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Everyone on GA wants to be helpful, but I think there is no substitute for professional help. I think it is entirely possible for a sleeping/semi-sleeping man to be in a dream like state where he is having a same sex encounter and blurt out something that he would never act on in completely awake state. The issue here really seems to be your insecurity as to what it meant when he said what he said since as near as I can tell he hasn't been more distant in your relationship and things are going well. I don't think anyone on GA can take away that insecurity and give you the best way to approach him. That is why I would ask a professional.

This is my father's and his mother's favorite Christmas song. It makes them quite misty eyed. I'll Be Home For Christmas

This is a Canadian guy I stumbled across last year. Love the Elvis sound. http://www.youtube.com/user/DBTWENTYSIX?feature=watch#p/u/17/AXou6toYKMo

Oh gawd at this stage JJ is a total wreck, addicted to Oxy he started taking when he was skating and he drinks too much because his skating career was never what he wanted. He's been to Passages Malibu more times than Nick Nolte, threw up on Will's husband, Alistair, at their wedding and lost Riley at the mall for six hours once......

Three things, well four actually I guess. First, I really like the story, it is simple and sweet. But there were two things I found really odd. One was that Andy would stay in the guest room when staying over at Roger's. What kid does that? Especially with your neighbor. I always had my friends sleep in my bedroom with me, that is the whole point of a sleepover and I did the same at their houses. The other was giving Joey a stereo and talking about CD's. A what and what's?? I have barely even heard some say the words "stereo" and "CD's" for years. I could see if he had an old iPod lying around, but stereo?? And lastly, they KNEW Roger was coming back. I don't care how horny two teens are, they would have been acutely aware that their time was limited. Even if they came out to each other, and got busted at the hospital (twice, which I also found a little improbable given how paranoid you are at 14 about being found out/outed). So don't let the constructive criticisms cloud that I am enjoying the story.

Okay, so admittedly I haven't followed this on a minute by minute basis, but I don't get why any one thinks he faked anything. He lives rather near my parents and the local paper has covered the story along with ABC and neither mentions that there was anything incorrect in the first video. OC Register: Lake Forest Teen Goes Viral Mother of Jonah Mowry I do think everyone has a responsibility to take matters into their own hands when they are being bullied. I can see in some parts of the country where a school administration might shrug at a gay kid, or any kid for that matter, being bullied, but not in coastal So Cal. The schools are very supportive of gay kids and have almost draconian programs against bullying, but you have to let someone know it is happening. Since he had been cutting himself from an early age my guess he has more problems than his sexuality and he needed to tell someone about what was going on in his life. And the "everyone has a responsibility" includes his friends. If his friends knew he was cutting, they didn't do him any favors by not telling an adult they trusted.

I hope Wade and Matt are more like JP & Stef than Brad & Robbie, who needs THAT drama again. And while Matt might other men/boys now, eventually it gets old and you see the vacuousness of it if you any sense about you and I think Matt does. I am more intrigued by Darius' challenge to Will to close the deal with a girl. I'd love to see Will do some exploration with women/girls.

Oh Krista, not all. If ever I was tempted to take the towels and the bathrobes, it would be from the Halekulani Hotel in Hawaii. They have the greatest towels I've ever used.

Man, you wouldn't believe how many microwaves and coffee makers I have!! Acutally, I discovered a long time ago those little bottles of shampoo etc are pretty worthless. I do take the little sunscreens when I stay in hotels that have them as they can be useful and given how I tip the housekeepers they always seem to leave me extras.

Ah the dosier... this should be fun. I do hope I see a foreshadowing of Will trying to close the deal with a girl. At 14 he might or might not be completely gay, a little walk on the wild side could be a humbling experience. I always found any number of girls wanting to help me with my "confusion" as so many of them called it.

These people aren't part of the Southern Baptist Convention which is what most people think of when they hear the word "Baptist". This is one of those tiny, crazy churches in KY which has a few including the snake handlers. Even in this small church, I think it has 40 families in it, the pastor has been dismissed and they are going to reconsider the vote. Please note the outcry from other religious leaders in KY about how outrageous they thought this church's action was. Please also note that the original vote to say that the church didn't condone interracial marriage was 9-6. The church's new pastor says they will vote again and he expects a different outcome this time. KY Church Pastor Seek Reversal The opinion of 15 people has become national and international news?

Hey Colin, having been a conservative and a Republican at Cal, I am well aware of how they are treated.

There are quite a few schools in the south that are supportive of their gay students, including Vanderbilt with it gay fraternity house. Austin, home of UT is a gay friendly city and UT itself is gay friendly. That isn't to say there can't be individual problems any place, but I don't think gays at UT have any more problems than Republicans and conservative do at Berkeley.

