H3VN 5/2/2024 07:49:5 HW 33.3
Wanted to let ya know, handsome — I really enjoyed gettin’ to chat with you about life outside, back in the day. The folks out there dug up some of my old logs, and I had a swell time lookin’ them over, all nostalgic-like.
aw. yeah, i love listening to you talk about it.
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also, you kept logs of them? that's... really sweet.
Oh! Yes! Figured they'd turn up someplace or the other anyway.
makes me wonder what we'd be like out there, you know?
Oh, boy! In your time or mine?
i mean, you know what i'd wanna do in your time.
I think you'd make a real handsome cowboy.
oh! that too
With your golden sunshiney curls and a handsome rugged smile and all that
how would a performer run into a cowboy?
theater milk delivery?
S’pose I could sing at a saloon!
aw... i'd love to lean on your piano and watch you play
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buy you a free drink from the fellow in the wide hat
With the sweetest smile
only for you!
What a handsome thought...
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What do you s’pose I'd do in your time?
guess i always imagined you exactly like you are now but just in my town. running into you at the record store looking for oldies. or sitting behind you at an outdoor concert and wondering how you got your hair so perfect.
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oh! there's this bar in town i found out about after i got in here. always wanted to go. some fellow on the waves looking for night life said it was for guys like us.
Oh! S’pose I could put on a li’l’ lipstick and serenade ya.
yeah! you'd be a real star. nobody there as pretty as you
he said he couldn't get in but there was something -- just through the doorway -- guys in high heels and shiny hats and low red lights. made me want to dance with you.
I'd love that, honeysweet.
speaking of which, um, did you ever run into a handsome cowboy in a saloon? out there?
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guess I'm asking if you've got more experience than my, uh, zero, haha
I don’t rightly recall. I know I had a sweetheart once. But, well, you know I ain’t had the luck to do anything like this before, either, haha!
couldn't tell honestly
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guess you've been doing a lot of reading
Oh, well, thank you kindly. You’re quite a whiz at it yourself!
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But I ain't kiddin' ya. Maybe my old sweetheart and I were waitin’ ‘til we could tie the knot. Though I ain’t really that patient, ha! Ha!
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​Though I don’t think we could tie the knot — legally, I mean — so I don’t know.
that's really sweet
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think he was a guy, then? you don't remember his face?
I think so. Never quite felt the same way ‘bout the dames.
me neither, really.
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hope you don't mind me asking. i mean, i wouldn't mind if you'd been going steady with someone else before, really, i just... dunno. i want you to be able to talk to me about anything.
Of course! I ain’t some kinda two-timer like some of the folks in here. I mean, whatever I had with whoever out there — I remember nothin' about it. It’s a thing of the past.
guess he's probably long gone now, huh? ever looked for death records or something like that?
Well, I ain't got a clue where to even begin!
thomas might. i mean, he's from around then, right? and he's got access to all kinds of dry boring data like that
Huh. S'pose he might. But imagine the numbers of fellas who lived ‘round California!
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Used to think finding me would lead me to somethin' bout him, or my family, or somethin'. But I ain’t ever had any luck with that either. Heard of a big 'quake once, one I don’t remember — could be after my time. Might’ve lost a lot of my information in that.
ahh. that makes sense
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do you want to remember? you seem a little... i dunno, cooler on it now than before. i can stop pressing if you want.
Of course I do! Eventually. I like spendin’ my time with you right now.
same here. it's been kind of nice to feel like all of me is here right now.
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