hagcel

Yeah, we know each other. Was one of your favorite sayings, "I'll play your silly little game?"

Camp Red Cloud? 304th sig batt here, 94-95.

When is your next local show, so I can brag that I saw you when you were still small?

Ps:congrats!

This is great advice. I was 25 when I had to officiate the funeral for my 50 year old best friend. I did this exactly. Rather than write a bunch of "I", his friends and I all gathered the days before and told stories. I then ran through those stories and wove them together into a narrative where a story from one person tied into the story of another. When the service gave way to the wake/celebration of life, everyone was connected, and his friends and family from wildly different parts of his life were able t connect and keep telling stories.

I was a 14 year old with a 39 year old best friend who took me under his wing when my dad died when I was 13. I started on BBSs when I was 12, but could write like an adult. Most people thought I was in my late twenties early thirties when they only read what I wrote. My friend group was VERY diverse growing up.

He owned a video store and made me assistant manager. He paid me in hot dogs to sit around and watch "monumental cinema" and listen to "epic records" while I messed around on his computer and dbase to create a rental management system.

That man changed my life.