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Hello guys. Guess I'll have to get a new member name. (Ha) Yes i got the mysterious joke. Now you know, so that's that. Tom has been so great...so, we'll carry on, won't we?

Cheap Gin, I have to answer even though Amber stated it beautifully. I get the feeling you think that I and she went flying to him, begging, praising, etc. He did give off this vibe. He was so open to women, he immediately became the suitor after I called him. That was my first and last act of...

This is so interesting! Amber, you are very articulate; and I wish I had not stayed away for so long. I welcome opinions; and you are so right, MJP. I don't feel hurt and sorrow for what happened at all - well, when it first happened, sure. Then I put it all in a box and forgot about it. When I...

You speak exactly how I feel, Amber. It's so GOOD to know someone else who went through it - I used to think Linda King showed up unexpectedly, but now I think HE contacted her. He was so afraid of being not cool; always talking bad about Ferlingetti and W. Burroughs. How they weren't really up...

Hi, remember me? Hi Amber, interesting story you have and so wierd that you felt as betrayed as I did in Women.Anyway, I haven't been here for a while. What I find so fascinating is this character of this hard-drinking, hard-lovin'(ha!) man he so successfully portrayed himself as...kind of...

Thank you guys so much for what you say. You're honest and kind. I believe you're right. I'll try to hang onto them at least for a while. I did have them appraised by a reputable person - the number he gave us for the 22 letters and everything else was $20,000 to $25,000. Of course an appraisal...

It's nice to get some new feedback. I haven't been on here for a while. I just read that letter again and it gave me that "erkkk!" feeling, the one you get when you wish you had done ANYTHING but what you did. He was soo good at the b.s., hard to put into words the effect of HIS words. It...

During the first part of 1975 Hank and I were exchanging letters, and he was writing Factotum, although at the time he refered to it just as "the novel". He was using his old typewriter to write all his letters, so I assume he typed it.

About all this; I shoved everything Bukowski away for almost 30 years not because of any slobbering lost love thing. Not by any means. I was given a gift when this woman chased me out of his life. All the good things and all the blessings I have received have nothing to do with Hank. Except...

Sorry it came out upside down. My husband says you should be able to rotate the pdf file when it's open. It might be a while before I share more letters. I am kind of protective with them; I don't know why. Well, onward. Someone called the police. I got inside these total strangers' living room...

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Hello to all 2 of you who are reading this. Ha ha. Yeah, I'll get my husband to stick one of the letters in. I have some other interesting souvenirs (sp?) - I have a phone bill belonging to Hank that he sent me (to show me his idea of caring for me), it lists all his calls to me when I was in...

OK, I'm back again. This is silly. I feel like major old trying to work a TV in 1952. That's this thing. My husband gets on and tries to show me stuff and I'm yelling "Keep it simple! I can't do all that complicated crap! Just, just..go away...thank you. Love you." Anyway, my story...I've been...

Hi guys. I'm back and thinking how I haven't read a thing by him (except the stuff he gave me that my husband had framed) and some of the old letters. I have 22 of them, and they are some beautiful words - all lies, ha, mostly. But quite interesting and even, well, sweet. Can I say that? It's so...

Oh yeah? That's interesting. Thinking about it, I think Hank was a teeny bit jeolous of him. A lot of stuff he said back then I took it for the gospel truth, and then, of course, came to see that he was just like everybody else - sad, longing, insecure, telling lies. The difference was, he FOUND...