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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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As in any social situation when coming first into it it is customary to introduce yourself, and, within reasonable limits of personal comfort levels and safety, tell us somewhat about yourself.
Marc
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Well it's nice, yes, though we've never stood on ceremony. I don't mind either way, really. I don't want to miss out on helping someone because they are too shy to say "hi"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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I find introductions give each party equal footing..... while we learn about them, they learn about us.
It's just good manners.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I'm easy either way. But it is the same as my tendency not to welcome new people and not to chase after those who decide to leave.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ChowanFarmBoy
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Registered: January 1970
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Well what should we say about ourselves? Is there an approved questionaire that we can use? Will you make one?
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If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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That was going to be funny, but you had to be British to appriciate it.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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JimB
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I find the idea repugnant. I sure hope you were being sarcastic Eldon.
As Timmy headed his post, the shy guy "peeping around the corner" looking for somewhere to hang out doesn't need a bunch of questions shoved at him; he needs a friendly "Hi and welcome".
JimB
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ChowanFarmBoy
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THAT was sarcastic, the question about the questionaire wasn't.
But ya know, here we go again. A guy can post "The sky is blue today where I live" and SOMEBODY on this board would disagree, get offended, find it repugnant or just start an argument because they have nothing better to do.
"The sky is blue today where I live"
"No it isn't. It's really a color called azure."
"Well it's because of the Rayleigh effect."
"No, it isn't. It's because of gasses in the atmosphere."
"Ah, sure, but the sky's still blue."
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Ah, sure!"
For the record, I read Marc's posting as a suggestion and that it was voluntary if you did it or not. My thinking is, if you're bashful, what are you doing on a public, international forum board to start with? Lurking?
SO...because I took as voluntary to introduce myself, I'll start:
NAME: Eldon
HOME TOWN: In tidewater North Carolina
BIRTHDAY: September 17, 1990
HEIGHT: 6 ft. 1 in.
WEIGHT: 175 lbs., or if you prefer 12 stone 7.
EYE COLOR: Blue
HAIR COLOR: Dark blond, gets lighter in the summer.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Episcopalian
SIBLINGS: None. I'd love to have some brothers.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Open to discussion. I have a girlfriend, and a boyfriend. It's confusing, but mostly fun.
OCCUPATION: High school student. Works after school and part of all weekends on the family farm.
FUTURE PLANS: I earned a scholarship and have got early acceptance to college. I'm the first person ever to go to college from my family. I want to major in Animal Sciences and improve our bloodstock and make our farm more even profitable. I have other plans for the farm too.
WHEELS: Chevy C200 pickup. 4x4.
INTERESTS: Aside from hanging out with my friends, and school and working, I like to hunt waterfowl and bow hunt deer, and I really enjoy fishing. We do some four-wheeling around our area, and biking and swimming and water skiing. I like fixing things and I work on all the farm machinery. I play golf when I have the time. I like reading just about anything, especially American history.
FAVORITE MUSIC: Just about anything. I don't like the gangsta and rap stuff. I like to sing. Most people don't like it when I sing, but I like to sing anyway.
FAVORITE COLOR: Light blue
FAVORITE FOOD: Roast goose, cranberry and walnut dressing.
DO I SWEAR: Yes. Drives my mom cuckoo.
DO I DRINK: Not any more.
DO I DO DRUGS: No. Never have, never will.
Anything else about me you'd like to know feel free to write. Oh, and if any of you other new dudes want to use my questionaire as a pattern, feel free to cut and paste and do whatever.
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Can I be your brother ?;-D
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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Whoa dude! This is So fun! Thanks for the IM about this and hell yeah I'll play too!
NAME: Jonathan
HOME TOWN: North Carolina
BIRTHDAY: May 29, 1990
HEIGHT: 5 ft. 10 in.
WEIGHT: 185 lbs., (Shit Eldon, only you would come up with measurements in freakin' stones ROFLMAO. I weigh 13 stones and 3 pounds.)
EYE COLOR: Hazel
HAIR COLOR: Light brown. It gets lighter in the summer too.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Deist
SIBLINGS: Two sisters both older than me.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Bisexual I think. At least I'm having way wicked too much fun with Donny to be totally straight!
OCCUPATION: High school student. Works full time in the summer as a dockhand and yardhand in a local marina. Wooden boat restoration and varnishing a specialty!
