In two weeks, it will have been seven years since Sephrina recruited me to come to this site. I was a right mess when I got here. Looking at the Calender, it must have been the night that I returned from the hospital because of suicidal ideation, and had just been told that on the next day, Christmas Eve, I was being thrown out and installed in my own apartment, thus ending abruptly a marriage of nearly 40 years. By the time the divorce was final, it would be 40 years, 4 months. What the hell, this was supposed to be for life !

Since my messy arrival, those here have watched my inept and whiny attempts at adjusting to the life of a woman. For those that follow, this sort of thing is one hell of a shock, but please do your best to survive it. I would be hospitalized 5 more times before life began to seem worth living. My thanks to many people for offering support and for listening to me without complaint. Holly, Cathy, and Beverly were such bricks. Thank you.

Through that, it was a lot of hard work to do voice training, deportment modification, learning the various aspects of social interaction between other women and men. It would take a long time to eventually learn self care so that I was not always a sobbing, needy burden on those who reached out to me.

My health is on the skids at the moment, so I thought it best to say my thank yous' while there is time in case.

Merry Christmas

Gwendolyn