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<div dir="auto">Happy to have you back, Brother. I'm happy to buy you a beverage any time.</div><div dir="auto">Steven</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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<div dir="auto">On August 2, 2023 7:34:52 PM Dave Vick via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">Um, hi. Remember me? It's been a minute... Okay, actually it's been</div>
<div dir="auto">around 22 months, but you know what I mean.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I was having lunch the other week with an old friend who's the Asst.</div>
<div dir="auto">House Manager of my old theatre, the Wharton Center at MSU (and a</div>
<div dir="auto">delightful young lady*, but that's another story), and it got me to</div>
<div dir="auto">thinking about how much I'd been unconsciously missing the backstage</div>
<div dir="auto">community. Then I got in a Zoom call with Kristi (among others) and</div>
<div dir="auto">the unconscious missing became extremely conscious missing. I'm NOT</div>
<div dir="auto">returning to work onstage; it turns out I actually like bus driving -</div>
<div dir="auto">hey, I never said I was sane - and the few times I did go back onstage</div>
<div dir="auto">in the past year or so were.... Umm... Weird. But it's a process.</div>
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<div dir="auto">So here I am, hat in hand. It feels like I've healed up enough from</div>
<div dir="auto">the utter shyte that drove me out of the Craft two years ago-ish that</div>
<div dir="auto">I can at least come back to the Tavern, if y'all will have me back.</div>
<div dir="auto">I'll just curl up in the corner over here; don't mind me. Not sure</div>
<div dir="auto">who's barkeeping these days, but if you need some glasses washed, or</div>
<div dir="auto">anything else y'all need, lemme know.</div>
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<div dir="auto">* Younger than me, anyway...</div>
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<div dir="auto">-DV</div>
<div dir="auto">(Yeah; *That* Guy)</div>
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