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For those of you who have read my recent blog entries, you know that I had a close call with my sister. I found out that when she used my computer that she had been to this site and tired to access my info. She has not said anything about it and has returned home to Allabama. I guess I'm in the clear.

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Newspaper story "Man naturally turning into woman"

The Daily Telegraph has an article about a man who has developed abnormally high levels of oestrogen but the doctors don't know why. The report uses the word "natural", but ff this had happened in a story on this site, it wouldn't have been "natural".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2233...

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Picking up

In the wake of the failed Pirate and Ninja Peace Accord (the Pirates won, blast it all!) and my misadventures of the preceding week... I will continue with my responsibilities (tentatively at first) and hopefully be back to full strength soon. Dear Diary for 10-16-7 and 10-17-7 will go up tomorrow sometime, and Pen Pal 10 (Stormy 2) and whatever else comes to mind.

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I'm safe so far.

My sister left this morning and she was acting normal. well as normal as my family ever gets. So I guess she is not going to say anything. I don't know, maybe she did not want to bring it up with others near by. I'll just have to play it by ear.

I want to thank everyone for their support. I really appriciate it and I really needed it. So again, THANK YOU!!!

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I'm screwed

My older sister and her son are visiting from alabama this week and I let her use my computer to check her email. When I loged on here this morning several names came up as options in the username slot when I began typing. my sister had been here. I told her to use my firefox browser. All my tg stuff is saved on my windows explorer browser.

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The Unicorn’s Gift, Part...

Friends:

I apologize for not being able to post the rest of the unicorn story as I’d
intended. I will be posting fairly frequently as I rewrite it, but I can’t
guarantee to be posting at specific times as I have been. The good news
is that I do type quickly, and I have a very good memory for this story.
More good news is that my editor is newly back from a successful world

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Subject: NEWS - Congress' 1st hearing on Gender Identity (June 27, 2008)

Subject: NEWS - Congress' 1st hearing on Gender Identity (June 27, 2008)

Gender Identity Discrimination in the Workplace gets First Hearing in Congress

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ joe-solmonese/ gender-identity- discrimin_ b_109352. html

Posted June 26, 2008 | 09:58 AM (EST)

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Who wrote?

Hello my lovelies:

Perhaps a year ago, an Author published a story here that involved a wife loving her husband so much that she started him along the road to transition, apparently even when he was unaware of his need to do it. In the progress of the story, she eventually has him living as a woman, and then finds him an apartment and later divorced him.

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new start on the blogg

well i'm back after a hiatus from everything and getting back into writting and everything else.

there has been a lot of turmoil in this life in the predeing months and alot of trying to cope with mental illness. No i dont count being trans gendered as a mental illness but a state of being.

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Total Immersion Storytelling?

Okay, so here's the idea. My next big story I'm working on involves the creation of a pop culture figure for the world I base my stories in. Rather than just writing the story, though, I plan to take it as big as possible: creating the character an email and Myspace page, recording some of the songs s/he sings, maybe even emulate a few interviews.

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On Holiday

I will be going out of town tomorrow morning (Tuesday 2008-6-24), and as such, Karen Page will be handling Shortcuts! while I'm gone. I will be back on Tuesday the 1st of July at the latest, but until then I cannot promise regular updates of Dear Diary or anything else I'm working on. I will try to log in and make sure things are going well, but I really don't know!

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I Have A New Story

I have read Janet Stickney stories and from reading them, I have a few story ideas where a young man transitions into a woman. I need help to make sure that I am not plagarising her works. That is not my intent. No, having read her stories, I have wanted to write stories in a similar vein. Is there anybody that is willing to help?

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Just curious

After reading comments and such from readers, I'm curious as to how many ride motorcycles and if you still ride. Me, I raced them for over twenty-five years. I'm a charter member of the AMA and darn proud of it too. I started racing on triumphs in the 500cc class. I started by riding enduros on a ridgid frame 500 and finally got suspension a year later on my 1965 500.

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Sh*t, P*ss, F*ck, C*nt, C*cks*ck*r, M*th*rf*ck*r, T*ts, F*rt, T*rd, Tw*t

George Carlin has died at age 71.

That's what the title of this blog is all about... he gave us the "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say On Television" and the three auxiliary words. I listed the seven (minus vowels) and the last three are the auxiliary.

With that vowels intact that would be:
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits, Fart, Turd, Twat

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New Stories

I have several new stories in various stages of completion but there could be a long delay before I post them. And they need first to survive editing; that's one very bumpy ride. They've still got the bruises from the first visit.

The rest of my life also intrudes and needs to be dealt with.

Susie

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Cats

Here I am sitting in sunny, if very blowy Lincolnshire, that's in the UK for those, like me who never paid attention in geography lessons.

