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Kim Em has been a great supporter of the TG fiction community, and I'm sure a lot of people will mourn her passing.
Please also hold Piper and Bill in your prayers/thoughts as they come to terms with their loss.
Karen
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Thank you Karen.
Please be sure how sorry we all feel at her loss.
Please give Piper and Bill my fond consideration.
Thank you for letting us know.
Take care.
Sarah Lynn
Requiescat in pace
My heart goes out to Piper and the other members of Kim's family.
Take care,
Karen J. Taylor
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Me too
I too want to offer my condolences. I've been following the blogs about Kim's declining health;
they spoke so clear and loud about how much Kim meant to Piper, and those of you who knew her.
You are in my thoughts and prayers in this time of grief...
~~~love, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Condolences
I am deeply saddened to hear the news. Such a sorrowful loss.
They shall be in my prayers
As well as my thoughts.
Melanie E.
Like A Candle In The Wind.
We have lost a guiding light of our community...and I have lost one of my dearest, most special friends.
Kim was there for me at the very beginning of my journey through this madcap, monkey-barrel world of TG. She was my guide, my confessor, my severest critic, and my beloved friend. She was there the night I almost left this world, and she helped me find my way through the darkness, back into the light, along with Prue and Neri.
She inspired me, she mentored me, and she loved me, and I love her with all my heart.
"How am I supposed to live without you?
Now that I've been loving you so long.
tell me, how am I supposed to live without you
and how am I supposed to carry on?
when all that I've been living for is gone.?"
Whatever skill I might have as a storyteller, is only there because you nurtured a small seed, you helped it grow and you watched it blossom. Though my heart is broken, I know that you are in a better place and no longer hooked up to machines, no longer in pain.
I cry for my loss, our loss, but I exult in your life, your lessons, your wonderful, loving heart, and your tender compassion for others.
Rest in peace, my sweet, sweet Kim. Your light will never go out. I'll keep it burning in my heart, as long as I live.
Now I need to go do some crying.
I sign this,
Cathy_t_ because that's how you knew me.
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Such a sad day
I really liked Kim Em's story about going to the 1967 World's Fair and was hoping it would be finished; now I, along with her family and so many of her online friends, am saddened by her passing. No matter how inevitable it is, no matter how much we *know* it will happen, the fact of the death of someone we care about is like getting hit with a runaway truck with no brakes.
May Piper, Bill and family be able to function for the first days after her passing and grieve as they must without losing the ability to do what has to be done.
In respect-filled sorrow,
KR
Such A Loss For All Of Us
In the passing of Kim. My heart goes out to Piper and Bill and Family. Take Care Piper my friend and know that you are much loved.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Losing a friend hurts
I wish I'd known Kim better than I did. My thoughts go out to her loved ones now, Piper and Bill and others.
Hug someone you love for me, please.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Another candle has gone out.
I didn't know her well, only the bit of contact over at storysite. She was always very nice and sweet to me. What I can see is how much she meant to so many here. I wish so much I had known her better. My best wishes goes all of those who loved her so.
Big caring huggles for Piper, Bill, Cathy, and all of those who loved her.
grover
She meant something to a few ...
I didn't know her but she certainly was important to some one out there as are we all. God bless her.
marie c.
marie c.
Goodbye Kim Em
I did not know her but my heart and my soul go out to her friend.
So her body is no long with use but soul is not gone it live in use all has we remember her at her best. so now i say my goodbye to soul of hope and keeper of light that she was.
Goodbye Kim Em let your soul find road to heven easy than your road in life :,{
shi_long
light of hope
here im back
Thank you for posting to everyone.
I'm sure Piper will be too busy, too tired, and too overwhelmed to do much for a while
Holly H Hart / Logan
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Expo Summer will continue.
I just want to say thank you to everyone that has expressed their condolences over the phone, on IM, or on this, and the many other message boards, but I also wanted to assure everyone that Expo Summer will continue.
Kim had me promise her, that I would continue the story, and over the past couple months I managed to get a lot of insight from her on what she wanted to happen and how.
I've shared the last 8 years of my life with Kim and, and her with me, and hope to be able, with those other friends close to her, to be able to finish the story as she wanted.
I will post information on the memorial service either here, or on the blog but just an FYI, for those of you that know where, Kim will probably be laid to rest with her parents in the town where she grew up.
