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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Gene, I am always impressed with your quiet, rational, dare
> I call it wisdom, comments.

Finally, someone confirms what I sensed when I was twelve years old 
and avoided the charms of Darlene, an older woman of sixteen who 
lived in the neighborhood and after much pestering by my 
pre-pubescent but wildly curious buddies announced that she would "do 
it," but only with Genie, as I was then known. Heavy contemplation in 
bed that night convinced me that I would one day be seen as a wise 
fellow or at minimum someone deeply entangled in the complexity of 
life's deeper mysteries. Of course that muse was tempered by knowing 
that the moment was lost because my mother insisted that I stay in to 
wash and dry the dinner dishes. And that I was too afraid of certain 
punishment to simply run out of the house. Which effectively 
precluded my potential awakening.

Thank you for the compliment.