"Lawrence (Lonnie) Odell Bennett"
Scanned from a photo negative using my new scanner. He was my first, true love boyfriend. We were utterly different personalities, temperaments, interests, and intellects. Vive la différence!
We should be married right now. He died of Aids in summer of 1997. 😢😿
"Lawrence (Lonnie) Odell Bennett"
Scanned from a B&W photo negative, using my new scanner.
Lonnie was my first, true love boyfriend. We were utterly different personalities, temperaments, interests, and intellects. Vive la différence!
I had forgotten all about (one)
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"Our Only Wedding Portrait"
Here is Lawrence "Lonnie" Odell Bennett and myself, around 1977. My first boyfriend! I was so in love with him. Were he alive today, I fully believe we would be an old married couple. He died of Aids in 1997.
His last dying wish on the day he died was to (continued)
"Lawrence (Lonnie) Odell Bennett (Two)"
I took two photos of him that long ago 1970's day. I got him to smile for me. I was 21, and he was 23 or 24.
Scanned from a forgotten B&W photo negative, using my new scanner. This photo is precious to me.
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I had forgotten all about this photo until I saw it tonight. Seeing it has hit me like an emotional ton of bricks. We should be married right now.
He was very humble, and extremely kind hearted, with a gentle soul. My mom liked him. Lonnie died of Aids in summer of 1997. 😢😿
A truly beautiful and bitter sweet gesture. I wish I were there today with my camera.
I would add Lawrence Odell Bennett (boyfriend) and Terry Blackstone (a good friend). 😥😓
Lawrence (Lonnie) has reincarnated as my boy cat, Lonnie Blue💙🤍🩵. He so wanted to be with me again, and so here he is.
"Fred Brooks"
My starter boyfriend (right), and Suzie (his tag along fag hag) in Los Gatos, 1970. I was not in love; It was more of a first gay experience.
He later committed suicide.🥺
Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency. (ONE)
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"Lawrence (Front) and John (Two)"
I forget whether I set this one up in Lonnie's kitchen, or caught a spontaneous photo moment.
His full name for search engines: Lawrence (Lonnie) Odell Bennett.
November 1982. Agfachrome transparency, scanned to digital.
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"Maxine G. (My Mother)"
Maxine (on the right) with a friend of my sister Judy Rae, on the day she married Gene Poole in 1980. Gene was by FAR my favorite husband of hers.
Scanned from film negative (these were in my sisters things that were dumped off at my home).
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"Husband Two (of Three)"
My sister Judy Rae, marrying Gene in the 1980s. Gene was by FAR my favorite husband of hers. He was a US Army Ranger, who was in Vietnam in the early 1960s. Unlike husbands one and three, this one was intelligent and had a sense of honor.
I did not take these photos. 1/x
When i repost, I will recount the story. The one in the foreground, Lonnie, was my first boyfriend.
He reincarnated as one of my cats, also Lonnie. His dying wish was to be with me again. Wishes do come true!
"Prince Lonnie Blue"
Lonnie interrupted from his window ledge birdie gazing by my camera. He really is a most beautiful boy (my first boy cat). He sleeps up by my head every night, displacing the two female cats. 😾Judy resents him!
May 18, 2022.
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The next day I got a phone call from a guy who told me that Lawrence had died of aids, a few days earlier. I told him who I was. He replied, "Oh, I know who you are." I asked him whether we had ever met. He said, "No. Lonnie spoke of you in his final hours of life. He said that you were +
watching a show on Prime and it's supposed to be a heartbreaking scene where a character is wailing "it was AIDS wasn't it? he died of AIDS oh my god" but the subtitles were "he died of eggs oh my god"
tfw death by egg
It's utterly fascinating. How many people were involved in this poster without saying "hey should we use a different photo of Bale, he looks a bit like a goober"
God my first one was drawn on bristol and then scanned in 2 halves because my scanner wasn't big enough. On a $150 Toshiba laptop that I won in a raffle at my shitty job.
We were in it for the love of the game
i don't think i would be able to find the pic of scott from when he bic'd his face and head but he did it right before my birthday the first year we were married and i was horrified lol
"I Have Film in my Camera"
This is what I said to Lonnie (Lawrence) in July 1982, and suggested we go to the Old Tacoma dock for a photo shoot. We were no longer an item, but I loved him as a dear friend!
This was a happy day for both of us.
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Oh yea since it's popular right now and unlike 90% of the people weeping right now my family is from there and all.
I'm glad Navalny died, he was a fascist and just because he hated a different fascist doesn't mean we have to pretend he was anything but trash who deserved everything he got.
One time when we were buying a car the dealer called him my boyfriend and it was like three weeks after we had gotten married and he wanted to walk out of the dealership because he was like IM HER HUSBAND
missed seeing Lonnie before he died. I of course did not know this at the time. Even now I believe I made the right choice giving my all life to Danilo and his sweet mother, Maria.
Choices...
So my cat, Lonnie Blue, is Lawrence "Lonnie", reincarnated. I know this in my soul. Thanks for reading.
my husband is English (and now American). One of our country besties, should be easy, right? It took such a long time, even though we were married, and he was coming from the UK. We had to hire a lawyer, it still got turned down (incorrectly). So many hoops, thousands of dollars.
"August Summer"
My dad took this beautiful photo in August 1960, as we are headed to Princess Louisa Inlet. He had a good eye, when he wasn't drunk. Both my older brother and I inherited this trait.
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Kodachrome transparency, scanned.
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Here is another foto of me (right) and my brother, Bobby, from back in 80's.
He takes after our dad, while I am definitely my mother Maxine's son.
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My uncle Michael was a good dude, I always liked him. He was my father's brother so of course he knew the family stuff and distanced himself from him and in a way also from us. We talked about it, we were good. He once said it was funny, we were so similar, I should have been his kid.
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FWIW, my mum and dad married when he was 32 and she was 2 months short of 23, he died last year aged 90, they were still married.
