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Date Posted: 09:24:13 05/05/10 Wed
Author: Tammi
Subject: Re: Yes, I remember you
In reply to: Lisa 's message, "Yes, I remember you" on 05:59:48 01/26/10 Tue

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>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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