I am an orphan. My parents died in a plane crashSIXmonths before I was born blind and invisible with an uncanny ability to speak and write run on sentences. I was raised by wolves and spiders in a dustbin in the ShenandoahValley.I was educated by Robots in PublicAndPrivate schools in VA NC FL and CA. I have never studied art nor have I ever found muchFASCINATION in study. briankraynor@hotmail.com
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“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.” John Kerouac
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Hot Lips holding back the passion she has for a guy she barely knows. She wants him to take control of the situation but he seems proccupied withe waves of the ocean. So she takes charge. Summer fling is all.
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Amy and Doug were set up on a blind date. It was not "love at first sight." He felt something that she did not. After six monthes of dating he was ready to call it quits but she finally realized she was in love.
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Joe loved the drama. He loved the power he seemed to have over Kayla and her life. Emotions she seemed to wear on her sleeve were often used to wipe his brow.
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Bridget & Max are like an old married couple after only seven monthes of dating. He falls asleep while she vegges in front of a Lifetime movie.
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When he was a boy, Ben liked teasing Isabel because her face would turn red from anger or embarressment when he would toss cookie crumbs into her out of control, curly hair. He still gets a kick out of her flushed cheeks and her mass of curls. She still blushes when he throws a sweet nothing her way.
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Mai & Yurg have a chemistry between them. It's more than just the cocaine. When they touch he is spellbound and she is on fire. They've been asked to leave grocery stores and restaurants because of their PDA.
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LOVE was in the AIR. MUSIC SEEMED TO FILL THEIR HEARTS. ♥ KISSES NEVER seemed so Sweet. All would be Perfect if she had the nerve to leave her babies daddy and if he had a job,... Perfect otherwise.
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Charlie & Apryl met in the office. She was instantly struck by his smile - Slightly crooked teeth set in quotation marks of dimples. He was mesmerized with her natural beauty. They married after two months of dating.
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The day that Drew decided he would tell Cassie that he loved her , she was contemplating a seven hundred mile move back to Virginia.
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Holidays were always special to Gina & Dale. They met at a Christmas party in Chelsea.
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Veronica & Lenny met while she was stoned and he was trying to get over a recent seperation.
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Umber first noticed Trevor on the L Train. He was reading the Wall Street Journal and pretending he didn't notice Umber noticing him.
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Sonya always imagined her lovers as charaters from romance stories, fairytales,... Vann was definitely the Beast. He was an animal anyway. Vann liked getting straight to business. Love or like or strange - given the opportunity, he was on it. She only slept with wealthy guys, just in case the ending wasn't a happy ever after. Expensive taste and wealthy men usually resulted in expensive gifts to remember the romance once it was over.
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Lairah was never amused by Brett's sophomoric behavior when he exited the bathroom from the shower. The toss of the towel and the naked dance was almost repulsive to her. In his defense, he was only a junior when their affair began. Her husband was his English professor.
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When Nick kissed Autumn, she was like a deer caught in headlights.
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Carrie wants to be a married woman. Chris isn't ready for a long term commitment. She has stopped taking her birth control pills and he doesn't know that. Soon wedding bells will ring.
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Brian & Kelly met in college. He was a senior and she was a freshman. She was as close to perfect as he had ever dated. They had a long distance relationship after he graduated. Real life has a way of crushing dreams. She met someone else. He focused on his career. Neither were successful.
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In fantasies she ascends in a whirlwind - still hot from her recent proximity to the Sun; still moist from her pouring with the rain. And she falls on him and he breathes her in.
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Sometimes, in soft, morning sunlight, Lisa and Michael would cuddle and make love without even having sex. Sometimes they would just go at it like animals. After the twins were born, it was never quite the same.
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Ryan & Andi are in love. They can't explain it. LOVE can be that way.
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Cameron & Nikki met while she was living on the streets, as a 16 year old runaway. He was in the states as an exchange student, from Italy. Now they are married and run a gym in L.A. Now, she'd like to travel abroad & he'd just like to run away.
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Jason was a night stocker @ Wal-Mart. Tina was a Wal-Mart, after 10, shopper. She would show up looking like she just rolled out of bed and Jason found that very arousing. He would go out of his way to help her shop. She left her baby's daddy for him.
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Sometimes when you think your dreams are coming true, the one you're dreaming of is dreaming of someone else. That part of love & relationships really-sucks.
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Eva & Ladd are going to be parents sooner than they think.
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Jarrod & Kim met @ a psychobilly show and didn't meet again for another six monthes or so. He was having a burger @ the Penguin when she stumbled in out of the rain. She didn't like weather extremes. She was there hoping to see Mark but he happened to be off that day. So she struck up a conversation. They are happy. She'd be happier if he drank less and he'd be happier if Mark's name weren't forever inked just above her pelvic bone. Other than that,... they really are happy.
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Rosalia met Rob at Whiskey A Go Go. He was too cool to dance. She was too happy not to. There she was dancing with herself and he was her personal audience. He bought her a drink. They hooked up several times after that.
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So much in their lives really didn't matter. Unfortunately too much of their time was focused on the little things that work to break bonds that are meant to last forever. She left him the week before he died.
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Lavonne realized in that moment that she was a cougar. She'd never liked that term, "cougar" but she really liked her son's best friend.
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Jeff was a negative soul, drawn to Christy's positive energy. Opposites attract but, and quite often, we begin to hate the qualities we once loved. After ten years of marriage, Christy had all she could take and she left Jeff,... and lived happily, ever after.
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Debra gave Quinn butterfly kisses on his cheek when she thought he needed to refocus.
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Katie & Barry are childhood friends. They grew up three houses away from each other. He would let her play with his favorite Hot Wheels. Sometimes she would bake cookies in her Easy Bake Oven just for him. They drifted apart in high school. Senior year in college, they ran into each other at Target during Christmas break. Sparks flew!
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They met on the set of Jerry Springer. Her husband revealed he'd been cheating on her with her younger sister. He was in the audience.
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Ramy was first attracted to Angel's wild, whirlwind of firey, red hair. She went on and on about his sexy accent. If only she really loved him, she wouldn't have cheated.
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She was not happy in the marriage. She wanted to have a baby but more than that she wanted him to be the rock star she thought he would be by now. He was miserable in the relationship but the sex was good. He didn't want to raise a kid with an alcoholic. She drank to medicate her sadness.
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Jeanne & Dodd enjoy their modern "hippy" lifestyle. He is learning to blow glass and she makes and sells goat milk soap. He has never told her about the son & wife he abandoned before moving to North Carolina. She has never told him about the two years she spent in prison. The past is the past,... they are simply living in the present.
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Even though Kyle was the only guy she'd ever slept with, Kyle called Rhea a whore when they broke up.
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Stella & Leon like to get high and chill in the evenings. She doesn't know it but she's six weeks pregant.
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Jorge & Melonie were an unlikely couple. He was a dancer supporting his dream as a waiter. She was a banker working her way to the financial goal she's had since a young girl living in poverty. No time for relationships but here they are.
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"Girls will be BOYS and Boys will be GIRLS. It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world"
Ray Davies - The Kinks
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***Sunday, February 2011 my SKETCHBOOK was checked out for the FIRST time at Brooklyn Art Library,
by none other than, North Carolina native, New York resident and fashionista, Autumn Furr.
