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January 29, 2008 |
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Just Like South America and Africa
FOUND by Katie
in Boston, Massachusetts
I found this inside a purse I bought at Newbury Comics.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I see some "global positioning" in their future!
that is so touching
Oh, it's so sad.
really sweet...
mmm, that feeling is the worst.
i've written too many notes like this.
That is ridiculously romantic. Wow. <3
In a rorschach world, those could be two halves of a heart. I'll never look at Gondwanaland quite the same ... sigh.
How many times have you needed to write that note and not known it. Ouch. It hurts just reading that.
wait... how did it get inside the purse you bought at a comic store? was it secondhand, or did Adrian ditch the note somewhere he'd never have to see it again?
SOOOO many questions. just kidding. not that many, afterall.
Ugh. How many times have I felt this way? And never ONCE did I know how to explain it. Thanks a lot, Found. Now, I'm in a glass case of emotion!!!
P.S. Can we talk about the captcha for a hot second?
"Blue and Yellow make _____."
Way to keep the dummies out, found.
What happened to "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, ______.."
I mean, really.
Exactly. Doesn't that depend on whether you're mixing light or pigment?
how sad. beautiful but sad.
I love this....it's so very illustrative.
Those are really good continents. I am impressed with her ability to freehand Africa and get all the bumps in the right places.
Technically, her construction's faulty, due to her use of the word "away". I believe that "apart" would be a better choice. (ie "...it feels like we're continents apart.")
If she really wants to use "away", I'd suggest she write "...it feels like *you're* continents away." (Or: "...it feels like *I'm* continents away")
Adrian's probably better off without her anyway.
this is exactly how i feel today
professionally
personally
internally
continents away.
oh god...
thats so sad.
The "God Adrian" in the middle really adds that extra touch of emotion. It's sad.
That's plate tectonics for you. Take your eye off 'em for a moment and suddenly they're thousands of miles apart.
Sad poetic note. I bet Adrian's sorry he lost it.
I'm pretty sure the existence of this note shows how sad the writer's life was. Let's assume it's a she and her name is Susan. Why would Susan write a note like this when Adrian is standing just next to her?? Is Adrian in a coma? But then why is he standing? Why the drawing of Africa and South America. Weren't the Indian sub-continent and Australia good enough?
Or perhaps Susan's life is actually quite fun: She and Adrian are in the middle of a grand Africa and South America tour - "we are continents away". They are together but far away; not apart. Susan and Adrian just met Samantha in Dakar. (For those in the dark: Samantha was the assistant prop master at Adrian's last summer show. The three would often have a drink after work and struck up a friendship.) Because neither Adrian nor Susan were expecting Samantha - and, she was standing next to them - they did not notice her!! Susan now knows it is possible to miss someone standing next to her!
Oh - this wasn't a note but an item for the travel scrapbook - the picture of Samantha, Adrian and Susan can be found in the wallet that was also for sale in the comic shop.
I'll get back to sorting my life out now, if I may.
I think the author is from a South American country and Adrian is from an African country and this note is about their Romeo and Juliet-like relationship. Maybe their parents won't let them date. Or maybe it's unacceptable to be the other because of cultural issues or something.
Oh, the emotion of this made me ache!
Once a 'continental drift’ begins in a relationship, it's essentially impossible to return to the place you were before.
You live, you lose...you learn.
i feel continents away from everyone somedays too
the comic book nerd probably wasn't worth your time anyway...live, learn and move on
Is Newbury comics a thrift shop/ comic store type thing? I found a ring in a consignment shop purse.
As far as notes go, this is excellent! Great handwriting and spelling, articulate, and nicely illustrated. Only a teeny punctuation error and that could be on purpose.
YAY!
:'( Sad. I felt like this for a long time. But lately I felt really close to him. Now we really are continents away (APART). He's in the desert. I really miss him.
I think she picked those continents because they were the likeliest shapes to draw into hearts. (somewhat) Otherwise, this is incredibly sappy.
This makes me think of that movie "Chasing Amy."
@ SuzyQ- I feel the same.
In fact I felt this way just last night. I broke it off with a guy a few months back under bad conditions (on his part). Although the feelings in the relationship had not run their course. But we're both with other people now and are civil to each other in public, even recently have begun to bullshit with each other and act like we might be acquaintances. It's bizarre to act that way with someone I used to live with and share intimate moments of my life with. It's hurtful because the relationship was still full of life and feelings when it ended. To stand next to someone I used to know so well and who used to know me, well it's just a hollow feeling. I don't know if I still KNOW him or not, but I at least miss being friends with the person I remember. But for so many reasons, including both new significant others, we barely communicate with each other.
There are a lot of circumstances under which this note could've been written. But it fits my feelings in my situation perfectly.
She must have read Wegener's book on relationships. "Men are from Africa, Women are from South America"
The drawing reminds me of a Rorschach test.
