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- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!li
- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Re: A Little Light
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.191727.10529@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <1992Nov13.185039.15139@data-io.com> <1992Nov23.010520.28759@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:17:27 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov23.010520.28759@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
- >> [Liralen:]
- >>Quietly she says, "Hey, DM. Can you tell me about what the Australian
- >>summer is like now? I could use a little of it... the days here are now so
- >>short that I wake up when it's dark and don't get home from work until it's
- >>dark, again. And it's rained for about four days straight... It's only
- >>going to get worse, in a while."
- >
- >Danger Mouse smiles at Liralen. "Well, it's a few days early, but I
- >suppose I can make a special effort just for you."
-
- She smiles back and says softly, "Thanks." And, tired as she is, she
- watches and feels with a singular intensity.
-
- [DM also takes out a tape of his descriptions from the year before.]
- >With a grin he takes a seat beside Liralen and gives her hand a squeeze
- >as they watch....
-
- She sighs softly and sits back, shoulder to shoulder with Danger Mouse and
- happily absorbs the summer, the bush. She leans forward at the fire,
- frowning a little, but it's only a tape. And then relaxes again with
- Danger Mouse on the porch with the setting sun and the coolness of the
- lemonade. She breaths in the warmth and the scents of the beginning of
- summer, and smiles softly.
-
- "Thank you, DM, I needed that..."
-
- --
- Liralen Li | "... and how you feel can make it real | - _US_
- aka Phyllis Rostykus | Real as anything you've seen | Peter
- li@Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream." | Gabriel
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