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My daddy told me a story and now I'm gonna give it to you:

In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, 'Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome.

But you, you're crooked! You're all crooked and bent over! No one wants to look at you.'

And they grew up in that forest together.

And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, 'Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.' So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper.

And the crooked tree is still there, still out there today, and it's growing strong and growing strange to this day.


- Tom Waits

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So hey, I already have an exceedingly modest friends list, but I recently made some deletions. This was either because a) you friended me but I had no idea who you were, and you didn't follow up to explain, or b) I've commented or messaged you but after significant time passed never received a likewise communication from you. I'm probably over-explaining, as I doubt that anyone is emotionally destroyed over being removed from my list, but I don't really see a logical point to being friends with anyone on SG, even if we've met in real life, unless there's some actual interaction taking place between us.