I remember a day from that time where my mom, step-dad and I lived in an apartment complex downtown. The same apartment complex that had a corner store inside that I started eating candy from which my mom couldn't pay for.. which I think is called "stealing". The same apartment my mom, step-dad, and I watched an eclipse from in the parking lot with blankets. I had a best friend who lived in the next apartment that went to school with me that first year and her name was Diana and she was incredibly pale and had black short hair with straight bangs. Now that I think about it, she looked like a china doll. Our moms decided to get us together between the buildings and it was just the darkest chilly September day but we spent it bottle cap hunting in the dirt. It was really damp, cold dirt. We found tonnes as you can imagine ..the area we lived in lots of people drank outside, we just had to give up after (probably) a few hours. That is one thing I will never claim to recall even to this day.. how much time something took.
My point is it's really nice to remember days being nice just for no reason at all, and if Ethan's memory is anything like mine he'll just have a bunch of nice thoughts of beautiful weather. Like when it smells like Summer is coming. I usually have to have something specific happen. My other point is that I really do remember the names and likeness of every best friend I've ever had. Other than family members my memory backward ends with a best friend in pre-school named Jenny.. we mainly got in trouble for talking and I got called saucy. Saucy! I mean it's true but how was I supposed to know what that meant? I even had a best friend in grade one named Valine until she moved away, and then I'm not sure I had any one particular best friend for a long time. I have also never since met anyone else on earth named Valine.. which I think is an element on the periodic table. Fun fact: Wes' cute mother was the lunch monitor in grade school. Years and years later, she offered me a blowjob shot at a backyard party and I was scarred inside. Growing up is so fun when parents embrace it, isn't it? I hope to be as cool, you know, without embarrassing anyone.
My point is it's really nice to remember days being nice just for no reason at all, and if Ethan's memory is anything like mine he'll just have a bunch of nice thoughts of beautiful weather. Like when it smells like Summer is coming. I usually have to have something specific happen. My other point is that I really do remember the names and likeness of every best friend I've ever had. Other than family members my memory backward ends with a best friend in pre-school named Jenny.. we mainly got in trouble for talking and I got called saucy. Saucy! I mean it's true but how was I supposed to know what that meant? I even had a best friend in grade one named Valine until she moved away, and then I'm not sure I had any one particular best friend for a long time. I have also never since met anyone else on earth named Valine.. which I think is an element on the periodic table. Fun fact: Wes' cute mother was the lunch monitor in grade school. Years and years later, she offered me a blowjob shot at a backyard party and I was scarred inside. Growing up is so fun when parents embrace it, isn't it? I hope to be as cool, you know, without embarrassing anyone.
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I was also frequently punished for my saucy nature as a boy. Little did I know I would become a professional saucier, who made and served up sauce for a living. I also enjoy the sauce and still have managed to preserve my innate sauciness to this day - especially when imbibing the brown sauces.
Beautiful weather nonsequitur - crossing Pilgrim Wood field in a late August afternoon, I was struck by a rich golden hue of sunshine, the warmth on my back and the long shadows that appeared before me. As I looked behind me into the deep azure skies of fading summer, sparsely accented by white, wispy cirrus clouds, I knew that these moments were rare and precious and were not submissible in their delicate sentiment to any of the rudebwoys I knew. No homo.
lol Benjamin, have I told your comments how much I love them recently?
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