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Dialogue with my muse |
JOE: Good morning Calliope. CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How are you today? JOE: Still wading through my time line. I just finished writing about my early twenties. CALLIOPE: Any new discoveries? JOE: I think my realization about not having close high school friends influenced my relationships after leaving the seminary. CALLIOPE: How so? JOE: I was lonely and desperate to have a girl friend. Since I had no experience in relationships with girls as most boys do in high school, I was like a fish out of water. CALLIOPE: How did it end up? JOE: Not very well. My first date was set up by a friend who also left the seminary. She turned out to speak no English and my Polish was nonexistent. CALLIOPE: Did it get better? JOE: I met a nutty girl and one who turned out to be mentally ill. CALLIOPE: No one in their right mind? JOE: One, but for only for a single date. She was a lovely girl, and we resonated well. Unfortunately she lived in the country, I had no car and could not get to her on my own. The person we relied on for a ride had no sense of what we both wanted and liked to tell jokes and drink in bars. It just didn't work. CALLIOPE: Sorry to hear that. Do you think these experiences influenced your writing? JOE: I think so but that's another story. Talk with you tomorrow. |