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September 07, 2005
Volume 6, Issue 7
Since we've mucked up the theme rotation beyond all comprehension, today's theme is "lost in the woods".
Ted: One Thousand Princes
The abbey bells ringing woke the startled boy. He had been running for weeks now, across steppe and highland, through dark valleys and over forbidding mountains. One thousand boys had been sent to make sure that at least one would get through. One thousand boys all on different paths, but all leading here. The sound of these bells meant that at last he was getting close to his destination, and his destiny. Huddled against the cold of the Tartar winter, no longer a babe lost in the woods, the boy rose from his blankets and ran to claim his crown.
Laurence - Hiking With Grampa
The sun went down, and night approached quickly.
Billy looked at the cheap Cracker Jack sticker and smirked.
"The toys they give out sure suck, right, Grampa?" he asked.
Grampa Fred slumped against a tree and said nothing.
"I guess I shouldn't have let the GPS thingy batteries run down."
Silence.
"If you still smoked, I'd have matches for a fire."
Billy looked at the Quit Smoking gum. He rubbed two sticks of it together and tossed them away.
"If only you hadn't run out of pills…"
Billy stopped. He looked around.
A pill! Another!
He followed the trail home.