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the mourning dove people

a whimsical e-mail to a few friends started this phenomenon:

On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, beno yay! burdy! yay! :)beno (bernard lloyd hwang) wrote:

hello comrades:

there was a mourning dove on the railing of my balcony when i got home this evening!!!!  woo ooo ooo ooo ooo....  woo ooo ooo ooo ooo....  wooo oooo oooo oooo oooo....  wooo oooo oooo oooo oooo....  mourning doves are ever so beautiful.  i can tell you that for starters...  woo oooo ooo ooo ooo....  woo ooooo ooo ooo oooo.....  woo ooooo oooo oooo oooo....  woo oooooo oooo oooo oooo....  such a nice mourning burd.  i like.  but is it a bad sign if a mourning dove is on your balcony?  oh well...  i like it.  it was a nice burdy...  but it left...  the stoopid neighbours across from us thought i was spying on them while i was actually watching the burdy...  they got all panicked and closed all the windows and blinds...  oh well...

thank you for listening,
benobeno

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"catching a cold is quick this time     |beno@uclink.berkeley.edu
 but fish?... fish may take a while..." |mail me! please? :)
 -- "a foolish arrangement" - the cure  |
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during that summer and for months afterwards, these strangers / friends / friends-to-be traded stories and poems during their artistic moments and just letters during their busier times.  we worked to death discussions about love and relationships, suppported each other throughout all the academic hardships of uc berkeley, coped with aging into over-the-hill twenty-somethings, and mostly tried to spread a little laughter.  we officially met face-to-face as a group very rarely; e-mail kept us together.

mourning dovers (at some time in their life, to some degree):




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