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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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There is a blog I am following. It has a title "An Intermittent Blog"
It's written by NW and it is easy to find.
I suggest most strongly that you read it. There is a lot to learn from it. NW can give you the url if he likes.
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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Some of the history of this was previously posted here at http://forum.iomfats.org/w-agora/index.php?site=forumiomfatsorg&bn=forumiomfatsorg_placeofsafety&key=1259885697&action=view
As an update, the lad and I have got to know each other much better over the past few months. He stayed a night at my place just before his 19th birthday (which was the end of Feb), and has been living here most of the time since then.
Updates on the things I wasn't sure of:
Yes, HIV+ since birth (and I've met his consultant)
Yes, seriously junkie from aged eleven to lst year (and I've met his re-hab consultant and drugs key worker)
Yes, both parents former addicts - and his mother, stepfather and half-sister came over for supper yesterday
We're not lovers, but are rapidly becoming "partners" - at least, that's how he's been introducing me recently, and how I appear on hospital records for the very difficult patch we've had in the past week. As I type, he's still asleep curled up under a blanket on my bed, where he spent the night needing the comfort of someone who cared being next to him.
I'll update the blog later today if I get a chance - unfortunately, broadband is currently down so I'm posting this through a rather poor mobile connection!
the URL is http://www.nickweeks.net/blogging for anyone interested
"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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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Thank you for posting the link, too
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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Yes, NW, thank you for the links. I've gone back and looked at them. I was following your blog last year and then lost the link and never found time and effort to get in touch again. When Timmy mentioned "An Intermittent Blog" I searched for it and couldn't find it.
I'm ashamed of that as I think I'd only have to ask.
You and Warren are amazing. I do admire you.
Love,
Anthony
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I found Nicks blog because he posted the URL for us. I read some stuff there and I think Nick must be a totally awesome person to care for somebody like that.
When I read stuff like that it makes me glad I have the awesome parents I have. They can be weird sometimes and go off about weird stuff but I cant even imagine what it must be like for some guys my age. Like they are doomed from the getgo.
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timmy
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He'll never admit it, but he is.
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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CabinBoy wrote:
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> ... but I cant even imagine what it must be like for some guys my age. Like they are doomed from the getgo.
I found it hard to imagine, too - and I think I'm pretty aware of the nasty underside of life in our big cities.
I'm simply doing what I can, and what I must, for just one lad out of hundreds here in London. I don't know why it's this one in particular, but that's how it goes.
Off for my TB test shortly - I'm scared. But when I woke terrified in the night, the lad put his arm round me ... the caring goes both ways.
"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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timmy
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Perhaps you all are reading NW's blog. If you are not, please may I suggest that you do. I think he is under substantial stress right now and a smile or a nod, or a simple acknowledgement meant with sincerity would be wholly appropriate. You can leave a comment ion his blog easily.
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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