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The song "Pair of Three" is dedicated to my two childhood friends,
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whose names I omit for their privacy. The personality of Stick
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is very loosely influenced by one of them, and the personality of Gibbo
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somewhat less loosely by the other. (Lorna's personality is, of course,
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influenced by mother, and Blujai's by myself.)
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I was a really weird kid. I was self-deprecating, yet, paradoxically,
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every bit as much so an obnoxious self-absorbed know-it-all.
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Worse still, I ran around flailing my arms and shouting complete nonsense.
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No one liked me, and everyone bullied me. Except, that was, for two other kids.
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"Gibbo" was a sweetheart. He really cared a lot about me and my wellbeing,
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as I imagine he did all his friends. He was silly, talkative, hyperactive,
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and always wanted to share and overshare about things he was interested in.
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I was a bit the same way, but he was moreso by far. I mean nothing bad by it.
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Frankly, it was much more endearing when he did it. He was so warm.
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Always excited to see you, always giving big hugs. He would tease,
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make fun, play pranks, and roughhouse, but he meant no harm by it,
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and on the rare occasions he would ever take it too far,
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you could see how much it would hurt him to know that.
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He was a lot like a golden retriever. He had one, in fact,
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and the resemblance was uncanny.
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"Stick" was very nice as well, not so sugary-sweet, but a very good listener.
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He was also quite talented and creative. As good a friend as he was,
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there's no doubt his mind was a dark place. His main interest consisted
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in excessively bloody and gory computer games and web animations.
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He was quite the comedian. We shared a lot of goofiness and silliness,
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though I could not share in his fixation on high-octane violence
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when he would dip into it. Though our conversations would take dark turns,
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I cherished them all the same. He liked to do dangerous things
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and get into trouble, and I served in part to temper these tendencies.
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Also, I had a crush on him. I very much doubt he reciprocated.
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I imagine when our conversations turned to romance (or what passed for it
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at that age), he thought we were just platonically sharing a mutual interest
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in girls, and never even suspected what he was really doing to me.
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In a sense, while "Gibbo" and I spent our days reveling in the early childhood
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we were slowly leaving behind, "Stick" and I spent our days
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exploring the late adolescence which all too quickly approached.
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We have all long since gone our separate ways.
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The song's lyrics are written from the perspective of my past self.
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