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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Beaver"
<jumblejim@...> wrote:
>
> One of the things that strikes me now and again is
that we often spend years
> in conversation with one another on this group or
groups like it, and we
> learn some things about each other and often come to
believe we have this
> person or that person pegged. And then something
happens, and we find we
> didn't have him pegged after all. Or ourselves
either, for that matter.
>
>
>
> Reading the friend's memorial essay made me realize
once again, for the
> second time in a month, that we know and show only
the faces that fit, and
> that there are depths and aspects and wells of
richness that aren't even
> hinted at. I was quite distraught to learn of
Miker's death. I'm far more
> so having read more about him.
>
>
>
Thank you for posting this.
I am thankful that this is a list that does not tolerate
off-topic ramblings, but I am glad we have been allowed this
indulgence.
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