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Thank you - for being the wonderful writer you are, for sharing that writing with us, and for thinking of us during the holiday season. Have a wonderful and safe holiday.

Ok - what am i doing wrong - cant get to Joann's story!

Way to go Nana! She reminds me so much of my own grams it's scarey! Ethan has met his match! I thought Matt had outgrown those party till he puked nights and the constant casual hookups. Guess he still has a bit of growing up yet to do too. I find myself wondering if there is some sort of a breakdown coming for him - he seems rather one sided in dealing with the losses - yes he lost his father, a man he had just recently come to know, but so did his partner, and he seems to lose sight of that at times. A completely enjoyable chapter sir! I can't help but hear the tick tick tick of the climbing coaster tho. May you and your family ( both natural and your writing team) have a wonderful holiday.

WL will be creating a voting thread, I would suppose sometime today. I'd do it but you all know how tech challenged I am!

I'm not sure where you are coming from trebs, but when I took poly-sci the term illegal alien referred to someone who came into a country in violation of existing laws at the time of their entry into the country. It has nothing to do with how well liked a particular group is or if someone complains about their lot or steps out of line. Granted there have been issues where people have abused political power, but it is hardly fair to label immigration laws as just another form of prejudice.

Friends come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. The lifers are few and far between, but you will know it when you trip on one. In the meantime - enjoy the reason or the season. Cia is right with one exception, life is pretty random. Build a plan - work towards it, but stay flexible enough to grab the brass ring if it happens to swing past early! There is nothing weird about you wanting things to be easier for Mikie. You care. That's what makes you a good person. As for mom - again Cia is right, there isn't a lot you can do there. There are others around you that you can turn to tho for support. Let them ( us ) be there for you!

Wings has hers set to just after midnight

Tis done and on its way back WL! I think I need to recluse myself from the voting tho - I have 3 authors with work in! Hehehe - that DOES let me get advance reading on some of the stories tho!

With those moves i hope brother doesn't spend too much time in the clubs!

You have already taken the first step. Lots of people feel the way you do. Now maybe some of the people who were there will do the same. that is to speak up when they see racism being spouted that way. A rock slide can start with a single rolling pebble.If you influenced two people to stand up for what is right, and they influence two more...

NO - YOU WERE NOT WRONG! While everyone has a right to their opinions, and to be a racist ass, there is a time and place to voice those views, and in a restaurant ( even fast food) is NOT the place! I wish more people had the nerve to say something in a situation like that!

What is it they say about good men doing nothing?

Cute title! Can't wait to see the story!

Good Question. Did the boy happen to have it at a rather explicit point of the story? Or did the teacher take the tablet and read the entirety to know what it was and classify it as smut? I think I would be more upset that the boy apparently was reading while he should have been doing something else, Tell him to put the dang thing away and pay attention then. Hardly matters what it is that he was reading if it wasn't during free time, and if it was, well then was she reading over his shoulder? Maybe the one vice principal I was forced to deal with is correct and I am "way too liberal". Odd that - my family thinks me the most conservative of our lot!

I am with AJ. The show made little to no sense to me BEFORE this incident. It didn't shock me that he held prejudiced views, nor did it shock me that A&E are now trying to control the damage. What DOES shock me is that someone thought the show was a good idea in the first place. But then - I don't much care for any of the so-called reality TV shows. Might as well make a weekly series about me doing the laundry - its about as interesting in my opinion.

I thought the water speakers were sort of interesting. Someone gets drunk at a party and you could occupy them for hours while you hide their keys/car.

I am glad you enjoyed Lisa. Seems to me that we all have had one or two little glitches at a holiday dinner at one time or another. My little voice just seemed to want them all rolled into one meal!

Come in, sit and enjoy. And if you want help with your stories that can be arranged too! Welcome!

There's something about the taste of wood that attracts me. Perhaps the puppish urge to chew?

Maybe that's why the weather seems so out of balance?

Before the forum blows up again, may I add? Yes - Will was wrong to have slept with Kyle knowing the boy was attached to Eric. Yes - Matt would be wrong for sleeping with Tony knowing Will is into him, even tho they are not as yet "together". But they are both wrong for TOTALLY DIFFERENT REASONS and in my mind not comparable.

Congratulations and many pots of cat grass!

In my state, while you can get a permit to begin learning at 16 - you don't get a provisional licence till 17, and are under various restrictions for at least a before getting an unrestricted licence. And do I think it a good thing to give a 14 yr old a licence? NO WAY! But then - there are some supposed adults I would not give a drivers licence either.

Sorry people - but I don't think people are seeing the point here. He drank, drove, killed, and was tried as a child? He drank - like an adult He drove - like an adult He killed He should have been tried like an adult, and been subject to the same penalties.

Only 9 reviews - cut us a break - Christmas is coming! We didn't complain when you had the early term slowdown! Interesting to see an east coast Cody enter the picture. I am surprised Brad hasn't spent more time with Cody since the tragedy. I'm also waiting (not so) patiently for how things regarding Maddy and custody shake out - I cant see the grandparents just sitting back and accepting. If they were that easy to get along with the boys would have been spending more time with them! Interesting how people circle back to one another. Hank's ex now head of security in Brad's company? And he had little to do with it. I am sure someone who got passed over will have comments about the connection, as well as the idea that someone who was presumably a target of the discriminatory actions is now in charge. Would also be interesting to follow up on just where that policy came from, and who decided being gay was a potential threat to national security. I think you enjoy raising more questions than you give us answers Mr Arbour! As usual, a thoroughly enjoyable chapter!