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>>>I have always shared everything here. It is no secret that I have a problem with alcohol. Lately it has been bad. Really bad. If you pray, please say a prayer for me. Even if you don't normally say prayers, please say a prayer.
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>>Sorry to hear that Mike, unfortunately I am neither religious to say a prayer nor good to give counsel.
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>As so often happens, music has restored my good spirits. I just returned to good health by relistening to "Sacrilege" and then relistening to to it again. That lady can really belt it out. I have so many musical heroes I can't count them. She is one of them.
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>My favorite has remained unchanged for nearly 40 years. The first time out of about 15 times, up in the nosebleed section of the Auditorium Theater in downtown Chicago. It was right after "Born to Run" was released. He was a little concerned that it might have been a gay date attempt. We were fellow DJs at the campus radio station, in the theater building where homosexuality was indemic. There were holes cut in the bathroom cell walls. Pretty disgusting.
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>The song Bruce opened with remains among my favorites. "Night." Afterward I asked if now he got it. He said now I get it.
I think something you thought you typed is missing from those first two paragraphs or this just became the winner in "The Strangest Messages ever posted on the UT" Contest.
Anyway, glad you're feeling better.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.