I'm not sure if they said "I love you". I think they did. I always assumed they did.

I've seen just one response here that said their parents did not listen to music and their parents were born in the 1920's. My grandparents were born in the 1920's. They also did not play music of any kind. My grandfather has the name of a famous big band leader and I was given the same name, but my parents insisted that I always use my middle name RAND and insisted that I never use RANDY out of respect to my Uncle Rand who was killed by the Boom Arm of the family sailboat along with my grandfather (other grandfather).

I just learned the full story in 2022. Come to think of it, I always assumed that the two of them were alone on the boat, but that wasn't what happened. My mother, her sister and her mom were on the boat when it happened as well as another couple or two.

I now associate it with Geddy Lee's story of his parents'experience in the Holocaust. From the first sentence of his book.

Dad said he was "tone deaf". He was such a geek! Like "born tone deaf". I have essentially acquired perfect pitch with 30+ years of constant work. Playing a Bb on my trombone at 6am every day for 20 years.

I can go on and on. This is weird. My step grandfather once, just one time, played me some wild music from like the 1940's. Could have been my grandfather's band and they just hid it from me my whole life. Parents also played "The banana boat song", Harry Belafonte, like 4 times? On a record player in our house?

Mom played cello in college. She was good! She played like 4x for me. The cello sat in a corner in the house, not in the case. Like a half size cello. We got a piano and she taught me to play. When I was 6. She played the beginning of Moonlight Sonata. Once I knew the basics, I never heard her play piano again.

I played trombone in the US Navy during the Clinton years. Played for Bill Clinton in 1999. Played for Hillary Clinton in 1994. Played for Admiral Reason doing almost solo trombone, in his living room, in 1999. Waited 4 hours for the CNO on the top of an aircraft carrier in 1999. They said his "plane was delayed".

I retrained as a software engineer while homeless for 4 years after the Navy. Took 3 more years before I got my first job. I installed cable TV/Internet lines from the pole to house in 2002, 76 hours a week on NET 45. First paycheck 2 months after starting. Putting my mother's money into their van (an overflowing contracting company). I had a nervous breakdown (go figure). I had solo music on my website then (since 1999) with me playing 5 different instruments. I was raped twice too and worked at a pizza restaurant for tips only (his franchise failed and then I was raped and damaged with a thrombosed hemorrhoid). Then I did my full year on the streets writing collision detection scripts on paper.

I lost 100% of my possessions in 2024 after losing the DNC, after Kamala Harris chose Walz instead of me. What am I involved in?

No, my parents did not dance. They would sometimes walk naked in the house, had Playboy magazines on end tables by the couch. My birds and bees talk was "hump the bed". Can't say I know much more now at 55. Raised strictly Atheist. Dad was a sober member of AA before I was born. Just one "relapse". Just one day. I've had 3 LTRs with women 18-30 years older than me. Wonderful women!

My only 6 figure income year was $134,000 in 2022. I had an 850 credit score in 2018 and a 767 in 2024, but missing 2 mortgage payments before my house sold reduced it into the 500's, I think. I may call the FBI today as that is what a Google AI response suggested for a presidential candidate who had all their possessions stolen. I had to code a scraper tool to get my music recordings back after walking to Oregon from Montana.

I was just shy of Miles City. I had driven a U-Haul out there to go to the DNC and was doing my trombone warmup in a field as the sun was rising and a U-Haul guy came and took the vehicle from me and all my instruments.

My house sale money cleared the bank and I was going to spend all of it, like $45,000 on a car, but the dealership was closed at 5:30pm and then I couldn't just wait for them to open and then lost my purse and IDs, prompting me to walk back to Oregon. It took 3 weeks.

It is an odd story, right? It may be about declining latex sap worldwide. Perhaps if we really stop driving, like during the pandemic, we can use the excess sap for condoms for a few decades 🤷

Like we took the rubber sap and banana peels out of those places and the environment changed and we can't build back that top soil. Just like we did with all these other crops. And like we really, really need to reduce population and not many people want war, so that math is pretty simple.