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Yea fortune!!  Ed has had some luck (I can't say if it was good or bad).  Let us say he won a big screen TV.  He never watched much TV but had dreams of an HD set in a huge house in Aspen with a football as big as his head.  Ed never had the ambition to actually accomplish this but the dream was a good one and the delusion was enough to entertain anyone who would listen.  Alas, I am the only one who listens because I think every human has value.

So, Ed wins the TV but it falls off the hood of his 1977 Mercury Comet on the way home.  It was no person's fault.  It just happened.  Call it an act of God.

On one hand, "damn!" On the other, "oh well, it was free and it was never really mine".

A few weeks later Ed is showing the signs of loss and grief.  Ed doesn't know this.  He figures that if he doesn't watch TV ever again he won't miss what he never had.  He knows where he was going to put it and how he would hook up his X-box and how cool 'Transformers' would look on it.  But no.  No more TV for Ed for has no outward remorse or sense of loss therefore it never happened.

I want to smack Ed in the teeth with a vacuum cleaner and tell him if he doesn't cry and work through this I'll have to beat his (choose an ethnic skin color) ass until he has a good cry.

Wish me luck and pray for Ed's emotionally constipated heart.

NOTE: It is important to know that Ed doesn't exist.  Someone on this earth shares some parts of his personality.  The rest was made up and embellished so I could work through this complicated emotional obstacle course.  I also made up the TV and the Comet, I did not make up God.