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April 9th, 2022 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa Ii

vi. etching, detailing (ala fresco), vii. plus trimming living room ceiling, viii. shingling (while fiddling) on the roof, ix. tiling the kitchen floor, x. building a cistern for brethren, xi. wood paneling many rooms, xii. building custom made toy chest, xiii. stringing up lights to increase visibility driveway lit like Christmas tree after dark, xiv. partly assembled a kayak, xv. retooling - enhancing porch (formerly slate covered), where Morris dancers performed at wedding for eldest sister. xvi. Helping, née completing homework/school assignments. Unlike him who did beget me I experienced cognitive challenges that beset one painfully shy and severely introverted male more to the point as a lad and mediocre student to boot promotion to next highest grade occurred just by the skin of my teeth, which may help to explain why I wear dentures, oh... these choppers worn for about one sixth of mein kampf livingsocial. A sense of inadequacy prevailed, when absolute zero self esteem strikingly and suddenly manifested in tandem when parents moved their young tender family within Lower Providence School District, but into a larger house (initial summer estate constituted about one hundred acres of woodland - named Glen Elm think Winnie the Pooh - house at Pooh corner -). Not quite two score plus ten years spent livingsocial at 324 Level Road (above mentioned abode alluded), and twas there majority mine existential highs and lows, where nadir of mein kampf transpired, I emotionally hit rock bottom upon onset of prepubescence yet major event triggering mine major depression set in motion, when parents chose February 28th, 1968 to move out of shoddily constructed domicile located on Lantern Lane.

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Date: 4/28/2022 4:05:00 PM
Egads,people don't realize that as simple a nest the elusive shy bird builds it is not want to leave it.Got jerked up myself at the age of 14 after struggling to navigate school to be thrust into Warren central high and I (mean )in the wilds of Kentucky.It was there I met the hillbilly who was staying with family in town.After an explosion I can't speak of now I chose to run off with this clown.more later.
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