-Piper
Kimberly Elizabeth Fox (08/28/1955 - 06/11/2008)
Sorry to hear of Kim's passing
My heart and prayers go out to Piper and Bill. I knew Kim from her involvement on the TGChristians group site. I've always loved Kim's stories and have several downloaded on my computer. I shall cherish them all the more now with her passing.
Another light has gone out here on earth, but I know that God has welcomed her with open arms. At last she can be all that she can be, resting in His arms.
God Bless all her family.
Hugs
Patricia
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http://members.tripod.com/~Patricia_Marie/index.html
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper ubi femininus sub ubi
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Ahh Mannn! I'm gonna miss her (cry)
Why is it that all the good ones go home to our creator early?
At least she's no longer in pain, and she'll be with the "Greatest Authors" in Heaven.
Now we that are left, have to get over the hurt of a loved one passing.
Piper and Bill I hope your grieving period is short after losing a love one, and I will say a prayer for you both.
My request is that all of Kim's stories be reposted here in TS/BC as a Memorial
Pro Libertate (For liberty)
Family Crest and Motto
I hope that everyone who reads this will understand the loss I feel too.
With the passing of so many people that I have come in contact with (even if its only threw their writings) affect even a coldhearted S.O.B. like me!
And my ability to put into writing they way I feel sometimes (more like 100% of the time) flies like a "Lead balloon"
Thank You
ChrisW
To Sad
[email protected] Good night sweet Lady
Cavrider----Just another " Grunt."
Sympathy to Piper and Bill...
My wife and I both wish to express our deepest sympathy to all that knew and loved KimEm. She did so-o-o-o very much for the 'T' community in general, that included hosting fiction sites and contributing to the fiction genre.
She will be greatly missed,
Lisa E and wife.
May Angels Speed Her to Her Rest
I've had the pleasure of knowing Piper and Kim for a number of years.. We even had the chance a couple of times to get together in Manhattan for lunches when we all attended the Computer shows at the Javitz Center. Kim was a wonderful caring lady with a great sense of humor and I will miss her very much.
Another sad loss
While I didn't know Kim personally I've read and enjoyed her work posted here .Piper,Kim and her family will be in my prayers.Amy
So sad
I did not know her but she wrote well, albeit the two works I am most familar with were never finished.
But then her health problems explain much of that.
53, God, she was only a few years older than me, a spring chicken.
Piper, if you can, continue and complete her unfinished works as a monument to her and as a way for you to remember her and ease your pain.
I still remember my mom dying over many months from cancer. It is trite, but whatever your faith or whether you believe there is no God or deities, Kim is at peace.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. I hope that before I die I find a person to love as much as you did Kim.
John in Wauwatosa
Kim's passing
Piper my condolenses. I am sorry I never got to personally meet Kim. My prayers are with you. May Kim be in a better place.
Kim
While talking on the phone with Kim a while back, I came to realize that I actually knew her from years ago. Then she and Piper and Kitten and Cat showed up on my doorstep and I was able to confirm that. She was a great lady, and I will miss her. I know from having lost other loved ones, that Piper and Bill are hurting right now, and while the hurt never leaves, it does become bearable over time. Its that time frame that makes it so bad. Hang tough Piper, it will get easier. Let me know if I can do anything. Maybe I can see you in a while.
I don't know what to say...
I cannot even imagine the loss you feel, but please know that all of us at the Gabyzone and here at BigCloset are right here for you. Please don't hesitate to contact or talk to us. My heart goes out for you Piper.
Love
BigCloset TopShelf
Another sad day.
Like many I did not know Kim, but did enjoy her writings, and appreciated all she did behind the scenes to keep many sites active.
May those close to her have the strength to carry on, both now and in the long term.
Let the service be a celebration of her life and achievements,
and may she rest in peace.
A
Kim Em's Passing...
My sincerest condolences to Piper and her family! I only knew Kim from her work but 53 is much too young to be taken from your loved one's! You will all be in my thoughts and prayers!
Blossom
RIP Kim Em
all of us who have been touched over the years by Kim's writing and piper's our hearts and prayers and strength are with you.
