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Date: 2007-09-28 20:10:44 Rick & Rob ( GRKRDC@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: We recently moved to Texas and were surfing to locate other like ourselves and ran across you website. We are in North Texas just South of Denton. Thanks for sharing....sounds like you have a colorful life.... |
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Date: 2007-08-20 04:37:47 Sue Speros ( firecracker32@verizon.net / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys! Just drifted in ...looking for Netipots. Had a horrific sinus infection-allergy day. Your section about Netipots caught me, and I stayed on for the rest. Really like your humor and outright friendliness. Thanks for the relief and humor! Sue |
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Date: 2007-08-02 12:52:24 Jen ( pgmrjen@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes, I too have chronic sinus problems and nasty stuff in the nose -- I've been diagnosed with Wegener's Granulomatosis. . . . wanted to be sure your docs had eliminated that as an issue for you. It's not well known - it's an autoimmune disease. The body attacks the small blood vessels in the sinuses, or lungs or kidneys. Info is power -- just sharing. I arrived here after a google search for "Pneumonia after sinus infection" |
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Date: 2007-07-24 23:00:54 Dan ( redeedan@yahoo.com / http://www.malevisions.net) wrote: I have to add to my previous comment because after reading what I had written I realized I did a lousy job of expressing myself. I am not a gifted writer like you guys. I found your writings excellent. Your humor and candor is so refreshing. Having lived in Austin the same time you guys did I might very well have stood next to you in the Chain Drive one Saturday night. Thank you for doing this. I can't wait to read the next installment. |
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Date: 2007-07-24 20:51:51 Dan ( redeedan@yahoo.com / http://www.malevisions.net) wrote: I just spent four hours reading damn near everything on your site. It's kinda like a car crash....you don't want to look but you just can't help yourself! I loved every word. Thank you for sharing your life with all of us. |
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Date: 2007-05-31 19:35:00 Jim ( wildsail@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I had a friend named Bil Turner. Bil Ratchford Turner. He was from Georgia. We lost contact many years ago when he moved from COnnecticut to Califorina. I was wondering if ths is the individual you wrote about. |
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Date: 2007-05-14 21:44:06 diane ( diane_is_crazy@yahoo.com / http://www.myspace.com/diane_is_crazy) wrote: You guys are AWESOME! I enjoy reading your site, especially about Priscilla. I had a pc virus and lost the link and today - I FOUND YOU AGAIN! Thanks for being such great folks, good luck and God Bless! |
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Date: 2007-04-29 03:31:30 underestimated pup ( Gatekeeperspup@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello, My arrival here was through my search for Tammad Rimilia's bondage/sub-checklist for my Master. For some reason I can no longer find it and it saddens me to find out that he passed. Wonderful memorial page! |
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Date: 2007-02-24 04:11:50 Alisa ( Bodyphysics@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Happened acoss your website when I was working on an assignment for a course I was taking. Thanks for the sense of humor and the laughs. You guys sound happy!!! Wish I had more time to read your site! Alisa |
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Date: 2007-02-22 20:43:27 Judy ( rossjudith@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi I am a retired ER RN with very bad sinus problems I think your info on the sinus rinse is great more docs need to give out this info. Have you been told you have eosinophilic sinus problems. I have and they tend to be permanent and I have to take steroids all the time. In between your infections do you have to take steroids other than nasal sprays. I would be interested to know if you have been told anything about chronic eosinophilic sinus problems. Thanks Judy |
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Date: 2007-02-15 02:47:51 Anthony Warfield ( tonywarf1969@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Just a correction on the date of Jim Houts death. It was February 4th, not April 2nd, 2007. Thank you, Tom Taylor's nephew. |
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Date: 2007-02-14 20:06:51 Jonny Westom ( jonny_westom@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey Wes & Tom, How are you? I have a quick question, I really like the name of your webpage...in-fact I like it so much my parents gave it to me as a last name! hahaha... Anyway, I would like to inquire about possibly taking over the actual domain name (www.westom.com). I have started a couple of businesses and I would like to use the parent company name as the umbrella for the domain... Just an inquiry, please let me know your thoughts. -Jonny |
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:20:26 Mike Sanguinetti ( fm85603@yahoo.com / http://www.bear411.com/fm85603) wrote: damn.. i spent hours reading your site... thanks for shareing, great reading ... I'm from Stockton originally, almost neighbors then.. we should go riding sometime, take our Harleys out, ever been to sturgis??? a bud in San Diego is a ring leader for a bunch of like minded men that goes... and incase you don't know it, you and your family are a bunch of religious nuts.. you know if your were catholic, you can tell them all to go to hell and smile about it... take care, till we meet... Mike.. |
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Date: 2007-01-21 05:04:30 Laura ( win78130@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Thank you for the neti pot and saline solution advice...this research also led me to your very interesting web site. Not sure that i would air out my families dysfunctions like you have but if it works for you go for it. thanks again. P.S. Cedar season here in central Texas Sucks! |
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Date: 2007-01-17 11:49:18 AJ Steigenberger ( blabla@blabl.com / no homepage) wrote: do the world a favour and croak- finally! |
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Date: 2007-01-09 12:03:33 Lee ( zugchef@leeseisenbahnen.de / http://www.leeseisenbahnen.de) wrote: Hi there! I am choo chooing along the net and had to stop at this beautiful homepage to give you a big wave! trainy regards Lee |
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Date: 2006-12-24 05:57:18 Janette Fennel ( MartinFennel31@aol.com / http://aol.com) wrote: Hello, I was seaching some things on my computer, typed in Brent's name and in doing so brought me to this site. My name is Janette Fennel, Brent Fennel's little sister. I had visited him a couple of times when he lived there in Houston. I might have met you once. It's been so long I've forgotten. Thank you for mentioning him in you letter. He was a wonderful person. God blessed me with the honor of knowing such a great person, and then too, that he also was my brother. I love you Brent. Thank you Wes for giving me this time and space to remember, and never forget. God Bless You. Sincerely, Janette Fennel |
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Date: 2006-12-20 22:34:16 Kevin Stoner ( kevstoner@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Great site--I especially enjoyed th eletter wars! |
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Date: 2006-12-15 17:50:16 Bart ( no email / no homepage) wrote: i want to share with you my sister lives in the Netherlands with a woman. It was not a problem for the Belgian priest that she was to be the godmother of my son, despite the fact she is lesbian. Theb only thing that matters is that you love each and help each other in good and bad times |
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Date: 2006-12-15 17:47:22 Bart ( cisr_dir_bart@yahoo.fr / http://beta.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=185732709476013654) wrote: i try to translate to french your article on patriot justice. Shocking. You ought to inform foreign press about this to expose this. A good way, might be to get in touch with the french press: Courrier International |
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Date: 2006-12-09 17:42:03 JoEllen McVey ( mcvey55555@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello Guys! (especially Tom) I click in to check on you and yours. I miss you, and think of you often. Days at Presby were crazy and knowing you helped me through it! Bless you and yours this hosliday season, and always. Much Love, JoEllen Sulphur Springs Texas, living in the country and loving it! |
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Date: 2006-12-01 18:26:54 Ann Fiegen ( amfiegen@gmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes: I am Fletcher's sister, at CSUSM. Thanks so much for the kind messages and photos of Fletch. They keep his wild and positive spirit alive. |
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Date: 2006-11-24 19:37:40 Mike Levinson ( tazlvrsdad@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes & Tom, I'm not sure if you can help me but I've run out of places to look. I found my Nephews name in a website that included your site and others in Texas. His name is Christopher Robin Lizotte. He is my Nephew and my Mothers Grandson. We have not heard from him for months and have been unable to find anyone who can tell us if he has passed. When we last spoke he was seriously ill and his doctors had given him little time. If you knew my nephew and have any information, please let me know. If you didnt know Chris, but know where I can check on his whereabouts, that will be appreciated as well. God bless. |
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Date: 2006-10-16 11:52:17 Thomas Armstrong ( tomarmstrong33@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Although I really respect you two and what you put out there, don't you think that you should have all of your facts before you start speaking ill of the dead. By that I mean Tim Jones, who was a gracious, kind, warm man that would have never acted the way that you have. I've always been lead to believe that there's three sides to a story...his side, his side, and then there's the truth. Maybe you should look at the third side before you make judgements. I was taught not to be disrespectful by Daddy Tim, but I've came back and read the "eulogy" of Tim and quite honestly I couldn't live with myself if I didn't say something. He was a great man, who like everyone else had problems and was trying to deal with them. And I stood by him and said damn the world, but your the first person that I've ever say anything negative about him, well save for one person who I really don't care to name. There was alot that Tim and I talked about in private, and there was more going on that what you know about. As for the family, they did what they thought was right concerning Tim's things/home, and the only people that they answer to are themselves. There are more things that I will gladly talk to you about in private, as I don't air other people's dirty laundry for everyone to see. I commend you for your journals, pages, pictures, etc., but for this one I must say BOO! Boy Thomas (Always Daddy Tim's boy) May he rest in peace |
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Date: 2006-10-14 02:09:26 Billy Barnes ( billyabarnes@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Still love me? Where are you? I just moved to Austin after Doug and split and sold the house. Let me know how to get in touch with you - would love to see you. I am fat and old. LOL Hi Tom! |
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Date: 2006-10-03 06:08:51 eve ( heylittlemama@gmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I actually found your page researching neti pots and nasal irrigation and then I started into the letter wars! Oh god, I feel so bad for you and yet it was pretty funny, too. I am sorry you had family being such a pain about bringing your SO to a party - I cannot even imagine what they thought "THE CHILDREN" would see. Even though I am heterosexual, my lifestyle has been condemned by my father for deviating too far from the biblical path. I hope things go well for you both and you stay well! |
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Date: 2006-09-22 02:51:38 David ( okie323@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Wandering and googling ... checking on a notebook of names and contacts while cleaning up my office. Your site was the second result down for Steven Bradley, an acquaintance around 1993. What was 5 minutes turned into an hour -- nose surgery (ack!! are you breathing again?), Priscilla Files ... the religious "right" rhetoric from the late 80's was alive and thriving in most of the letters from your family members. It's interesting to see some of it wielded here in your guestbook, too: gay is a choice, sexualizing gays, love the sinner hate the sin. Tired. Tired, non-thinking people. I'm interested in empowering LGBT youth to stand up to these kinds of messages and working hard at it in California. Drop me a line -- Thank You! for keeping your site up. -- David |
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Date: 2006-09-14 06:40:55 Alec ( n101rw@hotmail.com / http://www.normalgay.com/~N101SB) wrote: Hi Wes, Hi Tom, For some reason or the other I was looking up some history on Catron County,NM and then I thought of Fletcher whom I met in San Diego in 1997 who told me about his family in New Mexico. I was very very sad to learn (and thankful to you to know of this news)of him tonight via your website. I have some pictures he sent me of he and his dog, he and his motorcycle and a nice pic of him if you would like one of these for your website, please let me know. Fletcher the most delicious, sexiest, sweetest men, I met him at the Gay Rodeo 1997 in San Diego, we had such a blast! I have wondered about him for sometime and hoped I might one day be in contact with him. I had no idea that he was that far along. We lost conctact after my father past away in in late 1997, I had moved to Los Angeles to be near my mom then. I am now in Santa Barbara, CA. Wow, I am just stunned. |
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Date: 2006-08-31 17:57:42 Roadkill ( RoadkillSanDiego@cox.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes. You are such a wonderful perv. I love you. Thanks for surviving and being in my world, and I'm glad to be in yours. btw, I love watching you get fucked by your leather daddy, and always appreciate the wonderful manners of your boy. Also, how did you ever, really, get Tom? He is too amazing and generous for this world. Your totally perved neighbor :-) |
