...The letters - about 300 in all, sent to a New Jersey minister - ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened.The minister died two years ago at 79. How the letters, some dating to 1973, wound up bobbing in the surf is a mystery.
"There are hundreds of lives here, a lot of struggle, washed up on the beach," said Bill Lacovara, a Ventnor insurance adjuster who was fishing last month with his son when he spotted a flowered plastic shopping bag and waded out to retrieve it. "This is just a hint of what really happens. How many letters like this all over the world aren't being opened or answered?"
Friday, November 03, 2006
No God...
... just the eternally deaf currents of the vast, empty ocean.
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Yeah, right. You know God made those letters appear there to provide a convenient excuse for ignoring those people. Omnipotent, sneaky and unwilling to lift a finger. That's so like God.
And cruel. But uncreative. He could have had them back up the writers' toilets with their own letters or come in e-coli laden hamburgers.
This story gave me a feeling that I have a hard time describing. There's some pity, a tad of contempt, a smattering of self-righteousness, more than a little giggling, all laid over a syncopated backbeat of sadness.
But it's got a good beat and you can dance to it, so I'll give it a 94.
Wow. If it did that for you, it might just kill the average Japanese person. It's like going through the ringer for them just to see a cherry blossom fall, I hear.
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