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Here is part of the email I sent Cole after I read Courage...... "I hate you sometimes..... (this was the topic line of the email) ...... because you make me cry and I feel like such a wussy when I cry, but Courage was such a beautiful story I couldn't help but cry. Well I lied. I don't hate you that you make me cry. I was going to say I hate you because you have the talent to touch me so deeply it makes me cry, but that really is just jealousy, pure and simple, the old green eyed monster." Courage truly is a beautiful story, I've read most of his stuff and this is among his best work.

I was actually surprised at how high Delaware was ranked in spending on education. What is unknown is what they are spending it on. I would venture to guess that TX with a fast growing population spends more on building new schools and DE being older and losing people spends more on personnel.

I am of two minds. I think no one handles the sex scenes better than Dom, very few are explicit, but still hot. I do enjoy the explicit scenes if they are well done and there are some people here who do that well too. I can't say who, because his story on GA hasn't gotten there yet, but when it does.... it is perfect.

Your quote is generally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. On a side note and kind of related to another thread about mis-attribution of quotes there is a really cool book I saw at Borders the other day, The Book of General Ignorance. It is about things we assume to be true because everyone says it, like "Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain", which it really isn't.

Bite your tongue Arbour, Aaron was our last, best hope for a gay to win! I agree, I love Crystal. She reminds me so much of Janis Joplin. She has a uniqueness about her.

I love the stories of Cole Parker at Awesome Dude and none better than this one. Courage

Blacksmiths are an interesting lot. I didn't even know we had them in the U.S. still. Bombing sparked 1892 labor war

Your friend should have made you watch this video instead. While the other might have been poignant (that is how it is spelled by the way) this is just too funny and too right on if you live anyplace that gets lots of Asian tourists and you watch them take picture and videos. This Wong Fu Productions is terribly talented. Wong Fu Productions

Who is it?? Percy Jackson

My Top Twenty Films 1 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 2 How the West Was Won (1962) 3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 4 Chariots of Fire (1981) 5 Summertime (1955) 6 An Affair to Remember (1957) 7 Ben-Hur (1959) 8 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) 9 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 10 Never On Sunday (1960) (II) 11 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 12 Gone With the Wind (1939) 13 The Usual Suspects (1995) 14 Meet John Doe (1941) 15 Zulu (1964) 16 Khartoum (1966) 17 Young Frankenstein (1974) 18 Quo Vadis (1951) 19 It Happened One Night (1934) 20 The Big Country (1958)

I don't think Mr. Trust is as bad as every one paints him here or wants him to be. He certainly could have been a lot rougher on Milo than he has been. He certainly isn't as bad as Dennis' dad was when we first met him and we know that Mr. Gordon turned out okay. A lot of parents are misguided in wanting "the best" for their children. I think his attitude towards Jame and Juanita shows some goodness. When he gets back together with Emily, we will see more of that goodness.

I would say a mix of all the above, but I don't think Jame is gay or bi-curious, it is more that kind of friendship that men from a different era had for each other, affection, but not lust. The situation with Jame's parents made him emotionally dependent on Milo and the sh*t*y way Caleb and his friends have treated Jame forever accounts for a large part of Jame's attitude towards Nels. Caleb has been a solid friend for Nelson, but that doesn't excuse him from being a bully where Jame is concerned. The A**face name from third grade should have been dropped a long time ago and it has bothered me from the first chapter. I wish Nelson had been more willing to tell Caleb to grow up and drop the stupid nickname. I do see Jame being a Dennis like character and if Dom chooses to keep us in Heywell or move Jame to a new city we might come to like Jame, another product of a f'ed up parent and school bullying.

I die laughing every time I see it.

The start of my freshman year was an interesting one for me. I was 14 years old and had lived 4 states and 3 countries by then. We had been in this city for just about two years now so we hadn't moved, but my three best friends from my neighborhood did move that summer. Two moved far away, one didn't but he was far enough and going to a different high school. I was always jealous of the Matt and Andy's who had been friends since second or third grade. I would call my story, It Started With Brian because it really did start with Brian, but since that one has been taken I'll have to figure out another title and I probably shouldn't use Brian's name, but I'll never forget meeting him at that first morning practice two weeks before school started. I don't think I ever fell so instantly in love with anyone ever, not before, not since. I think that is one reason I can relate to Andy, I get the unrequited love and the unrequited love that dare not speak it's name.

Nope..... ya only get one fave

You should be able to vote for more than one on sequels I think.... that was the way I tried to set it up.....

Self explanatory.

I would venture that most people have thought about it, me included, and sometimes more seriously than others, but I always come back to I could never do that to my parents. That is why I can get that others, especially gay kids who felt their parents don't care about them have no problem completing the act. I have thankfully never had anyone close to me commit suicide, or at least no one who was a close friend at the time they took their own life. That would have been tough for me to handle knowing they couldn't come to me.

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Why not gather the facts of the case and do the next best thing, send all the information to media outlets, local and national. The bullying case of that Irish girl got good national attention and people are always screaming "for the children" let them see what the results are. There shouldn't be any more Prayers for Bobby made.

that is fine as long as the "L" doesn't become an "n"

I was a three sports guy in HS, swim, polo and wrestling and club wrestling and swimming overlapped, I had two hours of swimming before school, two to three hours of swimming after school and then club wrestling twice a week at night with weekend tourneys. I think that was exactly how my parents liked it since I never had an opportunity to get in trouble.....

Don't need to see your hair..... just lift the t-shirt, we are very shallow

I forgot this one. It reminds me of all the young men who didn't come home from World War II. So melancholy when I hear it.