From: Ashley Skye<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Hey everyone, I just wanted to write and touch base with everyone.  It seems I have lost all and any inspiration for writing lately.  I think I'm going through a big change or something. I feel like I have absolutely NO love inside me right now, and I can't get myself to write about anything.  Not even like hateful stuff, I just am a "blah" person lately.  My mom says that Im going through like a late teens crisis or something, considering I sleep ALL the time, and I decided to just cut a FOOT off of my hair the other day with no notice.  Oh well, I'll get out of my rut.  Unfortunately Im not even enjoying reading all of the new wonderful (im sure) submissions that everyone is writing.  Just none of it wakes me up from whatever is getting me down.  Well soon enough Im sure Ill get out of it.  Im gonna go to sleep now.  Have a good night everyone and I miss you all.<BR>
                            Ashley Skye
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Gala~<BR>
  I think Dirk Dragoon should have thick black hair and dark brown eyes...the kind that reduce a chica loca to a puddle. And full lips and hands like an ancient mariner. And he should definitely be half Italian!
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Paul,<BR>
'Sleep Rescue Me'...struck very close to my heart. I have lived through too many of those nights. Add my ICQ chat to the phone and I'm pegged cold. But isn't the homecoming worth all that? Still is for me each time...<BR>
You captured the feeling well...
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From: Paul B<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Thanks Terry...the wife and family were gone for 3 weeks so I was feeling all the uncomforts the last week.  First week was a nice vacation - second week was okay as long as I stayed busy but THREE WEEKS!!!  Hardly fair.  I would have thanked you personally but didn't have your email addy.<BR>
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While I'm here I liked reading "What I am" and "Like Kittens".  Two good pieces of work.  
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Sarah,<BR>
Eden Dreams is beautiful.....
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From: terry<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Paul...ditto on your email.<BR>
Here it is for anyone else who, like me, is an email addict.LOL<BR>
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[email-masked]  or [email-masked]<BR>
http://www.terrywayne.com/<BR>
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the poetry pages on my site are hidden. The poems have added artwork, mood music, etc. ... all the things that sandi loves. email me and I'll tell you where the hidden link is if you are interested.
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From: Galadrial<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Have to strut---just a little...some kids that I teach, and a few FGK have been featured in my county's high school lit mag---both art---and writing!<BR>
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God---I am so proud of them!  Way to go Meag---Nick!<BR>
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: Megs *desperate and FLABBERGASTED*<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Ok HELP ME!!! &lt;--- Do you see this...it is DIRE here.<BR>
FGM, Uncle K, Misti, Dee, Nikki, even Gup (the NONmailer)...I am calling in all the troops on this one.<BR>
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Ok quick background- Been with the one I am with for about 2 years now...he is my best friend, I care about him and can't find a fault with him except that "something is not there" but for safety and comfort and yes for love we survive quite nicely...that isn't the whole of it but who can sum it up in this short of a paragraph?<BR>
UNTIL I started work again and OWIE!!! There is this guy (as always...) who worked with me last summer and we had a wonderful flirtation...I have been back for three days and being the flirt at heart I am I couldn't PRETEND I wasn't ALL about him...which is fine until last night.  We were shutting down, drinking a little, and decided to try out the member's steam room (about 5 of us) and somehow found ourselves alone, uninhibited and errrr...steamy.  Hence I have cheated (somewhat) and I can NOT get over how right I feel.  I haven't stopped smiling.  <BR>
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Do I make sense?  There is so much more...I need to go write...or SOMETHING...<BR>
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Sorry Kirk this IS about love.  I am stressing and I can't tell anyone (besides the Internet masses *grin*)<BR>
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HELP HELP HELP!!!<BR>
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To Misti &lt;---- Pisces and Scorpios...give me the down low *grin*
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From: Gala<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

