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Date Posted: 05:59:48 01/26/10 Tue
Author: Lisa
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Yes, I remember you

Something prompted me tonight, to hit Michael Landon on Google. Not sure why? Maybe because I grew up with him in a way. I was a little kid, about 7 to 9 years old and living in not so nice of a situation. My grand mother had taken me in, and married some terribly mean old man that wasn't very nice to me at all. It was a kind of childhood where you didn't feel safe or loved, or wanted. Each week Bonanza would come on. I sat on the floor in front of our old console tv set and drifted off into the ranch of Ponderosa. For that little period of time I believed that I was there also. I knew what a kind family was, I knew what it meant to have the people around you, love you. That show gave me an idea of what family should be about for when I grew older. I certainly had no clue in the world my young eyes had seen. I fell in love with "Little Joe" as a child. I was jealous when dated on the show a girl friend they wrote in, yet at the same time he was the older brother I never had, that I knew would protect me....if ever I could have lived on the Ponderosa. Many things happen in our life to make life long changes, and Bonanza was that for me. It gave me a vision of what I could have when I was old enough to pick the people around me one day, it tought me about the kind of person I wanted to be, and actualy the kind of person I'd one day like to love in real life. I spent many years falling asleep with a dream of the Ponderosa. Of Little Joe, and Ben, Hoss, Adam. Bonanza was my escape...from the real life that God had somehow dealt me. I'v always said that Little Joe/Michael Landon was my 1st love. By the time Little House came on, I was older and on my own in life. I wasn't trapped in the child abuse situation I had only known anymore. My life was full, and the people I chose to be around me were decent and kind. I no longer needed Little Joe, or the Ponderosa to escape. I didn't really watch it faithfully. I remember it as a sweet show, and as usual Michael was adorable as ever, and it would have been a nice life to be Carolyn for sure. Anyway, I know theres no way to say thankyou, thanks for the escape I was able to have if only for a short time each week. I never forget Michael, not to much time ever goes by when he doesn't run thru my thoughts.

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Re: Yes, I remember you -- Tammi, 09:24:13 05/05/10 Wed