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‘It’s OK to be gay,’ Dear Abby says

Columnist also supports gay marriage, will be honored by advocacy group

SAN FRANCISCO - For years, rumblings have surfaced on the Internet, conjecture about her casual references to “sexual orientation” and “respect.”

Now, Dear Abby is ready to say it flatly: She supports same-sex marriage.

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High Maintenance, Ha!

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Years ago, in my super masculine stage, I had a wonderful hill climbing motorcycle called an OSSA. It seemed that for every hour of run time, I had three hours of repairs to make.

That was until I got my own Cunny.

Gwenellen

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Hijackers

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A hijack attempt apparently took the Classic BC server (Classic BC, Tuckerspawn, Original BC, Eros Calendar, NaughtyWords, BeastlyThoughts, Ms. Midnite, Qnez mail server, et al.) down sometime this morning. A simple reboot seems to have fixed things with no real damage.

- Erin

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Transsexuality For Beginners

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I visit Zoe Brain's blog regularly, and she frequently produces posts that summarize issues well. She's done it again with her post on TS 101.

Go read it; go share it.

Somehow the facts need to get out, and this is a good start.

Nicole ( a.k.a. Itinerant)

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Important! Crystal's Storysite Servers Outage

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Here's the note from Kim at Crystal's:

Tomorrow (Sunday, Oct 7) morning the servers will be going down at around 11:AM EDT. We'll try to have things up and operating normally as soon as possible. When they come up, the IP addresses will be different, so there might be a delay as the new DNS propagates.

- Kim

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Sex,TG Fiction, and Reader Interest

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Pretty much since I started writing TG fiction, one thing I've tried to avoid is including anything sexual. This was for a number of reasons. For one thing, there seemed to be a lot of such stories already out there. Another reason was ... well, I just wasn't interested in writing them. Lately, I've been thinking of trying to do something that had a bit more ... I guess intimacy.

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Coming in October...

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Okay, there have been recent events. Moving, being back in college, my brother being hit, my brother dying, losing my job, issues with three different writers' groups, having a major falling-out-misunderstanding with another group that I've decided to try to join, seasonal migraines, and even unexplained illness. All of this combined pretty much killed my inspiration for awhile. This month, things are going forward.

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voting

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I have noticed that certain times I can't vote for a story I would like to.Tonight I was going to vote for Being Christina Chase but the voting button wouldn't fully display.I tried refreshing the page and it didn't work.Amy

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Thinking

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I'm sittin' on the top of Kilimanjaro
All my heart is yearning
Like a candle burning in the night
Seasons keep on turning
Sometimes hard to keep up the fight
I will climb the ancient mountain
I will find the last flicker of the light

What a strange strange freedom
Only free to choose my chains
So hard not to weaken-
Just give up and walk away
I will climb the ancient mountain

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Gaby

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Some two or three weeks ago I came across Gaby/Drew.

Every night since then I have spent hours trying to read everything I can find.
What a story.
Every chapter brings tears. Sometimes of sorrow, sometimes of joy.

It's too late for me but one hopes that many young people today will not have to suffer.

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Author Little Katie in hospital

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Little Katie, aka K.T. Leonard, is in the hospital in Florida with a bloodclot in the lungs. They think. Unfortunately, she has medical contraindications for the usual treatment for this condition, blood thinners, and she is in a lot of pain. She's been staying with her pastor lately, she's a Christian, and she would appreciate any prayers anyone might wish to make on her behalf.

Thanks,
Erin

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Things I don't understand

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OK, well actually there are a lot, a lot, a lot of things I don't understand, see at least two-thirds of the blogs posted in the last -- well forever, and the list grows everyday. But here are some that have hit me in the last few days, starting with, maybe, the easiest.

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Extremely emotional story

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For a while I have felt a story coming on whose emotional strength really frightens me, yet I want to write it; to get it all out; to laugh, to cry, to feel security, to express sheer terror.

Well, I have no idea how powerful my writing is nor do I know if there are those here who would be vulnerable to trigger words. When I finish it the story will expose my heart and soul.

Be warned.

