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requested by anonymous 

I do so need this for my mobile voice mail message… 😉 

In Dylan’s love letter he writes LOVE(D) as in passed tense but also present tense hopefully this made sense do you know why?

Because he wrote it speaking to her in the present tense but knowing that he would be gone from this world soon. He had one foot in the present and one foot in the future where he would no longer exist. He wanted her to know that he loves her, right now, while writing the letter and he had loved her after he was gone. It was a suicidal love letter..and he never truly intended to send it.  It was more for himself emotionally in that he fully confessed and said what he wanted to say to the girl he would never have that never really was aware that he existed.  

It is beautiful but ever so sad and filled with longing unfulfilled.

Whoopsy!  *record scratch sound*

renounce  rəˈnouns/
To renounce is to officially give up or turn away from. People on a diet usually renounce pizza and chocolate cake, for example.

renowned   rəˈnound/
Known or talked about by many people; legendary, something that’s renowned is really famous. 

Guess we can assume that Sue and Tom did not offer or insist upon proofreading and being a second pair of eyes for Dylan’s final draft University of Arizona Letter of Application.  Assuming your kid is self-reliant and generally perfect isn’t always the best approach.  This is a glaring mistake but funny as hell. Given the volume of Apps that Universities receive, I’m sure they skimmed and overlooked it because, nonetheless, he easily got accepted!   

Just a little Dyl funny for the day to go along with his In Da Clicky Clank 
fux up. 

Hello love, how are you? This might be stupid but I was just wondering. Do you think, as younger kids, Eric and Dylan may have watched the early episodes of the rugrats and shows of that nature?

Hello. ❤  Oh, good heavens no!  lol  Rugrats aired 1991-1994 so they were far too old to be part of the nineties gen kiddie watching toons. They were already 10 and up.  These two little boys were raised on various and sundry awesome (and cheesy) ‘80s cartoons like Smurfs, He-Man, Go-Bots, TMNT (’87 cartoon version), Thundercats, Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, etc… 

how come in dylan’s diversion file, he didnt put that he suffered from depression or suicidal thoughts, whereas it seemed like eric was okay with admitting what he was experiencing?

Dylan avoided volunteering those sorts of mental problems because it would be an instant red flag to the diversion counselor and his parents that he might need to see a therapist while undergoing the program. That was the last thing Dylan would ever want to do because he prided himself on being self-reliant and in charge of his own life.   Instead, Dylan checked off “job” and “finances”. He focused on the literal, concrete problems which involved easy, practical solutions.  He adamantly told his mom and the diversion intake rep he didn’t need to see someone and that he promised he would get his life back on track.

I find it just so hard to believe that Mark Manes never questioned why a 17 year old would need a Tec-9. That’s obviously not a gun you go hunting with.

“If I had really thought about whether he (Klebold) was 18, maybe nothing would’ve been different,” he says, “but it would’ve been legal.”

Manes bought the TEC-DC9 for $500 at the first gun show he attended in August 1998 and practiced shooting it on camping trips.

(Phil) Duran, meanwhile, was working with Klebold and Harris at a Blackjack Pizza shop. He introduced them to Manes at a gun show in Denver because they wanted to buy his TEC-DC9.

“At the gun show, I asked Phil if they were cool,” Manes says. “They were computer guys like me, and ahead of me at that age.”

Manes found a booth with the type of gun he was selling to show the boys what it looked like.

Had the sale not happened, he says, he would have placed an ad in the paper.

He considered the gun a piece of junk.

Klebold asked to pay $300 at the time and the rest later. Because customers must be 18 to get into gun shows and Klebold and Harris were high school seniors, Manes says their age didn’t cross his mind.

“Dylan came over that night. It’s the first time I really talked to him,” Manes says. “He was already working with Linux, an advanced computer operating system, and he was in high school. They needed to wait for their next paycheck to give me the other $200. A few weeks went by, and they gave it to Phil.”

Manes and his friends regularly went shooting in the woods, so that night he extended an invitation to Klebold for him and Harris to go along. And they did several times over the next few months.

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What is amusing about this is that Dylan could’ve gotten a shitty used Tec for far less than $500. lol  The dudes weren’t too smart and savvy with their purchases and chose old, out-dated, crap weapons.

Was Dylan capable of carrying on a getting to know you type conversation with a girl in any capacity? Would she have been the one to keep the conversation going?

Dylan was shy and socially awkward and as Devon mentioned, he generally safely stuck to subjects that interested him and that he knew enough to converse about such as movies and music tastes. So, the girl would have to keep the conversation going initially until he warmed up to her and began to feel more comfortable around her. This could take some time until he felt reasonably comfortable around the girl and had shared some sort of common ground with her to venture further in conversing.