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Date: 2006-08-11 06:09:57 Jim Bear ( jimbear@jimbear.com / http://www.jimbear.com) wrote: Thank you for your brave selfLESS sharing of your personal struggles, trials, and triumphs. Your continuing story is testimony that there IS HOPE in life, love, and HIV. May God bless each and every one of you and grant you good health and everlasting happiness! Jim Bear |
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Date: 2006-08-01 04:54:37 Ted Taylor Jr ( Ted59b@msn.com / no homepage) wrote: Thanks for the info from Wes's nose. The VA M.D. tells me using a nasal wash solution might save me from surgery and gave me a handout that was supposed to have instuctions for mixing the solution (it didn't - your website did - and I'm grateful!) Thanks guys! Be Happy! T/Jr |
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Date: 2006-06-15 01:39:35 Swiss men ( hpbaur@hispeed.ch / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes, poor boy! Why can't you love am woman and make children? Did you have some problems with your father so you needed another gay "daddy"? Sure it was not very lucky for your mother to see that you are gay,because the only thing that you are interested in is....sex. You should better live here in the mountains of switzerland, where everybody is sleeping during the night,and working on day, and has a normal family with childrens! Kindly greetings from Hans Peter in Switzerland |
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Date: 2006-06-14 10:13:27 catia ( catia1313@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: In RE: The Priscilla Letters My heart goes out to the entire family, everyone included. It is so clear that EVERYONE was hurt in some way. It is awful that the entire episode went on so long. I was able to understand everyone's point of view. It is clearly all about FEAR. Fear of change, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown. Each party did their best to express their fears, though they may not have been aware that this is what they were doing at that particular time. It is sad that an entire family is divided, when they were all so capable of their expression of these fears. Each was holding onto their true belief system, which is really the only thing entirely "yours", and this too was admirable. None were "shaken" by the other. This is a strong family, holding tight to the beliefs in their hearts...but the same admiral quality was their most destructive tool. I have a little quote/affirmation on the wall next to my computer, I have no idea who wrote it, but I look at it daily, and know it is true: Family Dynamics Defy Logic... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Catia |
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Date: 2006-06-08 21:16:50 Mr Livingston ( mrlivingston2002@yahoo.com / http://therealstateoftheunion.com) wrote: In reference to "Someone God sent is all." If you want to quote the bible that's fine. Just remember one thing, that book has been rewritten so many times to fit the day its lost most of its real relevance. There is no way that credibility can be given to what the Bible says God or Jesus said. The Bible wasn’t written for hundreds of years after the death of Christ. You’ve got the Old Testament, the New Testament and the King James’ versions of the same book. All tell a great story on how man should live; a great model that should be followed, no doubt. But, as far as you knowledge of nature goes it suffers more than your Biblical knowledge. Homosexuality in other creatures is common place, it has been observed in every primate species on the planet as well as other mammals, fish and insects. When two males fight over the females, often the dominate male ‘takes’ the loser. Male monkeys, in a show of submissiveness, offer themselves to the dominate male. Your lack of knowledge of nature is only second to that of your perception of HIV. Sportsman you have to understand that HIV is a man made virus and is spread by many more ways than homosexual sex. It started showing up in the straight community when people were getting it from the blood supply or shared needles or somehow being exposed via injury. People were getting it from their dentists for crying out loud. Show me where you got your insane ideas about how homosexuals came to be. Where do you get such drivel? I’ve known many gay people, not one with a single tale of abuse of any kind. Show me the facts and until you can my kind sir please refrain from spreading your misconceptions about life on the Planet Earth. It pains me to no end when people think they have the answers but can’t spell the 3 letter words right. Let’s remember, God made us in his image right? God placed Adam and Eve on the Planet in a place called Eden. Science has recently tracked man’s DNA back to a tribe in Africa that still live much the same why it did thousands of years ago. We all have the same genetic marker. Well that would for one thing make God a Black man, as well as Adam and Eve. But first reconcile the existence of life on the planet before man made his appearance. If God truly thought homosexuality was unnatural, no one would be so inclined even the little creatures of the world. In the Bible you have one part telling you to tolerate the differences of man and another part telling you one or more of those differences are an abomination. I find that a bit hypocritical, don’t you think? The Bible itself makes Christianity a hoax along with all the rest of organized religions regardless of name. I believe in God, thankfully not in the same way you do. I believe God gave us free will and desires not as tests to ourselves but as tests to others. A gay person has no problem with who he is, you do. So because you don’t understand, you think it’s evil. I reject anything in the Bible, Koran and Torah that promote hate because a true and loving Father would not teach his children how to hate. Thus the words of hate in religious texts must be man made and not the word of God. Don’t you think if being gay was such a bad thing there’d be an 11th commandment? So let me suggest, my fine friend, that you do some reading. Read about the world around you and not one that’s interpreted for you by some book. If homosexuals want to marry that’s fine, marriage is an unalienable right not to mention a religious rite. As a religious rite, the government has no business requiring anyone to have a “State Issued” license to marry and we have this rule called the separation of church and state. It’s high time Americans started to remember that. Wes you have a good site here and I believe that everyone is entitled to live their lives as they see fit. Oh yeah, I’m one of those extreme right wing clowns who have a clear understanding of what the Constitution is all about and why I think it protects your right to be who you are just as much as it allows me to be me. I'll defend this unalienable right to my last breath. Please take a few hours of your time and do some research into the Consititution especially the 14th Amendment and how it got 'ratified.' I was ratified by the end of a gun barrel and a Congressional demand, not the way it was supposed to have been ratified. A true test of a Patriot could be asked in these questions, “When did this country turn from a Constitutional Republic to a Democracy? (The word Democracy doesn’t appear in any of our historical documents) How did it happen? By what Amendment to the Constitution was the Republican form of government repealed? By what Amendment was the sovereign status of an America Citizen repealed? If the Supreme Court has already ruled that the 16th Amendment gave Congress no additional taxing authority why is it used by the IRS to say is did? And my personal favorite: The Constitution allows only the Congress to coin money. The Constitution also gives no authority or mechanism to Congress to abdicate their powers. How is it that a private bank coins our money and controls our economy and has a private company, the IRS, terrorized people into paying a suspect tax? Oh yeah were in the Constitution does it say gays are second class people? One thing about me, I was raised with an open mind. I was never taught to hate by my family. I never heard the term “nigger” until I moved from an integrated neighborhood in New Jersey to the Detroit area. I don’t give a person’s color or religion a second thought when dealing with them. It wasn’t until after I received my confirmation into the Catholic Church did I realize the hate that was being taught there. Why would a loving God teach me to hate? I don’t have time to deal with hypocrites. So, Someone God sent is all, when you go to church ask your religious leader why your loving, turn the other cheek God, teaches hate. Let me know what he says. Posted Without Prejudice and All Rights Reserved Mr. Livingston. |
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Date: 2006-05-04 14:20:56 Brian Phillips ( bphillips@sacredlink.org / http://netipot.org) wrote: Enjoyed your site. I found it searching on google on the Neti pot. I work for a Non profit that started the whole Neti pot thing. In the 1970s Swami Rami brought the Indian practice to the western world and created the first pot. We didn't think to patient the thing at the time. Since then we have sold more than anyone but now have many competitors. We also sell 99.99% Neti Pot salt and Neti Wash with 100% of all profits going to natural health causes and to help fight 3rd world causes especially HIV in India and Africa. If you can would you please also recommend us at www.netpot.org ? Thanks!! |
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:56:18 asd ( adsd@asd.com / no homepage) wrote: I really liked your website. Thank you very much! Its a great website!very interesting and informative. <a href="http://www.chinaesell.com/">nike shox</a>. |
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Date: 2006-03-29 23:11:31 J. Willard ( bn9866@earthlink.net / no homepage) wrote: Your web site is the best I've come across, being an information "sponge" I'm soaking it all up. My partner is an Old Guard Leather Master, and I'll soon be starting my Sir training. The information is way beyond helpful. If either one of you would like to contact me about the path I'm ready to embark upon your advice would be appreciated. |
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Date: 2006-03-26 21:23:05 Betsy Camp-Hoffman ( ecamp1@houston.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: I was just googling an old friend's name, Karl Kabus, and it came up on this site. Karl and I were on the board of the PWA Coalition in Houston together. I miss him. I hope he knows that people still remember him. Thanks! |
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Date: 2006-03-19 05:01:58 Denis Raphaely ( denis_raphaely@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello, out there - I thought the letters engraved at the foot of Bancroft Tower in Worcester MA were pretty suggestive, but a little Googling revealed that you got it wrong (sad to say). It was Stephen Salisbury III's father and George Bancroft who were childhood friends, and I haven't been able to find any evidence that they were lifelong partners. If you have any other evidence, I'd be glad to see it. _Den |
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Date: 2006-03-14 22:37:30 diane ( diane_is_crazy@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Wow... what an awesome site you guys have here!! Just wanted to send a Howdy from Texas. :) |
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Date: 2006-03-10 07:28:56 Someone God sent is all ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Well, Wes I have to agree with your aunt Pricilla on her views. What God says go, and his word says it is an " Abomination for a man top lay with another man as he lays with a woman" God mad Adam and Eve Wes, not Adam and Steve. Animals don't even do what homosexuals do, even animals act cleaner than that, and have more sense. and that's really something considering humans are supposed to be so educacted and all. Another thing is that Gays( I say queer" because queer means "strange and out of ordinary", and one man having "Unnatural sex and urges with and towards another man is not "normal at all, but it is that Gays are the biggest group who are always talking about aids "awareness' when if they'd stop poking each other in the anus they'd not have to worry about aids in the first place. God does deal with those who do nto follow his words which are true. I have seen God do many things naturally and supernaturally as well in my life. Being Gay" is a descision. peole are not born that way. I also fidn that talking to many gays that I have, 99% of them have been sexually abused by some man or a woman as a child so they think it is natural, and 99% of the gays and Lesbians also have many problems adn are confused about basic things in life. I, the same as yoru aunt do not hate Ho9mosexuals, but I do hate the acts they do in that lifestyle which IS a sin. Whether someone believes or not that God is real doesn't change the fact that he is. Even if you do nto believe God is real, think about whoi made this earth or Universe, it just didn't appear from "evolution- which means to evlove from one state of being into another stae of being, because in order to do that, it has to start somewhere at it's birth or origin of being. which is God. The Bible says that in the time when Jesus returns it will be the same as in the Days of Noah, when men and women are marrying, adn given in marriage adn doign all their partying and being lovers of themselves adn their ways more than lovers of God it says. Well those days are upon un now, and his second coming is not far off my friends. There is not time for salvation once you die God's word says. so do some readign and ask God to show you he is real then you will see and know that is indeed real. The Bible is "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" and faith is " Fantasic Adventures in Trusting Him" and fear is of the Devil and is " False Evidence Appearing Real" Remember Jesus said " NO Man goes to the Father BUT BY ME" that means he is your only way my friend, no one can pray you into Heaven. By the way I never always followed God myself untill he got my attention and he now has my full attention. God Bless and I will be praying for ya Wes. God Bless p. s. I didn't find this place by accident God sent me here to tell you what I said. |
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Date: 2006-03-08 08:52:58 Chris ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I landed here looking for how much salt to put in neti solution and got lost for an hour. Thanks for taking the time to put all this together. And I admire you for standing tall! |
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Date: 2006-03-02 04:10:32 Ellen ( no email / http://www.virtualaidscollage.com/) wrote: Thank you so much for your site! It is appreciated by all of we families that have lost loved ones, because of HIV/AIDS. |
