She said: "I don't know where I'm going. I don't know how I got here. I don't know what I want or how I will get it. I don't know where I've been or whether or not I would want to go back there. I have a hard time deciding on anything because I don't have a past that I can rely on. It's all a blur. I guess I just have to start again, but I don't know where."

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She said: "We were just sitting around after dinner, talking and having a drink; the day was cooling off as the sun set and the room filled up with this brilliant light. I had never seen anything like that before. The light was first golden, but then turned bright red. There's a word for this kind of light, but I don't know what it is. I felt so alive at that moment, like the light was giving us more of something, or maybe is was the drinks taking affect. I don't really know if it makes a difference one way or another. I wanted to sit in that red/golden light for the rest of my life, forever, with our friends watching the end of the day."

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She said: "For a long time, he felt that there was something living inside of him. He was not comfortable in his body because he was convinced that there inside of him other than what was supposed to be there. He sometimes felt it hard to breathe for no particular reason. He felt tired some days and was not hungry even though he had not eaten. The worst part were the voices he heard, sometimes arguing, sometimes making love. He went to doctors, but they could find nothing wrong with him. Physically he was in good shape. If only he could evict the others, he felt, then he could be fine again. But the others persisted and stayed and, over time, he became comfortable with them being there. But then, as they aged, the "others" began to become ill and even die inside of him. He mourned for them and wished them well, even though they were foreign to him. But, over time, he began to accept them. Even after it was too late."

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She said: "Isn't it funny that the FUTURE is always more mundane than we think it's going to be. Take, for instance, the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". Wasn't that fantastic? It was such an amazing future that we were shown and the reality is 2009 is not even remotely close. The reality is still people slowly moving around fixing things like the zero gravity toilets and such. Or, think about the vision that President Kennedy had for American; it was radical and wonderful and we would all become our best selves and then Vietnam happened and the shooting that killed him and the dream and then all of the violence that followed about the war and about race and about Women's issues and gender issues and all the rest. The future always starts out looking real good, and ends up being just the mess we make it."

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She said: "This is the way it happens, I think: Every so often a distant star up in the heavens dies. You know, everything eventually dies, even stars. Well, with stars, right before they die, they caste off the best part of themselves; they caste off their intelligence, and this intelligence travels great distances in the void of space, looking for a place to land and grow. Sometimes it lands here, on Earth. All you have to do is pick up a history book and you can identify pretty quickly the places were "star smarts" have made their way to us. It's only happened a few times, but they kind of stick out. Like, out of the mire of poverty and slavery and all kind of wars and diseases and pain and death there comes a period where everything gets better for everyone, all at once. That's the star intelligence working its magic here. People call it a miracle, but its really the star stuff. But it doesn't last forever. You know the Humans start working real hard to mess things up again. But if you're patient and you last long enough, you can tell that the dying stars are helping us out again. I'm hoping that I can live long enough to see it happen again. We sure could use some of that intelligence right now. We surely could."

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He said: "It was a house on fire. I'd never seen anything like it before. The sky lit up with a red glow and the smoke made it hard to breathe. The heat was not to be believed! I felt like I, myself, would soon go up in smoke. Seemed like the whole neighborhood was out watching from as close as they dared get. It didn't take long for the whole house to begin popping and crackling and snapping and spitting out flame, and then, in a woooosh, it fell into itself, little by little. The roof sagged and then there were some more "pops" and it was gone. God, I sure hope there wasn't anyone in there."

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She said: "In America you everything is for sale. You can buy anything in America. Everywhere you go, even to a gas station, there are many things to buy. When I came here I could not understand why it was so much like my home. The same things that were for sale in my country where also for sale here. There were a lot of cute things to buy, but also food things that I recognized and many other things that I had never seen anywhere before. Besides the things that I knew, there were millions of things here that were new to me, and not all of it was good. I suppose that is why the U.S. is such an important world leader; there is so many things to buy."

