Wolfgang wrote:
"ah" wrote in message news:xk1qd.545$xk5.35@trnddc09...

Wolfgang wrote:
I never knew any of my grandparents. Sometimes, in one of those rare
reflective moments, I like to think that with the benefit of their
influence
I might have become someone they'd be proud of. That must be a good
feeling.

Well, I knew mine long enough to disappoint them a thousand times, as well
as
bring them joy to a similar (yet thankfully more effectual) degree.

Yeah, life is a mixed bag.

Thankfully *whew*


If you brought your parents joy, so too would you have provided for your
grands.

In my gripping hand, these parents (adoptive, and biological) will know no
grandchildren by me . . . luckily, they have not scolded me for this, as
yet g

I'm afraid I brought very little joy to my parent's lives. However, that's
not entirely my fault......they just weren't very joyful people. As a
matter of fact, there is mounting evidence that it wasn't my fault at all.

Posession, I've heard, is 9/10ths of the Law g

In recent years I've discovered that not only do I have a devoted coterie of
fans here in r.o.f.f. (I like to think of them as the children I never had)
who read with evident joy every word that I write, but people actually
wander over from other news groups just to talk to me. I guess I'm even
luckier than you.

Of this I am glad.

I lay back, now, from talking; to listen.

Can I come back and hollar at you again sometime?
--
ah