FUTURE PLANS: Applying to colleges now. Probably end up doing math as a major, teaching for a few years, then looking into a supplimental degree in yacht design and establishing my own yard.
WHEELS: Chevy S-10 pickup.
INTERESTS: Sailing, swimming, water skiiing, fishing, hunting, classic yacht design, and other stuff.
FAVORITE MUSIC: I'm like Eldon, I listen to just about anything. I don't like the gangsta and rap stuff either.
FAVORITE COLOR: Dark forest green.
FAVORITE FOOD: Stuffed pork chops, sage and thyme dressing, and garlic mashed potatoes.
DO I SWEAR: Yes.
DO I DRINK: Not any more. Donny got that right.
DO I DO DRUGS: No. Never have, never will. Donny got that right too.
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Yey, you already ARE our brother. You know that.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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I restored a Hereshoff s class sailboat when i was in high school.......
Unfortunately after a years work and it was finished i never got to sail it.
Oh well.... Chalk it up to experience....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Ok Im game
NAME: Curtis A. M.
HOME TOWN: Southern US
B DAY: Sept. 18, 1990
HEIGHT: 5 foot 4
WEIGHT: 118 pounds (what the heck are stones?)
EYE COLOR: emerald green
HAIR COLOR: black
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: nada
SIBLINGS: I did have an older brother 
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Homosexual
OCCUPATION: none
FUTURE PLANS: win the Nobel prize (my grandpa wants to sit in the front row)
WHEELS: sometimes drive my moms a Cady Escilade
INTEREST: Chemistry, my bf Jeff, and my best buds Jonny and Eldon
FAVORITE MUSIC: anything except gangsta and rap
FAVORITE COLOR: purple
FAVOITE FOOD: Southern fried chicken and mashed potatoes
DO I SWEAR: yes but not around my mom
DO I DRINK: no never
DO I DO DRUGS: never have never will
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Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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JimB
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Registered: December 2006
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I stand corrected. You gentlemen may not really care who knows what until people who don't approve of your participation on this forum decide to do something about it. Then you might think that discretion is better than valor.
You are very intelligent and active researchers, from what I can tell, and you might take a few minutes to research the internet author Driver, aka Driver Nine. Some information about him is available at the message board associated with the story site "Dabeagle's Doghouse".
He is one of the best authors that I have ever had the pleasure of reading, internet or print. He no longer publishes because he was persecuted to such an extent that it nearly distroyed his real-life career. They did this because they didn't approve of what he wrote.
The world is full of very nasty people who like nothing more than to force their values and ways on others. The terrorists who have caused so much change in our way of life are the easiest example; but there are plenty of regular American citizens who would imprison you, or even kill you, rather than let you love another guy.
Would you have published the information that you did in the local Gay newpaper?
And Eldon, I didn't see the word suggestion in Marc's post. I got the impression he was "telling" new people what they should do to participate in the forum. I certainly may have misunderstood his intention, but I still don't like the idea.
JimB
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ProfZodiac
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Location: United States
Registered: August 2006
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Jesus, you're all making me feel old. And I'm only 21.
Then again, two-thirds of the cast of the show I'm in is less than 18, so the feeling is no longer a novelty.
I think I've been around long enough not to need to do a questionnaire.
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saben
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Registered: May 2003
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I haven't done a questionnaire in some time:
NAME: Shem
HOMETOWN: Launceston, Tasmania
BIRTHDAY: 18th December, 1984
HEIGHT: 180cm
WEIGHT: ~57kg
EYE COLOUR: Browny Green
HAIR COLOUR: Medium Brown
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Grew up Latter-day Saint. Now basically Atheist with spiritual tendencies.
SIBLINGS: A younger brother (16, half brother from my mum). Two other half-brothers from my dad's side I've never met (14 & 12)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: 90% gay, but I don't like to think of orientation as something set, it's just a preference.
OCCUPATION: Currently a student at The University of Melbourne. Majoring in Linguistics. Also studying Japanese, Political Science. I want to take up a couple of Economics and Chinese subjects at some stage.
FUTURE PLANS: I want to open a private ESL/ bilingual school in Japan and/ or China.
WHEELS: Satan... That is Connex trains. I like to keep my carbon emissions low.
INTERESTS: Politics, video games, hiking when I get the chance. I'm into fantasy/ sci-fi books, as well as anything political.