I have lost count of the amount of times I have had to let Ellie Mae and Biscuit (our cats) in and out of the house today. As soon as they go out, they realise that it's windy and they want to come in again!

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C:/documents/ wishlist/laptop

Amazingly, I have obtained a free laptop!

Toshiba Satellite 1850
Processor: IBM 386
RAM: 4Mb
Hard Drive: 120 Mb
Monochrome B/W LCD
OS: DOS 5.0

The floppy drive is dead and I can't use it for the internet, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for decrepit electronics.

Melanie E.

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BigCloset TV

What could be more appropriate for a TG website than a TV channel? :) So there it is, lower left of the front page, courtesy of those bad people at YouTube -- a transgender TV channel, if that isn't a tiny bit redundant. :)

It's an experiment so it may not stay up forever. We'll see. It's really an advertisement envelope, so it could be really really bad.

Hugs,
Erin

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TG Anime and Manga.2

Another website was just passed on to me - ONE MANGA. The site provides screen readable Japanese manga books which you can click on and turn the page.

One Manga has a section called "Gender Bender" with all sorts of examples of TG material from whole books to passages of just a few pages.

You can just Google the name and tab through the site directory or use

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Billy Joel

I was just listening to one of my favorite tracks by Billie Joel, We did'nt start the fire:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

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This will probably make me unpopular, but...

This will probably make me unpopular, but...I don't like drabbles! If I'm gonna click on a story, I want a STORY...not a short article. Sorry. That's the way I feel.

Does it take talent to do drabble? Of COURSE! It also takes talent to do Rap, and I can't stand those either. Now I'm pretty much done with this mini-rant.

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And so begins a new journy into the realms of the unknown

Ok so I know the title is a bit ..hmm weird and all mysterious like ,but I like my intros that way as they represent me the best way (The weird part , I am not that mysterious).

So lets go on to the intro shell we?

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Melissa & Kimmy Elizabeth

Melissa died because she didn't get a organ transplant; Kimmie died because she was rejected for an organ transplant. It is imperative that each of us have done the paperwork to allow the doctors to harvest your organs, just in case. You can save lives! Remember that if the situation occures you aren't going to need the organs where you're going.

CHOOSE LIFE!

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It's an epidemic!

Sixteen drabbles. Wow.

In less than two days the whole 'Drabble Theatre' thing has evolved from an interesting title for a writing exercise to, I'm not sure what, but something much bigger.

Thanks Edeyn for making this possible, and thanks to those authors who found the concept as attractive as I did for the inclusion of your stories.

Melanie E.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi has been in the news somewhat this year, the 60th anniversary of his death. I came across an interesting observation about him.
As you probably know he walked barefoot most of the time, so his feet were extremely callused. He also ate very little, which led to his frailty and, with his odd diet, gave him bad breath. This made him a super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

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Steamed

So, I ordered some books from Lulu, one of which was 'Headlights Girl'. I got the order yesterday, and everything was fine except for Cathy's book. The cover looked great, but when I opened the book the title page read, 'Baseball Pitchers: The Most Overrated and Underrated in the Last 20 Years' by KP Wee.

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Mellissa's Obituary

Good Evening Big Closet. I wil be sending Mellissa's Obituary. I will send this hopefully to Sephrena or Erin on Wednesday. It has been a crazy day as her apartment is all but cleared out. Alot of her belongings went to charities she was involved with and to 2 local woman's shelters within the city she resided in. Thanks for the support and the assistance.

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There but for the Grace of God...

I'd already been out on my new bike, the carbon fibre job, which flies like a rocket when my legs have the energy to pedal fast enough. It had been spitting rain and I wondered if I was going to get caught in a deluge, like the one which prompted me to start writing 'Falling off a bike'. But the clouds passed over.

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Stories We Would Like Completed

Here is a spot to lay out your wish list and hopefully have the authors see this. Many great stories have, for one reason or another, been relegated to a backburner somewhere. If it were possible to convince the author(s) to dust them off and try to finish them, which of the ones that have never been finished would you MOST like to see started on again?

Sephrena Lynn Miller

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Remembering A Wonderful Friend

I remember very fondly my first days as a member of BC. I was the new girl on the block and just getting to know everyone. Mellissa took the time to welcome me by private message. As time went on, I began to see the great depth of courage and determination of this wonderful woman.

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Tragedy of the Spirit Mellissa's Funeral date

Good evening Big Closet. I have now been informed of the funeral for Mellissa Dawn Northe. The date will be friday June 20th at 2:45. Her service will be private and with a few close to her that have confrrmed that they will attend. On a personal note. I am very overwrot with emotion here and I am hopeful that my few typo's are forgiven. I have never had to do this before.

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Tragedy of the Spirit

I wish to personally thank those that have assisted me over the last few days on Big Closet. The wonderful Writers here and the admin staff have been so warm and supportive. Thanks to Sephrena, Stan, John, Holly, Cristine. There are many others I cannot off habd remember as I will over the next few days.

