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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
notBastet:
--- Quote from: Lucise on July 16, 2006, 07:44:43 pm ---Here's something to add to our recipe gallery next time .. (for Chocolate Peanut Butter Ellery fans ...) ;)
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cup Pie
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Lucise - thank you for the recipe! I can't wait to try it.
Lumière:
--- Quote from: louisev on July 16, 2006, 08:09:27 pm ---eeek! you guys have got me hungry for ice cream! I havent had ice cream for 9 months!
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That's it!
Let's have an ice-cream party...grab a cone everyone!! ;D
--- Quote from: notBastet on July 16, 2006, 08:16:54 pm ---Lucise - thank you for the recipe! I can't wait to try it.
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Me too! :)
David:
Ok, I just got home. What did I miss? LOL
It must have been 100+ degrees farenheit today!
Fortunately I was at a cookout & Pool party. Picture this, 16 guys in the pool playing vollyball. Trunks versus Skins! LOL, and by 5pm there very few trunks on!
Yee Haa! :laugh:
Sorry ladies and Gents, no photos have turned up. yet!
MaineWriter:
Hee hee hee David, sounds like my kind of pool party...
Do you think Ellery could persuade Ennis to take part in the fun?
L
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: pastorfred on July 16, 2006, 07:28:58 pm ---Ennis Del Mar - On Death and Dying
A few years back the great medical researcher, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the book length study, On Death and Dying.
In the story canon, Ennis passed through four of the five stages of death and dying, which equally apply to grief.
1. Denial: After receiving the "deceased" stamped post card he proceeded to the pay phone, telling himself that Jack would answer the phone - had to answer the phone.
2. Anger: He wanted to curse Lureen for letting Jack die on the dirt road.
3. Bargaining: The trip to Lightning Flat, seeking the ashes and finding the shirts, was a vain attempt to make peace with the reality of Jack's death.
4. Depression: The story ends, leaving Ennis and all of us who care about him, in a state of deep depression over the devastating loss of the love of his life.
The Laramie Saga is the story of Ennis moving into the final stage of grief:
5. Acceptance: In every way Ellery helps Ennis deal with his grief, honoring the love he and Jack shared, and moving into a new love and life.
Ennis and Jack are real archetypes of men who love each other, and so our grief over Jack's death is real. People have to move through the stages of grief at our own rate, in our own time. Those who are still in one of the first four stages of grief as above very much want dear Ennis to stay there to keep them company. The stages of grief are fluid, and we move back and forth among them.
For those who are emotionally hurt by the wars at that other site, I have the following words of advice: Stay out of there (*growl*).
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Fred
I wish you would or could post this over in "the other place." Those folks need to read this. Let's hope they are lurking....
L
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