By Howard Aronson
I dated a girl long time ago who is not in the cards if you can believe that. She wasn't that sentimental. And I think it's ironic that me being a writer I used to like to buy her cards because I felt the words inside with different than things that I could write in a sense. She did like flowers though, what girl doesn't. So I would buy a card from time to time and she would wait to open them or sometimes she would just open them and put them on the counter but she never put him in a place that I could see it like on a mantle or something like that. I found it strange for such a loving kind girl. We were both in our 30s, and very much in love but for some reason she thought that cards were just too much. Maybe I gave her too many. It's not to say that I didn't ever write songs about her, or lyrics about her if you will, or palms here and there. People say I should have gotten a job at hallmark, but that's not the way I write. What I write is very obscure, abstract at times, in the moment, and usually specific to a situation, thing, or person. It's also about subjects.
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