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From: gapope@vcn.bc.ca
Subject: Love Story (beautiful!)(gets U right >>HERE<<)
Date: 1998/09/19
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This was posted on a local bbs this week... I'm quite sure it wasn't original
to the poster... :)
Any claimants to authorship?  :)

Beautiful work, anyway!  The subtleties in the aging processes are really
something!  :)


-=[ Love Story ]=-

boy meets girl...

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      |  ||        |____|
      |  ||        |____|
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      | ||          | ||
      | ||          | ||
      |_||__        /~))
      (____))      /_/YY

boy and girl fall in love...

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       >  ))    | ||
       | ||     | ||
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       |_||__   /~))
       (____)) /_/YY

boy and girl "tie the knot..."

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       | :||   |:.:.   `~-._
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       (_,__)) /_/YY `':':':':':':`

boy and girl are soon to become parents...
   (boy goes off to work)

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  |         |      |____|
  |_________|       | ||
  |_________|       | ||
      | ||          | ||
      |_||__        /~))
      (____))      /_/YY

boy and girl and baby make three...
   and another on the way...
   (boy loses hair, girl gains fuzzy slippers)

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  |         |     `\   /      ()/___\()
  |_________|       ( ||      ||~~~~~||
  |_________|       | ||      ||     ||
      | ||          | ||      ||     ||
      |_||__      __|_||      ||_____||
      (____))    (:;:;))      ||-----||

boy and girl and their 2.4 children...
   (boy loses more hair- still working
    girl still in fuzzy slippers)

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      | ||          | ||      ||     ||        |||
      |_||__      __|_||      ||_____||       _|||
      (____))    (:;:;))      ||-----||      (___))

boy and girl and their growing family...
  (boy loses more hair, gains paunch...
   girl becomes more "shapely")

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  |~~~`-`~~~|    \~~~~~~|     |/ /_\ \|        ||_|       / ||
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      | ||        ||  |       ||     ||        || |       || |
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      (____))   ((____)       ||-----||      ((___)     ((___)

boy and girl have grown children
    and have earned that "middle-age spread"
     (boy loses even more hair, gains more weight
      girls gets even more "shapelier"...
       and they're still in love!)

                                            |":::\
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    | | |  #|    / | ||         || |@@"     |-| |<     /  \
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    | |_|, /    |  |_|  \       ||=|\       ||_:_/     | ||
     \)))||     |  (((   |      |((( \       || |      | ||
  |~~~`-`~~~|    \~~~~~~~|      |____/       || |      |_||
  |         |     \     /        || /        (( |      | `W
  |_________|      ((  |         (( |        || |      || |
  |_________|      ||  |         || |        || |      || |
      | ||         ||  |         || |        ||=|      || |
      |_||__       ||__|         //^)      __||_|     _||_|
      (____))    ((____)        ((_/Y     ((_____)   ((____)

boy and girl alone again...

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     8      /```|     .@@@@@,     8
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     8     C     _)   aa`@@@@@@   8  \/
     8(\/)  \ ._|    (_   ?@@@@   8
    |8:\/:~:~) /:~:~: =' @@@@~:~:~8
    |8::::::/\\/`\;_:::\ (__::::::8
    |8:::::| \ '|___/` \\// `\):::8
    |8::::|| | '|::/ /  ^ \ \:::8
    |8::::|| | ' \:| \__/\__/ |:::8
    |8o:::|\ \  ' |:\_\    /_/::::8o
    |"8o:::=\ \===::/`\`%%`/'\::::"8o
    |\"8o~|  \_\  \|   `""`   |:~:~\8o
    \ \"8o\   )))  \           \::::"8o
     \ \"8o\`.  \   \           \::::"8o
      \|~~~~~| -|| -|mmmmmmmmmmmm~~~~~|
       `~~~~~|  ||  |~~|  |~|  |~~~~~~
             |  ||  |  |__| |__|
             |  ||  |  \  | \  |
             |__||__|  (~~^\(~~^\
             (   \   \  `-._)`-._)
              `-._)-._)

... and they lived happily ever after!

Your servant,

<+]::-{)}
Cyberpope (email: gapope@vcn.bc.ca)