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Family gatherings were always a nasty business

  • Family gatherings were always a nasty business but at Uncle Ed's Wake was worse. We were sitting at the dining room table quarreling when someone started playing footsie with me

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  • I looked across and saw to my horror that eds girl friend was giving me the glad eye. She had fancied me a long time time ago but now was neither the time or the place, I looked

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  • away from her, trying to disguise the feelings that were once so strong. Our eyes didn't have to lock for my imagination

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  • to run away with the possibilities of what could happen were we to return to those heady days. The love may have faded, but the passion and connection remained.

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  • because the shack was still there. No one could stop the love shack. It was relentless. A touch of frippery and fusion rock and bang! Instant love shack loops playing in your

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  • love shack. Since the B-52s, love shacks emerged across the entire Western hemisphere, where any passerby may espy an undulating mass of oily neighbors enjoying the beauty

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  • of hundreds of sweaty human bodies writhing in various stages of undress, while the 24-foot tall floor speakers blared classic artists like DJ Tiesto and Paul Oakenfold.

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  • The DJ slipped on the sweat and hit his head. While the music was free of desultory scratchings, the clubbers provided their own remix: They dressed themselves and turned down the

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  • lights. With the base turned down low, they discovered they had been dancing to the Maple Leaf Rag at 180bpm. There was a resurgance in illegal underground square dancing raves.

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  • Next time on Exposure 210: We take an in-depth look at some of the families affected by underground square dancing in "Promenade Unmaid". I'm David McHammon. Goodnight.

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4 Comments

  1. Chaz Oct 12 2011 @ 09:08

    Is that the elusive FoldingStory plot? Yeah!

  2. Zetawilk Oct 12 2011 @ 17:56

    I would say that underground square dancing is a rival to FoldingStory. We're just so at odds with them all the time, since time immemorial.

  3. m80 Oct 12 2011 @ 22:15

    Underrated!!!

  4. buddyboy4711 Oct 13 2011 @ 09:17

    Square dancing (n.): Dancing that's so far underground, it's in Tiananmen Square.

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