do i have to
Yes, you have to. You have to give me four words or I won't write another page. If you can't give me four little words I won't lay down a a whole page of them for you to read. Wait, that is four words....

Asking you for four words reminds me of high school yearbooks, and having to solidify your existence to a handful of words. And didn't everyone try to make them highly meaningful in their own way. Even those who chose to submit nothing were making a statement. Perhaps not as dense and cryptic a message as those who chose to abbreviate everything in license plate lingo.

And how about those inevitable quotes. Quotes from every imaginable source. Then they would be tied to the person by however loose a string of context or sometimes would be set free with no particular relevance or connection. Just words on a page.

You might have tried the "shout out" approach, listing every friend you could possibly think of who both meant something to you and of course who makes your yearbook blurb stand out more for mentioning them. There were always people who were left out, ommited because they failed some test balancing emotional importance and their status.

Not to say that as teenagers we weren't known to be shallow in some form or degree.

And it's funny as well, that once we left the hallowed halls of our high schools, with yearbooks clutched under our arms, many of us went on to further pursuits of highly condensed verbage, taking the time to prepare dense resumes of skills and experience, and then for some, cryptic and hopeful personal ads, trying to fill the holes our high school sweethearts left as they went from:

Suzie my gf, luv u 4vr!

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SM sks SF to share luv & life