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So what's an average TG?

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So What's an average TG?

I have replied to the blog about average guys and wonder, what's the average TG person?

I'll bet that there aren't too many out there who can generalise are there?

It's probably the same for generalising about guys or anyone for that matter.

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Re-posting stories found elsewhere

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I wish that when a multi-chapter story is posted there could be some mention of it being four years ago when the author stopped writing ... without a conclusion and no other stories since.

If more is planned that's great .. say that somewhere ...

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What Being A Member Of Big Closet Means To Me

I am a confirmed cross dresser. It took reading stories here and finding friends that are cross dressers for me to finally admit this truth about myself.
I find that many authors truly amaze me when I find out something new about them. When I do, I celebrate finding out that new facet about them.

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Cruel Crazy

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Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
You have to wash with the crocodile in the river
You have to swim with the sharks in the sea
You have to live with the crooked politician
Trust those things that you can never see
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana (jesse boy) ayeye ayeye

Beyond the door, strange cruel beautiful years lie waiting for you
It kills me to know you won't escape loneliness,

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I am

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Bits of songs and broken drums
Are all he could recall
So he spoke to me
In a bastard tongue
Carried on the silence of the guns

"It's been a long long time
since they first came
And marched through our village
They taught us to forget our past
And live the future in their image"

They said
'You should learn to speak a little bit of English
Don't be scared of a suit and tie.

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remember Steven Biko

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September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja

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Author Needs Help!

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Do you know a lot about organic chemistry? Do you speak German and know your way around Vienna? Do you speak Italian, and know your way around Rome? If any of these, and you are able to help me authenticate the plot of a lengthy coming-of-age novel set in the years just before World War One, I would love to hear from you!

Hugs, Daphne

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Being A Crucifer

Well, I was the Crucifer three weeks ago. I was not scheduled, but one of the girls was absent, so Jerri, The lady in charge of Acolytes asked me to help. Well, I was happy to, even though I was still scared. The service went off with out a hitch.

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Choices

I debated whether to post this as a short story, or blog entry. While it was conceived as more of a short story, I can't in any honesty call it fiction in any way shape or form. So maybe it's best put here.

Anyone who has looked will notice that my blog entries have been few and far between...I believe this is the second in over a year's time...so I doubt they'll become any kind of regularly recurring thing. My life is too boring to bother.

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just a thought

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When you can’t be amazed, I am sorry for you
Then no chance for you
When you can’t feel, it is over
You will stay empty
When you can’t forgive, You give up all
Is your slate clean?
When you carry on life like this
You never reach your salvation
You are not the child
That you were, that is true
Although, be what you once where
The child in you, wake it up
The child in you, bring it out
Maybe you are a good person
A good woman, a good man
And unwanted in this world
As unwanted as one can be
Please don’t give up, Keep your ears open

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I Died Sunday

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If you would like details send my a PM.

1.) The EMTs revived me.

2.) Within less than an hour the hospital installed a stent which opened the 100% blockage.

3.) Minor muscle damage.

4.) Minor rehab needed.

5.) I was discharged and walked out of the ICU today. In fact I went to my daughter's coccer game tonight.

If you just want to tell me I'm a no good horrible liar, don't bother to PM.

Jill (Angela Rasch)

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Hi... and a Couple of Questions

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Hello all --

I'm very happy to have joined this site, it seems like a nice family. And I'll keep plugging along with my little stories until someone tells me to stop, if that's ok with you!

I had a few questions, though, if you don't mind. Didn't want to do anything to step on toes, so I thought I'd ask first.

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Rambling

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I was going along this street and the street lead to me
The song that you sang on the last evening played only in me
Just a few more steps and the key to this door
This way is not easy this way is stony
Not many agree with me but life offers so much more
It was just a little moment and I was mot here
After a little step it downed on me
Some kick you some love you some help you
Some bless you don’t set your sail if the waves reach high
Some will love you some will hate you just be yourself
On this road

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Couple of birthdays and a note

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*- My wife turned.........39 again today. LOL, if I say her real age, Leonita may use the medallion on me. On second thought, I would like that. Can I be this woman?

