A black and white photo of a soulful 24 year old Lawrence, sitting in a chair, side lit by a spot light, with a haunting solemn expression for all time and eternity.
I believe he has reincarnated as my cat, Lonnie Blue, because he so wanted to be with me. And so, he is.
Thank you. Seeing him as I remember him was a shock, and a forgotten treasure. I have a second one I will post later from this scene, where I got him to smile for me. 🥲
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. 😢😿
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)
Somehow I rented Something Special from Blockbuster at like 9 years old and was FASCINATED by it and rented it again and again, with never a question from my parents, and I had forgotten all about it until seeing this post
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.
I had a Walkman when I was a teen and for the longest time the only cassette I had for it was this first Asia album.
I had kind of forgotten about it till just now.
Lost my shit when I opened it this morning, I’m covering for someone, and had forgotten until I saw we had 14 new messages. Luckily / annoyingly every one was the same spam nonsense.