"Letter from Paul 1 (by Gwen Lauterbach)" genre: Lies
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	Full title: Two Letters from Paul to his Girlfriend Dee Dee written in the Late Summer of 1965 on the Lightship Frying Pan with most of the Good Parts taken out Gwen Lauterbach's contribution to THE SHIP THAT LIES AT THE BOTTOM, a live event performed April, 2001 aboard the lightship Frying Pan. Read by Mark Lauterbach.
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	Lyrics August 31, 1965 Dear DeeDee, I saw the most bitchin thing this morning. We get up at O five hundred, which is 5:00 AM to you civilians, and oh shit to most of the other guys. I just think about it as hey it's dawn patrol again only instead of County Line and the waves I got the USS Frying Pan and work. Haven't seen anybody surfing here yet but I haven't been here real long. But this morning I saw the sun come UP over the ocean which was like amazing I just stood there thinking Paul you aren't in LA any more. That's the Atlantic Ocean and if you went across it you'd run into France not China. It was kind of exciting but kind of sad, too, because I thought Dee Dee's 3000 miles away and I don't know when I'll see her again or the sunset on the water like it's supposed to. I miss you, baby girl. This ship I'm on is a floating light house. I never heard of one before but ti sits out here off the coast of North Carolina and keeps ships off these Frying Pan shoals. I don't know why the shoals are called frying pan but that's why the ship is called Frying Pan. So far, one day, it seems pretty okay and boring. It's noisy as hell cause the generator is always running to keep the lights going. Two light towers with lights going all night and in the day if it's foggy. The other guys say that's when it's bad cause the fog horn is always going off and you can't sleep. Pirates used to come in here and plunder the ships that wrecked on the shoals. Even Blackbeard, Somebody told me there's alligators here. Not on the ship but in the swamps and stuff here. Like the Alligator Farm by Knotts' Berry Farm. Maybe you could come out and visit? That'd be cool. Could be worse too. I could be in VietNam, huh? Like my grandma says count your blessings. Love, Paul

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