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icon7.gif Thursdays are always odd days.  [message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 10:22 Go to next message
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You know, yesterday was a very strange day for me.



As many of you will know, I have been trying to both locate and to meet a man, John. This is the man of 49 who is the boy I loved in 1965 when we were each 13 years old, and whom I have been obsessed with ever since. Those who look at that part of my website will know that I found him last June and spoke to him.



Some of you will know that I spoke to him again recently, and that he agreed to meet me. Put simply I phone him again at home and asked to meet. He said “Sure. Call me at the office and we’ll set the date”. And that is what I have been trying to do for the past 2 weeks.



Yesterday, Thursday 29 March 2001, he finally returned my phone call. Finally!



It wasn’t a simple call. I was in the car on the mobile, and as soon as we started to speak the connection dropped. He never remade the connection to me in person, but I got a voicemail message.



The gist of the message was “Ten our of ten for persistence in trying to find me. I reckon y0u have got the message now that I don’t want to meet. Nothing personal, I just don’t want to meet anyone form my past.”



The message was OK, but the tone of voice was weird. It got me thinking.



My first reaction was anger. Half at him for not wanting to see me, half at me for being so stupid as wanting to see him. But the anger was a five minute wonder. It has gone. Instead it has been replaced by the sure knowledge that he was a jerk. That he has always been a jerk. That I had fallen in love with a jerk. And that I was a jerk myself for allowing myself to put this boy on a pedestal.



Pretty? Maybe. Cute? Certainly. Handsome? Not so sure. But I am over him. After thirty five and a half years I am over him.



Last evening felt both tough, and good. I had a quantity of grief. I have some grieving to do.



I told my son all about it, and he was amazed. He has known I am gay for a year now. He didn’t know the details. He was amazed. And hugged me a lot.



I was going to meet him with my wife’s blessing. She was worried about how I took the rejection.



It is an AWESOME feeling. It is over. He is gone.



I am no longer obsessed.



Where I used to wake and call his name, now I am able to say “Jerk!”. He is a jerk. Fancy saying one day that we would meet, and yes he wanted to, and then avoiding me. Why not be decisive when asked the first time. He was, with hindsight, always a jerk. Always like that.



My rose tinted glasses are off. The pedestal is demolished. The statue is shattered. The love, the obsession is gone. I am free!



It feels good-ish right now. Soon it will feel GOOD.
icon7.gif My friend, that is about awsome  [message #62 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 10:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On here I just want to say that I am incredibly happy for you. *hugs tight*
icon7.gif It's really a good feeling to be free again, isn't it?  [message #63 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 11:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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*hug*

Believe me, I know the feeling!

Congrats to you my friend!
icon12.gif The ghost is dead.... long live... oh noooooo! ;-) *Huge Hugs*  [message #64 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 12:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Big HUG.  [message #66 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 15:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I know that's it hard to let go, but I hope that soon when you wake up, he doesnt cross your mind at all. And that soon instead of thinking "jerk" you don't think anything of any sort about him.



Your feelings for him inspired a really great story that has made thousands of people happy. And he missed out on knowing a remarkable person. It's his loss.



The beauty of the whole thing is this...you felt love - you know what it is. You created something beautiful - you wrote something that the whole world can read and relate to because you expressed it so beautifully.



And now you move forward, stronger, smarter, and free.



HUGS
icon7.gif Your wife.........  [message #68 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 19:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Must be some kind of special Lady, to put up with the likes of you. Count yourself lucky that she saw that he was a jerk before you did and had enough faith in her relationship with you to let you find out for yourself.

You have a special friend there. DON'T LOSE HER!!!
icon7.gif Good to hear...  [message #72 is a reply to message #61] Fri, 30 March 2001 22:44 Go to previous message
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Good to hear that you've let go the past, something that was unreachable. Your son must be a fine kid the way you can talk to him and his unconditional love for you, and he has a great man as father.

Keep good care of your wife and son.

Hugs Julian
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