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Oh Megs---<BR>
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         Baby---I'll be the last to lecture you about hormones, desire of fidelity...and everyone gets tempted---<BR>
but sweetie---you're 19---which despite your talent and focus is painful young. I was getting a lot out of my system at that age...and while I know you love the gent in question, the rule is and must be, no rings, no strings...<BR>
<BR>
        Even when you commit yourself--the eye notices, the heart thumps...and it's what you do then that makes a difference. You're still caught between love and lust---and you're honest, sweet---and don't want to lose someone dear...only you can't always hedge your bets...<BR>
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       I couldn't get to my email---but I do love you little britches---later!
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From: Angel<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

I'd like to thank Terry, Nikki and Paul B for their lovely comments on three of my works: "Everything Was Perfect", "Seen Through a Tear" and "Like Kittens", respectively.<BR>
Nikki ,your "Untitled", meant alot to me.
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From: Gala<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

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<BR>
And now, putting on my "DR RUTH" Hat---we all know little britches, the saying "no glove, no love?" You had an awesome experience---but methinks you did not adequately protect yourself...and I know Momma Dee would pitch a fit and fall in it if she thought that Tk's Yankee Mom was running around putting herself at risk...<BR>
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So enough lecture...you know what I'm saying...Love you lots---but be careful please? I've lost enough loved ones, thank you...<BR>
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                                     Hugs<BR>
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                                      FGM Gala
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From: HMS (bodice-ripper writer-in-training)<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Attention, fellow bodice-rippers!<BR>
I used the term bodice-ripper in an e-mail to a friend.  He hadn't heard it and asked for a definition.  This is what I sent:<BR>
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Her breasts heaved as she struggled vainly in<BR>
Rinaldo's powerful arms.  "Let go, you brute!" she<BR>
cried.  "When Lord Ashworth hears of this, you shall<BR>
be punished."<BR>
<BR>
He laughed, his dark eyes smoldering * under lowered<BR>
brows.  "Lord Ashworth!  Lord Ashworth has paid me<BR>
handsomely for your abduction.  And after what he has<BR>
told me of your wanton ways, who could blame him?" <BR>
His eyes travelled the length of her, lingering on the<BR>
thin muslin of her bodice.<BR>
<BR>
Veronica's eyes blazed with fury.  "Lord Ashworth<BR>
lies," she told him coldly.  "I believed him to be my<BR>
protector, but it seems I have been gravely mistaken. <BR>
As have you," she added darkly.  <BR>
<BR>
His grip on her shoulders tightened roughly.<BR>
"So you deny it?  It would appear that you require a<BR>
lesson in what it is to be trifled with."  He silenced<BR>
her protest with a kiss, his full sensuous lips<BR>
pressed cruelly against hers.  She struggled for<BR>
breath as he crushed her slender body to his lean<BR>
muscular frame.  His lips travelled lower, and with<BR>
one quick gesture he tore the delicate muslin covering<BR>
her breasts... <BR>
<BR>
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This is way more fun than actually trying to write.<BR>
Don't know much about America c. 1800, but I'll start research for my upcoming chapter...<BR>
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Thanks Gala for the fun idea!<BR>
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PS How about L. B. Lender for the pen name?  Too boring?<BR>
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PPS * Smoldering, I now think of you when I use the word... whoever you may be!<BR>
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From: Misti, Astrology Maven<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Megs...the passion between a Pisces woman and a Scorpio man is unrivaled. Just look at Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Steamy and THEN some! But Crabs are so sweet! But you already knew this. Don't be too hard on yourself, chica. Like Gala said...you're 19 and single! 
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From: selma email [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