You all see continents. I see on the left a sharp wildcat tooth, and on the right, a Skekses head.
This breaks my heart.
This girl still really cares about Adrian. She still thinks they fit together like Africa and South America used to, but they are totally drifting apart. Listen up, Adrian! You're losing a very special girl.
Adrian or Adnan?
I knew a girl whose name was spelled Adrian. Maybe a girl received this from her man.
Unlikely, but possible.
I don't think she ever gave him the note. Those are the sort of notes a girl keeps in her secret pockets as magic tokens.
I don't think Adrian ever saw the note. She wrote the note, but chickened out of giving it to him, hoping things would get better and they would grow closer. She was afraid she would sound too sappy and the Adrian would totally dump her.
So, she stashed it in her purse, which she later donated to a thrift store, where the owner of the comics bought it and then put it on sale.
It's so hard when you lose that emotional connection with someone you're in a relationship with. My husband used to be my best friend. I can totally relate to what she is telling him in this note.
This letter doesn't necessarly have to be to her lover. Adrian could be her best friend that is drifting apart, either a another girl (I agree with Mom in the Den... Haven't Ya'll seen ROCKY??) or a guy she is close to and has feelings for but just can't get up the courage to tell him. Perhaps Adrian is moving on without her?? Maybe that is why she is scared to share the letter with Adrian. Who hasn't had a bf that they are in love with??
This note, in addition to Detail Devil's comment make me want to burst into song...
"Stand in the place where you were...."
I guess Massachusetts is the only place with Newbury Comics? For those who were wondering, it's kind of like a CD, movie, pop-culture type store. In fact, there aren't many comics at all. They do sell porn, though.
Wow ... this is so true.
I think this was written from a girl to her best friend. Either the writer didn't have the guts to actually give her friend the note, wadded it up and put it in her purse, or the best friend didn't receive it so kindly and threw it in her purse.
However, the optimist in me wants to say that they sat down and talked about it, and decided to fix things. One or the other wadded up the note, since they were trying to get past that, and now they are better friends than ever.
... or something like that.
(It is possible that a girl could spell her name Adrian.)
This is exactly why I purchase all my handbags at Nordstrom's.
Cotton - you can't go back, but it is possible to drfit together in a new place. It has to be - I'm staking my life on it.
"Music, movies, and pop culture merchandise. Locations in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Online shopping available."
http://www.newburycomics.com/
That store looks freakin' awesome!!
The note in the purse is a prop from the first season of My Fair Brady.
The woman is obviously having a religious crisis.
Actually, Newbury Comics USED to sell comics when it was on Newbury street in Boston. Comics, a small amount of vinyl and fanzines (if anyone remembers those). Now they just put small local businesses out of business. Anyhow, it was a sad note and I wish the author well.
I definitley can relate to this find. My boyfriend dumped me fairly recently, and I'm still recovering. Especially since I recently found out that he slept with someone else while I was with him.
The hardest part is always knowing that no matter how angry you are you still love them more than anyone you've ever known. And that they are completely and utterly done feeling the same way about you.
Hold in there, whoever you are. If love is real, you'll be able to pull those continents together, or at least find someone who lives on yours.....
sometimes love is deluding yourself into thinking that the person is who you think they are. "falling out of love" can be as simple as coming to know the person for who they actually are. When one half of a couple drifts away, or sleeps with someone else, it might mean that you need to take a critical look at them, and stop wasting your time wondering why, and wishing things were different. Things are the way they are. deal with it.
I acutally agree with Nadine in the back. I don't think Adrien ever saw the note. It does seem to me to be something that someone would write but not be able to give. Which would also explain why it was still in the purse and forgotten.
I do hope they worked it out.
oh that's so sad...
when you feel that way it's no good telling yourself to just get over it & accept things for the way they are
it's the worst feeling, but it does get better
really
Adrian has Auspergers. He will never have any feelings for you, honey.
Alana in st. andrews, it does not always get better. Accept and move on, i think is the best choice, not accept things the way they are. You can't fix a rift as big as an ocean.
aspbergers. I think someone's impostering Tess.
oops...it's spelled Asperger
I would have liked this find much better if it just said "Incontinence Away!!!". But those are some sexy land masses.
FYI the American Apparel girls are "wasted" again. Whores.
oh dear that's sad. i can relate to this. the funny thing is it has been a couple years since it ended, and i'm just now starting to really miss her, even though she's still near me. there's that horrible heartbreaking pull in my stomach when within a couple feet of her and i can't do anything about it. HANG IN THERE EVERYONE!
i hope she told adrian.
I know what Aspbergers, but is Auspergers anything like Heinsbergen Disorder?
kc in the sunshine van:
I hope only the best for you and your relationship. If dedication will get you through the drift, you seem to be well on you way.
For some people, I'm sure you maybe able to find common ground again. For me, it hasn't happened.
