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My Own 1st Year Anniversary With That Film - Your Site Founder Speaks Out

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SFEnnisSF:

--- Quote from: Meryl on January 25, 2007, 02:23:39 pm ---
Maybe as BetterMost goes forward, this should be our motto:  You CAN fix it and you don't have to just stand it.  :)

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I would like to amplify this statement.  :D

MaineWriter:
Phillip,

Thanks for sharing your story. As I approach my 13 month anniversary of seeing the movie the first time, and relive my repeated veiwings in the theater in my mind (by this time last year, I had seen it four times), I am continually reminded of what I need to do to move forward, take hold, take charge, move on. I actually have always been good at this but I realized I was moving forward with the same old, same old...Brokeback gave me the vision to branch off in different directions. BetterMost is one of those directions and I am so grateful for finding this community and making friends with so many wonderful people here.

Thank you, Phillip, for all you do for us, and for our community. It means more than you will ever know.

Leslie

Katie77:

--- Quote from: Phillip on January 25, 2007, 01:36:58 am ---
Of course, I had no idea what the experience would do to me in the days, weeks, months, and now year later.

I recall leaving the theatre stunned, but the real emotional fireworks display would occur the following morning while standing the shower pondering what happened the night before.


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Reading this, brought back the memory of how I felt myself, when I walked out of the theatre after my first viewing....thinking I was the only one in the world who felt that way, wondering what the hell had happened to me, even thinking I was a little crazy for letting a movie possess my like it did.


--- Quote from: Phillip on January 25, 2007, 01:36:58 am ---
Instead, my mission was to create a site that would provoke people to follow the advice of Annie Proulx - finish the story in your own life. 

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Before I had ever heard or read that advice of Annie's, and just from the impact of the movie, I set out to "finish", or rather, "retrace" a journey in my life that started back in the 50's, when my father "came out" and went to live with his male partner.....His story, and my connection with it, had come to an abrupt end when he died over 20 years ago....seeing the movie, made me realize there was a lot of "unfinished" issues, and so I set out to make contact with those that could help me complete his story, and finally understand more about my father.

Unlike you, I was drawn to the movie just by what I had read about it, and I watched the papers constantly for news of when it would be released in my town, and was at the first showing of it....I had no idea of the story line, except for the fact that it was "about two cowboys, who fall in love".....I actually had a vision of it being set in the wild wild west days....so the story, the time setting and the characters hit me like a ton of bricks, it was so close to my own Dad's era.

"Finishing" the story in my own life.....no....I like to think of it more like, "continuing" the story, re-establishing the story of my life, which I do now, with more compassion and understanding, and it all came about, because of this wonderful story.

Thank you, for having the foresight to realize that people like me, and all the other Brokies, were going to need a forum like this, to express our thoughts, meet new friends, and guide us along this road of discovery....I honestly dont know what I would have done without it.

ifyoucantfixit:
   I too would like to second the notions of the rest of the voices here.
This site has been a godsend to me.  I have found a new direction
in my life. I have found a source of information and friends that i do
not know how i would have ever found otherwise.  You are moving
the forum along and continuously making it new and interesting.  I
love the fact that you allow all the members to have full access to services and the information available here.  I believe it is a unique
place in cyberspace.  I think i will only become a face for the future.
It wil be a blueprint for the future sites that imitate it.  I am so blessed
by having this in my life.  Thank you and hope that you have an entirely
joyous new brokeback year.                                 janice

Front-Ranger:
Happy anniversary, Janice!!

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