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It's Jesse's birthday today. He was born the same
year and day as my childhood best friend Chet.
I last spoke with Chet a year ago. Kinda sad. A couple of weeks ago, Jesse
gave me some orange crate stickers after he cleaned out his old Toyota for
quick cheap sale. I'm sending this one as a postcard to my 10-year-old niece
who likes horses. I wrote:
Dear Sarah,
Never trust a knight. They wear armor because folks are out to get them.
Why? Because a knight's job is to increase and protect the stolen wealth
of kings. The horse would rather have nothing to do with it.
Adria came over in the afternoon to work on LaBrat fashions with
Sarah. Then we met Craig at Blue C for happy hour, where I freaked people
out by slipping aviator glasses over my John Kerry mask
and sipped gin and tonic through a swizzle stick. To our delight, Jesse and
Linda were there with Jesse's parents (in from Colorado). I put the mask
on again for them and did a little dance. Then Adria, Craig, Sarah and I
went home and laughed our heads off watching a legal bootleg of TEAM AMERICA
which a family friend purchased in South Korea. |