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Submitted by Splash! on February 16 2002 21:11:58
In reply to Artistic Compatability submitted by J on February 16 2002 13:30:04
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your young friend seems like quite the dancer, while mine loved to act. I think that was one of the reasons he and I were so compatible, our artistic natures. He was a natural at memorizing lines - we would come home from watching Titanic (can't remember how many times we went to see it) and act out portions of the movie. I'm also into music, and he loved to work with my computer music composition program and fool around on my electric guitar. My young friend was also a phenomenal actor. Actually, it's kind of how we first started to get close to each other -- he was in one of the plays I helped direct. I helped him with his lines. And then the next year, he was in another one of my plays. And the year after that, I practically begged him to play the lead role in another play, but he declined because he had so much going on (plus, he didn't like my co-director). He's been acting all his life. He volunteered to play a very big role in a middle school play. All the other kids looked nervous in their roles, but he was as relaxed as could be -- walking back and forth at the front of the stage, looking out at the audience, stopping, thinking, talking at the audience. He was incredible. At the end of the play, he was the only kid to get a standing ovation with lots of people yelling out his name, whistling, and clapping. He never was much into my computer music program, besides playing around with the keyboards. I had always hoped he'd want to write some songs with me. He did sing some songs for me, and I recorded him. But I only heard him really sing once. He has a beautiful voice but is too shy to let anyone hear it. Last year he wrote a song with his friends and rapped on it. I guess he's done more since then. For Christmas one year, I bought him a very nice electric guitar, and he started to get pretty good at it. I wonder if he still has it. I'm afraid to ask. I'm not even sure if I'll ever see him again. In this way, I can feel your pain. But it was a beautiful thing to be around someone like him -- to love him and be loved by him. He was so brilliant. I trust God that everything will work together for Good in The End. Splash |
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