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Old 02-21-2023, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by doug.goodman View Post
I yelled "Aaaahhhh!!!" when I saw the box, scaring my parents in the other room.

As I reached for it, and pulled it to me, I turned into a 6 year old hoping that Santa brought me what I asked for, and not something his elves had too much of.

When I opened the box and saw the ball for the first time in 23 year I was swept over by supreme giddy happiness similar to that felt by 16 year old girls who get to touch the ends of their favorite teen-idol singer's shirt as he passes by... or the screaming girls outside the Beatles limo in the early / mid 60s).
That's awesome. Deep down did you think for 23 years that your life was a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle but you only had 499 pieces?
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