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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I know folks like that. One old friend once said "I'm the guy who's standing up when the shit hits the fan!" Calling him was theraputic. Guaranteed, what was going on with him would make anything in my life look trivial by comparison...
I've always posted under a variant of my real name, and while I don't advertise it, I've stated in various places where I live, and I'm "in the book". It would be trivial for anyone who wanted to find me. Despite following this practice for the better part of twenty years, I haven't had anyone actually do so.
I have gotten occasional emails from folks I lost touch with saying "Are you the same..." I should hope so. If there's another of me out there, I think I'm worried.
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Dennis
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I'm the female version of that guy. But, I gotta tell you, a person really learns to roll with the punches when that's your life. Either that or you just go into a fetal position and die.
Back in 1988 I was raped by someone who broke into my home and put a weapon to my head. A few weeks later, I realize I'm pregnant as a result of the rape.
I decided that I was not the sort of person that any child should have as a parent, so I made an appointment to have an abortion. I showed up at the clinic ... and here is this whole room of very scared looking girls ... it was the most depressing place I'd ever been in.
Then, I noticed that out of the ten of us in the waiting room, nine of us were wearing white tennis shoes. So, that got me started on schtick about the little known fact that "Nine out of ten rape victims wear white tennis shoes to their abortion procedures??" and then in fact "Nine out of ten doctors who perform abortions actually recommend white tennis shoes to their raped patients!!" Once I got started ... there was no stopping me ... but I had them all laughing before it was my time to go under the knife.
I'll probably be laughing as they sit me down on "Old Sparky" for my eventual execution.