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Aussie Chris:
Great to have you back Nancy, we kept the camp-fire warm for ya!
Peter John Shields:
I agree with Aussie Chris Nancy,
welcome back...
Impish:
Welcome David and Paul!
What an encouraging story you both tell. I also had allowed myself to become isolated in a fashion, and it's thanks to Brokeback Mountain that I'm trying to broaden my horizons again.
Hmmm... anyone here from Albuquerque? ::)
PS: anybody interested in starting a frappr map for Bettermost members?
vkm91941:
Hey everyone here at Better Most!
My name is Victoria, I'm 49, the widowed mother of two boys (Jared 12 and David 16) and a 13 pound holy terror mini dachshund named Miss Sassy! LOL yes that is her acting as my avitar. I'm an LVN, and care for my invalid Dad who is 81 and live in San Diego California. I love film, books, music, live theater and the ocean.
I am another refugee from IMDb. I began posting on the Brokeback Mountain board way back in late August/early September when the film was at the Venice Film Festival. I had been a fan of the story for 8 long years and still have my copy of the October 1997 New Yorker.
I have several really close gay friends including, my best friend EC who was my Man of Honor in my wedding..and is godfather to my oldest son. He and I saw BBM together the first time, took my son the second time and I went alone 2 times after that so I could weep in peace. No film has ever touched like this. After my husband died, I didn't want to go on. but I had to for my boys, and in order to do that I shut down and shut off a big part of who I am. This film ripped my heart open again and gave me back my life. I'm not shut off any more and as a result of that I took a chance on someone recently and he has turned out to be a lovely man. I don't know what life has in store for us, but I'm not going to waste what's here now, I'm going to make the best of it and see whats down the road a piece.
Thanks for having us here and for letting us share.
cmr107:
Hi everyone! I'm Courtney, a 19-year-old college student in the Chicago area. I'm another refugee from IMDb, but I like it so much more here!
I saw BBM the first time with a friend when we were both home for winter break. On the way home we talked about how good it was, but I just thought it was like any other movie that I really like. The next day I had to go back to school. We have a 'January Term' here, in which you take only one class during all of January and it counts as a regular semester course. My class ended at noon, and we didn't even have our textbook for the first two weeks, so I found myself with a lot of time on my hands. I realized I was still thinking about BBM and didn't really know why. I wandered over to the IMDb BBM board (I'd never been to a message board before) to see what other people were saying about it. I was delighted to find MANY other people who were also obsessing, even more than me! When a group of my favorite people there decided to leave that board to get away from trolls and invited me along (thanks again Elle!) I was happy to join them. We became a little family. I was very upset when trolls began reporting our best and funniest (and completely non-offensive) threads and getting them deleted. Everyone panicked and I was afraid our group would disband. Then yaadpyar informed us that our wonderful host Phil was inviting us over here to BetterMost. I'm not a big fan of change, so I was reluctant at first, but this is so much nicer than IMDb. Thank you so much Phil!
Unfortunately I don't have a story about how this movie changed my life, aside from not getting anything done anymore because of my obsessing over the movie and my new family here. Since everyone else is sharing personal information, I will say this: My biggest fear is never finding love even half as powerful as Ennis and Jack's. I know I'm only 19 (the age Ennis and Jack were when they met!) and have plenty of time, but it still freaks me out.
Well, that's my story. Thanks again Phil! I'm so happy to be here!
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