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Unlucky

knew a young man when i was a young man whose life had been screwed from the get-go/HEWA SADRIFTINTHATWAYTHAT SOMEAREWHENYOUCAN LOOKINTOTHEIREYES&SEE THESTARS/HADALLHE NEEDEDHADENOUGHTOGET SOMEGOODSTUFF&YETTHE WEALTHOFSADNESSINHIS EYESGREWTHEMOREYOU CAMETOKNOWHIM/seems his father was a test pilot for the us of a & a company who spends money to buy congressmen & presidents in order to get more wars started in order to make more bombs in order to sell them so that taxpayers can buy them so people they never meet in person can be obliterated in their name/HEWASUNLUCKY THEDAYTHATTHEYTOLD HIMTOGOUPINABRAND SPANKIN’NEWRIDESAYIN’ THATITWASSAFEKNOWING HE’DDONEITAMILLIONTIMES BEFOREBUTYASEETHEY WERELYING/YESITISTRUE YOU’REGOVERNMENTLIES TOYOUEVENIFYOUHAVE TESTFLOWNPLANESBEFORE SOTHATTHEYCANGOTO OTHERCOUNTRIES&BOMB THEMINTOASH/what happened next anyone could see coming a mile away for the plane stayed in the air for less than a few min. & down it came killing the dad of the guy i knew & leaving a mother & son now without the man they loved so much/AND WHATFOLLOWEDWASALONG LAWSUITINWHICHTHEYOUNG MAN’SMOTHERWHOHADJUST RECENTLYPASSEDTHEBAR FILEDAGAINSTTHEUSGOVIN ORDERTOGETSOMEKINDOF “JUSTICE”ASIFITEVEREXISTED INTHISLIFE/SOTHEMONEYCAME &THETWOOFTHEMDIDN’THAVE TOWORRYABOUTMUCH FINANCIALLYAFTERTHATBUT ONTHEDAYHETOLDMETHESTORY HESAIDWITHATEARINHIS BLOODSHOTEYES/”i would give every penny of it back, just to have my father still alive.”

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Date: 5/9/2012 4:39:00 AM
Andrew I absolutely adore this for a number of reasons, I love the story per se, the way you have set it out makes the reader slow down, it keeps you in the moment till the very end, it is a very imaginative pieace of work, and probably the best I have read this week so far, very well done..going to my fav for all the stated reasons..David
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