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Richard Derus is 49% done

It was Yule, whose enchantments struck deeper even than the Nativity Story.
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My mother's fake christianity vanished completely at Yule. Every inch was decorated, the tree had a literal thousand lights, the ornaments are with my right now and treasures I'll have no matter how long I live. This sums that beautiful memory up.

— Dec 19, 2020 01:51PM

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Richard’s Previous Updates

Richard Derus is 88% done

Are you ever prepared for the worst?

— Dec 19, 2020 05:50PM

Richard Derus is 81% done

There are many things we don't understand in life until it's almost too late. Vince figured one out early. Now the changes will ring in. It being the 1940s, I don't expect them to be good.

— Dec 19, 2020 05:33PM

Richard Derus is 73% done

That's it, right here is where the *awful* truth about the way people go tribal makes me want to puke my guts out.

And even though this is the 1940s, very very little has changed.

— Dec 19, 2020 04:54PM

Richard Derus is 64% done

Oh, Ardo. How cruel we are as young people. You knew and you said it anyway.

At my very advanced age, the very few things that can make me wince about my past are the moments when I was cruel to those who didn't earn it.

— Dec 19, 2020 04:29PM

Richard Derus is 56% done

The most beautiful, the most brutal, the most sacred, the most evil.

When you know, you're just going to feel it all...and "all" really means all. All.

— Dec 19, 2020 02:27PM

Richard Derus is 48% done

Now the price comes due: Clarence knew about Glen and Vince; probably was the same, only about Andy; now the Falls mythology is enriched and the whole town sees that there's been An Accident. Such a perfect small-town moment. Perfect.

— Dec 19, 2020 01:38PM

Richard Derus is 38% done

Small-town football in the South, the glories of being In The Moment (the flow state that psych folk speak of), Glen and Vince in love, Arden not too interested because Sherry but Tilden's twigging.

— Dec 19, 2020 01:07PM

Richard Derus is 37% done

Time to get this sucker done...been too long!

— Dec 18, 2020 08:00PM

Richard Derus is 36% done

Also brutal but in a different way; and Vince being Vinny every so often for no obvious reason is workin' my nerve.

— Jun 25, 2019 09:56PM

Richard Derus is 30% done

That was harrowing. So many very bad memories.

— Jun 24, 2019 07:33PM