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Deena, that's flattering, but right now I think I'm a big thief. I just steal from stuff you don't know, so it looks like originality...I'll find out in a month if crime pays. OTOH, I know they have trouble writing women on "The Wire". If that did happen, it might just be the bait I could use.:)
Partially, I had to use my "other" home town because leaves don't change in any significant way around here. Occasionally somebody has an ash or something where the leaves turn yellow and then you think "What's that about? Oh, fall. Right."
OK. This isn't working. Anyone willing to take a look at my synopses and suggest ways to pare them down to the desired length?
Got it. Will probably do in the morning; my brain is mush right now.
No problem. I'm not going to try to get anything else done tonight anyway.
Thank you. And from a real-life hometown resident(maybe I need two for all the people in my head.)G-d bless David Simon for cataloging every cigarrette butt in Balmer County so it looks like I know stuff!(I have a pretty good corner vocabulary, too, any one wants cocaine at an f2f could send me.)Funny I know stuff about a town I've never been to, and had to look up stuff about the town in which I actually sit.
I also owe Joseph Wambaugh's "The Black Marble" pretty heavily.(That one's like a cop love story...romantic for Wambaugh.)
Deb's favorite sentence is the most "mine", huh? Because when I was just out of college and trying to take over the world with my will, I read that if you smile over the phone, people can hear it. (I was all trying to be "Seven Habits For Effective Cripples" girl then. You wouldn't recognize me. But I got a nice metaphor out of it.)
Risking pneumonia to check out some tip about redneck dealers in campgrounds in Balmer County.
Whereabouts in Baltimore County do you envision this happening? I live in the southwestern part of B.Co., near Patapsco State Park and Spring Grove mental hospital (one of my traffic-ducking shortcuts takes me right through the grounds), so if you ever need digital photos of interesting places, etc. let me know. I'd be happy to oblige.
You're a teeny bit more likely to find the rednecks, etc. out in Carroll County, these days. There was a big bust not too long ago that rounded up a bunch of people in Carroll, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City, with the majority in Carroll County. One of the B.Co. guys was my neighbor--the one who threw the awesome 4th of July parties. (I still can't believe I went to parties hosted by a drug dealer. Can't believe the dealer's property abuts my own. Also, he really didn't seem like the type.)
