From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

hairdiva, my heart goes out to you about your mother. We all seem to get the rug yanked out from under us when it comes to close family. I was glad to celebrate your happiness with a new marriage, as I am sure she was for you. I was glad to see that you wrote of her as the matriarch and a woman of strength in your family. I will imagine that you have inherited that same strength from her so that you will manage and carry on sharing the beauty of your mother with others as you have here. Be at peace relishing her strengths and character and know that all of us at blender care deeply over your pain at her condition. A few words of advice from one who's been very critically ill a number of times over the years: Give her your smiles, love and hugs and feel these flow back to you. And, hugs to you from me, my blender friend ...... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

beautifulstranger, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.01.05.4781">october reflection</a>: beautiful, refreshing and something I enjoyed completely ...... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

beautifulstranger, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.01.05.4781">october reflection</a>:<BR>
 All I can say is ohhh and ahhhh, spicy,<BR>
sexy, seductive, but with loads of taste...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

rennielorca, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.04.24.7047">if we could forget....</a>:<BR>
  Oh my sweet sweet rennie, could you email this to my lover lol, and tell him all of the things are said last night were just mixed up emotions painted on a canvas,this is bittersweetly beautiful,<BR>
thank you...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

 I meant all the things I said last night,<BR>
 I hate typos, sorry I'm just too tired running on only a few hours of sleep, you know how it is...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

distant moon, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.08.20.03.14668">Distinctly Ours</a>:<BR>
 Ohhh, why are you people doing this to me, first beautiful stranger and then you,<BR>
lol, this is tooo much, I think I need a cold shower, lol no seriously it's very sexy and very beautifully done...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

briana kassia, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.08.16.52.17348">Affirmation</a>:<BR>
 And thrice I say how erotic, at least to me this is how I take it, nice piece..
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=20">distant moon</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

Baby Rose, Thanks!  Mission accomplished. ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

beautifulstranger, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.01.05.4781">october reflection</a>:<BR>
<BR>
I absolutely love this.  Simply astounding work...and it made me reflect on a few things.  Thanks for sharing it! 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1540">hairdiva</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

Rennie, how could you know that I am pulling myself together by the sheer knowledge that I am cut from the same diamond of strength from which my mother came?  Thank you for your words.  My entire family sat in that waiting room and said over and over again how joyous my mother was planning my wedding, and making it such a beautiful day for me.  She did everything.  My grandmother told me that my uncle thanked her for insisting that he take the time from work to attend the wedding, just because we all got to see her absolutely glowing joyously.  That, in itself, will carry me through this.  Along with all your thoughts and hugs.  Thank you, my friend Rennie, for knowing.  It means more than you can imagine.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

rennielorca, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.04.24.7047">if we could forget....</a>:Love it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

<BR>
<BR>
  How lucky you are to have a mother that<BR>
 loved you that much, it hurts me to know <BR>
that we are all not that lucky, I only hope and feel that I already come up short<BR>
to being the true mother that my daughter needs, hairdiva, you have been truly blessed. With all of the relationship problems I have been having I feel like my <BR>
baby has got the short end of the stick and it makes me cry just to write this because I truly love her with all of my heart and soul, I just hope someday she forgives me for lacking in certain aspects, for working all of the time, and for not being the person she deserves, to my Natalie Rose, I truly am  sorry and mommy loves you more than every breathe that she takes, and please never forget that as long as you live...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

<BR>
 To all the mothers out there some questions,<BR>
  how does one forgive oneself for not living up to their expectations as parents<BR>
I mean I have always fed her, bathed her,<BR>
 helped her with her homework, all of the physical details but I feel that on an emotional level I have not been the person I should, tell me, does it ever get any easier, does the guilt ever cease, and how do we know when we are doing the right things by our children?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1840">Baby Rose</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

<BR>
 sorry for the typos I make alot of them,<BR>
 I meant that I already feel I come up short... lol
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 9 October 2007<P>

Baby Rose, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.09.15.31.25126">I Fall</a>:<BR>
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Baby Rose, as I read this, it reminded me of the fact that we are often our own best and worst enemies.  And I want to tell you...you're human.  As such, no one expects you to be perfect.  We all fall.  We all do things we wish we didn't, or know we shouldn't.  That doesn't make us any less.  And those who love, forgive.<BR>
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Thanks for sharing the piece, my dear.  Many hugs...
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