loved the home made cookies & brownies. We broke in the deck of cards real good last night, played until the sun was peaking out over the horizon. In hindsight, it probably wasn't a great idea because after chow we went out on patrol. Sure glad to here Betsy had the babies. Hope they're happy & healthy. Chow here sucks, it ain't nothin' like your biscuits, sure makes me miss home.

Love,
T

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Jen,

It's nice to hear from you again, it's been a while. I hope it was the mail service, those boys ain't worth a hoot anyways. Glad to hear your pops is feeling better, I know y'all were real worried for a bit there. Remember that night I brought you home three hours after he said to be home? Man, he peppered my tailgate that night. Hope to hear from you soon.

Love,
T

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Jennifer,

It's been a while since I heard anything from you. I'm doing okay, nights are real lonely. We pass the time making jokes and playing cards. I've found that if we're loud enough, the random pop-fire is drowned out. You with child? That's hard to imagine. What does your old man think of it? I wanted you to know that I kept your letters in my breast pocket, right next to your picture. They keep me going when I'm scared and lonely.

T

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Jennifer,

It's been two months since I got a letter from you, I had begun to think you'd forgotten about me. How you doing? I'm pretty good, rumor has it the unit is about to be stood down. I could be home before the Summer. But don't get your hopes up, I never do.

Lee

Those were from my first deployment, talking to the mother of my kid, although at the time I had no idea that it was my kid. We had agreed to see other people while I was deployed. Figured I'd add that to clear up some confusion.

**Exo** · 05-20-2015, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by fiddler

I was going through one of my footlockers from when I was deployed and found some stuff I didn't know I was missin'. Some letters I sent home, pictures of guys I ain't seen in a while. Wild trip down memory lane, that's for sure. Guess I wouldn't mind sharing a couple of the letters, if y'all were interested.

Share em.

EDIT: Oh f*ck, you did.

fiddler · 05-20-2015, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo_

Share em.

EDIT: Oh f*ck, you did.

Yeah we hit the send button at the same time :p

**Exo** · 05-20-2015, 08:21 PM

Those letters are sweet.

fiddler · 05-20-2015, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo_

Those letters are sweet.

You can sorta see how we had drifted apart. After that last later, I didn't get any more from her. I have a few more, but they're longer and would take more time to type out.

Chula Vista · 05-20-2015, 09:39 PM

Ya, bittersweet stuff.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 05-20-2015, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo_

For me, Pollack isn't a great painter. His paintings don't show off talent. What they show though, is what he was going through as a person. There is so much emotion in his paintings. Some are more chaotic than others. Some are prettier. Some are just...well, paint. I find him fascinating.

Also, it's the images in the randomness that he didn't plan that make them great to look at. I see new stuff all the time.

lol... alright i'm not trying to bring you down if you really like it. do your thing.
but i look at it and see absolutely nothing worth taking a second glance at tbh. i'm sort of jaded about it i guess... it reminds me of my ex gf who went to art school and tried to convince me that when her classmate painted a canvas solid red it was somehow a statement worth taking the time to appreciate. i mean i can appreciate that art comes in many forms... but to me this kind of **** is artistically on par with one of shanaynay's nail jobs.

**Frownland** · 05-20-2015, 11:27 PM

Shanaynay's like my third favourite painter though.

Engine · 05-20-2015, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

lol... alright i'm not trying to bring you down if you really like it. do your thing.
but i look at it and see absolutely nothing worth taking a second glance at tbh. i'm sort of jaded about it i guess... it reminds me of my ex gf who went to art school and tried to convince me that when her classmate painted a canvas solid red it was somehow a statement worth taking the time to appreciate. i mean i can appreciate that art comes in many forms... but to me this kind of **** is artistically on par with one of shanaynay's nail jobs.

forgive me if I doubt that your ex's classmate and shanaynay's artistic expressions are on par with Jackson Pollock's, and I'll forgive your jadedness of all of the above

Sequoioideae · 05-21-2015, 12:08 AM

So someone I know has passed away, not sure if he ODed or took his life another way, but he definitely was involved with heroin. I see so much of this drug everywhere here.

05-20-2015, 08:21 PM	#32194 (permalink)
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05-20-2015, 09:39 PM	#32196 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Ya, bittersweet stuff. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-20-2015, 11:27 PM	#32198 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Shanaynay's like my third favourite painter though. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x