Out of the blue

When out of the blue after many years of prolonged absence he appeared at our doorstep we greeted him with boundless affection. Flabbergasted by the hugs and kisses rained upon him, he was speechless and spellbound. Oh! how we missed this "Goliath of Wits,"without whom our lives would have been stale and lifeless!

The first couple of sentences had to be reworded to assure the reader the absence was his not ours, while the trend is away from unnecessary commas. But, Kuben, see how I myself violate the rule....

Oh! how I assert, usu don't need cap after pucnt

In the second, "that" might be extraneous while "repetitive" might be repetitive

Finally, "for" dangles, while "which" seems to imply inanimate, while the comma ordinarily comes between

Edited to note however how "...missed this "Goliath of Wits,"without..." is somewhat alliterative, but I won't attempt to fix it unless you feel it necessary

Happy to elaborate or correct any typos

Disagree; exclamation mark terminates a sentence, even of one word in length.


Redundant: either many years absence, or prolonged absence.



No "for"; without whom our lives...

Dale, you should spell words out in full when replying to foreign learners, lest you multiply their confusion.

Yea Tes, probably should. However it might prove constructive

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Oh! how I assert, usu don't need cap after pucnt

Tes, practice varies

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=capitalization+after+punctuation

Conceded.

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many years of prolonged absence

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for without which our lives would have been stale and lifeless!




Good'n' Tes, tho I blame impending yardwork, actually those two left me out in the cold

When out of the blue after many years of absence he appeared at our doorstep, we greeted him with boundless affection. Flabbergasted by the hugs and kisses rained upon him, he was speechless and spellbound. Oh! how we missed this "Goliath of Wits,"without whom our lives would have been stale and lifeless!

This looks right?

Yea Kuben, the "prolonged" does seem a bit redundant

The commas are okay too tho the trend is away