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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c00660dvldtc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Arial" ><B>Joe Modica's Web Page</B></FONT><B> </B><B>    </B></div> <div> <B>Biographies</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04164643.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Joe Modicas Web Page"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">About Me</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="poetry.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Poetry</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="short_stories.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Short Stories"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Short Stories</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Books</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="pictures_page_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Joes Pictures"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pictures</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="quotes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Famous Quotes"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Quotes</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Links"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Links</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chat Room"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chat Room</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Polls"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Polls</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="forum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Forum"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Forum</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><U>About Me</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>A Dream within a Dream</B></div> <bR> <div> Take this kiss upon the brow!</div> <div> And, in parting from you now,</div> <div> Thus much let me avow - </div> <div> You are not wrong, who deem</div> <div> That my days have been a dream;</div> <div> Yet if Hope has flown away </div> <div> In a night, or in a day,</div> <div> In a vision, or in none</div> <div> Is it therefore the less gone?</div> <div> <I>All</I> that we see or seem</div> <div> Is but a dream within a dream.</div> <bR> <div> I stand amid the roar</div> <div> Of the surf-tormented shore,</div> <div> And I hold within my hand</div> <div> Grains of the golden sand - </div> <div> How few! yet how the creep</div> <div> Through my fingers to the deep,</div> <div> While I weep - while I weep!</div> <div> O God! can I not grasp</div> <div> Them with a tighter clasp?</div> <div> O God! can I not save</div> <div> One from the pitiless wave?</div> <div> Is <I>all</I> that we see or seem </div> <div> But a dream within a dream?</div> <div> -Edgar Allan Poe</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>      </B><B> </B><B>I was born in Salem, VA in 1984. About one year later my friend for life Kenny Owen was born.  I knew the boy before he was a day old and we were best friends from then on.  I began school at North Cross School in Roanoke County. It was a private school full of rich stuck up snobs that would have nothing to do w/ me. So I spent my time w/ Kenny playing Ninja Turtles and pretending like we had our own TV show.  As I began middle school Kenny and I got out of touch but, in 6</B><B>th</B><B> grade I met Long Nguyen the next important piece to my life. I soon went from a scrawny little kid that could not do a single pull-up to a kid equal to the rest of his grade.  I spent my time working to be stronger and better at anything than Long was. I never achieved either. But it kept me busy in my middle school years. Then 9</B><B>th</B><B> grade came and I was off the Patrick Henry High School. I spent my freshman year still trying to be a prep and fit in were I didn't belong. Then came the best, or at least most interesting year of my life… 10</B><B>th</B><B> grade, Kenny was now in my school and I left the preps to hang w/ him. That's where I met the last piece of the puzzle, Summer Morris. I now have my three best friends and I am beginning to stumble through life. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>      Friend come and friends go, some are gone forever and some keep coming back. While relationships tear people apart and bring others closer together.  Its all a never-ending battle always changing yet, exactly the same. This is as far as I've gotten so far and I will update you as the years go by. </B></div> <div> <B>  <img src="HTMLobj-191/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="100" height="100">                              <img src="HTMLobj-192/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="100" height="100">                         <IMG SRC="0c67fab0.jpg" border=0 width="127" height="171" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>    </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>          </B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="392" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="mailto:airofambrocious@home.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:airofambrocious@home.com"><U><B>E-Mail Me</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Idealist Portrait "><U><B>My Keirsey Temperament Test Results</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="266" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 151 WIDTH="254"><div> <B><U>About Others</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bio of Michael Zimmerman"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mike Zimmerman</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bio of Long Nguyen"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Long Nguyen</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bio of Diana"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Diana Lang</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bio of Kris"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f0ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Kristen German</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>