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[aid] => mick
[title] => A New Purgatory
[time] => 2009-12-31 04:33:41
[hometext] => based on an actual event...
[bodytext] => There were the usual suspects at sister Cheryl’s 21st. Uncle Eric, whose diabetes never got in the way of his stout; brother Jeff with his jaw wired from a stunt gone wrong —friends and family onto old school mates and hangers on, packed into the backyard, the smoke from burning snags drifting into the Milky Way and, trying to hold centre stage as mum fussed and fed the hordes, our dad; all bum-crack and beer belly, struggling thick-fingered with the wire crown of an Asti Spumante bottle; a Cro-Magnon Alexander with his Gordian puzzle. And as the cork popped and arced towards the fluoros listing above the open buffet, I wondered what new purgatory my father would be inhabiting, come the morning. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 280 [topic] => 23 [informant] => spike [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 38 [ratings] => 9 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => FamilyPoems )
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