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Click here to reply to @StarZenith33 "It was his black man and he was on drugs. I looked at the astrology prior to that. There was a lot of scorpio going. There's a cluster of scorpio going on in the sixth house of the local. The local community, okay? The sixth house also can be open enemies, okay? And so it has to do also with your health and with your work."

Click here to reply to @ChadMcMillan "Okay. I don't know how crazy this celebrity story is. It's, it's, it's probably not crazy based, you know, on anything that happens in LA. But, uh, I, you know, so I grew up in, in southeast Texas, and, and I've had a weird situation where I've managed to either bump into or meet celebrity without looking for them. I don't, I don't ask for autographs."

Click here to reply to @richardsisk "Though he did walk the length of the boulevard, cowboy Bill truly added a wonderful flavor to the community along Hollywood Boulevard. His presence brought color to the everyday experience of the area, making it more vibrant and welcoming. Reflecting on Bill's impact encourages us to think about the characters in our own communities. Who are the people adding color to your town? Take a moment to appreciate them and the unique spirit they bring to your daily lives."

Click here to reply to @richardsisk "He may not have been a movie star, but his impact on the people he met was profound, reminding us all of the importance of preserving the human touch in a world that often moves too fast. Thank you for joining me. May all your trails be as entertaining as those of cowboy Bill."

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "And he was intrinsic to this story, because in life, nothing stays forever. The only thing that is a certain thing is death and taxes, because when you are no longer here, they will find a way to tax your estate, even with a will. So, long story short, in life, people don't stay. They don't even stay the same. Even if you were to always beat each other's lives, they're not the same person."

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "Because usually you think if somebody kind of flips out on you as a retail person and they're kind of a little unreasonable that you would actually kind of pull away from them. But nope. In the spirit of customer service, I did talk to him, and he was cool with it, and he even was a little bit more mercurial the next couple times I saw him."

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "And weirdly enough, there are traits in him that reminded me of my dad, which back then, I didn't pick up on the imago thing, but I kind of knew that that was kind of a thing because I was sort of the armchair psychology book reading. But I would say that my knowledge of the effects of PTSD, the effects of compounded with a very difficult childhood and the way people cope, anger and eventually beginning a friendship with him."

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "And the fact that, you know, of all the people to suddenly come into my life that really had just, I had a very genuine sentiment of just unbelievable caring and always will was him. And before him, it was."

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "But he had been in my life as a peripheral person for two years first, and then he became a really central person in my life for two years after that. And the fact that I didn't ever want to define what it was was pretty interesting because I like everything, to be exact, sometimes. Now, why do you. Why do I think that there was such a closeness to Billy?"

Click here to reply to @ERPDesigner "So then that became a focus, trying to get that still have a life. And so years go by, and now this is about seven, eight years later since I last saw him. As far as I know, he's still alive. I don't know how I would find out. And I don't actually want to go play sleep loose. But lo and behold, I see that at the time, my mind decided to compartmentalize it."

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Click here to reply to @MarkR "I can't remember what it was, but it was what I had. And so I decided to go to the supermarket, and I was at the till. This is how the story starts and my Hollywood bowl story. And, yeah, there I am with a loaf of bread and a pack of cigarettes. And I'm looking at it. I didn't have enough. So I'm looking at it, I'm looking at these two items, and I thought, okay."

#TellYourStory #ssplasp1 https://s.swell.life/SUBXviRnrQmBJdL @dbpardes "And this ultimately led to discovering some of LA's sexual underground, including the polyamory world and the kink world and the queer world. And I began traveling to other parts of the world, including Africa and New guinea and India and Asia, to find out more about, you know, was the poly stuff I was seeing in LA. Were there any parallels anywhere else? And this eventually led to my doctoral dissertation on polyamory and jealousy."

#TellYourStory #ssplasp3 https://s.swell.life/SUBUG0quQGqAj3J @dbpardes "So we started literally getting on our bikes and taking our bikes all the way down imperial to Dockwaller beach to jump in the water. And we were young coming from South LA, but we would go down there and we would get our little boogie boards. We even were taught how to swim. We were even taught how to swim at Dockwaller beach. The lifeguards and we took a program where they actually let us do it for free at that time."

#TellYourStory #ssplasp2 https://s.swell.life/SU7n6lDqBkRpBbh @dbpardes "And after the show, we were filing out and someone came out of the backstage door going, does anyone have any rolling papers? So I just happen to have rolling papers. Fancy that. So I said, yes, I do. They said, well, I wonder if I could borrow them from you? I said, yeah, sure, no problem. And so long as you take me and my friends backstage with you. So I said, sure, no problem."

#TellYourStory #ssplasp2 https://s.swell.life/SU7lwH6xTBoYheO @dbpardes "I recently told this story on another swell, but I thought it would be a good one to post my own swell cast. You know, I lived in LA most of my life, and LA is a place where you will encounter celebrities from time to time. It's not like how everybody that's not from LA thinks about it and that there's celebrities everywhere you go, and once a day you encounter a celebrity pretty."

#TellYourStory #ssplasp9 https://s.swell.life/SU7dKuZEZ6GD2yW @dbpardes "In any case, if it didn't talk to me in those technical ways, would probably have a lot to say about my driving, or at least the driving habits of other people on the road. So I think if my car would talk, it would be, why can't I be back in Germany, driving on the autobahn where everybody is sane? Why do you have to put me out on the streets of Los Angeles with all these highways and potholes and bus lanes and bicycle lanes and everything?"

#TellYourStory #ssplasp9 https://s.swell.life/SU7b3nbVefyW43y @dbpardes "But it's become one of my favorite hikes. I don't know what to call it, but I know how to get to it. And I talk about this story as a car story because when you think about road trips, sometimes we think about them as like, pack the car and get away for five days and get ready to do this big thing across the country or up the coast."

#sdp24Mar19 #SwellDailyPrompt #TellYourStory @phil "My wife and I really love theme parks. We like going to theme parks. We like watching theme park related content on YouTube. Cringe yes, I know, but I love it. But one theme park that sort of eluded me, despite it being relatively close to where I lived most of my life, is not Berry Farm. Now. I think the last time time that I had gone to Knott's Berry Farm was when I was about nine years old for a friend's birthday."

#LAStory #TellYourStory #ssplasp8 https://s.swell.life/SU7UHjPtviVEMIX @dbpardes "And it's sad that a lot of these things are gone, but it's also eat knowing that there's still these fragments from a bygone day, and that even though I never personally grew up there and many of the original residents have since passed away, it still holds a place in my heart and importantly, a place where my grandma, aunties and uncles all still reside."