Samuel had no idea why he accepted the invitation to his friend’s wedding. He had long ago psyched out his former classmates whom he expected to be there as terminally weird. However, after the ceremony and dinner as the dancing began he saw something bubble over in their eyes he hadn’t noticed before. They suddenly weren’t the certifiable psychos he remembered them to be, but rather huggable people.
In the morning Samuel’s memories of the party faded into his intellectual reconstructions of nonreality. But even after he drank a full cup of strong coffee his newfound love for all of them refused to capitulate to the nuttiness of his own mind.
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Denise offers the prompt word ” cup” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Clever one, Frank. 🙂
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Thank you, Susan!
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Love has a way of breaking though. Great story.
Blessings.
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Ah! The (terrible and/or toxic) persistence of seeing the world as we have always done. Surely the most subtle of impediments to developing as people is to let go of immaturity.
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Good point about letting go of immaturity. Thank you, clark!
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Yes, love does break through. Thank you and blessings, Michael!
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A cupful of kindness? I like it!
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Thank you, Mary! And blessings!
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Time and distance affords us opportunity to look anew, as they say. Perspective broadens with age. At least we hope it does, lol.
Glad Samuel accepted the invitation.
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He needed to see his former classmates for who they really were. Thank you, Denise!
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Very nice and great attention to detail!
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Thank you and blessings, Dan!
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So good. We all need a dose of this. Nicely done Frank!
Pat
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May we all get a dose of it. Thank you, Pat!
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Relatable!
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Thank you, Reena!
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Preconceived notions are hard to change. Well done, Frank.
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Thank you, Dan! Sam had plenty of preconceived notions he needed to change.
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Sometimes it takes seeing people in a different context.
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Yes, that wedding gave him a new context. Thank you, Mimi!
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Nice six!
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Thank you, Bernadette!
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I’m left wondering how I’d see former classmates were we to meet again!
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There are many I would not recognize until they introduced themselves again, but some I think I would know even decades later. Thank you, Keith!
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Man profound; people can be loveable and quirky
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They can! Thank you, Jim!
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YW! Slowly catching up here!
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I have never missed a class reunion, and it never ceases to amaze me how the attendees seem like different people from the young versions of themselves. Good job telling a profound story in so few words, Frank.
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Thank you and blessings!
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