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January 3rd, 2006

  1. Can I Take This as a Sign for 2006?

    January 3, 2006 by Gail

    On Saturday, the final day of the year, I arrived home and breathed a huge sigh of relief for making it through the snowstorm without incident. I found this in the letterbox:

    December 31, 2005

    Dear David:

    I am pleased to inform you that your name has been drawn as one of our eight “Go for Gelt” winners in the Jewish Community Center’s 2005 Chanukah raffle.

    I thank you for having participated in the Chanukah raffle and I, along with all the JCC staff and the Board of Directors, wish you a very happy Chanukah.

    Enclosed is your check for $100.

    Sincerely,

    Edward M. Basan
    Executive Director

    I laughed. I could practically hear David guffawing along with me. This is so bizarre (and note the date of the letter is the same as the delivery date?). Not to mention I have no idea how David could’ve participated in such a raffle, since he stopped going to the JCC’s gym facilities years ago.

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  2. David, circa 1988

    January 3, 2006 by Gail

    I tried to find this photo for David’s memorial, to no avail. I finally dug it up today. I think David scanned it from a slide.

    His title: “brooding art student”

    David was in his third year as a Penn State graphic design major. Mullet/hockey hair was all the rage back then. I was in 10th grade, but I remember the fashion!

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  3. David’s Writing: Influencing Others

    January 3, 2006 by Gail

    Community: Hemingway’s Code
    Topic: How to Influence Others

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  4. David’s Writing: Inspiration

    January 3, 2006 by Gail

    I’ve decided to undertake the massive job of archiving David’s posts in the various online communities we shared. There is no index for posts by person, so creating this archive is going to take a very long time. But it’ll be worth it in the end, because I don’t want to lose any of his writing — it was David’s writing, after all, that brought us together in the first place.

    Community: Hemingway’s Code
    Topic: Inspiration

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