Tag: people
member name: Christopher Cole
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May 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
When I was seventeen I met an incredible person who was to become my mentor and my best friend. His name was Frank and he was the most Christian person I had ever met. Ironically, he had little . . .
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September 18, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
My guardian angel is small only ten inches tall
With silky long hair and patches everywhere
Her two inch legs bend at the knee
Her ten pound body full of . . .
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September 21, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
I gazed into her soft green eyes and cried
Such beauty I never knew within could reside
The sweetest fragrance my heart did receive
Throughout my soul her essence did breathe
The warmest emotion my . . .
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February 18, 2008 12:33 PM EST --
The mid-winter wind blew icy cold against the window pane.
As I splashed water upon my face
to begin my morning ritual - there she was on my bathroom mirror,
scampering across its edge . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
Our Love ...
Our Love is a red red rose
A hope held tight within it's folds
A winding river throughout our souls
A tide pounding upon the shore
An anchor on the . . .
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June 26, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
I drive the twenty miles to work where I live in Pennsylvania along some beautiful country roads. When school is back in swing I have to remember to stop for school buses. Early in the past . . .
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October 13, 2007 07:17 AM EDT --
Who Am I...
I am a child who was battered
I am a kid with learning disorders
I am an adolescent who lost his best friend to suicide
I am a young man who loved deeply and lost
I am a seminarian who . . .
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May 14, 2008 10:30 AM EDT --
Goodbye Cruel World!
"Goodbye cruel world" - That was the caption on the framed cartoon I viewed in the bathroom of one of the apartments in our farmhouse, some fifty years ago. . . .
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June 01, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
I caught your reflection again last night.
Perhaps you have always been there
Buried deep in my thoughts,
Hidden and tucked away
In a room I seldom visit.
Though I often . . .
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June 05, 2008 04:38 PM EDT --
I grew up in East Irvington New York. I was the oldest of eight children and my family was poor. My father was in and out of work and had a mean disposition. He often exploded and beat mom, the . . .
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January 03, 2008 06:05 PM EST --
I had my first colonoscopy seven years ago at fifty years old. My dad had colon cancer, and I was at risk. It took all my nerve to set up an appointment. I was very afraid and repulsed by the descripton . . .
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September 25, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
After his grandmother’s death, life with Gerald’s father got even worse. He seemed to have violent mood swings and would often lash out at Gerald and his younger siblings, and especially his . . .
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October 21, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
If you had to answer this question what would you say?
Happiness is_ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
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November 18, 2007 10:04 PM EST --
Just the other day I was sitting in my doctors examining room staring into the full length mirror on the wall, when I took note of my face. I examined the scar which ran across the bridge of . . .
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August 11, 2008 05:04 AM EDT --
I came to Woodstock to Die in 1969 - an angel saved my life....
I knew it would happen. It's 3:am in the morning and I can't sleep. I'm thinking about the trip I made back to Bethel NY . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:58 AM EST --
I wrote this response to an article written on an association against helping the autistic:
Listen brother, I had autism as a kid. I still suffer the aftermath with rare and isolated bouts of . . .
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October 07, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
Forty years have I stumbled forward in vain,
Weighed down by indifference and mediocrity.
Adrift in the glare of self pity and inactivity.
A mechanical being devoid of sympathy.
Squinting in the bright . . .
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October 07, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
After a prolonged conversation with an angry thirty- something young man and in an attempt to understand his animosity toward my own generation I transcribed his feelings into this . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
First let me say I have enjoyed the sandwhich which made Philly famous since I came to this town twenty years ago. However, I ate my very last Philly cheesesteak on Saturday afternoon. . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
I had a rough start in the beginning. I did not begin to read until much later than most (fifth grade). I sat squarely somewhere upon the autistic spectrum. I was intimidated and overwhelmed by . . .
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