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He said: "I don't know what he was talking about; he just went on and on, some kind of rant or other. Something about the Government and them taking his rights away or something. He got all red in the face and he was screaming so hard that there was spit coming out of his mouth and he was spaying it on everyone around him. I thought he was nuts, myself, but soon enough other people started in yelling too. None of them wanted to have no God Dam health insurance. That's a quote. It took me a bit to figure out what all the noise was about. You can image my surprise, I'm sure, when I tell you it was about Health Insurance. I'd never, in my whole life, heard of anything so lame. Why would anyone in their right mind not want to have Health Insurance. Good God, without it, you'd be bankrupt if you got the flu or anything. You sure wouldn't want to break a limb without it. But these folks didn't care. They didn't want it at any price at any time. It sounded like they didn't need the Federal Government that much either. I've heard that one before. Lots of people don't think we need to be governed as long as they have a gun or two, but this here was just crazy stuff."

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She said: "Recovery! I don't know what they're talking about, "Recovery". There ain't never any "Recovery" 'round here. There ain't never no change. It been this way as far as I can remember. Born poor, die poor. That's just the way it is. Look around here. You see anything that a soul could in all good faith call a "Recovery"? You see it? I sure enough don't see nothing of the kind. My people here don't need no recovery. We're used to things being hard. That's all we every known. That's the lot that was given us. We make due. Have to. What's other choice is there? When that "Recovery" finds it way down here, well, that sure will be something. I'll be ready for it. We all be ready for it, so bring it on, your "Recovery"

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He said: "On Hell! They're still touring? I can't believe it. Why? Surely they have enough money. It can't be for the money. They made millions in the 60s and 70s. Millions! Why on earth would they want to get back on the road for. What do they have to prove? Nothing! So, I just don't get it, I guess. I was, and still am, I guess, one of their biggest fans. When I was young, I followed them around the country when they toured, which was like "Always". I loved everything they did. They could play all night, all day, without really any break, forever. It was the closest thing I could think of to being like a gypsy or something. If I ever had a fantasy for being in a band, it was their band. But, dude, that was a long time ago already. I just can't believe it, that their on the road again. I hope they don't die."

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She said: "Oh, she was such a fine vocalist. When she sang, my heart bled; I swear it did. She sang from her very center; her soul; and when she sang, it was like she was singing for me, just for me. I went to see her perform as often as I could. I did'nt care, if I couldn't get someone to take me, I just took myself. This was one of the reasons I put up with living in the city. If I had to drive in to city every time I wanted to do something, I would have gone crazy by now. Oh, I can see her now, in my mind's eye when I close my eyes. If I'm at home, I have the Hi-Fi on and she is right there with me. She kept me whole, I'm telling you. She had everything: a voice that could melt ice or burn down the house; she was beautiful: dark but not too dark, with that sultry look that men liked so much. The only thing that she could have done better is she could have stayed away from the drugs. It she could have done that, she would have lived longer and there would have been more of her music to hear, and to cry over in the cold night and to then put me down to sleep."

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He said: "They are two of the most important people in my life: my wife and my sister. It is always the women, don't you think, who pull it all together and then keep it that way. Women are just not as stupid as men are. Men act from their balls, but women use their head and the result is, I think, that they have a better life. They live longer than men. Why do you think that is? I'll tell you: I just told you! Men are like bulls and just charge while the women hang back, take in the story, then make their move. That's why they outlive us. They're just smarter."

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She said: "I am a Deacon in The Church of That's Awsome, OK, Cool and we have members all over the country; mostly in urban areas, but, really, all over. We gather in various places to chill and hang out and, you know, just be. That's really what The Church of That's Awsome, OK, Cool is about. We're not, you know, political or anything. We don't, you know, "GO" to church. Church comes to us! How cool it THAT? I'm leaving for Burning Man tomorrow. That should be great. I've never gone before, but for us Awsome, OK, Cool church officials it's a must see/must do. I am SO excited! So, like, we'll meet up with other church members and we'll hang out and just BE! and it will be great. You should join us. We're on Face Book. Why don't you "friend" us?"

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