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since: 11-03-05, id: 924825, Profile Updated: 02-06-09
country: USA
Author has written 3 stories for Naruto.

Amateur: (n) A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.

Curiosity

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.

Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.

Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

Alastair Reid

FATCAT_648@HOTMAIL.COM

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'I reject reality and substitute my own.' (Adam from Myth Busters)

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1. Before the Lights Come On reviews
It's become nothing but habit for her to open her door and see the Uchiha resting against Apt. 247. She doesn't ask questions and he doesn't answer them. Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Neither was love. Oneshot.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,004 - Reviews: 32 - Published: 2-9-09 - Sasuke U. & Hinata H. - Complete
2. Wedding Bells Black and Blue! » reviews
Hinata a topnotch wedding planner has long since labeled romance as possible for everyone but her. That is until wedding planner meets wedding crasher? But the crasher is now best man to the one man who left Hinata at the altar. Now who's in charge?
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 8 - Words: 24,433 - Reviews: 264 - Updated: 7-31-08 - Published: 8-20-07 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U.
3. Gunho! Panic for Love! » reviews
He never wanted a bodyguard, but at the insistence of friends he ordered the best. Expecting a meaty thug, instead he finds a shy blushing Hyuuga. Uchiha Sasuke meet your body guard, Hyuuga Hinata. AU SasuxHina
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,821 - Reviews: 138 - Updated: 5-17-08 - Published: 9-22-07 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U.
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