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Shakesthecoffecan:
I read just now that Armisted Maupin has a new book comming out next year, centered on one of his maine characters from the Tales of the City series. Michael Tolliver will be a 55 year old long term HIV survivor with a 34 year old boyfriend. Looking forward to that read.

Shakesthecoffecan:
A while back I posted about listing a house for sale, inherited by a childless widow who was having to stand what she couldn't fix. Well, the house sold, amen, thank you I will now have the $$$ to go to Boston for the brokeback get together there and seen New Hampshire and Maine.

She came in to sign the papers this morning, still going on and on and on and on and on and on about this that and the other think, each sentance on my part eliciting a paragraph on her part about some aspect of something. She told me in the middle of it all "It would do no good to get mad about it, I would only be hurting myself". Yes, she was right, I can't remember the circumstances, but I think that thought is applicable in many situations.

I escaped later to lunch at a small place down town run by Christians, they play Christian music and sell family bibles at the counter. They do have good food and a friendly staff, so I don't mind the rest. I heard my name being called and was happy to see an old co-worker of mine (yet, town full of them) who now works for the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She handled my order for the Ennis and Jack Memorial Brick. Never said a word about it but went out of her way to be nice to me. She knows. 

Shakesthecoffecan:
My partner has a mostly Shelty famale dog named Lady, actually his son's dog, but his son lives in another city now. She is about 15 years old as near as anyone can figure. When I first met lady 9.5 years ago she ran away from me. She was the most frightened dog I had ever seen. I took nine months before she would let me touch her.

There are few pictures of her, wherever anyone trys to take one she flees when she sees the camera raise up. If you even bring you hand to your eye she flees, I theorize as a puppy she may have been shot at.

My partner told me she appeared in his Aunts back yard, and after they caught her she went to the SPCA where she was fixed and adopted by them, in 1991. Before I met her she had her hind leg accidentally run over by him, and still walks with a limp, made worse now by arthur.

Her hearing is almost totally gone, but she can see well and there is nothing wrong with her sniffer. A couple of years ago she was attacked by a wild animal that clawed at her head, permanently damaging her ear. She had a long recuperation indoors where she bitterly shreded all plastic she could get her mouth on. She healed, and bravely goes about her self appointed duty, patrolling her territory to make sure it is free of unauthorized animals, totally missing the family of kittens under the tarp. I see her in the mornings, peering down the drive way, always on guard from predators, seen and unseen, that may try to slip in. She has no animal friends there, but has loved the series of dogs my partners parents have had over the years.

But my favorite image of Lady is how she will come out to meet me when I go over, hauling herself up and teetering out to the driveway as I turn around. She stands there like Mrs. Twist standing on the porch as her visitor arrives, and moves to the driverside door to soak up the attention I give her, hoping I will brush the shedding fur from her coat with the brush I imagine must remind her of her mother's tongue. I stroke the underside of her jaw: "Hello Lady" I tell her, "blessed art thou amongst dogs".  She is an old girl, her sleep is filled with dreams that make her bark and cry and sometime I fear, it won't be long before she returns into the mystery from which she emerged. 

Arad-3:
What a wonderful, but sad and touching story. I enjoy your writing style.

Shakesthecoffecan:
Oh, I dunno about all that, but thank you.

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