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Hello From Venus

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  Sunday, June 2, 2024  Posted this to a Rolling Stone article on FB about a member of the US State Dept who had inspired a Neil Young song: Spent years trying to find out what happened to me and about 3 weeks ago I found out. Former ambassador Kurt Tong's favorite song was Rockin' in the Freeworld . The Atlas missile system was the first US ICBM. The Atlas rocket was the first to go to Mars, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus , with the Mariner space program and Pioneer 10 space program. Kurt called once after Dave did when I was living with Dorothy in Florida. It kind of creeped me out a little, because Kurt had never called me before, and I was afraid something might be wrong with Dad. But he was OK. I believe I wrote the words to this other song below about a week after I talked to Dad because they asked me to call him. It was Judy's favorite song. Judy had a dream when she was camping out at Blue's cabin about a man telling her she had to leave who was wearing a green a...
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Boys of Summer

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  - Rolling Stone , Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 Edmund Fitzgerald's wife's name was Elizabeth Fitzgerald . Megan's sister was Liz. She ran cross country in high school as did I and she asked me why I quit and I told her 'to play football'. She asked if I was any good and I asked her if she remembered the football team being undefeated 4 years in a row and she said yes. Then I told her the first game I started as quarterback was the first game of that streak and she screamed. I believe I wrote the lyrics 'remember how you made me crazy remember how I made you scream' based on that after I had driven past Lake Pontoosuck and Wahcoah Park where there was a highschool baseball team practicing before passing Liz's apartment on Center Street in Pittsfield one day. I could be wrong on this one, though because timeline of the song being released according to Wiki was about the time I knew Liz... When Liz was moving back to Williamstown after school I guess ear...
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Kiss Me

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  ​I held Danielle once when she was a baby. ​ ​Danielle went to McCann Tech and became a cosmetologist, but I think she also studied cashiering. She had wanted to be a cashire when she was a child. She became a cashire at Burger King and Aubochon Hardware when I had last talked with her. ​After finishing an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel in the BCC activities office around 1984/85 I was still buzzing from the tastefully elegant spell Fitzgerald's books cast on a reader. Try it if you haven't, it is better than taking drugs. I don't remember which one it was, though. Hmm. Maybe I was taking drugs but just dont remember that either ! It was then that I believe I wrote the lyrics to Sixpence None the Richer's "Kiss Me." there in the office while doing work study. The feeling reminded me of the time Danielle dressed up for Halloween in a pink one-piece bathing suit with gold glitter all over her face, arms, and legs. Just lovely and ethereal, almost like a dream....
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