I would keep reading, it's probably a story on how loners can meet other loners or something like that.
--- In [email protected], "Ray Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from Friday's Weekend section... > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- > dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400319.html > > This is the lede. I am friends with the subject, so I am biased. If > you read these first few paragraphs, would you be inclined to read > the rest? > > What would your opinion of Dave be? > > -------------------------------------------- > > Dave Connolly needed friends. > > Which is a tricky predicament. Tricky and kind of banal. And -- let's > be honest -- a little sad. > > By the time you're out there in the world, haven't there been enough > opportunities -- in the sandbox and eighth-grade math class and the > varsity tennis team and between dorm rooms and cubicle clusters -- to > pick up a few good friends? > > Obviously. > > Unless, you know, there weren't. Or there were. There were all those > opportunities, and buddies were met and made and then, somehow, lost. > Binding ties came unbound. > > Maybe there was a marriage. A baby. A transfer, a taxing project, an > illness, a changing lifestyle, diverging hobbies, a new neighborhood, > a gradual maturing, a big dramatic fight over a guy you were both > interested in. Maybe your new medical sales job has you sleeping in > Reston and creeping along Interstate 66, shaking hands with lots of > doctors and nurses and not really getting to know anyone. > > Maybe you're Dave Connolly, 29, athletic and outgoing and fun and > successful, and everything was great and your social calendar was > booming until one day it just wasn't. > > Banal. A little sad. And common enough for this town to support a > whole host of organizations designed to help people reach out and > meet someone. Probably lots of someones. Probably in similar > predicaments. > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Do these photos change or affirm your image of Dave? > > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#50616 > 66529504285106 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/BillyGoatTrail050606/photo#50616 > 67349843038706 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506981 > 9857564963250 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 > 3362258276962 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 > 4994345849554 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#506982 > 5174734476002 > http://picasaweb.google.com/telecomic/WhiteoakCanyonTrail/photo#5 > 069829242068505634 >
