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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #686
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`888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8
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888 888 888 888 888 "The Importance Of Friendship"
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8
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888 888 888 888 888 " by Angel Dust
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 6/14/99
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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When I was a little girl, I had no friends. I had nobody to play
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with, nobody to tell all my secrets. But when I was four or five years old,
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a very special person came into my life. She was my best friend, the friend
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who was always at my side, through good times and bad; she was my imaginary
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friend, Irma.
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Irma taught me the importance of friendship, and I've never forgotten
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that. I think real friendship is about the most valuable thing there is,
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and I would do anything for my friends.
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Irma accepted me exactly as I was. She was pretty and smart and
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nice, and very confident. She was everything I knew I would never be. She
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wasn't even afraid of adults. We would play together by ourselves for hours
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and hours. We would play with my dolls and we would dress up in mom's
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clothes. We never, ever had a single fight, and we trusted each other with
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our most important secrets. My mom and dad thought Irma was really cute,
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and they let her live with me in my room. Mom would even set a place for
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her at the dinner table.
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But sometimes Irma could be very silly. Once, I remember, she went
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into daddy's wallet when he was fast asleep and took $30. Then she hid the
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money under my mattress. I told my mom that my invisible friend, Irma, had
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taken the money, but Mom didn't believe me. She yelled at me alot. Irma
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got real mad when Mom said she wasn't real, so she collected all these dead
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spiders and cockroaches and put them in Mom's shoes. Mom sure was angry
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when she found them. Irma and I laughed and laughed.
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Irma was my best friend in the whole wide world. We went everywhere
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together. I took her to birthday parties even though she was never invited.
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She went to school with me and during tests she would peek at my neighbor's
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paper and whisper the answers to me. And she always protected me just a
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like a best friend should. Like there was this boy in my school who was
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always teasing me. So one day, Irma tripped him and he fell down two
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flights of steps.
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Irma and I always had so much fun together. When I got older, I
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started going out with boys. Irma didn't mind, she just wanted me to be
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happy. And if a boy I liked didn't like me, Irma would go to his house at
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night and scratch his parent's car. When one boy was really mean to me and
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called me names, Irma tried to set fire to his house. I don't think anybody
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ever had such a good friend.
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When I went to see Dr. Shaw for my headaches, he told me that Irma
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was "a little crazy," and that I should make her go away. But I knew that
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that was not how really close friends treat each other. Real friendship
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means sticking by someone even when they do something you don't like. And
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I'll bet anything that Dr. Shaw stopped thinking that when Irma "fixed" the
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brakes on his car. But I guess no one will ever know what he was thinking
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all the way down that hill.
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When Bobby and I decided to get married, I was afraid Irma would be
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jealous, but she wasn't, she was really happy for me. I told Bobby about
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her right away. I thought Bobby might want her to move out, but he didn't;
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mostly he just pretended she wasn't even there.
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Lately though, Bobby and Irma have become real ggod friends. In
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fact, at night sometimes, Bobby gets all dressed up and tells me, "I'm
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going to take Irma out for a few hours." And then sometimes they stay out
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all night.
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It makes me sad that they leave me out all night, but I don't
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complain. If I was jealous of Irma, I wouldn't really be a very good
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friend. Besides, when Bobby goes out with Irma, my new imaginary friend
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comes to visit. His name is Ted. And he works in the brake repair shop.
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I think Bobby is going to meet Ted soon.
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #686-WRITTEN BY: ANGEL DUST - 6/14/99 ]
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