[mel-amazing grace]

[best friend]
photography
baking
family
friends
nature
crazy stuff
going to shows

I'd like to meet:

there is a happy ending in disquise.

Leave me the way it has to be excuse my poor excuse tell me that insecurities are what drove me to you and everyday I compare your face from sweet beginnings to your bitter endsweet thing I hope that you know I'm wondering where you are You say this could work someday when you and I both know this is the end Let me let go

LONG ISLAND You live in the shadow of the greatest city in the world, but you almost never go there. When you're away from Long Island, you love it and when you're there, you don't. You think if you're not from Long Island or NYC, you're not really from New York. You know the exact point at which Queens turns into Nassau simply on intuition. You don't go to Manhattan, you go to "The City." You never realize you have an accent till you leave. Everything north of the Bronx is "upstate." New Jersey sucks. At some point in your life you've gone clamming. Either your parents or your grandparents lived in the city. You'd pay $11.50 for a movie. You don't live in Long Island. You live ON Long Island. You know where the Commack Motor Inn is. Your distant future might involve the state of Florida. You can correctly pronounce places like Ronkonkoma, Hauppauge, Wantagh, Mineola, Islandia, Massapequa. You know the location of 6 malls and a dozen McDonalds and 36 7-11's. You never, ever want to "change at Jamaica..." You've tried to find the Amityville Horror house. No, you don't want mustard on that burger!! You can't understand why a diner would ever close. You've had a seagull crap on your car. You have or someone you know has fallen asleep on the LIRR and ended up in one of these three places; Babylon, Port Washington or Hicksville. You went to an elementary school that promoted dodge ball as the number 1 game among children 7-13. You know White Castle is terrible for you and the food sucks but you periodically "Get the Crave." You want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx, but would probably go to more games if they moved. You think that somehow, the Jets and Giants still play in New York. You've missed that "Drunk Train," the 2:42 out of Penn and had the dreaded wait until 5:30. You or someone you know has owned an animal that came from North Shore Animal League. Quick! Who's your county Executive? Don't know do you? You've never taken an MTA bus. The Long Island Expressway isn't really as bad as everybody thinks. You don't associate Fire Island with gay men. You know which parts of the Godfather were filmed on Long Island. You've paid a $10 cover charge to get into a bar, but got nothing for it. You miss wiffle ball and running through sprinklers. You think Islip MacArthur airport is cute and you enjoy watching it grow up. Billy Joel said it best, "either you date a rich girl from the North Shore, or a cool girl from the South Shore." You don't really see the big deal about the Hamptons, unless you got smashed at the Bordy Barn. When people ask "where are you from?" you answer Long Guy Land and automatically assume everyone in the world knows that answer means New York. You've always liked Billy Joel and you own several of his "records." The Belt Parkway sucks! You've been stuck in a traffic jam for more than 2 hours (without moving). Your parents took you to All American, Nathans or Carvel (on the way home from the beach). Regular gas -- $2.69 and you still pay it!!! You hate paying tolls. You don't have to go far to see your family. You remember Grumman. You've gotten drunk on the bleachers of some high school. You know the color of the water at Jones Beach is not BLUE! You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into Wendy's and Arby's closed for good. You can spout off all the LIRR stops between Penn Station and Ronkonkoma. Paying $35 for a haircut doesn't sound so crazy. You think the people from Brooklyn are "da wunz dat tawk wit a accent." You went sledding in the sumps. You've partied on a golf course in the middle of the night. You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco nightmare. You think going to Queens was a hike. The first time you heard the term "Long Island Iced Tea" you were somewhere else and you laughed. When you live somewhere else and are astounded to see that people actually stop at yellow lights. When you just sort of presume that wherever you live, you'll be able to find good delis, good pizza, and good bagels. You can name at least three bands that came from Long Island. When you walk in the city and you see two men holding hands...it becomes normal to you. No word ends in an ER, just an AH.

Music:

+academy is,the
+action action
+acceptance
+AFI
++aiden
alexisonfire
alkaline trio
all american rejects, the
american hi-fi
anberlin
aquabats,the
armor for sleep
as i lay dieing
a.s.o.b.
atreyu
avenged sevenfold
b52's
bad religion
bayside
beautiful mistake, the
billy talent
+big d and the kids table
blink 182
blood brothers, the
+blue scene, the
box car racer
boys night out
boysetsfire
brand new
bright eyes
bury your dead
cartel
+catch 22
chiodos
chronic future
+circa survive
coheed and cambria
+copeland
dashboard confessional
dead poetic
death cab for cutie
drop kick murpheys
early november,the
+edison glass
+emanuel
emery
evanescence
fall out boy
finch
+from autumn to ashes
from first to last
further seems forever
get up kids, the
glasseater
glass jaw
goldfinger
green day
halifax
hawthorne heights
hellogoodbye
+he is legend
highschool football heroes
hidden in plain veiw
hoobastank
hot hot heat the
jimmy eat world
juliana theory, the
june
killers, the
kenye west
+less than jake
linkin park
mae
madison
matchbook romance
me first and the gimme gimme..'s
+mest
+motion city soundtrack
my chemical romance
+new found glory
NoFX
+patent pending
paramore
+plain white t's
posion the well
postal service, the
pretty girls make graves
queenryche
reel big fish
reggie and the full effect
relient k
rise against
saosin
+senses fail
+silverstein
smile empty soul
+something corporate
sounds of animals fighting, the
spill canvas, the
+spitalfield,
starting line,the
story of the year
straylight run
streetLight manafesto
sublime
+sugarcult
sum 41
system of a down
+taking back sunday
thrice
thursday
tsunami bomb
+underOath
used, the
weezer
wheatus
yellowcard

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Heroes:

mom
dad
chris

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