We been married 18 years. Can you believe there is someone who can put up with me that long? As a Irish priest once said to me. "You're married to a saint and you think that you deserve her, you must go to confession!"

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Moving Day

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My moving day has been moved from Thanksgiving, to mid-October, to early October to late September to tomorrow (today?)

Incommunicado until I get things settled, shouldn't take more than a day or so.
Edeyn Hannah Blackeney

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Taking a Day Off

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Going to San Diego with some friends for the day with a nice plan for tomorrow in Orange. :) I'll look in on my laptop when I can. Bob will be looking out for major server problems and Sephrena will keep an eye out if anyone needs help formatting a story or something. Be good. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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I was wondering what was up with some of the missing serials like Leeway

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I've noticed a couple of serials that I started to read have stopped or been discontinued.Lee way by Just me and thats the way it happened Or something close to that are two that come to mind.Does anyone know if they are going to be continued?I read a lot of storys and it's a big let down when a story's not finished.I'm not trying to be critical of the writers it is their effort that provides my enjoyment in reading their work.

Amy

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Six Months Out

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So it was roughly six months ago when I first started posting Being Christina Chase, and the response has been pretty good. The story is slowly creeping up in the all time popular content list, and I get a good number of hits on every chapter. All in all, I have to think I'm doing pretty well for a first time writer. That said, Holly has done a great job of cleaning my stuff up.

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Death of Michael Galyen

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My baby brother died tonight.

He was only 16.

At around 11:45pm tonight it happened, and I found out about an hour later, having been home about an hour. So it happened about the time I got home.

Michael Andrew Galyen

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To My Big Closet Family- I Have Returned From Court

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I am going to court tomorrow. It is civil, not criminal court.
I was at home, with the door open, a safety gate barring my doggies from harm.

A member of the "Green Police" called me to the door. "I" was charged with litter in the yard and abandoned vehicles.

Well, I had not been outside to patrol the yard that day, so I did not know that some "local yokel" had left several bags of litter on the side of the road.

As for the "Vehicles", they belong to my brother Randy, with whom I have the "pleasure' of living with.

Well, the yard is taken care of, but his cars are still a

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Facing Reality

Today, I faced the fact that I am not alone. John Smith, a fellow Church member. He volunteered to come do my yard work on Sunday, he showed up today.
He handed me the extension cord for his weed eater. I dutifully plugged it in,silently laughing because my brother Randy decided to play hooky from work today.
Randy complained because he thought he was being humiliated.
HELL! I am the one to feel humiliated!!!
If that Jackass had gone to work, he would not have been seen on the couch, sleeping.[he had a sheet covering him, so no porn in this blog.]

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Church Family Church Home

Last Sunday, I was floored several times.

Sally asked, "Should you not take it easy on your leg?" [right lower]

"Why do you ask?"

"Your sister called us. She is worried about you walking everywhere and cutting your grass."

"Which sister? Remember, Dixie & I are on the out ever since she ran up a $400 phone bill on me."

"I don't know, She talked to Jane."

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Being A Crucifer, Serving GOD

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A few weeks ago, Steven Miller[student pastor] asked me to do the Scripture Reading in the Traditional Service.
I said I would. I thought, "Why not?" I have been apart of the service before.
Boy, was I ever scared. Then the girl to be the Acolyte [ Haliegh ] was running late.
I had been helping them to get ready by telling them when it was time to get in the robes.
Well, Jerri,[the lady in charge of the acolytes] was ready to let me help out.
Now, I had had no training, I was going at it "cold turkey." Was I ever frightened!!!!

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The Darkness

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There is a "Darkness" that intrudes into our souls
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It takes on many forms and torments us until we can overcome it.

Some call this "Darkness" Satan, or other symbols of "Ultimate Evil."

Some call it The "ID" or "Super Ego".

Some totally ignore the religious aspect and focus upon the "Facts."

By whatever method used, There is hope in battling the "Darkness."

Even when it changes, We can "Over Come."

For when it changes, we have achieved a "Victory."