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Date: 2006-02-24 03:04:39 straight normal guy ( no email / no homepage) wrote: your aunt priss was talking sense. |
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Date: 2006-02-21 03:21:21 True_Halcyon ( true_halcyon@yahoo.com / http://blogs.huggingtheblackbox.org/blogs/TrueHalcyon/) wrote: I ran across this site when I Googled nose/sinus issues- I too have the chronic sinus thing, and found that portion of your site very helpful. I was bummed out that the pics of "what came out" weren't visible, though! I also read the family letters by way of your links and I have to say I was really touched by them. Hope you both are doing well these days! |
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Date: 2006-02-16 15:25:20 Jane ( no email / http://www.naughtytoyshop.com) wrote: Nice Site Keep up the great work! |
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Date: 2006-02-02 19:57:58 Sean-Michael ( followingmytruth@yahoo.com / http://www.3bois.com) wrote: Wes, Long time no see! I ran across your website from a link at the PLAY-LA site (for the first time in about a year) and just wanted to say hi. I'm unsure how to contact you via email, so if you get a chance, please drop me a line. Lots to catch up on. OK if I forward the link to your heart and spirit page to a group I'm on who's been discussing Leather Spirituality? |
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Date: 2006-01-25 06:37:04 Julie ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Wes looks like a lardass. Don't pose in an undershirt again until you lose 30 pounds. |
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Date: 2006-01-16 15:13:07 bruna ( no email / http://www.gratuiti.org) wrote: very good you site |
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Date: 2005-12-23 19:22:43 Juel ( no email / no homepage) wrote: You have a very cool, interesting and creative website. Juel, Turkey Webcams |
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Date: 2005-12-15 06:51:28 julie ( julieschmidt76@autochthonous-evolved.com / http://autochthonous-evolved.com) wrote: I was searching for Gay and Lesbian Rights speeches for my Social Studies class when I came across the "Letter Wars." I am hoping that I will have the opportunity to reduce that kind of homophobia (and hate in general) in my classroom. I read through a lot on the site and learned a great deal! Best wishes to both of you! |
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Date: 2005-11-27 04:27:17 Glen ( dorsalfin1@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your site while searching for a Net Pot. I bought one, but I have trouble using it. Thanks for the tip about constant breathing. Oh, and the rest of the site is pretty interesting. Hope you patch things up with the family at some point. Good luck! |
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Date: 2005-11-23 17:21:00 mark ( mark_3302004@yahoo.co.uk / no homepage) wrote: I arrived at your site by chance because I was searching for contact details for Mary Dante and my search threw up your page about your visit. Unfortunately her website is no longer running so the link from your page is now broken. Do you have any more recent address or details for her? (I know she isn't with Robert Dante anymore. I asked him about her but he was more than a little evasive) |
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Date: 2005-11-23 12:32:54 Jim ( gryphon_rider2000@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Stumbled across your page entirely by accident. Reading the "Letter Wars" was a look into what my own life might have been. Conservative family drove me into the closet, and 23 years ago I married a wonderful woman who was supposed to "fix" me. Still not out to family, but wife is aware and ok with it. She is now my roommate and best friend (as she always will be). I am 49, and we will stay married until the time I find another man to love and cherish. I wish you both the best in your battle with AIDS. I lost a dear, dear friend to that hideous disease on May 19, 1996, 6 months before his 30th birthday. I am an Oregonian, so references in the letters to Priscilla are particularly poignant to me. God bless you both. |
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Date: 2005-11-22 06:53:58 Dennis ( dacoyle@dacoyle.com / http://dacoyle.com/) wrote: Glad to see a 2005 update. |
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Date: 2005-11-17 11:10:30 Elisa ( elisadonofrio@lycos.nl / no homepage) wrote: After almost 5 months, I go a notice from the official taxes authorities in Holland the announcement of WRO Grishaver, passed away this year. Being his step-sister I would like to know wether he is cremated or buried (location graveyard). I would like to ask you a favour. Are you able to answer my question how he died and wether he is cremated o buried (location graveyard). I hope you are willing to informe me. I know he had aids. The last couple of years he did not want any contact with his family. May he rest in peace. Elisa D'Onofrio |
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Date: 2005-10-30 16:45:17 joseph Maldonado ( bofajoey@earthlink.net / no homepage) wrote: I typed "men in uniform" on ask.com and there was your page 4 entries from the top. I have just consumed 3 cups of coffee and read all of your year end updates, and just wanted to say that I was hooked after the first. Your stories are simple everyday experiences and yet they are so refreshing to read. I will check back to see the latest. Best of luck to you both! |
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Date: 2005-10-27 03:19:49 Joseph Elliott ( jeliot1@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I was online looking for a Neti Pot and how to use them. The first many link where product catalogues with No instructions. I got to yours that said Instructions. And then to stubble onto the homphobic link, and WOW, and HIV positive man, being very open about everything and the Queen of Dallas< Oregon link. I live in Portland, and found your sight refreshing, and will check in and see what's new. The Enron Escape was the Universe working for you in those mighty ways it just does. It is amazing to me how it's there and rough times are I feel a lesson in something at least for the enraged time I'm stuck there, and when the Light that I've invited in to cloud things dissapates [oh spelling]I had given over my power and placed iit with some Agenda seeking Authority [so I thought] disquised as a helper. We talk and they change their clothes [so to speak] and come down the other side of the street, thinking I won't see. But I do. Thanks for the sharing of your site. Maybe when I'm more literate on PC's I start a Trust Issue, Authority abuse site as being the first Altar Boy to sue here in Oregon well before Boston, the wringer they poised me for, and then the exploitation by the Attornies still to this day with HIV, Gay, and anything to bring the $$ regardless of client confidences they are condoned by the State in review by a self governed, self insure, and self regulated Profession. Absent from being sued. I wonder who set those rules up. But someone have monies or Insurance like Medical then they are all over Ethics. What a World. I need all editions of double standards when it comes to Power and Position. "WE the People". Or as Bushy says with his smirky Ass [kick his teeth in} I'm here to do the work of the American People. Or the Corporate America? $ entities in Law. Governement, Church, Corporate, and Individual. Who gets screwed? And the Catholic Church gets 3 of them forgetting about the real church the individuals who own there riches [Treasures]. But it's an American Media thing, just look at Ireland in the last few days. American Media did that? Thanks again and if I seem to wound up then ask me to fade away, I'm used to that. |
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:30:09 Tonya ( blondton13@excite.com / http://www.myspace.com/blondton13) wrote: P.S. Haven't heard you guys mention the puppy you talk about in Dec of 2004~did you get one? I just found out myself that I'm allergic to cats-I have three and they are part of my family!! Probably another sinus surgery in my future, but they're worth it! :) Have a good one! |
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Date: 2005-09-07 23:54:41 Tonya Powell ( blondton13@excite.com / http://www.myspace.com/blondton13) wrote: Hey Guys~ Hope you are both doing well this month.I have just spent about 3 hours at my computer reading about your lives, and I have laughed, grieved, and learned. I googled for "sinus surgery" and came upon "Things from Wes' Nose"-which was great because it made those strange things from my nose pale in comparison! Haha-I just had sinus surgery last week, and the experience was a bit different, to say the least. You provided pics of the actual stuff that may come after, which is calming, since the docs never REALLY tell you what to expect. Anyway, let me say that your stories and letters are great; you guys seem like you have a wonderful and caring relationship. I one day hope to have an online journal as refreshing and interesting as yours! Being an only child and single parent, I envy the relationships you guys have with friends and family (blood doesn't make a family; caring thoughts do). Good luck in your futures, and I wish you guys the very best of happiness and fulfullment!! Oh, by the way, I bet Wes makes some awesome music mixes-you should add some audio links to "Wes' Greatest Hits"!! Hahaha :) |
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Date: 2005-08-29 20:32:13 Anne ( no email / no homepage) wrote: From the moment Eve bit into that apple, sin entered the world. We are ALL sinners; however, thanks to Jesus who came and led a perfectly sinless life, overcoming all evil and temptations, we can be forgiven our sins through him that died on the cross. We all know Gods position on homosexuality. It's pretty clear in the Bible. He destroyed two cities because homosexuality was rampant. He does not accept that behaviour in any way shape or form but he will forgive us if we seek repentance (through the blood of Jesus) and change our ways. That voice you listen to that tells you "this feels good...do it!"...that's Satan. That voice that tells you "what you're doing is very, very wrong"...is Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. The Bible refers to the 2nd coming some 1500 times. The signs are all around us. Wars, rumours of wars, an acceleration of natural disasters, more and more crime, etc. WILL YOU BE READY TO MEET HIM??? In his love, Anne P.S. If only we all had an Aunt like yours who cared about the condition of our soul and prayed for us constantly. You are blessed. |
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Date: 2005-08-22 21:48:45 Rebecca Roberts ( antrebecky@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Tom Adkins call your niece in Odessa. I do not have your phone or I would call you. I just found out about you selling my mothers pictures. |
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Date: 2005-08-13 16:18:15 Andrea ( ammbria@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello, I found your site googling for "neti pot". I found alot more than just instructions for neti pot! Wow. I looked into your nose and also read about the family letters. You are quite a guy. I hope you're doing well, hang in there. Love, Andrea |
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Date: 2005-08-10 18:02:27 Maria ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom, I came across your site when I Googled "how much does an MRI cost." I'm 32 year-old single girl who FINALLY moved away from the nest to finish school, but can't afford health insurance to get to the bottom of frequent migraine or sinus headaches. I haven't yet looked inside your nose, but instead came across your series of letters. I really feel bad about the disintigration of your family ties, but am very proud of you for attempting to set your aunt (and family) straight (pun intended!) about your individuality and the hypocricy of certain organized religions. People choose to see the world through their respective-colored glasses, so nothing you could say will be seen purely. It's unfortunate that so many people (and our government at large) are blinded that way. I look forward to exploring the rest of your website and see what you two are up to, these days...hope you're both healthy and happy. |
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Date: 2005-08-02 20:11:50 Barbara ( freefall1@mindspring.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi, My company did the lighting for Rondezvous Houston (those big light beams shooting in the air)and I am looking for any residual photographs, especially the one where we caught the top of the federal building on fire!!!! Boy, do I have stories. Any help would be appreciated. |
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Date: 2005-07-26 05:17:15 Linda ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Wes, Thank you for the memorial to my brother. It is so hard to believe he died almost 6 years ago. I miss him terribly and come to your site often, it helps. |
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Date: 2005-07-24 17:04:59 Gelana ( gelana@NOSPAMenchanted-dreams.us / http://enchanted-dreams.us/coldspot) wrote: Hi Wes & Tom :) I've been here so long, I feel as I know you both! I do hope you're both doing well, both with each other and healthwise. From what I've seen, you've both got big hearts, a lot of love to give, and some precious friends. I'm proud to count myself among them :) Love, Gelana |
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Date: 2005-07-24 11:36:31 scott ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Too bad you think the "crazy fundamentalist aunt" is so bad. Her letters to you seemed to be written out of care and concern. Interesting how all gay people seem to think everyone is out to get them, when in reality it's the chip on their shoulder getting in the way. Learn to love your family (despite their flaws) while you still have them around. duz care mean stopping ur partner coming to event? I think not get a grip!!!! |
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Date: 2005-07-18 21:37:45 ryan ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Great website guys!!! I live with my partner Mark in Austin and entered your website while surfing around about sinus issues (I just had the surgery 3 weeks ago). Thanks for the openess and humor concerning the pains of the nose!! Anyone who has gone through this knows how horrible it can be! Thanks again! |
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Date: 2005-07-18 03:04:21 Tito ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Too bad you think the "crazy fundamentalist aunt" is so bad. Her letters to you seemed to be written out of care and concern. Interesting how all gay people seem to think everyone is out to get them, when in reality it's the chip on their shoulder getting in the way. Learn to love your family (despite their flaws) while you still have them around. |
