On 30 Aug 2010 17:38:01 -0500, " +Grant. " <+Grant@grant.grant> wrote:
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>The Adventures of Stevie #35
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>These stories were told to me by friends and other people. Some of them
>are true. Some of them are only partly true. Some of them should have
>been true. LOL
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>My first post about Stevie ("Call me Stephen!") was when he was 12 and
>in summer camp and was told by another camper. This was from a time
>before computers would fit on a desk and when people communicated with
>friends in other countries by actual letters sent through the postal
>service. When children did this those friends were called "penpals".
>Carlos is Stevie's penpal in Argentina and knows English. This is a
>fictional contrivance to enable Stevie to tell us his stories because
>he isn't here in person. I think.
>All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
>that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
>Stevie's school is for gifted children who don't fit in regular schools.
>The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
>Stevie is 11 in this story. It takes place 3 weeks after story #34.
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>The Adventures of Stevie #35 "Exploration"
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>Dear Carlos,
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> Chad has been doing very well in his studies. He is learning how to
>find things out for himself. That's very good for him. Research skills
>are very important. It's good for me too, because I have more time for
>other things. Chad still hugs me at least once a day. I don't mind that
>at all. He hugs the other students and the teachers who like it too.
>That's good for everybody. He is a very good student of fighting. His
>ability with gymnastics really helps. He already knew how to fall and
>he has very good body control. I am teaching him more control. When you
>control your body, you are controlling your mind too, which is a very
>good thing, because it helps you use both better.
>
> Mind control helps me mindspeak with Victoria and learn important
>things from her, because it's very hard to concentrate when we are
>holding hands because her sadness is so bad. She doesn't want to be
>living in this world. That's why she lives inside her mind in the
>beautiful stories she makes up and writes down for us. She says writing
>them down makes them more real for her. I think something really bad
>happened to her that made this happen, but she won't tell me what it is
>completely.
>
> I learned some new things about and from Victoria. She told me she is
>a telepath. She was that way from when she was 12. She doesn't need to
>hold hands with people to know what they are thinking, but it is hard
>to understand very much of what happens in their minds because each
>person has a private language of words and pictures and sounds and
>smells and feelings, so it is mostly when they talk to themselves she
>can figure out what they are thinking. She said I am not a telepath,
>but I can feel people's feelings. She said I always could do that but
>didn't know it. She showed me how it works, so now I can feel people's
>feelings in different rooms I can't see or hear into, but not if I want
>to, too much. I have to be almost not thinking about it for it to
>happen. She said it would get better when I'm older. She said I have
>another ability I didn't know I had. I can feel objects without looking
>at them or without using my special hearing. She said I got it mixed up
>with my hearing and didn't know I was doing it. I know now. It's
>strange.
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> All that is strange, but there is something more strange. Victoria
>said she is hiding from people who want to use her abilities in a bad
>way. She said I should be very careful not to let people know I can do
>these things, or they would make me do bad things and do bad things to
>me to study how I do them. I don't want to believe people would do
>that, but I have to believe her because father would. She said I can
>trust Dr. Knot and Kit and father, and the Abbot, and nobody else
>unless father says so. I agree with that. She reads minds, so she would
>really know. I really like knowing for sure. She showed me how to use
>my abilities to check if anybody is spying on me, even if they use
>electronics, so I can talk with people I trust about secret things in
>real private.
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> Victoria knows about the Abbot. She went there to learn from him
>before her trouble started. There is one more thing she taught me,
>which is how to close my third eye so I don't see auras when I don't
>want to, which is most of the time. She said I should keep it open as
>much as I can, so I will get better with these new abilities, and
>discover and learn about knew ones. I will, but not when I'm with
>friends. I found out right away you HAVE to let your friends have
>privacy from you, or they can't be friends. I don't know how to explain
>why, but it's true. I don't want to tell you how I found it out. I
>don't even want to think about it. It makes me feel dirty and mean and
>really horrible to know private things and secrets about people. I
>would get rid of that ability if I could, but she said I can't. I don't
>know how Victoria lives with that. I just thought maybe she doesn't
>want to.
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> Victoria said she taught me all she can about what she should teach
>me about the things I already could do but didn't know I could. She
>said it would be bad to try to teach me different things I didn't know,
>because they would keep me from learning things she didn't know which I
>might be able to do. That sounds true so I didn't argue. She loves me.
>I know that. I love her too. We know it every time our hands touch. She
>wants to help and protect me. All that's not enough. She did all she
>could for me, and now she wants to be left alone in her imaginary
>world, where she doesn't have to be sad. Love forces me to respect what
>she wants and needs even if I don't want to. I am very sad for her. She
>told me not to be, because she is happy there. It doesn't help. I cry
>for her at night sometimes. Then I let Jeremy hug me to sleep. Not the
>real Jeremy I really wish for, but my memory of him. That's what love
>is for, and lots of other things too.
>
>
>Your friend,
>
>Stephen
Dear Grant,
Very intriguing. Will you address Victoria's issues?
Sincerely,
HMS Victor-In-Our-OWN-Imaginary-World Victorian
God Save the Queen.
God Bless the Prince of Wales.
God Preserve the Windsors.
Rule Britannia!
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