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NNadir

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15. My Les Paul guitar. My parents really struggled to get me that.

Reply to debm55 (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:22 PM

Dec 18

My mother paid for it with a settlement from a car accident.

She was really generous.

She was a great Mom. I find myself thinking of her a lot now that my own life is winding down, her selfless profound love.

(I married a woman of the same nature.)

My mom let me "borrow" that guitar before Christmas to play at a concert at the high school. I felt like a star with that thing on stage in front of my friends although truth be told, I sucked as a guitarist in high school. That thing made me better though, since it was such a pleasure to play.

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