FAVOURITE MUSIC: No real favourites, though I do prefer alternate rock. I don't listen to a lot of music but I can enjoy most types.
FAVOURITE COLOUR: Purple and royal blue.
FAVOURITE FOOD: I can't pick just one, but I like Thai, Greek, Japanese, Singaporean/ Malaysian, and lots of others. Depends whether I feel like something heavy/ light, spicy/ mild, etc.
DO I SWEAR: Casually.
DO I DRINK: Only when I go clubbing.
DO I DO DRUGS: Never tried any, but open to new experiences.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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ChowanFarmBoy
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Registered: January 1970
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Thanks for the fright tales. I know full well that the Christian Right is alive and well in North Carolina, and just look at that fuck-stick in the White House. If anybody ever needed a high colonic, he does.
If anyone doesn't approve of my participation here, they can tell me. And I'll tell them something. "People who don't approve" is a pretty nebulous group. I'm sure there's lots of folks out there who would heartily disapprove of lots of stuff I do. See in my town, you can be a drunkard, and beat your wife, and sexually abuse your daughter, and even fuck your livestock, but suck one dick and you're marked for life.
I went to the Doghouse, and it says there's a new story by Driver, so he must have got over his persecution. I have to get to sleep or I'd check it out tonight.
If there was a gay newspaper in this ass-end-of-nowhere town, I might think about getting some press, yea, I think I would. I know there are other gay boys in my area, and they're all too scared of peoples opinions. But I mean that's everywhere!
I can't wait to get to college. I'll get Trojans by the gross.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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A few years ago I conducted an experiment. With their agreement, but it may as well not have been, I found out precisely who a forum member was from the information trails they had left here and that gave me clues to elsewhere.
I found out which scout troop, which town, which street and which address. With that I found the phone number.
The thing is, they thought they had been careful, and they were aghast when found in this way. It took me 30 minutes.
The Driver 9 business is more complex, but he was persecuted and threatened with physical harm. I have very strong suspicions about precisely who did this. We had someone here once who likes to be associated with folks "in trouble" and seems to make it his business to "rescue them" when simply trying hard to gain more information to stalk them. He was involved with rescuing D9 from the persecution. My suspicion is that he was the persecuter. He is currently in jail for making a video (among other things it seems) of a minor boy in bondage gear, otherwise naked, allegedly with the young gentleman's consent.
While I don't mind an introduction, search engines can help nefarious people aggregate data about you and identify you absolutely unless you are very careful indeed.
I am not keen on the level of detail you guys seem to be encouraging each other to release. It IS your business what you release, and I'm not going to try to stop you. But serious privacy professionals are truly worried about this sort of thing.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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No, he has not gotten over his persecution. He has no online presence and communicates only though one person he trusts. He was genuinely and perfectly reasonably afraid of physical harm to his family.
He was persuaded to post stories again about 30 months ago, but no longer has the pleasure of answering readers himself when they praise him or ask questions.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Well, nice to meet all you guys. I've been hanging round here for a couple of years, on and off, and some stuff about me is:
NAME: Nick W. (currently no middle name - I gave it up because it was a family name of fathers ... and we had 20 years where we weren't on speaking terms, though we now chat by phone a couple of times a year).
HOME TOWN: Born Oxford (England), live in London (England)
BIRTHDAY: 21st April and I'm in my early 50s
HEIGHT: 6 ft
WEIGHT: 70kg (11 stone)
EYE COLOR: Hazel
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown, going gently grey.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Not formally a member of any group, though I have Quaker tendencies
SIBLINGS: One of each - my brother is also my best friend.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: 99% gay, but I've never ruled out other options! Not currently partnered. Came fully out in 1978/9 at Uni, and never looked back.
OCCUPATION: Currently running a building housing studios/workshops for around 50 artists and craftspeople. Before that: half a lifetime in Theatre (West End and Fringe), then several years working in Local Government.
FUTURE PLANS: Find a nice guy! apart from that, I became disabled a few years ago and am semi-retired working three days a week. Very happy doing what I'm doing, work-wise, so no plans there.
WHEELS: Non-driver - I use the wonderful London Tube (Underground)
INTERESTS: I read a lot, enjoy walks in the country, theatre, the odd fishing trip. I no longer shoot (hunt), though I did so a lot when I was younger as my grandfather was a farmer.