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Date: 2005-07-17 14:26:25 gerard de suresnes ( alaindonielli@hotmail.com / http://www.suresnes.tk) wrote: hello, i m gay too, it s very hard, your brave. have a nice day, god website guys |
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Date: 2005-07-14 05:33:12 Earl Faneuf ( bj@sjc.com / http://www.sjc.com/earljr) wrote: I belong to the Desertbrotherhood MC in Las Vegas and I was putting together our new website when I needed some info on Jeffrey Bays. I ran across a google reference to him on your site. Then I started to read things there. Very interesting site. I have not seen if all is currently well with you both or not. I certainly hope so. best regards Earl (Earl_in_nlv on Manhunt) |
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Date: 2005-06-28 22:15:27 tom kaser ( tom_kaser@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I'm tom kaser too! Me family originated from neederbip (prob wronglty spelt) in swiss-germany! Nice to find your pics on the web, via google, and good too see you are gay too (for want of a better name) 'praps we are related? |
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Date: 2005-06-12 19:51:08 Matthew ( agypsyheart@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: great website lots of interesting reading, thanks for sharing |
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Date: 2005-06-04 19:26:46 Alice Bower ( alicebower@alicebower.com / http://www.alicebower.com) wrote: HI Sweetheart - Just visiting the site, its been awhile. Jordan wanted to see what was going on. Its okay with me if you edit our immediate family to true names at this point. Love you lots! Big Sister |
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Date: 2005-06-03 01:54:22 stephen ( stephen@mamba70.freeserve.co.uk / no homepage) wrote: Fascinating stuff this - I don't even remember how I came acrosss it. I do have to say that the letters pages made me think of England 400 years ago - all this fundamentalist Xtian stuff and quotes from the bible. And people with names like Butch and Swede........ I wish Wes and Tom all the best and thank you for the insight into a strange world! Stephen (England) |
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Date: 2005-05-26 00:13:22 Tommy Bert Nix ( b_jeffrey_t@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey Wes & Tom, It has been a long,long time!Surprise!I(or should i say my lover},came across your page by chance one evening and i was so excited!THANK YOU SO MUCH for including Shirley in your MEMORIAM Section!!!!!!!She loved you guys so much and I do TOO!!!!!!At least it was fast!She would have hated having to take all the pills!!!!Anyway, I met Jeffrey in 1999 at the Ripcord,Oct.3 to be exact,and we hit it off from the start.I came up to Austin for one of the best Halloween's I've ever had!!!!I don't think it was the city...hee,hee!Shirley got sick around Thanksgiving and Passed on to a better party on Dec.18,1999!!!I was in mourning & Love at the same time,but for the most part-confused & clear-headed both!Anyway, if you would like to E-Mail and catch up that would be GREAT!!!We live in Austin now[2 years]and i don't get out much...Health...more later on that.AWESOME WEBSITE...but what else would you expect from some truly Dedicated Men,I'm so glad you are in my life's path!!!AS ALWAYS, Tommy {the red-headed leather guy at LEATHER BY BOOTS*************** |
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Date: 2005-05-22 23:05:19 Andy ( andy_user@yaho.net / http://www.aids-and-life.4t.com) wrote: Stop the AIDS!! |
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Date: 2005-05-22 09:24:46 Jayme ( v_mpls_24@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Not sure how I came across your website, but I found your family troubles over Uncles Party fascinating. At times, it was amazingly funny, sad, angry, and confusing. I wish you both much luck in all of your future endeavors. |
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Date: 2005-04-23 17:15:13 I am who I am ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Your hosting of the Common Law web site inflames me. I am not one of those Montana nuts, but I will tell you what! There are 4 forms of Law under the Constitution: Common; Criminal; Equitable and Admiral. You might not understand the Law: fine. I will say it once, and only once, as you are not worth the time: A change in the Form of Law is a Change of State; an illegal Change of State is Treason in the highest degree. I'll say it, but sure won't do anything due to lack of Cert. But Treason only takes two witnesses, and I think you see there are more than 2 that have said it, and this is down right denial of Justice, with sale and prejudice. Fuck you and your civillian Rights! Don't like my words? Start Prosecuting blasphemy again. |
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Date: 2005-04-23 13:25:01 ET ( formerly terry) ( ukhedgefriend@adelphia.net / no homepage) wrote: i am a british boy who was discovered by his Master last year and have found your site so helpful, (i have permission from my Master to write this). my true slave heart was opened by my beloved Master, and i am now living with Him in Wst Virginia. Are there an slave boys in the area i could communicate with? i do feel a little isolated and would love to have a fellow slave boy or boys to e-mail and be friends with. my Master understands how i feel, and supports me in doing this - i really appreciate His help so much and love Him beyond words. i often come to this site to read your material as i had my slave heart revealed at the age of 58!!!! better late than never. thanks again Tom and Wes for your wonderful site |
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Date: 2005-04-16 20:18:05 Les Scamfer ( LSCAMFER@msn.com / http://www.gaydar.nl/nwcub) wrote: The Date story brought me to tears. My name is Les, and my lover Tom passed away in 1993, I still miss him terribly. He was Wash. State Mr. Leather 1988. If you would ever like to chat, or visit, just let me know. Thanks! |
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Date: 2005-04-14 19:40:47 Esther Rodriguez-Phelps ( erp2111@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes, hope you remember me. A friend from UTAustin days before. Last time I saw you was in 1992 in Houston, took the family down and I had just had a baby. I lost track of you dealing with my own famly stuff - but I wanted to see how you were doing. Glad to see the site still up and you doing well. I still live in Denton, have two boys and still married to that skinny bass player. |
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Date: 2005-04-06 03:32:09 Brooke Ashley ( annmarie1973@comcast.net / no homepage) wrote: Just moved to Dallas from Hawaii last june. Got to your site from another site from uk. Currently on interferon, was infected in adult films in los angeles in 98 when a performer forged his tests. |
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Date: 2005-03-26 17:26:19 Mosey ( moseyman@optonline.net / http://oldmanmosey.blogspot.com/) wrote: While looking for info on neti pots, I came across your amusing pics! Hee hee! Good show. |
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Date: 2005-03-21 11:48:41 john olson ( jolson33@rr.mn.com / no homepage) wrote: Reagon was very unsympathetic to many;Too bad people haven't woke the hell up!Beware of republicans! It states in the bible,"beware of wolves in sheeps clothing!" Good luck!! I Love You! |
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Date: 2005-03-13 23:56:37 Alex ( azanti0029@yahoo.co.uk / no homepage) wrote: While rearching something for a script I am working on with the name Piper Alpha, your site came up and I found it a very refreshing, sad but also enriching read. I wish I had seen it when I was out in CALI last year as I would have made the effort to come down to SD and see you guys. I am a pos guy from the UK and lately it has been tough to juggle work, lack of income and life goals with the illness but I persevere. Thank you for such an open account of your lives. I wish you all the best and good health for the future. |
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Date: 2005-03-12 02:51:16 Sissy ( sissysissy1@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Holy cow!!! I am going in for sinus surgery on the 25th of this month. Good lord I hope my doctor gets it all. It is in my upper and lower sinus cavity and my flaps (dont know what they are called) are too big and have to be clipped back. My septum is a backward S and I stop breathing when I sleep. This was a very intresting read. Thanks. |
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Date: 2005-03-08 23:47:08 Steve ( steve357s@yahoo.co / http://steve.cyberfreehost.com) wrote: Wes & Tom, You have a very personal site... It's nice. Very good work. If you have time visit my site http://steve.cyberfreehost.com Take care |
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Date: 2005-03-06 05:07:00 tito ( none@no.com / http://www.superbad.com) wrote: Wow, you're so proud of labeling your family members "homophobes" and provoking them to anger when their initial letters contained nothing but love, regardless of their disapproval of the gay lifestyle. What an accomplishment. You must be a real prince. Let go of your anger and get the chip off your shoulder. We should all be so lucky to have a family that gives a damn one way or the other. |
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Date: 2005-03-02 16:25:53 Mark & Scotty ( mark_scotty@hotmail.com / http://galaxyboys.org) wrote: Got here by searching google's personal page directory's. Great site and we also think it would make a great book! Best of Luck! |
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Date: 2005-03-02 15:58:35 CJ ( dauntlessdigger@hotmail.com / http://rhettoracle.tripod.com) wrote: Hey, I got here searching for the March issue of the biomedical journal Human Genetics that is supposed to carry Brian Mustanski's report on "gay genes." I wrote this down on a sticky note a while ago and since it is March now, I'm looking somewhere where I can find it. Funny what things pop up when you search in a search engine. But, I'm not too terribly rushed to find this...I took the time to browse around. Nice site you guys have here. :) -CJ |
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Date: 2005-02-14 01:59:25 mark & lyndon ( markyn@austin.rr.com / http://www.marklyn.net) wrote: You guys have such a neat story about your life! You should publish a book. Take care! |
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Date: 2005-02-10 22:53:01 Charlie ( gscsracd@sbcglobal.net / no homepage) wrote: I found your site after typing in gay relationships. My partner and I have been together for 21 years (almost 22). I grew up in Houston, he grew up in Michigan. We have lived in San Diego for 20+ years. My younger brother also has sinus problems and has had surgery. Maybe it's the "wonderful" air in Houston causing the problems. We've been very fortunate in not having discovered an "Aunt Priscella" in either one of our families. |
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Date: 2005-01-31 16:22:45 Ashley and Vicki ( no email / no homepage) wrote: We dont like the internet and dont know how to use it but we found mud wrestling Go girls |
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Date: 2005-01-27 23:18:08 Annis ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Just read in an alumni magazine that Fletcher Catron had died and yours was the only place I could find any memorial. We were high school friends thirty years ago and although we'd lost touch, the mention of his name always brings a smile. He was a lovely boy way back when, soft spoken, handsome and mischevious. Thanks for reminding me. |
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Date: 2005-01-21 17:36:10 MARCUS HERNANDEZ ( HatchetQ@aol.com / http://www.LeatherPage.com) wrote: Great web site. I like it! Marcus Hernandez aka "Mister Marcus", Lea. Editor Bay Area Reporter/San Francisco |
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Date: 2005-01-13 16:04:37 toyo ( no email / http://www.geocities.com/toyo_925) wrote: i hope someday the world finally finds a cure for aids. |
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Date: 2005-01-12 18:11:05 Monisha Mittal ( monisham@mac.com / no homepage) wrote: Your instructions for the neti pot rocked. I did it on my 2nd try...before i always felt i was drowning myself. but your instructions about how to hold your head were right on. Thanks so much. i am also a chronic sinus sufferer and this was my first real wash. |
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Date: 2005-01-09 00:02:06 brandi ( bugsbunnytexas@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: i am glad to see that someone has a memorial to burt picone. burt was my half brother.i was barely a teenager when he passed on. he was one of the nicest guys you'd ever have the pleasure of meeting. i have been trying to contact my other 2 brothers but not having any luck. seeing this memorial to my brother makes me feel that i am one step closer.i really miss him a lot.thanks for remembering him. |
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Date: 2005-01-07 20:13:45 Janny ( janny.jackson@amwaycafe.com / no homepage) wrote: nice work |
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Date: 2005-01-06 09:36:11 Luke ( luke@whosluke.com / http://www.whosluke.com) wrote: Nice site guys. |
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Date: 2005-01-04 06:52:06 Dainen ( dpenta@earthlink.net / no homepage) wrote: I found this site whilst in the throes of another sinus infection, of which I am a chronic sufferer as well. I am always looking for alternative remedies and this site was very helpful. I was even more pleased to discover the site belongs to a terrific couple, and to read about them made me glad they have each other and glad my family is very accepting of who I am! |
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:34:36 Luis Granada ( mproust33@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I came across your website quite by accident. But I'm glad I did. My best friend was diagnosed as HIV just two months in October.When he told me the news on a Thursday afternoon over the phone, it felt as if someone had pulled all my guts out of my body. I was in total shock. We had made plans to meet at Balboa Park where were always go to have lunch and to just walk and talk. Between Thursday and Saturday I had cried for hours on end. And when we met that Saturday afternoon I vowed that I wouldn't cry in front of him. But of course I did and I sobbed for nearly thirty minutes. I cried in the rose garden just across Park Blvd as he held me. I never sobbed so hard in my life. Even now as I type this I still have those feelings. My friend was more brave than me that day. Sometimes I feel so helpless that I can't do more for him. I love him with all my heart and I would never leave him now. So coming across your website just by accident there had to be a reason. It will help me cope and help him as well when the time comes when he really needs. We haven't discussed too much about the future because neither of us wants to face it so soon. But I think it's important that we do, and what I could do to help him. I can get ideas from your website so thank you for having it. Information is the key and having it will make me stronger as well as my best friend. It is good to know that you live in San Diego as well. The same issues concerning insurance and medical care will be the forefront for us as well. |
