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Dear Deej,

Since you and I have started to work on getting a business card going for you I think now is as good a time as ever to close out our Facebook friendship. We are communicating through email now, and so I feel it will establish a more clean line of communication over the hacken-eyed mess that is facebook chat.

Back when you were at central I could never really put a finger on what your personality was like. I think one of the first things I felt was irritation. You reminded me of myself at that age, and being the self-loathing sort I was not terribly fond. I saw that you came from a similar upbringing, has similar talents, but also the inability to process emotions much as I did when I was in school. Brown told me that you reminded her of me and after that I couldn’t help but see it.

I think with you and I being in that class was an eye opener. Back before I was part of teaching that class, I was a student. I basically ended up there because my home school (parchment) had deemed me “not college bound” (this was actually printed on my student evaluation by the way. They sent me to the program because they wanted to get me out of their school for part of the day, and find someway of making me a productive citizen since I was not bound to be a college man. I got the feeling from early on that you were in a similar boat.

Not many people expected much from you, so you got placed somewhere out of the way, so that you might not bother the more upwardly mobile students. But, as a surprise to everyone, Brown took the worst of us and gave us a shot. I have followed your progress over the years, and fortunately for both of us you no longer resemble me at all. You have worked hard, and found a way to be a great guy that no one has anything bad to say about. I hope I had some small role in this, but as with many things, people become who they are through their own effort, not so much through someone else.

I will keep my eye on you as time goes by, as I wager you will be in town in much the same way I am. With all that said, I am after all in possession of all your contact info now, so I have no excuse not too keep the lines connected.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt