-- Slavin:
Looked up the name of the Jeopardy! winner (Jesse Green) in the white pages and stayed on the phone with me when we cold-called him and then we all had sandwiches together when he invited us over for tea
-- Slavin:
Editor-in-chief, "The Hunter Hobbit," 1983
-- Slavin:
Taught me how to lace up Doc Martens properly
-- Slavin:
Was with me the first time I ever saw the building I live in now except that it was a parking garage back then
-- Slavin:
Helped me clean up the mess after I spilled the Liquid-Plumr everywhere. We were adding aluminum to release hydrogen gas, as described in the file we'd grabbed off some BBS, god I wish I could remember the names of those early boards
-- Slavin:
Went with me to the Psychic TV show that kind of sucked but whatever
-- Slavin:
Bought me my first set of locksmithing tools and then sent me my first email shortly after graduation (1987!), I just found it recently and it reads "check it out this is going to be big"
-- Slavin:
Countered drama with grace
-- Slavin:
Target for assassination at 4:30AM in the Bronx, we broke into his building and hung over the ledge to see if he was sleeping
-- Slavin:
I kicked her dog once because we were working on the yearbook on Sunday and I had just buried my dad that morning and I know that doesn't excuse it I feel really bad. I'm sorry Suki, you were a really nice dog. Seriously this haunts me.
-- Slavin:
Gave me my first cigarette though I don't think she knows that
-- Slavin:
My first really serious hour-long kiss, in an empty Latin classroom after school with all the lights off
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Was gracious in accepting the Duran Duran poster I bought him. It was 1983, please don't judge me for that.