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Date: 2004-12-20 13:27:07 Laura ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Read this as I was doing research about the history of health care & social activism (dating back to the peasant revolts -- I'm still not sure just how I got to the wonderful/horrible priscilla letters). Read through the family letters with a morbid fascination that someone had actually managed to document the hell that is a family debate. Wes, good for you for surviving that family. Looks like your mom, dad, and sister are (were, I guess, in the case of your mom -- I'm sorry you lost her -- hope your time in Tx with her was positive) anyway, looks like your closest family managed to be there at least a good portion of the time. One thing that fascinated me was the way this site managed to chronicle two trends over the last decade or so -- the process of surviving the ravages of AIDS & the evolution of the Internet. Since not all the pages were updated with current dates, I started clicking through the yearly updates at a much faster rate after the saga of the letters (and the first 3 years after) -- worried that this page was simply an archive of an old relationship, an ended life. I can't tell you the relief I felt when I came to the last page & realized that having the last entry as "November 2004" essentially meant NOW. I've lost too many friends to AIDS; lost too much family to dissent; watched too many drift off away from the security of home and friends because they've been rejected as coldly from their families. Guess I just wanted to say THANKS for keeping this page up as a chronicle of all that. It was very healing to me to read through it all. I'm a teacher now at an Ohio university and many of my students have trouble comprehending the level of rejection posed outside of their own experiences. I'm happy to say that in 13 years of teaching, I've watched straight conservative/religious students come to MUCH greater acceptance of their peers' sexuality than I too remember from the end of the Reagan-era '80s. Also, though this is OHIO and we're apparently still just as homophobic when it comes to voting (see the horrible stats on how many people actually voted against the referendum against gay marriage -- despite its being rejected by both political parties and most religious denominations) -- more of my students find themselves moving through the coming out process almost smoothly. Nothing like the terrible agonies I remember watching in my cousin, my friends, my lovers. I have been lucky to have a good family (at least the closest members) -- not everyone is so fortunate. Thanks again for the page. I appreciate the work it must have taken just to write those letters, much less translate them all onto the web for general access. [By the way, I just love the goofy images for the letter headers -- the sister as the angel/female in the light, the mother as the dive-bombing plane -- also the silly pseudonyms like "Ned Flanders" for the good-intentioned but insufferable step-cousin's husband. Great fun! On another note, I wish the current pages were still written by Wes. What an engaging writing style! Heartfelt and immediate. It all seems so formal now -- like some contemporary online variant on Pepys (well, Pepys in leather). In the meantime, happy solstice. Your page was a wonderful way to begin my Christmas season & relax in preparation for my own family. At least I am healthy and fairly well and, after all, alive. |
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Date: 2004-12-18 19:26:06 Orlin & Vernon ( okcvrw@houston.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: Sure hope 2005 brings good things... |
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Date: 2004-12-15 00:34:52 percy ( percy_schlimm@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Saw your webpage while looking up leather masters. |
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Date: 2004-12-11 21:58:57 Mike Johnson ( Mike94945@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: P.S.>>>>If you don't e-mail me back...I might just visit the Golden Gate Bridge!>>>>Just kidding! Would be nice to connect with you! At any rate...I almost feel as if I know you...I hope you are well and that you CAN e-mail me(us)back! Love to you!>>>Mike, Mario & Cookie |
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Date: 2004-12-11 21:24:39 mike Johnson ( mike94945@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi, again...Wes & Tom!.... Mike, Mario &cookie(adorable female miniature Schnauzer)here once more! I just left you two another e-mail a few moments ago...ANYWAY...I hope by now that the RIFT in your familial relations with Aunt Priscilla have been repaired/resolved or at least ameliorated and that the light of God and/or Jesus has intervened on all of your behalf? I am sure your Aunt Priscilla loves you to pieces but cannot reconcile the fact that you are her "queer" Nephew...This is her problem...I find it difficult to imagine tht she would condemn and forsake you in the name of "religion"...which is the complete antithesis of the teachings and heart of the lessons and heartfelt love of God and Jesus! Anyhoo...at the risk of digressing(as I often do)Your Aunt Priscilla needs to step down from her pious and untenable religious pillar and love you unconditionally...to say the least! It's time to resume the good times, Priscilla and don't let your wild imaginings get the better of you! She shouldn't even go there! You are the same Nephew now as you always were! Just a little different now that you have aged somewhat...in the scheme of things...ie...life...She is having a DIFFICULT time with this...but her intelligence should be the counterbalance and turn the tide...toward her love for you as it once was and ideally should always be..in the grand scenario(scheme of things)of life. Acceptance is wisdom! Love pervades all things human. Aunt Priscilla will always love you regardless...tho' she may indicate otherwise in her dealings with you. Ignore her smokescreen...She just needs things to appear more normal on the surface so as not to freak her out in general/overall>>>>>>>Your Aunt Priscilla is a kind and generous spirit...just temporarily disappointed and maybe a little bit pissed off?! Anyhoo>>>>You Guys need to get yourselves an Agent! This site of yours cannot be ignored...You really need to have a reality show going on here! Of course all of the names will need to be changed to "protect the innocent"!!! Please consider moving to Astoria, Oregon...The world will be beating a path to Astoria this summer on account of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Discovery Corps History! Astoria/Warrenton will be a happening place this summer!!! National Geographic Magazine and others will be coming from the four corners of the world to participate in the 200th Anniversary of Astoria!!! I have been sad that you have not returned/acknowledged my previous e-mails...and I hope that you will contact me in California before too long this time? Am greatly looking forward to Christmas week at our new/old big house we just bought this past September...When was the last time you visited Warrenton/Astoria? At any rate....Take care you guys! Love, peace and understanding this Christmas 2004!!!!!!!! Mike, Mario & Cookie |
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Date: 2004-12-11 20:25:57 mike ( mike94945@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hope you two are doing fine and that you are well! Your website seems quite the rage! Gotta admire your spunk...although I feel a little intimidated by your extreme intelligence! YIKES! Dunno why you haven't been approached yet by the folks in Hollywood!(?) Thouroughly enjoy your site! Will be thinking of you guys while I'm up at our new/old house in Astoria, Oregon for the week of Christmas! Please consider making Astoria your new home? Would love to have you guys in the neighborhood! Let's make Astoria, Oregon a "New Gay Mecca"!!! Talk at you Boys later! All the best to you and Take Care of yourselves>>>DADGUMIT! Love to you both>>>>>Mike, Mario and Cookie |
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Date: 2004-11-27 17:54:36 Aimee Dutkiewicz ( weemom2002@yahoo.com / http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com) wrote: I would like to know as much as possible about this movement, as I am being targeted by an individual who acts just so. She currently has charges against the ADA (District Attorney) and Governor in Colorado and she has targeted me for what I feel may some day be execution style murder because I choose to be Pagan. The FBI knows her associate Brian Sampsel and they are watching him closely... he too has threatened me. Aimee D |
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Date: 2004-11-27 15:20:37 sharon (from houston/dallas) ( victoria_rose@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes: i am sory to hear about the sinus troubles - i just want to come give you a hug and a head pat when i see the picture of you after the nose bleed day - take care - and woof ;) sharon |
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Date: 2004-11-25 03:43:44 hana solomon ( drhana@nasopure.com / http://nasopure.com) wrote: thank you for sharing information regarding nasal washing, in general and mentioning Nasopure. Prevention is well worht the time and washing ones nose (the body's filter) sure makes sense. I wish you guys well. Dr Hana |
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Date: 2004-11-24 16:47:15 Tina Buck ( tsharon802@bikerider.com / no homepage) wrote: Ukrop's: a so-called "Christian" grocery chain based out of Richmond. Help raise awareness about their hateful policy of racial inequity and BOYCOTT THEIR STORES (the two Ukrop properties: Ukrop's and "Community Pride" [sic]). We will be conducting an informal strategy session at Babes Restaurant (3166 S. Cary St.) at 7:30 pm, Dec. 23rd. If you are personally unable to attend, spread the word to someone who can! The 1992-1997 boycott of PepsiCo to get them to divest from Burma was a success. BOYCOTTS WORK ! |
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Date: 2004-11-21 07:34:26 mootstormfront ( child_of_iona@yahoo.com / http://www.mootstormfront.org) wrote: Here is a new website dedicated to hindering the propaganda of the neo-Nazi website Stormfront.org through ridicule and refutation: www.mootstormfront.org/forum Please join, participate, and/or help spread the word. |
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Date: 2004-11-15 00:14:56 Tony ( tj@hivzone.com / http://www.hivzone.com) wrote: Hi Wes, I tried to email you but it bounced back. Wanted to tell you that we were moving and give you the new address. Still in Australia but moving down to Hobart in Tasmania. Hope to hear from you soon. Let me know how to contact you. Hugs, Tony |
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Date: 2004-11-11 06:56:30 Dalzenia ( no email / no homepage) wrote: given I am ill fromm a sinus immmfection(hear how muffeled up I am!)I HAD to go look @ fotos of you Draining yo noooze.......IT HAS taken me these many years to find u2 because I am just getting good nouf to move around a computer.....i have contented myself by going by your old house and visiting theNOT SO FAT ANY MORE "squrils"from time to time. call asap.....Ilove you/you both look ADORABLE......I miss laughing my ASS off from sheer silliness and being up 2Date ON TOYSSSSSSSSS did I say I love YOU I Love YOU.... there is definetly a back log of those........ amaiden...waiting.....ticToc,TICtoc.....DID I HEAR THE Phone just now?.......*******~~~~~~~~~~~sigh |
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Date: 2004-11-11 06:23:32 DalzeniaSams ( artistdalzenia4peace@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: HELLO KISSKISS BEARRY GOOD 713 663 7315 lateLate EArlyEARLY ANYTIME!!! grrrrrrrrrr DZ |
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Date: 2004-11-10 11:33:16 Bruce & Steve ( drewcop@hotmail.com / http://leatherslave.tripod.com) wrote: Hi Guys, great site - so well thought out and thought provoking - it's good to find 2 guys so happy with each other and, like us, so philosophical and positive about their situation. We found out we were hiv+ this year in March on the anniversary of us both stating to talk to each other but had such great support from others that we are now able to pass on the same supportive network to others. Have a peek at our website and also check out http://www.morphians and tell us what u think. Keep smiling (as you do in those pics of yours) and be happy cheers Bruce & Steve (London, England) |
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Date: 2004-11-07 10:22:41 Mike Johnson ( mike94945@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello, guys...I just bought a house in Astoria, Oregon...any relatives there you you'd like me to say "hello" to? Yikes! Isn't Priscilla in Astoria? I hope she's not my nextdoor neighbor! You guys are just tooooooooo entertaining! Your experiences should be made into a television series...at least! Keep on troopin'!!!!! Have a great weekend Mike, Mario & Cookie |
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Date: 2004-10-20 19:23:04 Michelle ( toddtranchina@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I am having my second sinus surgery on November 19. I am really freaking out but am glad to read your site. Love the packing tip and will share with the doc!!!!!! |
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Date: 2004-10-15 04:24:17 George ( georgerdrake@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi, Can you or anyone tell me if the "I Wish" Jerseys designed by Brian Andreas are still available and how to order them? Please send your answer to my e-mail address. Thanks. George |
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Date: 2004-10-11 15:31:20 Michelle ( skip268@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes & Tom Me again, after a few years have gone by, just stopping in to say hi and see how you guys are getting on.... just had a look in your "before we had a guest book" comments and found my first email to you... Subj: your cool site :) Date: 96-08-25 16:11:37 EDT To: Wes Just so you know who i am :) Love to you both xxx Michelle |
