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Meg Oolders's avatar

This was a great ride, Wil. Makes me want to dig into my own music vault and relive the glory days. The grunge era kicked ass, but I didn't really consider why before I read this. It was inclusive. And easy. And it sounded good, too. Everyone was dirty and happy at the same time. Now everyone is just clean and sad.

I'm glad you're still enjoying your coffee beans.

And I'm really glad you don't have ass cancer.

Love you, buddy.

P.S. Congrats again on your publication!!!!

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Wil Dalton's avatar

The beans are the best!

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Maegan Heil's avatar

I learned the opening of Come As You Are on my guitar that I picked out that my dad bought me for my birthday that hangs on my wall that I sometimes take down to play than put back up because nine years later it still needs new strings.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Nice sentence. Let me guess, you also read that Spin profile of Sonic Youth and how they played their guitars with found objects like drills and you thought maybe a coat hanger between the strings would make a cool noise? At least, until you moved from open chords to scales? But when you slid the metal coat hanger into your guitar you snapped that high E? Man, that’s the worst.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

No, I was too busy adding reverb to my voice track on the album I made for a boy that had dumped me in an attempt to win him back, who after receiving my cd, did not undump me, but instead shared it with way too many of my small town classmates, who have hopefully all by now forgotten.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Oh no, oh my, oh lol.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Reverb is the way.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

lol. Voice lessons might have been better in my case, hehe.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Lately, I really dig these lack of periods paragraphs. So unlike my recently published story, which I must graciously thank you for promoting! When I read it now, I wonder, why so many short sentences? Why didn’t I use commas? At any rate, in my next post, I intend to give you a proper hat tip for advising me on the appropriate POV vis-a-vis periods.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

I am gravitating towards longer sentences lately too. Must be the Aimee Bender in me.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

you never need to hat tip me.

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