FAVORITE MUSIC: British pub rock of the 1970s, 60's West Coast, and bits of Mozart, Telemann etc.
FAVORITE COLOR: Dark blue
FAVORITE FOOD: Roast chicken with garlic/rosemary roast potatoes.
DO I SWEAR: More than I should.
DO I DRINK: Not for thirty years
DO I DO DRUGS: Not for thirty years. Between the ages of 13 and 23, anything and everything. (not recommended!). And I gave up smoking last year, after nearly 40 years of 40-a-day.
OTHER: I have a badly trashed back (probably due to roadying too many heavy bass bins at gigs in my youth),so I walk with a stick and sometimes have a lot of pain ... but there's still plenty I can do and enjoy!
Timmy's point about disclosing info. on an open web forum is well made, and worth considering. I've been so out for so long here and elsewhere that there are plenty of other places people can find out about me, but not everyone is in the same position. Please don't anyone feel under any pressure to say anything personal.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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NAME: David
HOME TOWN: Taunton, Somerset
B DAY: May 1984
HEIGHT: 6' 3"
WEIGHT: 12 1/2 stone (a stone is 14 pounds, used much more frequently than pounds alone in the UK for measuring a person's weight)
EYE COLOR: brown
HAIR COLOR: light brown/reddish (I'm not sure what you'd call it)
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: atheist (culturally Church of England/Anglican)
SIBLINGS: a younger brother and an elder sister
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: gay or bisexual. I don't really know
OCCUPATION: looking for work (recently graduated from university)
FUTURE PLANS: camera department in the British film industry
WHEELS: a P-reg Citroen Saxo 1.4l
INTEREST: lots of things, particularly film, film-making, reading, writing, playing the piano, being pedantic, technology, science and computers
FAVORITE MUSIC: anything from classical to rock to film music to well-textured and intelligent pop
FAVORITE COLOR: magic hour (that's early evening, when the sun's colour drops down from blue-white to red-orange, before turning back eventually to a dusky blue). What a pretentious answer! Generally, my favourite colour is one that suits the situation.
FAVORITE FOOD: anything in moderation
DO I SWEAR: sometimes it slips out
DO I DRINK: occasionally, socially
DO I DO DRUGS: only ibuprofen
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ChowanFarmBoy
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This is cool. Tasmania is part of Australia, right? Like a county? Are there really those Tasmanian Devil creatures running around everywhere? Can you domesticate them? Do they make good pets? I think the closest thing we have in the U.S. are wolverines. We don't have them in North Carolina but I wonder if the climate here would be good for Tasmanian Devils. It would be cool to be an importer of them and go into business. Lots of people in this country have more money than sense and would buy them just to be the first person in their gang to have an exotic pet like a Tasmanian Devil. The big pet thing now is snakes I think.
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saben
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Tasmania is a part of Australia. Like Alaska or Hawaii is a part of America.
The only wild Tasmanian Devils I've seen are dead on the road. But I've seen them in wildlife parks. Tasmanians are extremely protectionist about our native flora and fauna. So you won't see any Devils exported any time soon. We'd rather them die of facial tumours. Similarly you aren't allowed to keep them as pets because of laws, despite the fact that are really quite tame.
The climate in Tasmania is quite temperate all year long. I'd say tending towards the cold side myself. Melbourne is barely better, though it gets up into the 40s of a summer, something that would never happen in Tassie.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Oooohh
Not the one on buggs bunny.......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Cycling is the one sport where a guy can shave his legs, wear spandex and bright colors, and be accepted.
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>Right now I am impatiently waiting for surgery on a broken collarbone to heal. The break is from a bike wreck in August. Yesterday was end of week 4. Any help on length of recovery would be appreciated.
It's been many, many years, so my memory on this is imperfect. I tore the ligaments lose between the collar bone and shoulder in a desert bike racing incident. It required pinning the collar bone in place and I was in a cast on my left arm/side for six weeks. When the cast and pin were removed I found I had very little muscle left in an arm that had been held stationary all that time. The physical therapy, to provide movement to the joints was painful and took another few weeks. Rebuilding the lost muscle took even longer. Follow the advice of your physical therapist and push yourself if you want to regain 100% mobility back.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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Thanks for the timeline, Paul.
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Cycling is the one sport where a guy can shave his legs, wear spandex and bright colors, and be accepted.
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