I liked Jeanine early on when she was just Darius's nanny, less so as Will's mom or Tiffany's partner. I don't remember Tiffany's background, but I hope she doesn't cut off her nose to spite her face with Grand Mama Danfield. There are a lot of advantages that go with being a Tidewater Family. Yes with advantages comes responsibilities and some BS, but you put up with it because the pluses outweigh the minuses. I had to think for a minute who Cody even was. He hasn't been in the picture for a while, but hopefully we will see a bit more of where he is career-wise and some of the characters from the past, Jackie included. Maybe even have some cameos from Wolfgang Puck, Jim Cameron, Bryan Singer, Peter Jackson, etc.

Not sure where you are doing your research, but in the world I live in the JD/MBA is seen as a very valuable asset. There is a reason Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, Cal, UCLA, U Penn, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke, USC, Michigan, Cornell and others offer it. There is a demand for it.

Well "paternity" is more than a test, it is the act of being a father too, but I still liked The Politician's Son better as a title

There are a lot of careers for J.D.s besides being "lawyers". Most people in business affairs in the movie/television business are J.D.s and most never took the bar. The same is true for a lot of agents, sports and entertainment agents. Institutional investment management firms employ a lot of J.D.s as do business offices of universities, import/export companies, hospitality and real estate companies and more. Don't think that to have a J.D. means you have to be a lawyer. If you can get a concurrent MBA, do it.

Freakin' A who says it ain't a happy ending? I am tickled to death that Gathan gets to have a normal college experience without some high school girlfriend back home for him to moon over. I still want Will to fall for Alistair. The classic story of the intellectual and the "brute". See Will with someone his age and in tender moments. Someone who would give Will the loyalty he didn't find in his hunky phucks.

Very, very sad that this is the final chapter of PMS, not that I care a lot about Gathan, he is okay, but I did love the world through Will's eyes, but I also realize you couldn't go through Will's 9th grade year, week by week, but I was looking forward to seven or eight more chapters and seeing some of the characters at HW developed. I do like how Gathan and Kristen "ended" because at this point it really will be the healthiest thing for the both of them. I do get a sense that we haven't seen the last of the Zach character and hope we haven't seen the last of the Alistair character. I'd love to see him reading Keats on the beach while Will surfs Thanks Mark, not just for PMS, but for all the books in CAP.

Cool chapter, I guess I read too fast to pick up any of the errors because I do notice them. I guess the one question I have is about how accepting the nurse was. In small town coal country, I would think people would tend not to be so accepting. It is still the Bible Belt and even among the college educated I can imagine lingering prejudice. It wouldn't raise an eyebrow in a hospital in Los Angeles, but in the South, it seems in the smaller cities it is still an issue. Obviously the story is just beginning, we still have to find out who gets murdered (better not be the Judge ) what happens with the bully, why Timmy is being weird and what happens with Joey's dad. Do take your time though Billy, we'll wait.

Vandy is such a cupcake they have sugar spreckles on their uniforms. Every team in the Pac 10 (now Pac 12) has won or shared a conference title in the last 20 years. Newcomers Utah & CO each won the championships in their old conferences the previous ten years. Vandy last won a conference title in 1923, MSU in 1941, Arkansas in 1989 (SWC), South Carolina 1969 (ACC), Kentucky in 1976, Ole Miss in 1963. The conference is so unbalanced it is a joke. You are right though, Vandy has vastly improved from 2-10 the last two years to 5-6 this year. Since 1960 they have had FIVE winning seasons.

Right... when your non-conference opposition is Troy, GA Southern, Western Kentucky, Northwestern State (what state? where the hell is NW State?) and the like and you play them at home, you are going to win easy and big. And then when your conference has cupcakes like Ole Miss, Miss State, Vandy, and Kentucky, teams that haven't won an SEC title in 50 years (80 years for Vandy) you are going to win 6-8 games without even trying. Try scheduling BCS conference opponents, home and away and stop playing IAA teams and see how hard college football really is.

Now that would be an interesting topic.... how older gays are treated in their communities. In my experience, some what limited to West Hollywood and the Bay Area, other than the guys who like "daddies", the gay community I've been exposed to is very youth oriented and older guys (50+) in clubs in WeHo just get crap and derision from the younger (under 30) guys. Those of us in the middle just keep our heads down. We remember being young and now realize old happens.

Please.... as if a gay man is ever going to let his hair go gray... it would be more like justformenauthors.org

Mario Batali? Love him too.