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Date: 2004-10-09 19:36:43 Sandra ( toounfazed@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I agree with your Aunt. She sounds like a brillian woman who has researched the issues carefully. Homosexuality and promiscuity are deadly, defective lifestyles. It's ok with me that you boys like to play with this sort of thing, but it should not be shoved down our throats (or anywhere else). We leave that pleasant prospect to the Tom's of the world to enjoy. :::cheshire cat grin::: |
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Date: 2004-09-28 02:00:54 Steve Schuster ( texasplowboy@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Well well, I always wondered what happened to you both, was just looking for information on Phoenix and ran across the couple's site and low and behold there you were.....drop me a line back guys.... ~Steve |
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:35:43 Jami ( Softballchick127@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey Im 17 .. and I just had my deviated septum fixed as well as my adenoids removed... Im not very pain tolerant and no one believes me that the UNpacking hurt like a bitch.. I cried for hours after! I wish I had known about the Lidocaine dripping into ur nostrils. Im going to have to have a word with my doctor... PS: those pics look very framiliar lol My nose took up my whole face! |
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Date: 2004-08-24 09:06:23 Uno ( uno.wang@msa.hinet.net / no homepage) wrote: Nice pictures and website , Is this an real police eperience diary website ? How`re the days you worked for the duties ? Good luck ! |
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Date: 2004-08-18 19:54:20 kelvin ( ulovenba@yahoo.com / http://www.all-info.biz) wrote: nice site great info |
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Date: 2004-08-15 07:42:24 Debbie ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I am not gay, but have an open mind. Everyone has to love, no matter what gender they are. Everybody have feelings. And to love is the best feeling of all. Once you find that love, you know. I feel your love for one another. I too have an illness with results as HIV has. And I have always kept a good atitude for the past 18 years with it. I love your web site and the great atitude you have! Your pictures show how happy you are with each other and that says alot. Keep up the great work...my heart goes out to you! |
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Date: 2004-08-08 05:58:14 Robert Stringer ( rmstringer@peoplepc.com / http://www.thermstringers.com) wrote: call me!!!! 303.905.3023. this is my colorado cell number, but we are now in Westboro Mass and we are getting a house here. |
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Date: 2004-08-08 02:34:35 Doug James ( djames6@tampabay.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys! I got Tom's e-mail the other day, but STILL can't reply to your e-mail address as it's returned as undeliverable. What's up with your e-mail addie. Love Doug |
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Date: 2004-08-03 22:44:43 Adrianne Hurndell ( hurndell@pacbell.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes, I tried to email you today, but my email bounced. Need some input from you - could you let me know how I can contact you? kind regards ade |
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Date: 2004-07-28 16:37:54 Renee ( renee_schmookler@urscorp.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your page by looking for an old friend of mine from childhood, Jay Cherin. I would like to get reaquainted with him. Do you know how I can get in contact with him? He was my first and only boyfriend. I have been very "out" for about 22 years, which is when I ran into him at a bar in Austin, and that is the last time I have seen him. He remains in my heart and in my thoughts. Will you please help me find him? I left a message for him at the GIS highschool, where I believe he is a teacher, but will not be back to school until next week. p.s. I think your website is great. |
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Date: 2004-07-06 22:16:27 Bryan ( bbb5@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Don't know if this has already been covered, but the HIV saliva test detects the antibodies to HIV not the virus itself. There is not enough of the virus in saliva to be detected. However, when the body produces antibodies to a virus, it can be detected in most bodily secretions. |
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Date: 2004-06-19 21:08:59 Shawnon ( Shawnon@Lowrie.US / no homepage) wrote: I was just speaking with you Officer Wes, and our phones got cut off. I tried to *69 you but that did not work on your phone so I will talk to you soon. Shawnon |
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Date: 2004-06-18 16:23:39 N ( S@B.US / no homepage) wrote: KERRY ,BUSH,ROCKEFELLER ARE MEMBERS OF THE ILLUMINIST SATANIC SECRET SOCIETY, SKULL & BONES.Conservatives... view the Presidential campaign of George W. Bush of Texas as saving this country from the ravages of that New World Order President, Clinton.They do not realize that George W. Bush is just as Illuminist and just as committed to the New World Order![ Quote: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1314.cf m ]Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of ''Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power'' that reveals details about the secret society and its members. [ Quote: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0 401/S00143.htm ] U.S. president George W. Bush, his father and grandfather are proven initiates of this multi-generational occult lodge. George W. was tapped (initiated) in 1968 at the group's Yale University HQ, a mausoleum known as 'the tomb'. Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule Society which was closely connected to German Theosophists. The jolly roger, skull and cross bones, der Todtenkopf was an emblem of Hitler's SS. If the Nazis' occult lodges had been exposed and shut down, not treated as a taboo, millions of lives could have been saved. The second world war need never have happened. Unless you want this occult order running a totalitarian West's Third World War and their 'New World Order' - please - do your bit to expose the George W. Bush and the bonesmen. [ http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm ] Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society. John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,'' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander. [ Quote: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive_ skull_and_bones.html ] Can this society/satanic administration on earth control next things:make food and drug/medicin production unhealthy,using unhealthy chemicals,so that people are not healthy/stopping criticism and healthy things,like vitamins and information about those things-start wars(f.ex.9/11,etc.)-make 2 opposite sides fight(nazis/communists,nazis/coloured,islam/western world,football-hooliganism,(Supported both Israel/Palestinians,in order to create war/conlicts there,which later makes whole Islamic world attack against Jews and Christians,9/11 to make western world against “muslim-terrorism”(even BinLaden-family business has been connected Bush (Skull and Bones?) )etc. (F.EX. ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IS NOT EXISTING:trees and plants make more CO2 if needed,even if polar areas melt,it doesn´t raise surface of seas,and earth has had much more hot long lasting periods without problems- so all this environmental catastrophy panic is caused only to make people worried and in order to create a chaos/anarchy(creating also criminals with the help of wrong kind of policework,unjustice and psychiatry?) and then war/police-state or something like this etc,etc.)-business:f.ex. car industry makes cars lasting only few years(and repairing costs a lot),but even at 60`s some car companies made cars which were still good after 20 years use['world would use electric-cars,if 'Dallas-oil companies would profit more with it'?]- psychiatry,using “middle-age methods[there is lots of documents about 2 billion USD psychiatric drug-business,making people only worse,and f.ex. causing violence and (most of “cases could be treated only by changing their environment)[sources:based on writers memory:CitizensCommission on HumanRights(CCHR)and Radical perspectives in psychology(Nick Heather)] -governments omitting to create people enough jobs and homes,handle illiteracy,etc…(evil=good?). Comment:Skulls and Bones(or satanic administration described next),may have caused all problems in USA(or whole world) today(By the way,we don´t need to believe existence of Satan,but we can use his name here as a god of those people who believe to him,and do things in order to serve and worship him).They have a connection to war industry,creating war(satanism=philosophy of evilness.Evil=good?)?It´s written that every problem there is in USA today are caused by changes which are made to original US constitution[Source:Recall from `Integrity and Honesty` booklet - based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard.]- and those guys may have caused them,f.ex. there should not be income tax at all(taxation could be f.ex in prices only,etc.).Are those guys actually acting in order to destroy middle-class,which is also goal of nazism and communism,which both were supported by those guys(look links above).Rebecca Brown,published by www.Chickcomics.com :”… the lower … members of this conspiracy … don't know about the occult connection until they reach the higher levels (according to Alberto). I became so powerful in my craft of evil that the masters of the cult, …and ultimately my bosses, feared me more than what they hoped I would destroy. … I would also like to publicly denounce the Nazi-Vatican plan to kill Christians, Jews, and to help … expose the truth in this matter... I have set up and maintained false churches, occult groups, the West German Nazi Party, and much, much more …” [ http://www.monsterwax.com/chicktapes2.ht ml#brown ] Rebecca Brown; He Came To Set The Captives Free : Elaine(High Witch of USA) : I also made a number of trips to other countries. I have been to Mecca, Israel, Egypt, also the Vatican in Rome to meet the Pope. All of my trips were for the purpose of coordinating Satan's programs with satanists in other lands...The Pope knew very well who I was. We worked closely both with the Catholics (especially the Jesuits) [ http://www.monsterwax.com/chicktapes3.ht ml#brown ] George Bush's father as well as George Bush were and are members of Skull & Bones. A major key figure in Skull & Bones was William Averall Harriman. Pamela Harriman supplied the funds to elect Bill Clinton to office. Harriman was THE major backer of the Democratic Party for over 50 years. Major players in Skull & Bones have been linked to the financing of both world wars and the creation of many think-tanks and Universities in this country. Bush's father was a major contributor to the Hitler Project as well as the build-up of the Soviet Union. Thus, leading to the inevidable World Wars and the eventual set-up of the United Nations in America. [ quote: http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones. html ] U.S. president George W. Bush, his father and grandfather are proven initiates of this multi- generational occult lodge. George W. was tapped (initiated) in 1968 at the group's Yale University HQ, a mausoleum known as 'the tomb'. Adolf Hitler was also obsessed with the occult, in his case the Thule Society which was closely connected to German Theosophists. The jolly roger, skull and cross bones, der Todtenkopf was an emblem of Hitler's SS. If the Nazis' occult lodges had been exposed and shut down, not treated as a taboo, millions of lives could have been saved. The second world war need never have happened. Unless you want this occult order running a totalitarian West's Third World War and their 'New World Order' - please - do your bit to expose the George W. Bush and the bonesmen. [ http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm ] Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society. John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry,'' said Kerry spokeswoman Kelley Benander. [ Quote: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archive_ skull_and_bones.html ]Same establishment behind vote counting fraud?: …control over the electoral process as told by Mae Brussell and the suppressed book VoteScam, written by Jim and Ken Collier: ...Your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by preprogrammed computers-which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail. In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote. --For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to government-sponsored electronic theft. --The vote has been stolen from you by a cartel of federal national security bureaucrats, who include higher-ups in the Central Intelligence Agency, political party leaders, Congressmen, co-opted journalists -- and the owners and managers - of the major Establishment news media, who have decided in concert that how America's votes are counted, by whom they are counted and how the results are verified and delivered to the public is, as one of them put it, 'Not a proper area of inquiry.' --By means of an unofficial private corporation named News Election Service (NES), the Establishment press has actual physical control of the counting and dissemination of the vote, and it refuses to let the public know how it is done.[ http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Skull_Bones_3.htm ]Can this society/satanic administration on earth control next things:make food and drug/medicin production unhealthy,using unhealthy chemicals,so that people are not healthy/stopping criticism and healthy things,like vitamins and information about those things-start wars(f.ex.9/11,etc.)