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Date Posted: 20:09:52 06/30/03 Mon
Author: GT Vertigo
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Subject: The reason David Steiwinder is a cultural icon, when i observed him at happening #24....i was touched
In reply to: South Paw 's message, "Trey = my hero" on 23:04:15 06/28/03 Sat

yesterday i thought about all the things that make me smile in life...david steinwinder is a close second to old batman comics.
i knew this guy once who wasn't that cool or good looking in his younger days. i only ever talked to him b/c his older brother and i had this obsession with being white, being white and playing basketball. he was somewhat of a aggrevation during these times...intense games of 21 were often overtaken be the young "dutch," as he dubbed himself during our first introduction, running in and out of the house yelling, "trey skaggs is ugly and he sucks at basketball, my brother can beat him." Yes, i may have had a slight blemmish with acne at this age, but the ladies were still in abundance and i always dominated the slightly younger and shorter thomas steinwinder in basketball. david's desperate efforts for attention always ended when thomas or i threw the ball at his somewhat square head... Now that i look back at these distant memories, i finally realize that david never tryed to play b/c his arms are different lengths and that would not have suited him for free-throws or dribbling in between the legs

...time passed, clinton was re-elected, and the steiwinders turned their back on the coast. david and i had not really grown close during these "awkward years" despite the fact that i gave him my bike, only b/c his mother called and offered me $100 for it.

everything changed in the early months of 1999...david attended #28, we had "sorta" seen each other over the years, but all he ever talked about was how cool his older brother was b/c phi kappa was cool and laurel people were cool b/c phi kappa was cool and they all had a cool handshake. In all reality i was quite surpassed at the amount of "bout-it-ness" young david had aquired...at this point the tides changed and one steinwinder was replaced, nothing disrespectful towards thomas... we just lost touch, by another. david became a household name at my parent's residence. As i left for college, nothing changed, when i realized i was almost five years older, nothing changed. David, when not holding a guitar, grew to become a member of a small group of people who i hold dear to the heart.

In the begining there was eight...buck, robert, skaggs, timmy, leah, brumfield, sample, david and myself... a group derived from ccym and old school happeners...david held a piece of the puzzle, and when he was not around the piece was noticibly missing, but things were not-so-loud and everyone's guitar still had a g-string intact. during this time i was doing the whole "frat thing in the early years of college," but their was always time for these people, no matter what...when we were all together things were just "real" that is the only way to put it...in fact, we all had a piece of the puzzle. luckily i was allowed to be apart of this, i also had a chance to be a part of the "#23-#27" group...but as i look back, now that its all come to an end....david, timmy, buck...etc. these are the people that i keep in touch with, on a daily basis. I am a youth minister now in atlanta, and the challenges that i face are handled better because of people like david steinwinder, who helped me realize what Christian love is all about. this letter was supposed to be funny, but now as i type i am in tears looking back on my life as a time of celebration and memories that will never fade away, many people look for miraculous things as miracles from God...but i know better...my years at the happening, my love for my friends that was a miracle that changed my life and defined my character...a blessing from God that utterly amazes me to this day. If no one else reads this but you david...it was worth the tears i shed to write it.
i love you...and that is thicker than blood
23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30 2,5,6,7
god bless...

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