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Gabycon- the blog!

Gabycon 2008 - the blog!

This is a purely personal account of my weekend. The drive up was good, I had to detour at Bristol to collect Saphira and her bike from the airport- well the Holiday Inn. This it turns out is nowhere near the airport, and might even be closer to Taunton. I did however find it within 48 hours (good job I packed an emergency Lion Bar).

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Tragedy of the Spirit Fianality

I wish to thank you all for your kind and thoughtful words for my freind. I shall miss her deeply too. Her life has many lessons upon which we all can learn from. Her spirit and legacy to all those that knew her will hopefully live on. I know that they will carry on with me.

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What the speech pathologist told me.

For those of us who have jumped into the deep end of the pool, and transitioned or at least started, I had a few sessions with a Professional Speech Pathologist. She taught me a few things that I spent time working on, but I am afraid that I am no where near as diligent as I ought to be.

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A True Tragedy and a Spirit Lost .....

Good Evening every one at Big Closet... My name I Melanie....Yes that melanie, from the Autobiography by Prairie_girl_64 AKA Mellissa N. I am sad to report that the wonderful woman whom I knew has passed away due to complications from here surgery of the liver. I am sure that she was a contributor as she waas in her life. She passed away on tuesday evening after succumbing to a heart attack.

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In Memorium For KimEm

I didn't write the following. The words were written by Becky Hobbs, and the song was sung by Alabama. There's a youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9txzREaNO4

"I was walking home from school on a cold winter day.
Took a shortcut through the woods, and I lost my way.
It was getting late, and I was scared and alone.
But then a kind old man took my hand and led me home.

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Authors

There Are several authors that have written superb stories posted at other sites yet are not posted here. These authors were and are pioneers of T.G. fiction.

I have read their stories at the other sites and have often wondered why they have not availed themselves of the chance to post their stories here?

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Figuring out a life changing problem.

I have had several medical problems over the last 20 or so years. I couldn't figure out what had happened to me to cause these problems. The problems were unique to me in the family. I've had kidney problems, mental health problems, nueropathy, joint problems, etc...

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The End Approacheth

'Oh, Cheers Part 3: WIN!' concludes the main story and should be up by Monday at the VERY latest. I'm gonna take a break before finishing the gaming breaks to start my next work of genius, 'Hollywood'! More music, more confusion, three more months before the next 'Echoes', you get the picture.

Melanie E.

Oh, yeah- anyone wanna help me write cheesy teen idol pop songs? I'm gonna need 'em.

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Accurate synopsis, please.

This morning I had things to do and wanted to enjoy a 10 -20 minute read of a complete story before starting them. I read a synopsis of one and there was nothing in it to indicate it was anything other than a complete story, although length was not indicated. I read it within my time frame but found it to be what certainly seemed to be the first part of a multi-part story.

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"The Appointment"

Hi everyone

Finally i had the appointment with my therapist. Things are moving now a bit faster, but it still will take about 2 years till i can have SRS due to law restrictions. She was a really nice person and i had the feeling she is intrested in the best result for me, what ever that will be. I told her much about my life she asked questions.

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Tragedy of the Spirit

A quiet night as I get ready for my move to a priovate room...yes My infection seems to have subsided and I can get arround a bit more. The bathroom being one of the more prominent moves for me since my surgery. I had a few more visitors yesterday which broke up the boredom. I finished reading " A new Earth" Interesting book, might as well do some things here.

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Upgraded Software

The BC core software has been upgraded to version 5.7. This should make very little difference in operation of the site but will enable easier future upgrades and will protect against a few exploits that could be attempted on the earlier software (though we have never had such an attempted exploit here). There also a few minor bug fixes, a few of which may cause minor problems.

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Internet music - Rock & Roll 1955 thru the 80's

If you like to listen to music while working on your computer writting your great stories - check out this web site from San Diego, CA Radio 105.7 FM web site for streaming music from 1955 thru 80's Rock & Roll Hits = www.walrusfm.com then click on flag for "To Listen Live". I'm sure you will enjoy it! Richard

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Observations

I am enjoying another vacation, of sorts. I haven't gone anywhere, but my friends are away for the entire month of June, leaving me free to indulge in some long overdue ... experimentation. I've been making some online purchases over the last few weeks in preparation, and I'm prepared to make a few preliminary observations:

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A tweak and a twonk to the Dear Diary clock...

Okay, I'll tell ya what I'm a'gonna do...

Starting tonight, there will be two updates to the Diary per evening -- but only until we mesh the day of the week. So Wednesday night we'll fall back to only one entry per night. The date and such will still be shifted a bit over 8 months, but it will then be synced up with the day of the week it's written on.

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