Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:26:01 EST -- Will This struggle ever end...I have began a struggle so very long ago. I can barely remember how it started. I was a young trader in the new territory bought by our great president Thomas Jefferson from France. It was a wild new place. A little bit of money and my musket i was off to strike my claim in this new world. I grew up in the middle of Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. My dad was a fairly rich doctor and my momma.. Well she lover her laudinum. I knew that i was destine for better so when i turned 16 i knew that this was my one shot. I was about a fortnight from my home and i was camped out in a nice apple orchard. A stranger came up to the fire and asked if he may sit a spell. Days back then were SO different. People were way more honest... Or though i thought. We drank the last of the hot coffee i had and he asked if i wanted some "Fire Water". I said sure. I wasn't much of a drinker then. I got hammered that starry night. All i remember is him coming over to me and telling me these three things: "Now you'll have to play his game." "Never stay up until sunup ever again." and last but certainly not least... "i hope you like the taste of blood, son. That is what's gonna keep you alive." Then he stabbed his thumbnail into my neck and i could feel myself start to die as drunk as i was. That's a hell of a feeling. Next thing i know i'm surrounded by dirt everywhere and i couldn't get out!! So i began to claw my way out before i died. Little did I know was that i was already dead. I got out and he was nowhere to be found. I could feel deep in myself that i was different somehow. It wasn't until i took my first life that i knew how. I drank too deeply from the bowl. She died right there in my arms. I honed my skills as a predator, statesman, a snake oil salesman, and a vampire. I've been alive for over 200 years and i've watch thousands of my close friends die and wither away like dust in the wind. I have survived, no matter the cost or consequences. I've built a vast powerbase of people, property, "friends", and money. You wouldn't know me if i passed you on the street at night. I'm a master of just blending in, but sometime when you least expect it... I'll be there... Waiting for my turn at your measly life... So people choose my way through free choice and some others have to see their daughter lose the left thumb before they see it my way... You all come around to the dark side. I'm always there just waiting... That is one thing i have learned in my time on this earth. Patience... Its true... Good things come to those who wait or the ones with enough balls to just fucking take it. I'll see you very soon, but will you see me? Remember this as the funny guy with a limp walks by you... Ha ha ha ha ha