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Old 11-06-2009, 11:13 PM   #1
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I want to acknowledge that you are someone, Reyn... a real live person

Through every up and down you have persevered! I think you are a little like me... you make the best of the moment you are in... or at least you try. And that all balances on whether or not we're manic or wallowing in depression or somewhere in between.

I don't think you write too much. I learn so much more when you write.

Thank you for your kind words to me.

I didn't have pain when I found my letters to my Dad. They were like a journal of my life. I may write a book one day. I think about it all the time. I think I might start by scanning them and trying to put them into some type of order.

Please don't say you're not deserving... because that simply isn't true. Think about what I said - you have always influenced me... over these past 10 years... how amazing is that? I guess its because I have watched Alffe and Ptr.

I think its good for us to stir up thoughts in each other... I know we always try to be gentle... and when we don't , well, we feel just awful... but for the most part, we are a caring bunch, eh?!!

I'm going to be away for about 5 days after tomorrow so excuse my absence (altho I may have some computer time and pop on). I'm taking another flying leap into an unknown but exciting void... so my energies are elsewhere...

Addy (that singing face is a hint as to where I'm going and what I'll be doing!)
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Old 11-07-2009, 09:20 AM   #2
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I am reminded of one of my daughters saying to her sister.."don't tharapy me!"...but reading here this morning I feel that is just what we try to do for each other, hoping that a light will go off and we'll begin to see ourselves as others see us.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link the saying goes. Our link continues to hold regardless of how weak some of us may feel.

I repeat myself when I say that a handful of you, picked me up off the floor those many years ago and gave me back my life and I will be forever grateful for that. My life is not perfect and I struggle to continue living it sometimes but as Addy says, that just makes me human.

I'm so grateful to Doc John for giving us a home when John Lester could no longer provide one.

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