I KNOW I SHOULDN'T <BR>
<BR>
I know i shouldn't love you,I know isshouldn't care i know i shouldn't spend my life wishing you were there i know i shouldn't wonder were you are or what you do but i'm sorry i can't help myself I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU<BR>
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                       SELMA BEKTESEVIC 
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From: nikk<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

hey Misti..I never did answer you about my chris's birthday...April 19.<BR>
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gorgeous day out, and I am stuck cleaninc the house.  Isn't there some law against that?<BR>
<BR>
nikki
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Nikki~<BR>
  Cool! An Aries man and a Virgo woman. *Lady Chatterley's Lover* comes to mind. No wonder your poetry has been so inspired here lately!
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From: deevaa ([email-masked])<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Megs - I've just done a seach of the board looking for your email address, no where to be found, I only have your AOL one and I think its changed since then?<BR>
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My advice -- follow your heart, but don't try to keep both.... let one go, affairs always end up in all three people lonely.<BR>
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(((hugs))) email me... the smiles are wonderful, but I'm sure you feel confused to.<BR>
<BR>
dee<BR>
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From: Kim Wu               [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

For those of you don't know me already...my name Kim Wu. I married...sometimes happily...usually, unfortunitely, not so happy in marige. Husband no make sense great deal of time. Usually rude and in world of his own. This not good. But so many things not good! Crime, povirty, polushun, old age with no respect from younger genarashun, animals kept in dirty zoos, bad service in restarants, just to name few. So...question may be...how to deal with all this mess? Solushun simple...laughter! Sense of humur! Take grain of salt and put on rim of margureeta! Cheers! Hahahahahaha! Good solushun, no? You got better one, I be happy to hear it!
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From: nikki<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Megs...Pandora's Box is great!  I love it.  It makes me think of my current situation, believe it or not, and which choices ar ethe right ones.  Of course, I will send you an e-mail later on to talk more of this...and your current situation....and I like Musing too.<BR>
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Sarah---Pierced is beautiful..great imagery I think..<BR>
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Misti--I think most aastorolgy thingys say that Aries is not a good match for Virgo.....but as far as I am concerned..Aries is the PERFECT man for me...and yes...my inspiration as of late has come from HIM.  ~grins~<BR>
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Dee--I think that's excellent advice that you gave to Megs...<BR>
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Kim Wu--welcome to the Blender..your poetry tends to bring a smile to my face, while tearing at my heart at the same time..and I think that is a great solution..there's not much else to do besides laugh.<BR>
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Missing my Man....nikki
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From: Kim Wu               [email-masked]<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Nikki...thank you for nice things you write above! If you want look at my page, go to www.oe-pages.com/ARTS/Culinary/sofunnyyouspit/<BR>
this may work, maybe no<BR>
been having difficulty with process<BR>
troo...laughter only way to get through hard time<BR>

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From: deevaa<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

I say now that I've had the girls (Nikki, Misti and Kiwi) researching NZ that we should have the bodice ripper set here!! hehe, anyone that gets a chance... watch 'The Piano' ...it makes early NZ life out the way it really was, and very romantic. (stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Kitel (or however thats spelt) and a very young Anna Paquin.)<BR>
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dee
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From: nikki<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

Dee--I saaw The Piano, and I loved it.  of course, it made me cry.  but most movies do.  ~smiles~<BR>
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later all my lovelies
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From: Misti<BR>
Date: 20 May 2000<P>

I think the novel should be set on Tralfamadore. We could contact Kurt Vonnegut and get his permission, I'm sure. And Dirk and Chastity could keep going back and forth in time. One minute, Dirk could be at his senior prom dancing to an Air Supply song with Lindee Justsayno. The next he could be in bed with Chastity, enjoyin' tantric sex to the fullest.<BR>
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Nikki~<BR>
  There are many layers to astrology! You need to know what time Chris was born so you can figure out his natal chart. The sun signs are only the first layer. Here is an excerpt from *Love Signs* by Linda Goodman, the wisest, most poetic astrologer who ever lived:<BR>
"There's frequently a misty enchantment inherent in the physical love between the Aries man and the Virgo woman. These two are rather likely to be among the few people still left who are still sexually unpolluted by the explicit sex being flaunted in everyone's faces, whether they like it or not."<BR>
Other good parts in the Aries man/Virgo woman chapter. That's just the most outstanding, in my opinion. I wish you the best!<BR>

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