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Saturday, June 1, 2019

A Half Century Ago...

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Moi — in my college ID photo.


Those were the days, huh?


I still can't believe that I kept my college ID card.  But I did.

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    1. Actually, when this photo was taken, I hadn't even been out on a date and didn't even know how to flirt!

      I think that I looked sultry because I was so nearsighted.

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    2. Good looking young virgins ripe for conquest have a unique appeal that can't be duplicated in more experienced young women.

      };^)>

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    3. Fertlility and assured paternity represent a unique appeal? Gold and Power don't represent another?

      Hmmmm.... ;)

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    4. Ed,
      Looks like trouble....

      Appearances can be deceiving. In all the years that I was in school, I was focused on my studies. As a result, I barely had time to breathe.

      That said, in the final semester of my senior year, I did have quite a round with a prince from some Middle Eastern country. By that statement, I mean that he was pursuing me everywhere. Stalking me, really. He kept proclaming that I would go to the Middle East with him and be a part of his harem. Must have been my red hair and green eyes.

      I finally insulted him badly enough that he left me alone -- and quit attending the one class we had in common.

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    5. Franco,
      What a sultry young siren you were!

      If I was, I was unaware of it. I had been mercilessly teased in high school and thought I was unattractive.

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  2. _________ A Hard Truth _________

    Do most old women stop enjoying sex
    Once the saggy baggy phase sets in?
    Could any potent male regard these wrecks
    As outlets for the joys of carnal sin?
    Lechery in randy ancient goats
    Arises at the thought of flesh still fresh ––
    Softly rounded curves and slim white throats
    No too long departed from the creche.
    Ironic that old pussies cracked and wizened
    Still dream of ardent service from Fair Youth,
    But no matter how these crones appear bedizened
    ‘Tis just their cash that lures, –– and that’s the truth!
    The resource that sustains best when we’re old
    Is found in vaults replete with jewels and gold.

    ~ FreeThinke pretending to be a lecherous old cynic with tongue-in-cheek

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    1. Franco,
      Do most old women stop enjoying sex
      Once the saggy baggy phase sets in?


      NO!!!

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    2. I KNOW that only too well from bitter experience..

      One of the many great ironies of life!

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    3. Franco, That poem is a jewel and I gave me a good morning laugh.

      Your artistry is enhanced by your refusal to second-guess or self-censor.

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    4. Gee thanks, old friend! I have to give Robert Frost a good deal of credit, hpwever, for what i came up with here was directly inspired by his Provide Provide, which you should get to know, if you don't already.

      I have to admit I was a litle afraid "someone" would take offense, and asume I meant it as an insult to AOW, bu I know darned well SHE wouldn't feel tha way, bcause we know eachother too well, so I decided to post it anyway.

      Glad you caught the wry humor in the spirit I'd hoped to elicit.

      CHEERS!.

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    5. ________ Provide, Provide ________
       
      The witch that came (the withered hag)
      To wash the steps with pail and rag,
      Was once the beauty Abishag,

      The picture pride of Hollywood.
      Too many fall from great and good
      For you to doubt the likelihood.

      Die early and avoid the fate.
      Or if predestined to die late,
      Make up your mind to die in state.

      Make the whole stock exchange your own!
      If need be occupy a throne,
      Where nobody can call you crone.

      Some have relied on what they knew;
      Others on simply being true.
      What worked for them might work for you.

      No memory of having starred
      Atones for later disregard,
      Or keeps the end from being hard.

      Better to go down dignified
      With boughten friendship at your side
      Than none at all. Provide, provide!

      ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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  3. I keep asking, where did the time go...it seemed like only yesterday. Oh what a winding road its been. All in all, glad I did it.. :)

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    1. ___ SUNRISE, SUNSET ___

      Where is little girl I carried?
      Where is the little boy at play?

      I don't remember growing older
      When did they?

      When did she get to be a beauty?
      When did he grow to be so tall?

      Wasn't it only yesterday
      When they were small?

      Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset
      Swiftly flow the days
      Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
      Blossoming even as we gaze

      Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset
      Swiftly fly the years
      One season following another
      Laden with happiness and tears

      What words of wisdom can I give them?
      How can I help to ease their way?

      Now they must learn from one another
      Day by day

      Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset
      Swiftly flow the days
      Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
      Blossoming even as we gaze

      Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset
      Swiftly fly the years
      One season following another
      Laden with happiness and tears.


      ~ Jerry Bock - Fiddler on the Roof

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  4. I have to agree with Franco. Aloof and alluring. I bet you got pestered a lot by the guys.

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    1. SF,
      I bet you got pestered a lot by the guys.

      Not really. I've been told all these years later by the guys who knew me way back that they called me brainy behind my back. I had no idea about that back in the day. Besides, my father had the reputation of being protective of his only child. Northern Virginia was "small town" back when I was in high school, and everybody knew everybody else or knew of everybody else.

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  5. No date by college? What's wrong with guys? I hear it's even worse now. Nice pic.

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    1. Kid,
      I went to a very small high school with a total of 20-25 students for the entire high school. The pickings were slim. Besides, I had announced when I was in first grade that I would not date until I was 16 years old. I was -- and still am -- the kind of person that keeps my word.

      BTW, I graduated high school a few months after I turned 16. Then, when I got to college, even with all those guys around, the pickings were slim, IMO. In my college years, I dated only one of the guys that attended the college where I was enrolled -- and I went out on that date on a whim and decided that he was a loser.

      I did date in college, but never one of the men who attended that college.

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  6. What a fun share! A few months ago I also found a college ID when I was rummaging through a drawer. What a shock! You look lots better than I did.

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  7. You look like a challenge. Not many men are up to that.

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    1. It's always lonely at the top, ain't it, Ed?

      };^)>

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    2. Ed,
      A challenge? I suppose so. I do have a strong personality -- an alpha.

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    3. AOW, I've decided you look most like a Native American Princess –– there's a distinctly ROYAL cast to those features.

      You said your hair was RED, but I can't see it in that particular photo.

      Funny how time changes us, isn't i?

      I looked like a real DORK in high school. I was bookish, besecacled, and a Classical Piano NERD.

      In my thirties through my sixties I was often told I was quite handsome, though I still fund it hard o believe.

      Now that I'm past seventy-five I can hardly stand to look in the mirror to comb my hair anymore, so depressing has the view become.

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    4. Ah the poor kitty!

      That could never have been YOU, Kid.

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    5. I looked exactly like that in 7th grade Franco.

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