But what do I know? I'm an expert at heartache, and a loser at love.
No wonder she got rid of the purse.
The continent shapes just make this so corny.
Hey, what happened to Somalia?
Adrian is the male spelling--Adrianne or Adrienne for females. Like Terry and Terrie or Teri or Terri. And Lee and Leigh.
Some peoples' parents just don't know or they don't care.
If you say, "Yo, Adrian" to my husband, he gets plenty pissed, saying, "Yo, Adrian" to an 'Adrian' is like saying, "Wachutakinboutwillis" to Gary Colman.
how is everyone so sure the writer of the note is a girl?
I could write this same note to my husband AND my best friend. (not the same person, BTW)
Or like Erin and Aaron. Although pronounced the same, these two names are quite different. My daughter's name is Erin, and very often people will spell her name Aaron! I mean - did they think I named my daughter a boy name?!!
I feel this way right now.
I can't believe how on the mark this is.
Oh, how I can't believe someone hasn't done this yet. :::ahem::::
ADRIAN!!!!!!! ADRIAN!!!!!!! I DID IT, ADRIAN!!!
:::takes bow::::
I felt exactly this way for years and years. Why I stuck it out so long I'll never know. I guess I was just hopeful it would get better. It didn't.
I think Newbury Street may have changed a lot since the days when I spent a lot of time shopping and dining and drinking there. Aaaah--such happy memories of great times in Beantown. The BEST hair stylist ever was on Newbury. I wonder if he's still there.
Cheers!
Um, off topic here, but did anyone notice the dirty found videos posted there in that pink box? omg. totally ridiculous/hilarious.
Wow, what a wonderful find. I wonder if this was ever given to Adrian. I wish I knew how things turned out...
Haha! That dildo video is priceless.
absolutely beautiful
that was beautiful. and really movingly human.
I love how if you put the continents together, it makes a heart. This is very sad and touching. It makes me wanna cry.
Newbury Comics still has a location on Newbury Street (I work on that street) and still sells comics...puts local businesses out of business? I work on Newbury...and I'm not sure what small businesses they've ruined. Don't talk about things you don't know about dummy.
They used to fit, but there has been some continental drift.
that makes my heart ache.
This definitely my favorite find.
This is incredibly sad. A great find. I can't help but think they broke up. They were distant...
In a way, it makes me think of my own situation. The man I love actually IS on a different continent... yet I feel so close to him anyway.
That doesn't completely undo the need to be with him, but this poignant find has made me simultaneously happy and sad about this all on very different levels.
Go I'm in Boston! Don't let them talk shit like that!
Haven't been here in months, what happended to that ALL CAPITAL tool SALT? Dead? Hopefully.
Did everyone miss the obvious.....What the heck was she doing buying a purse at a comic book store? When I go into a comic book store I always think to myself "I wonder how good the selection of purses going to be like today?"
Stating The Obvious, that's so funny! I mean, really, that's hilarious.. on the other hand, they might have pretty cool purses at comic book stores. I need a new purse, actually. Think I'll go to Emerald City Comics and see if they have a cool one.
No, Stating, someone else up there said something to that effect. (6:23 AM) But apparently this comics store sells all sorts of fun and funky stuff: shot glasses, pint glasses, rock and roll tour posters, CDs DVDs, Hillary Clinton nutcrackers, George W Bush toilet bowl scrubbers and, it would seem purses. (Oh I do so hope this one was purple patent leather!)
Oh...it's a heartache...nuthin' but a heartache...
Great find!
I'm in in boston:
That's because you haven't looked far enough. They're not just in Boston anymore. Here in N.H. they have put a total of 3 small independent stores out of business from the southern part of the state to the Upper Valley, and are in the process of ousting yet another one in Lebanon, N.H. I don't come here to start fights, nor do I come here to call or be called names. In regard to the comic reference I made, I was referring to the LACK of comics compared to days of yor in trade for merchandising.
I feel like this everyday. Well, most days:(
My husband and I are going through some things right now and this is exactly how I feel. I'm saving this and replacing Adrian's name with my husbands. Maybe he'll finally understand.
Man, that feeling is the pits. They could have just written a little note. But to spend the time drawing the continents...I can only imagine what thoughts were flowing through the writer's mind during that time. I was feeling pretty okay. Now I feel a little sad.
Something keeps drawing me back to this....
"I know how she feels"- Dito.only I got the divorce request in an email!
At least I have this continant all to myself now. I have to say It is an alone feeling, but I have my own space to be alone....
just space to work on me!!
Damn thats deep:P
This looks like my English teacher's handwriting.
She probably didn't write it, but I like her more now than I did yesterday.
to lovelorn in canada,
i didn't mean the relationship would get better
i meant life in general
with or without that person
I got the feeling of an inter-racial relationship having problems... my instinct was that one of them was Latin and the other Black... but that's just me (and probably because I am in a similar relationship, haha).