-“ The Skull & Bones members believe in the idea of constructive chaos. By keeping their true policy intentions secret, by constantly sending out mixed signals on all critical policy issues, they consciously seek to sow confusion among both their nominal friends and enemies alike”[quote: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm ] make 2 opposite sides fight against each others(nazis/communists,nazis/coloured,islam/western world,football-hooliganism,etc.). HISTORY: It all began at Yale. In 1832, General William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft put together a super secret society for the elite children of the Anglo- American Wall Street banking establishment. William Huntington Russell's step-brother Samuel Russell ran Russell & Co., the world's largest OPIUM smuggling operation in the world at the time. Alphonso Taft is the Grandfather of our ex-president Howard Taft, the creator of the Forerunner to the United Nations. Only 15 seniors are picked each year by the former graduating class. [ quote: http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones. html ] The Skull & Bones Society has been described as the most secretive organization in the world. Some of the world's most famous and powerful men alive today are bonesmen, including George Bush, Nicholas Brady, and William F. Buckley. Other bonesmen include Henry Luce (Time-Life), Harold Stanley (founder of Morgan Stanley), Henry P. Davison (senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust), Artemus Gates (President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific, TIME, Boeing Company), Senator John Chaffe, Russell W. Davenport (editor Fortune Magazine), and many others. All have taken a solemn vow of secrecy. [Quote: http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/ nworder03.html ] - Read ANTHONY SUTTON : Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of his findings. . . . [Antony] Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as 'extreme' or, more often, simply ignored. The report was too much and Sutton's career as a well-paid member of the academic establishment was under attack and he was told that he would not survive. His work led him to more questions than answers. Why had the US built-up it's enemy? Why did the US build-up the Soviet Union, while we also transferred technology to Hitler's Germany? Why does Washington want to conceal these facts? Sutton, following his leads, proceeded to research and write his three outstanding books on Wall Street: and FDR; and the Rise of Hitler; and The Bolshevik Revolution. Then, someone sent Antony a membership list of Skull and Bones and--a picture jumped out. And what a picture! A multigenerational foreign-based secret society with fingers in all kinds of pies and roots going back to 'Illuminati' influences in 1830's Germany. [ Quote: http://www.rense.com/politics6/SKULL.htm ] Is this satanic administration,Skull and Bones (under,together or above them,)actually ruling whole world and creating war and anti-christianity f.ex.ruining morality by using psychological learnings and medias,., creating drug-,youth gang- ,big city-,pervert sex-,etc. cultures and chaos/violence,instead of christian values in order to destroy Christianity and on the other hand create nationalism,nazism,racism,etc.(in order to create satanistic world as their goal?First creating Armageddon? 11th Sept. (= 9/11) was only a act to make world accept terror laws-in order to make control of people stronger and world-wide?And start Irak-war?)Are they sending muslims and catholics to Europe/worldwide and using them against Christians(future?)? Those guys were men behind Hitler(creating world war 2),JFKs murder(creating Vietnam war[JFK was last president not obeying Skull and Bones,and “any president not obeying them,will be murdered”.Source:Cutting Edge-link above])and 11/9(creating Irak-war)? We can ask:why psychiatrists Al-Zawahiri(man behind creating muslim terrorism of Al-Qaeda,OsamaBinLaden,f.ex. hypnotized pilots of 9/11)and Radovan Karadzic(man behind creating Yogoslavian crimes against humanity in Serbia)are still free, are not judged or why media doesn´t tell about them?This is their New world order?These guys are above everything,causing all those things written here,but being so high and delegating their orders and masterplans,that only few people know about it. These guys keep middle-class down,and make people slaves of society,medical/food-industry and media?Creating (all?) violence on this planet?Data in this writing should not be used against USA,because it seems that arguments against USA,used by nazi/communists,are arguments against things created by Skull&Bones or/and satanic administration,or created by this satanic management itself,in order to create war/anarchy/chaos/nazism?USA is number one country of the world,and happiness and enthusiasm of American people,American way of life and“the American dream”(giving hard-working,able people possibility to become successful)are best things on this planet.Sutton said something like this:”..only by using 10 000 different ways,we can stop Skull&Bones-New world order..”Jesus Christ:The TRUTH shall make us free..,not violence..[PLEASE,FORWARD THIS MESSAGE-AND HELP WORLD BECOME FREE!(S@B.US IS NOT A REAL E-MAIL-ADDRESS] |
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Date: 2004-06-15 03:48:29 Brian Jackson ( IMVersUB2@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I love this~! |
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Date: 2004-06-09 05:32:28 Karl Ramstrom ( holdbackthisday@hotmail.com / http://www.heartlandusa.org/orderholdbackthisday2004.htm) wrote: I came across a good book your readers might be interested in as well. Here's the blurb for it: ARE WHITE PEOPLE DESTINED FOR EXTINCTION….? Ward Kendall's sci-fi action thriller, "Hold Back This Day", is now back in print. The first such novel in the world to deal with the theme of white racial extinction, "Hold Back This Day" stands as a landmark of pro-white fiction. Not since Jean Raspail's "The Camp of the Saints" has a novel - or novelist - been bold enough to touch the forbidden subject of Race in a manner that is not anti-white. Yet, unlike Raspail's pessimistic novel, "Hold Back This Day" offers the reader an uplifting story of human endurance, courage, and triumph - set amid a world of totalitarian hate unlike any you have ever read. To learn more, please visit: http://www.heartlandusa.org/orderholdbackthisday2004.htm |
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Date: 2004-06-08 20:02:22 hana solomon ( drhana@nasopure.com / http://www.nasopure.com) wrote: I have been looking around at nasal washes for years as i practice medicine and have developed what i beleive is the BEST nasal irrigation system. please take a peak and consider mentioning NASOPURE as an option. It was first developed for kids, shower friendly, makes a great seal, encourages correct neck/headpostion for ideal washing. I welcome your comments. |
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Date: 2004-06-08 05:31:23 George Watrous ( george@cntrybys.com / http://www.cntrybys.com) wrote: Nice site guys, I found you through a google site. Keep the faith one day AIDS will be a thing of the past I and my partner are in the boat. Good Luck. |
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Date: 2004-06-05 21:26:29 Shelley ( SeleneAnna@juno.com / no homepage) wrote: Was thinking about you and had to visit your site. (I always think of you when I get a sinus infection...how morbid is that?!) Anyway I love you both, and I'll write you a proper letter soon. Kisses, Sel xXx |
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Date: 2004-06-02 05:09:51 ricky ( ricky@slipfist.com / http://print.totalglobalsolutions.com) wrote: Great site! Come see mine at http://print.totalglobalsolutions.com |
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Date: 2004-05-14 07:55:37 sandy ( myriadmelee@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: i hope your other family members are more supportive than aunt priss. god bless both of you and i am not being sarcastic in ANY way. i hope you are both safe and well. |
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Date: 2004-05-10 07:39:54 Paul Haynes ( ThePaulHaynes@msn.com / no homepage) wrote: Great site! I remember Chris Colt. We were close friends. |
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Date: 2004-05-04 01:08:00 Jeffrey Bays ( jeffrey@wumph.com / http://wumph.com) wrote: Greetings from Las Vegas! Once again, you cross my path at curious times. I googled my name and saw the reference to my SM 103 class that I was to present back in November (wish I could have met that obligation) but life happens. Have made a residential detour via Las Vegas, but believe it's not permanent. Always great to hear from you, drop a note when you can. Tickle this! Jeffrey |
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Date: 2004-04-02 14:57:53 Laura ( chef@lahudson.net / no homepage) wrote: I came to your site for info on a neti pot and was quite entertained by your section, "Things from Wes's nose". :-) (It sounded interesting and odd, so I started reading...it was interesting...and odd.) Thanks for a good description of how a neti pot works, though, and some good sources to find one. |
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Date: 2004-03-23 07:19:16 Michael Zargarov ( Mzargarov@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes! We knew each other at UT. Then later met up again at Jay Cherin's weekly coffee clatch at the bookstore on Westheimer. Where are you, now? Where is Jay? |
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Date: 2004-03-12 19:42:44 steve ( smcondir@stny.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: Really apreciate all the great information at your site. I have been blessed to remain neg despite some stupidity on my part. I appreciate the notes on your progress and your trials. You seem like a great couple. I have been fascinated with the leather scene and want to explore more especially the daddy/boy relationship as well. I lean towards being a daddy but once in a while it is nice to be a boy. I have had severel bouts with cellulitis in both legs going through months of various anti-biotics as well as unusual skin rashes but I still test neg. Thanks guys |
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Date: 2004-02-29 05:42:59 Pam Johnson ( pam.johnson@quintiles.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi there! I have been absolutely addicted to this site, just getting through all of the letters and updates today! How interesting. I worked with GSK (then Glaxo Wellcome) and Abbott on the 3TC trials as well as the Kaletra "early access program", when it was referred to as ABT-378. There were so many patients benefitting from these new generations of drugs. There was a site we were trying to get started where prisoners in one institution would have access to these drugs. (often the forgotten group). I thought for sure there would be "a cure" for HIV by now. I am still ever hopeful, as there are miracles every day. The amount of regulatory red tape and paperwork alone involved is often insurmountable, and frustrating. I am so impressed by your boundless amounts of energy and positive attitudes. (All those house repairs and updates made me tired just thinking about them!). I will definitely log in regularly from here on out. Thanks for the entertainment! Rock on. Pam |
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Date: 2004-02-24 19:44:05 Patricia Smith ( arlyss1@cox.net / no homepage) wrote: Hi! You guys moved to San Diego, one of the best places I EVER lived! And home to some WONDERFUL 12 step groups! WOOHOO! I hope this finds you well. I came to your pages from Wes' page on using the Neti pot. My brother and his companion are leathermen as well - they are in the Charlottesville, VA area, and have been life companions for about seventeen years or more. Your photos made me think of them, and reminded me I need to give my bro, Scott a call. But also, reading about SD makes me want to move back to the place I most feel is my home - San Diego! I hope you enjoy more walks in Balboa Park. It's gorgeous any time of year. And don't neglect to go enjoy Coronado - the sand truly is GOLD. |
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Date: 2004-02-14 20:26:05 Lee Virgilio ( starseas@prodigy.net.mx / no homepage) wrote: Hey I have had a computer dump all my addresses so drop a note so I can write you both. I think of you so often....Love and hugs.....Lee |
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Date: 2004-02-10 16:57:25 mike ( spazm747@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I just typed in my last name to see what it brought up, and this was it. My last name (obviously), is westom. |
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Date: 2004-02-06 10:48:29 susie ( susie.johnston@ntlworld.com / no homepage) wrote: While looking for info on neti I stumbled across your site and have become engrossed in the letter wars (thanks very much...I have work to do you know)and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the whole thing, although I would love to scream at Pricilla.If only people could put as much effort into love as they do into spreading hate and bigotry the world would be a much better place. Anyway I hope you guys are keeping well. Love Susie x |
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Date: 2004-02-04 03:44:33 annette ( annttclark@bemail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes, I really enjoyed your nose site. I found it while looking up info on nasal surgeries. My boyfriend had your first surgery last year – we have the “stuff” photos as well. He said it was the best decision and no regrets - now he can breath. I’m having the surgery next month. Thanks for the fun photos and info. |
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Date: 2004-01-28 05:48:03 Mark & Scotty ( mark_scotty@hotmail.com / http://galaxyboy.4all.cc/) wrote: Wonderful site. We've been coming here for a long time and it's great to see how the site has evolved. Keep up the great work! |
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Date: 2004-01-23 06:41:54 Tony ( nocutenickname@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: This page is great! I have a question - I am in love with Worcester, MA and I was wondering if you had any more information about Salisbury and Bancroft from "america's homo monument." is there more about their relationship? how do we know that they lived together for 30 years? please email me - nocutenickname@yahoo.com Thanks in advance! |
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Date: 2004-01-22 23:28:53 sharon ( victoria_rose@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes & Tom: Thanks for the wonderful write up on Master Dean - i will most assuredly miss Him as well - i cannot relay how important Dean was to my early growth in the scene - He has always been there - it's hard to put in words but i do thank You Sir :) sharon from Houston :) i know You'll remember me :) |
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Date: 2004-01-19 21:48:03 Mariah V. ( geminiangel521@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I hope you have fun burning in Hell beside Hitler, Stalin, and the rest of the world's Homophobes. Even Jesus is laughing. |
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Date: 2004-01-19 21:00:57 ally ( palmeran@student.ednet.ns.ca / no homepage) wrote: What happened to your site? It hasn't been updated in ages. I hope you both are still well! Ally. |
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Date: 2004-01-16 17:17:28 Mark & John ( tallymen4u@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys! Really enjoyed your website!! We had recently posted on a website asking if anyone knew of a website that gave ideas on how to build a sling. We received an email from leatherman Craig giving us the link to your website. Please let us know if you have any knowledge of this and where we could find the info on the web. |
