Love Letters by laurie nicholson https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51 Add a favorite quote/idea from Love Letters en-us 2021-09-22 21:32:58 UTC 2021-09-22 23:11:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761299333 “Claimed”]]> 2021-09-22 22:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761299333 "We didn't know how to mainstream" https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761300174 2021-09-22 23:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761300174 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761302263 “Status quo”]]> 2021-09-22 23:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761302263 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761303482 “I wrote to make meaning in a world that held none”]]> 2021-09-22 23:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761303482 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761304006 “The ungrammatical non-standard English that in its broken rhythms seemed to define the broken rhythms of our lives on the street”]]> 2021-09-22 23:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761304006 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761304719 “Becoming mainstream society. Things like having a home and learning how to find a job and take care of yourself” ]]> 2021-09-22 23:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761304719 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761305328 "I wrote to make sense outa the things I observed around me."]]> 2021-09-22 23:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761305328 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761305691 “I was still in a state of becoming and didn’t yet know who or what i would become.”]]> 2021-09-22 23:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761305691 "Writing to communicate was logical" https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761306419 2021-09-22 23:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761306419 "But if I used my words right, there was no way to tell that I was any different from any one of them" https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761307953 2021-09-22 23:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761307953 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761309257 “They’re just letters.”]]> 2021-09-22 23:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761309257 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761309374 " I was by no means sure that I wanted to change my life. To leave the only home and the only family I'd known for years - to go play at being normal"]]> 2021-09-22 23:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761309374 https://padlet.com/laursn/oguub8wvvjumas51/wish/1761309439 ation. Later I would discover
how many different things a single word could mean - but then I
latched onto the idea that language was the same on both sides of the
bars. They might not let me go in their restaurants or pay me money
to do a job - but if I used the words right there was no way to tell
that I was any different from any one of them. And initially I recog-
nized words as tools to perpetuate a scam. I could use them to con
people
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