[ The Most Item I Ever Purchased ]

[ The Most Expensive Is Marriage ]

[ But … Worth Every Single Penny That Has Been Spent During It! ]

[ (29yrs) & Counting ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

[ The Hardest Decision That Was Needed To Be Made ]

[ You Like To Think That Forrest Gump Was Right When He Compared Life To A Box Of Chocolates ]

[ You Tend To Think That Life Is Littered With Pieces Of Chocolate, But Also As Many Land Mines Along The Path ]

[ @ Any Specific Time, You Are Faced With Hard Decisions To Make ]

[ Maybe The Hardest Ones Could Be Looked @ As Putting Out The Nearest Fire ]

[ (6mo’s) After You Turned (18yrs) Old You Had To Find A Couple Of Guys, & Then A Place To Live When Dear Old Don Told You To Get Out Of His Home ]

[ Then (9mo’s) Later You Decided To Pack Your Stuff Up Again & Move Over (300mi) South To Go To College ]

[ For The Next (43yrs) Life Has Been Dotted With Hard Decisions That Personally Affected Your Life & Future ]

[ One Of The Biggest, Most Important Decisions You Made In Your Life Happened Over (31yrs) Ago. First It Was To Ask This Woman Nicole If She Wanted To Go Beyond Being Friends, & Try To Make A Go @ Being A Couple ]

[ She Thought It Over For A Very Long (5sec), Then Said, “Sure, Why Not?” ]

[ A Couple Of Months Later You Made Another Important Decision Concerning Your Future … Should You Pay Exact Change For Another Burger, Or Just Get Change?! ]

[ Oh Ya, December 25th, 1994 You Asked Nicole To Marry You? You Could Not Believe How Long It Took Her To Answer, “Sure, Why Not?” ]

[ Oh, If Only She Would Have Had The Lucky Hindsight To See What Exactly She Was Signing Up For, She Probably Would Have Thought Twice About It ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

[ What Books Do You Want To Read? ]

[ Ever Since Surviving The Riot Where You Used To Work, You Have Not Been Able To Sit & Enjoy Reading Books. You Lost Your Ability To Retain & Comprehend What You Just Read. Short Term Memory Lapses Are The Worst. You Keep Having To Go Back A Paragraph Or (2) To See How A Name They Are Mentioning Correlates With What You Were Just Reading. The Back & Forth Would Get Confusing & Frustrating. Some People Might Wonder, “Then How Do You Write The Stories That You Write?” It’s Easy, Because You Write Your Thoughts & Go Wherever That Adventure Might Take You. There’s No Memorization Going On.

You Are Trying To Read A Book That You Just Got Explaining The Coincidences Between The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln & John F. Kennedy. So Far It Has Been Really Fascinating. There Has Been About (14) Supposed Documented Coincidences.  But A Couple Of Them Have Been Completely Debunked. It Is Shame That People Have Felt The Need To Make Things Up For Some Kind Of Connection Between Lincoln & Kennedy.

One Of The Strangest Connection That I Have Read About Is The One When They Talked About The Book Depository Building That Lee Harvey Oswald Shot Kennedy From Was Originally Built In Lincoln’s Hometown & Then Moved To Dallas, Texas Where It Sits As A Landmark To The JFK Assassination.

The Books That You Used To Like To Read Were About Serial Murderers. From As Far Back As You Can Remember, It Always Fascinated You About The Way That Some People Think. & For Someone To Go Out Of Their Way To Plan & Carry Out Killing Other People Has Always Been Fascinating.  The Why Is The Biggest Question. You Figure There Are Times During Someone’s Day When They Might Walk The Legal Tightrope. Going Too Fast In Their Car, Lying On Their Taxes, Or Taking A Pen Home From Work, But To Go Out & Take Another Person’s Life, Is Not Just A Casual Decision For The Majority Of Society.

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

[ Name A Place To Visit? ]

[ One City That You Have Not Been To In Years Is Portland, Oregon ]

[ You Try Not To Go To Portland, Especially Downtown Portland ]

[ You Might Have To See A Dr. On The Outskirts ]

[ Now From What You See On The News It Is One Extreme To The Next ]

[ You Grew Up On The Outskirts Of Portland ]

[ You Always Lived On The Southwest Area ]

[ Portland Should Not Be Defined By The Problems @ The I.C.E. Center Or What Goes On In The East Part Of Portland ]

[ But … Downtown Portland Has Had Its Problems ]

[ The Riots & The Shootings That Used To Be On The Local Nightly News ]

[ Portland Attracts The Crazies ]

[ It Is Just An Incident Away From Exploding Again ]