I pass a hug and an angel feather to light the darkness,
I pass a word in the night,
a gentle touch and a kiss
to those who go before we will never forget you or your heart and grace
Rest well Kim, sleep in the arms of angels where you belong
Piper and Bill though you are but names in the night you are in our hearts and my prayers. Please remeber if we remeber those that have gone before then they do not truly die.
Alllie Elle AKA Allie AKA Emma AKA the pain in the butt
to hug is to be and to be is to be hugged
view the world through the eyes of a child and relearn the wonder and love
Allie elle loved and cared for and resident of the kids camp full time
to hug is to be and to be is to be hugged
view the world through the eyes of a child and relearn the wonder and love
Allie elle loved and cared for and resident of the kids camp full time
Thank you for being there for us :)
I did not know Kim but read what Piper wrote in the blog. I felt my heart tighten while reading how ill Kim had become. It brought me to tears today to read she passed away but a tiny part of me is happy so many took the time to remember her and find the time to express their feelings of thankfulness.
Thank you Piper for being there for Kim. Thank you Kim for being there for us even if a lot of us did not know you were responsible.
I hope you are in a better place and at least are relieved from your pain. If you get another go on this world I hope you get dealed better cards this time.
I think both of you won for both your and our sake.
Thank you so much for that
tight hugs
Holly
Friendship is like glass,
once broken it can be mented,
but there will always be a crack.
Kim EM - rest in peace
It is a sad day and a loss for all those friends of Kim.
Words are so inadequate.
Hugs .. Brian
Moving on to immortality
It is sad that we have lost a sister and a friend.
Still, we should celebrate her life, her art, her joy.
She is with us always so long as we remember and hold her dear.
I share the pain of those she leaves behind and pray that their pain will be less with time.
Janet
Mistress of the Guild of Evil Blonde Proofreaders
Janet
Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders
To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.
Piper, Please accept
Piper, please accept my sincere condolences. I know how devastating the loss of someone so close can be. I shall be thinking of you.
Love and Hugs,
Gabi
Gabi.
Words are not enough...
to express my feelings about Kim's passing. So I will not say too much. I'm very sorry, never having gotten to know her. Only her stories I remember, as so many other people here too. I'm no religious woman, yet I hope Kim is in a better place then she was for the last few days.
My thoughts are with you Piper and Bill. May you have the strength to continue was Kim asked you.
*hugs*
Saphira Leonie Gardner
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>> There is not one truth only out there. <<
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>> There is not one single truth out there. <<
Kim's Passing
Hello all,
Don't even know where to start here. My name is Karen and I am a married lifelong CD/TS in my 50's.
I found Kim's Expo series and read I think all the available chapters. I had no idea that Kim had passed away as I Googled to find out if there was an end to the story anywhere.
Many parts of the Expo story hit so close to home I just had to find the rest if any.
I was never abused physically as badly as Kimberly as a child but I did get a lot of emotional abuse. Most of my abuse were from so called friends and their parents about why I was so different. If I could have only opened up to my mother who knows what direction my life would have gone in. My mom is gone for many years and I know she would have given me the same love and understanding as Kimberly's parents did.
I am currently in a long term marriage with an incredibly understanding wife who lets me be me.
Kim seemed to have a way with the words she used. I became part of that story and cried with Kimberly as she lived her life. The antagonists made me want to do thing that no normal person would do. She had the ability to make me feel the anger. the frustrations and the happiness of all the characters. She made them very real.
I never met or spoke to Kim or anyone here but please, to the friends and family that Kim left behind, let me give you all my sincerest heartfelt condolences to a person that came alive to me as I read her stories.
Sincerly Yours,
Karen
[email protected]
Welcome Karen.
Kim's passing left a big hole in a lot of people. We have lost several in recent times like that. They touched us all, especially those that may have known them personally.
Re: Expo Summer....Kim's best friend and roomie spoke extensively with Kim before she passed about how she wanted the story to finish, and she has all the notes. She intends to try to finish it as Kim wanted, but was unable to do. Keep watch here as it will be posted when done. It will not be easy, and take a while, but a promise made will be carried out.
Please accept my sincerest condolences
She will be missed.
NB
So sorry
I didn't know her, but I am sorry for the family's loss, as well as the loss this community has experienced and will continue to feel throughout the coming days and weeks. May God console and comfort all of us at this time. God bless, dear ones. 'drea
Love, Andrea Lena