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A Wrinkle in Time

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I just saw where "A Wrinkle in Time" author Madeleine L'Engle has died. Her book was one of the first Sci-fi stories I read and along with "Have Space Suit Will Travel" by Heinlein turned me into a fan. Details are located here. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_us/obit_l_engle
Hugs!
grover

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Home again. I am Woman; hear me giggle.

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Hello everyone:

I am home again from SRS in Thailand. I loved the trip and it was about as recreational as surgery can be. I did learn some things about navagating the SRS maze that may help someone who has been fighting the system without success.

One thing I did learn is that the Harry Benjamin rules can miss classify a person. Sure it is probably the best effort to protect a person that they have but in my case, it prolonged things unnessesarily.

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Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go...

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Hi everyone.

I feel like I'm letting the side down, but as from Monday, I shall be a working man again.

I know, it's become something of an alien concept round here too - with the exception of the DIY-ing that is!

Provisionally, it's due to last until the end of November, but there is a possibility of it going on further, though at this stage I don't know.

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For those interested in my Yahoo Groups...

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First off, a big thank you to everyone who has commented, voted and viewed my contributions. I know my story content aims are unconventional, but I do feel like I have this unique take on the whole TG storytelling genre. I don't know if anyone else writes from my perspective and even whether I can find appreciation here or anywhere but sometimes you just have to write what you feel - and it is what I feel. :)

Speaking of what I feel, I feel I need to comment on the recent influx of visitors to my Yahoo groups - and the difficulties some have had in accessing them. Please read below and I hope you'll understand why...

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Going back?

The usual warnings first — yes while being in England I could improve my English a little bit, but it’s still not what I would like it to be.

Anyway, the last seven days being with my kind hosts end even better friends Karen and Samantha were really a very nice experience for me. From Tuesday evening on was the girl I think I was supposed to be all my life. I was shown how to do my makeup, I was told about all the issues with being transgendered and yet I had the best time of my life.

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Doctor's Referral

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I went to see the doctor. The appointment was at 1:00 P.M. We get in there only to find out that he refuses to operate!!!
Reason; I had Gastric Bypass. He does not do that procedure. I have to go to a doctor that does both Hernias AND Gastric Bypass. Talk about wasted time!!!
Now I have to call my doctor for yet ANOTHER referral!! Can you believe it????! Has anything like this happened to you guys???

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Doctor's Visit

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I went to get a referral to see a doctor about my hernia. I had a gastric by-pass operation to reduce my weight 5 years ago.The hernia soon appeared. It does not hurt except for when I est something that upsets my stomach. While there, I found out that I was taking pills for nerves, hypertension and vitamins, it had been several months since I had last went.

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Record Traffic & Finance report

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Monday, Sep 3, 2007 set a traffic record at BigCloset, well over 4300 visitors in 24 hours, more than 5% over the previous record set in July and nearly equaled in August of just under 4100. In fact, the average daily traffic for the last week is 3999, the highest weekly average ever also. :)

Submissions are also up and comments and sales through Doppler Press and activity on the ads at BC, it's all good. :)

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Brandy has a new story

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Hey everyone! Brandy DeWinter has a new story up at her site. It is a Whateley universe fan story. Being a fan story it is not part of the official Whateley Cannon. You can find it here http://www.geocities.com/brandy_art/dream/dream1.html
Hugs
grover

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Thank You Sephrena

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I found out from Sephrena that I was about to be banned. She contacted me and we talked about the Big Closet family. She told me about the unwritten rules that applied to posting stories as well the nature of the many members here. She told me how many members are outcasts in society and the many problems faced by the family.

I was shocked to find out how many here are mistreated by society. My family, I hereby vow to uphold the ideas of the family. To those I have wronged, I ask foregiveness to those who are my friends, patience for when I mess up.

stanman

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10,000 Hours

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Science has discovered that if you do anything for 10,000 hours, you become an expert at it. :)

Four hours a day would take about seven years to add up to 10,000. I think I became an expert at running BigCloset sometime about three years ago. :)

How many of you have become experts at something without quite realizing it?

