i don't know if he was asking my opinion, but i let him have it anyway. i think he knows me well enough to be expecting it. that's probably why he didn't come right out and ask for it.
i heard what sounded like a laugh or a cackle coming over the walls of my cube. it took sometime for my ears to adjust, for my mind to comprehend, that i was actually overhearing utter despair and devastation upon receiving a phone call saying a loved one had died suddenly.
i drove past the big yellow house yesterday. when i was a kid, there was a lady who lived next door to my school who had this crazy big growth on her neck. and she owned a large snake. she lived in the big yellow house, whenever i see it i wonder if she was in fact real or someone i dreamt up. and if she was real, why did she own a python, and why didn't she get that huge growth checked out?!?! sometimes i have difficulties differentiating between reality and dreams. it's very possible i dreamt her up, maybe thomas would know.
i'll go get into bed and lie awake in the silence. lying straight without moving. lying still without sleeping.
i don't do what you do.
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Thomas: She always wore a nightgown. But I dont remember a snake.
thank you. that's very helpful.
it's VERY possible i imagined the snake. when i try to recall the image of her in my mind i can't tell if she held a snake or if the large bulge on her neck had a snake-like quality. i must have dreamt that part, why would she have a snake. honestly, that's crazy.
aww, that lady was very nice. i feel bad, i'm not trying to mock her memory. she was always very friendly to all us kids.
you know, of all the people i went to school with, it's most ironic to have thomas in my life. we stood at the same bus-stop for 8 years (plus 4 in high school).
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