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just wanted to tell my story and hear yours
maggiesmommy GayLee:
thanks lynn...its a good way to get to know pwople...just bare your soul....
Gay
starboardlight:
your post really moved me. I don't think I can offer any more insight than what's already been posted. I just wanted you to know that your words really connected. the love that you have for your friend came through so palpably. you're both lucky that you crossed paths and came into each other's lives.
Aussie Chris:
Hi Maggie, sorry for your loss. What an amazing gift J left with you that you see and feel his presence when you close your eyes. And what a gift that you give yourself that you feel that love and can share it with the world. We are all blessed and fortunate for the existance of J, and the part he has played in bringing you to us. Thank you for being you, and for sharing this touching story.
maggiesmommy GayLee:
you all make me cry...i am the blessed one to have found you...not many people in this world even care to connect like that..their hatred and fears keep them from having any real joy...J freed me completely...and you are right...i hold him in my heart..and i can see him and hear him sometimes..his sister (my daughter in law) and I talk about him and remiisce...she and her family will be taking J's ashes to Key West this summer, and unlike Jack, he will get to be in the place he loved most, forever...
thank you for accepting me in and understanding,that that is the greatest gift of all...not sure if you realizze it, but there is reverse prejudice out there....you really have to win the trust and hearts of the Gay community...of course, this is only natural, seeing the things they have to suffer, but it makes me feel so good to be accepted and be understood to have no prejudice whatsoever and i don't....i really really don't , not since J and BBM...thank all of you, whatever your preference, for accepting me with all my faluts and flaws, into your "family"....
Gay
kirkmusic:
The great thing is, Maggie, you really do get it now. That is so beautiful, having come from where you did.
I lost my Dad to Viet Nam before we ever met. According to Mom he was a great guy but might have been sort of like Ennis' dad when it came to gay people. He was 20 when he died so he might have grown out of it. Who knows? At my most spiritually connected I believe that everything works out for the greater good of all concerned. So maybe Dad was around long enough to give me life and then checked out so that, in death, he could be the father to me that he couldn't be in life. (Whoa. Had to stop for a brief crying fit there. Didn't know that was still so strong.)
On another thread I talked about how, on the way to the costume shop at work to put a button back on a pair of pants that had been missing one for several months, a button had miraculously been sewn on while the pants were sitting in my backpack. I get visitations like that sometimes. What I didn't say was that, stylistically, that button had no business being on those pants. That button looked like it had been put there by a young straight guy from the sixties. If it hadn't been my Dad I don't think the message would have been so specific. This happened the day before my first solo cabaret show.
My point is, J's with you. He really is. Whether or not he ever let's you know in such concrete terms. After a profound friendship in life, he brought you to the movie which brought you here. Heck, maybe he even brought you to my attention so I could tell you all of this. I'd like to thank both of you for sharing your story, first with each other and then with us. It gives me such a sense of faith to know that when people of true compassion are brought face to face with a reality that contradicts a rigid set of beliefs, that the beliefs will fall before human decency does. You're an inspiration, love.
Kirk
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