- Erin

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Discipline, Respect, Honesty, and Madam Martinique's Plaque

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This is the plaque mentioned in my story, Madam Martinique's Finishing School. When I had started writing the story, I had the idea of there being three principles upon which the school was founded, but I did put a bit of thought into what those principles would be. Below are some of the thoughts behind them, which may wind up being woven into future chapters ... if I ever manage to pull enough of a story together to make decent chapters.
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Christian by Maya Angelou

When I say... "I am a Christian", I am not shouting "I'm clean livin'"

I'm whispering " I was lost,now I'm found and forgiven."
When I say... "I am a Christian", I'm not trying to be strong.

I am professing that I'm weak and need His strength to carry on.
When I say... "I am a Christian", I'm not bragging of success.

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65

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Hi everybody. I just discovered BC. A little later than most, I guess. At age 65 I am still theoretically male externally, but confused internally. If only the internet had existed 50 years ago! Anyway, I missed my best chance at the age of 19 through a combination of a lack of maturity and utter cowardice in a time when transsexuality was almost a capital crime and only brave souls like Christine Johannsen and April Ashley made the journey. I did not have their guts. Not complaining. My decision, and life compensates you in other ways.
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ideas in the works.

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Okay, I thought I would lay down my thoughts of Accidental magic.

I have been having a great deal of fun writing this, as well as reading the comments left by people about it. The speculations as to what I have in store for my characters is what amuses me the most, since there are so many good ideas there.

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Another step...

I know I should improve my english - wait, that's why I'm here.

Anyway, I hope I don't bore my audience with all the mistakes and my still poor language skills.

Well, I guess some of you might want hear, erm read about my trip to London.

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New Girl

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Hi I am new at this just wanted to say hi, I am 58 TG but have not done the change may never as it's out side my price range. I just wanted to say that there are some good writers here and I love this site. As with any there are storys that I don't like, Women who talk there husband or boyfriend into dressing then fall for a "MAN" and leave the poor guy hanging, there are storys that I really like but that is with anyone. I have left a few words to a few of the writers telling them I liked there story or some that I would never read there story again.

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Belle of the Ball #26 by E.E. Nalley on Stardust!

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Jennifer deals with the gunman in the forest and then with some of the consequences before discovering ... well, that would be telling. Read it.

http://stardustr.us/belle_of_the_ball_chapter_twenty_six

- Erin

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One little step...

A warning first: Please excuse my poor english. You will read later on why.

Well, very few people do know me, and this is my first attempt do tell about about me and my first experiences of being a girl.

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New Orleans Disaster

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I have just read how the U.S. goverment has yet to rebuild the city of New Orleans. Many former residents are still homeless. To me, this is a real life[[horror story]]!!! Are there any authors or readers that have any feelings on this?

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Heroes of Justice

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Hey Everyone! I posted Heroes of Justice some time ago but meant to include a graphic. The problem was I hand drew the base figure and scanned it to Paint. Once there I couldn't leave the Beep Beep Beepity Beep thing alone! I kept changing stuff! Finally I'm half way satisfied with it! I'm not a good artist but I'm stubborn to keep at it till it at least resembles what I'm envisioning. You can take a peek here. http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/3807/heroes-justice
Thanks again for everyone who commented on the story!
Hugs!
grover

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Some Firsts

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I have always wanted to write a FTM tale. Shotgun's Secret is my first attempt. It is based in part on an actual person, a woman who passed as a man and rode shotgun on a stagecoach line. Nobody suspected her true sex, and she passed as a man until her death.

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Once Upon a Blue Moon

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Well, Blue Moon is done. My first novel since the obligatory, bad, coming-of-age tripe I wrote in college.

It didn't start out to be a novel; originally I just had a cute idea for a short story based on the calendar and having recently re-read Lainie Lee's incomplete "The Devil in Drag."

A lot of people asked me to continue the story, so I tried. It turned into a serial, then a serialized novel under the continued encouragement of several people.

