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   Message 3,590 of 4,149   
   Joe Fineman to All   
   Re: Burmese Days FAQs   
   19 Feb 07 03:09:22   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Omitted from the book:   
      
   Here lie the bones of poor John Flory;   
   His story was the old, old story.   
   Money, women, cards and gin   
   Were the four things that did him in.   
      
   He has spent sweat enough to swim in   
   Making love to stupid women;   
   He has known misery past thinking   
   In the dismal art of drinking.   
      
   O stranger, as you voyage here   
   And read this welcome, shed no tear;   
   But take the single gift I give,   
   And learn from me how not to live.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  The roots of wit and charm tap  :||   
   ||:  Secret springs of sorrow.       :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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