Thank you all, you know who you are. ::smile::

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My Surgery in Thailand

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I am recuperating from Surgery in Bangkok, Thailand and even though I have no experience with other surgeons, I would say that my experience with Dr Kamon at MtfSurgery is most satisfactory. Any one wishing to inquire would be well treated.

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R.I.P. Fred Saberhagen

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Shortly after I posted "Berserker Chromosome" I learned of the death of Fred Saberhagen.
Fred Saberhagen was a science fiction author and the creator of the Berserkers. He was a great influence on my work. I am saddened that he will not be adding to the body of work he has left us.
If you haven't read Fred Saberhagen you are doing yourself a great disservice. It is worth a trip to the library. It's worth the money to purchase a few of his books. I urge you to do so.

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Why an Alternate Reality?

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Why an alternate reality? Why not?
It all started with a readers comment sent to me by Shelly shalimar. She read "The Girl Who Touched the Stars" and apparently enjoyed it, and sent me the comment to let me know. Now I get nervous whenever I Include a "real" character in my work, but Shelly was one of the residents of The Neighborhood and deserved a place in the tale.

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A Question on Comments??

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OK, I'll admit this is not a particularly scientific survey. Or any sort of survey really In fact it's a seat of the skirts impression of the state of play… ie: it's my observation. But it's a question that bothers me… a little.

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sorry my english writting is not that good

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i know not all of you will be able to read this but give me some time as i want to translate it with meening and not just so it is translatet

Há¶r nicht auf fá¼r das zu leben an was du glaubst, glaub an dich und schá¶pfe Vertrauen und Kraft aus deiner Familie die Nacht fá¼r Nacht deine Seele bawacht und dich liebt ganz egal was du tust, was geschiet, die dich wie eine Há¼lle umgibt, wenn du diese Glá¼ck hast hast du fast gesiegt, fast gesiegt.

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Thanks again for Danielle and have you read Bob Arnold's latest Zapped?

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Thanks again for you kind thoughts for Danielle. I've not heard anything recently, time will tell. Best wishes to Danielle and family.

On a happier note Bob Arnold is writing new Zapped chapters -- Zapped!-The lost pages. The first test chapter is up now at his Stardust site -- Erin has a link to it.

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Intro Blog

Greetings! I have been checking in daily with Big Closet in most of its past shapes and faces, and I finally came out of lurking through TG fiction and images sites last year when I launched my first Yahoo group Family TG Captions.

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Yay Metric System! (Edeyn's Birthday post)

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Took a week off for my birthday!

Just thought it'd be better to let you all know that :)

I came to Kansas City Monday morning early, and I'm not heading home until late Sunday night, spent this week here with a friend so I could unlax (unwind+relax) leading up to my birthday -- which is today :)

I'm 32 today... :(

But I just convert it to metric and I'm 4 months shy of my 27th birthday ;)

Edeyn

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Intersexed Pandas?

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While we know gay behavior exists in the animal kingdom rather or not transgenderism is in nature is unknown. By its very nature it would be difficult to determine. Intersex is known and here is not only a good example but a happy ending.

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Gender & sex; pheromones & mice

I ran across a Reuters story on Yahoo News the other day, telling how researchers had changed the sexual prefences of female mice by altering the functionality of a certain organ in them that processes pheromones, the vomeronasal organ.

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If you are a SCI FI Fan you need to check this out

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I found this My Space Page while browsing around, I havent really looked into it but just the title tickled my funny bone.

Enjoy,
Jamie

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewpro...

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Want some new exposure for one of your old stories?

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Repost to Stardust at http://www.stardustr.us !!

The commenting proportion is similar to BC, there's a lot of overlapping readership so some of your old fans are bound to be reminded of an old favorite and Bob Arnold is just a nice host!

Note the posting restrictions at the top of the Stardust main page, they're different than BCs. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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Proof reader?

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Hi all,

I was wondering if there was anyone out there who would be willing to proof read my stories.

I have been looking through my previous scribblings and have noted that I am not as good as would like to be, gramatically wise.

I am dyslexic and that doesn't help much as it sometimes makes me blind to my faults and errors.

So if there is anyone who has the time, please let me know.

Hugs
Susan

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