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Date: 2004-01-10 12:08:56 george ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Sir, FYI, found the following, Sir: In honor of Master Dean Walradt, a great leader whose time passed too early, please join the Dallas community and Master Dean's many friends from around the country who will also be in attendance at the Dallas Eagle on Jan 11, 2004 from 1 to 3pm for a celebration of His life. You may go to www.DallasEagle.com for directions. Sir, my condolences, Sir. |
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Date: 2004-02-24 23:36:35 online casino gambling ( news@gw.internet1x2.com / http://www.casino1x2.com) wrote: nice site indeed |
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Date: 2003-12-03 00:01:49 Rick McConathy ( rmcconathy@sbcglobal.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes, Love the motorcycle... I have a 1998 model in black. I make a part for the HD police bikes that you may be interested in. If you will send me an email, I'll send you a picture of the part on my bike. If you like them I'll sell you a set cheap. Rick |
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Date: 2003-11-30 13:44:14 Homeboi ( homeboi70@hotmail.com / http://homeboi70.blogspot.com) wrote: Hi guys. Found your site through Yahoo. I've been recently diagnosed and am finding it hard to concentrate on all the information I need to know. The t-cell count charts, viral load charts and your explanations were really helpful. I'll definately be back. |
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Date: 2003-11-28 06:58:13 Richard ( rauribe@cox.net / no homepage) wrote: Happy Thanksgiving Boys! My best to you with hopes that you're finding San Diego a great place to live! Hugs & Bear Noises from Scottsdale, Richard |
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Date: 2003-11-22 08:15:47 Benjamin Westafer ( boomw@bellsouth.net / http://www.westafer.com/b) wrote: OK, So I'm filling up my nose with my Neti Pot and I'm thinking that I'm doing something wrong. I google to your site and read the operative word, "Relax." I went back and tried again. It worked, of course. I come back to the computer with your page still up, I scroll down and guess what?! We have the same shower curtain! I don't know I thought it synchronous. Thanks for the help. P.S. I'll put a picture on my site if I think about it. I'm so sick, I can't talk and am somewhat out of it. |
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Date: 2003-11-10 08:39:17 Patrick Dennison ( bigguys@silcom.com / http://www.silcom.com/~bigguys/index/index.html) wrote: Wes and Tom, My dear friends. You are now in California. Yay!!. The last time we shared emails, you told me of your upcoming move. Life has been busy here and I tried to email, but it came back. I got worried, and went to visit your site. I see there haven't been any recent additions to your diary since mid year. I hope all is well and that we can reconnect. Please email me back if and when you read this. Know my thoughts are with you guys and I look forward to a reunion, and hey...maybe even meeting in person once we catch up with each other. Best wishes, your net friend always, Patrick |
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Date: 2003-10-28 09:25:07 Michael R. Roth ( michaelrroth@wildmail.com / http://truth.url4life.com/) wrote: I am just a lowly, humble poet, and common working man trying to plant a seed in the heart of humanity. http://thoughts.url4life.com/ http://godschildren.home-page.org/ |
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Date: 2003-10-28 05:59:48 Deborah Born ( beebop_99686@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes, I enjoyed reading your stories , I am glad you lived through your accident. I was looking for neti pot instructions, and your site is nice. Warm regards, Deborah |
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Date: 2003-10-27 01:33:59 Laura ( weezil936@aol.com / http://weezil936.deviantart.com) wrote: Howdy! I just went through a good deal of the family letters. Your aunt Pricsilla needs a swift kick in the face. And her daughter! "I bet you were hoping one of my children would pick up the mail" What an ignorant bitch! grr. now i'm all fired up.. anyway, have a good one! =) |
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Date: 2003-10-20 14:17:39 queenofjoy ( queenofjoy@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I haven't seen any new stuff added for a few months are you ok? Queenie |
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Date: 2003-10-16 14:55:44 GayBasher ( negroinacan412@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: yes. i agree, gay people should be burned. god mad adam and eve, not adam and steve. i think you two faggots should smoke crack,worship satan, and get some pussy |
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Date: 2003-10-15 15:07:06 afroamerican ( hailsatan425@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: you both take it in the ass and deserve to die |
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Date: 2003-10-12 23:49:54 Erica ( alignthespinetobefine@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello Wes & Tom....Your site is very interesting (the choice of links on every page is amazing!) and I'm glad I stumbled across it. It has been both informative (the nose stuff...my boyfriend has plenty of sinus problems) and heartfelt (I live for hearing stories about how people met). Thanks for maintaining such a great site! :-) |
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Date: 2003-10-05 04:53:23 Emmett R. Hall ( ERonaldHall@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Gentlemen. You slay me. You have developed such an analytical approach to this problem. For the 1rst time in 16 years, I think I understand why I get sick. You also inspire me. HiOh Silver and away. Head 'em up, move 'em out. I have work to do. Thanks, Emmett R. Hall |
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Date: 2003-09-26 02:16:19 Ernie Martin ( Ltrwtsltr@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello there, just wanted to say hello and ask if you enjoyed your first Inferno? Hope you can come back. I enjoyed our talk and i must say enjoyed hearing you say woof. Be good and be safe. Lets hear from you. Yours in Leather, Ernie Martin Full Member CHC |
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Date: 2003-09-10 03:43:53 Richard Powell ( rpowell548@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Officer Wes: Wanted you to know how much I enjoyed meeting you during Inferno this past weekend. I checked out your web site. It's excellent! Woof, Richard |
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Date: 2003-08-27 21:48:44 Brian Foley ( btf@lanl.gov / http://hiv-web.lanl.gov) wrote: I haven't checked in with you in a while. I e-mailed you a few times over the past 3 years. I was watching PBS Point of View last night. It was about religious families (mostly Christian and Mormon) with gay children, and the strains that often develop in the relationship with the gay child. It totally reminded me of the "Letter Wars" on your web site. If you did not see it, you need to get a copy. Check out the PBS web site: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/familyfundamentals/ |
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Date: 2003-08-27 20:40:47 boy joe ( boyjoe@earthlink.net / no homepage) wrote: Officer Wes, i haven't found you until now. i want to let you know that Daddy Caspian passed away last May. i am now executor of His will and am struggling with some things that date back to Master Jim. Any help you could give would be appreciated. Send me an email. Thanks, With Respect, boy joe |
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Date: 2003-07-29 00:09:24 Katie Galasso ( katiegrrl@zipcon.net / http://www.retrorecipe.com) wrote: Dear Tom & Wes - I just had to let you know that I have so enjoyed your site! At times, I coudn't stop laughing or crying. What an amazing account of your family's struggle with acceptance of your life style. What I loved the most is the Jesus - bibical debates. 1st I think it's hysterical that everyones seems to "know" what the bible intended. The only thing is the bible that is clear is Jesus's love, acceptance, and tolorance for others. And that is NOT displayed by any of the TRUE CHRISTIANS in your family. Their hypocracy is cut and dry and totally obvious to everyone but them! It's sad but funny at the same time. Your Aunt is the most homophobic freak I've ever seem. I love how she makes the extremes (NABLA) the norm and totally sticks to her point even when all the evidence is to the contrary. I pray for people like her. And I wonder if they don't have their own issues with their sexually. Why else would they be so resistant to rationale thinking. That hetro sexula quiz was funny too. I will definately send that to my homophopic friends. Anyway, thank for the site. I'm not even sure how I found it but I spent several hours on the edge of my seat engrossed in these letters. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THEM! God Bless, Katie Galasso Seattle, Washington |
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Date: 2003-07-27 18:28:24 Courtney ( nuckelsc@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Your site is depressing. IF you would just open your bible you would find all of the wrong that you are committing. I found your site while doing research for an anti-gay paper that i am doing in government. If, while reading this, you would be what is considered an openminded-skeptic, you would get a lot more out of what i am about to say. I printed out the begining letter that you wrote saying that Jesus was to show love and not judgement. I am all for that, and believe that is true. Yet, there are also laws that we must abide too. I am not judging you, i am simply stating what the bible says. Obviously you are aware of Gen. 19 about Sodom and Gomorrah. This is an example of what God promises to do to people who disobey him in a homosexual since. And if you are to say that the laws of the old testament are ment for the hebrews you are right. But, why does the new testament refer this lesson time and time again about what God is going to do to the unGodly. I realize that it is hard to understand what you have believed is not right in the eyes of God, and my sympathy pours over you. I pray that you look at the other verses that i am listing and mabye open your mind to the truth. Romans 1 vs. 27; and 1 Cor. 6 vs. 9. There are also many verses in the Old Testament if you would like for me to provide them to you. God Bless, Courtney |
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Date: 2003-07-15 20:18:59 laura ( nursenimue@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: ohmygosh, what a great site!! the tale o' the homophobic aunt left me in stiches!! my brother and best friend are both gay so this was an interesting insight to a commited relationship, something that both of them are seeking. may peace be unto you, and may god bless and watch over you. Laura |
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Date: 2003-07-11 21:58:10 Lisa ( lbryan@san.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi there-- Found your page while researching sinus surgery on the web (for my Dad). Was interested to see that you just moved from TX to San Diego. I did too--last September, via Florida! I'll take these San Diego summers over the ones in Texas any day--won't you? Good luck! |
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Date: 2003-06-19 15:49:42 Susan Walens ( MsSuzan999@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Nice site. I took one of the side trips and who else did I see, Doug and bob :) The rest I will send email! |
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Date: 2003-06-10 05:38:38 Craig ( LeathermanCraig@hotmail.com / http://www.woodiesandleather.00server.com) wrote: Hello, guys. Back to your site again for some more bouncing around and research. Again, I found your site with an MSN search and find your pages to be well worth viewing again and again. Now, I'd like to ask permission to add your site to my own 'links' pages, if you would allow. Thanks in advance and thanks again for a great set of pages. |
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Date: 2003-06-10 03:47:20 Craig ( LeathermanCraig@hotmail.com / http://www.woodiesandleather.00server.com) wrote: Well, I am very impressed with your pages.... I came across them when doing a search on MSN about Rope Harness Bondage how to.... Dowloaded your instructions and pix.... it's been a while since I've played with rope and my new boy wants me to tie him up.... so, it's time for a refresher and some fun practice and play! Great site and info, guys! |
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Date: 2003-05-18 16:11:00 kasey ( drakeysboi@yahoo.com / http://www.geocities.com/drakeysboi/drakeysboi.html) wrote: HI Tom & Wes, i just wanted to tell You guys thanks for the wonderful pages; You have made me smile and experience a myriad of emotions with Your pages. Thank You for having the guts to post everything so that other people don't feel so alone. best wishes to You both. Good luck in the future and keep up Your wonderful spirit! |
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Date: 2003-05-05 22:55:01 Clive Tyler ( clive.tyler1@btinternet.com / no homepage) wrote: Your Web site is a truely amazing account of your life....... I have never been so engrossed in reading about someone elses life. You deserve all the support you can handle, after being treated so badly by persons who should be supportive. I bet so many others like you wish that they had a quarter of the courage and determination that you have....... I hope that you live a more happy life knowing that you are not alone. |
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Date: 2003-04-24 19:48:50 Sim Piergentili ( spiergentili@aac.org / http://www.aac.org) wrote: Hi, I was currently employed by the AIDS Action Committee to organzied the first annual AIDS Action Ride. This ride replaces the Boston to NY. It goes across Massachusetts from Pittsfield,MA to Salem, MA. I am trying to get the word out to all those that did the Boston to NY. Many people don't know that this ride replaces that one and that Boston to NY no longer exists. Can you help us get the word out? Our goal is 500 riders raising $2100 each. I also heard of a group the SpokeBusters who focus on the AIDS Rides. Can you give me any contact information? We are organizing the ride inhouse to keep costs down. All the fundraising comes back to the AIDS Action Committee. We use the funds for awareness, prevention and providing services to those infected by AIDS/HIV. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. |
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Date: 2003-03-16 17:36:35 steven ( feet4me274@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: please email me ....i am interted in your web site/etc ..... |
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Date: 2003-02-24 07:51:10 Bev ( vamppyvixon@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi guys, I stumbled acrose your page hours ago, and have cried, laughed, writhed with anger, and passionatly read on and on, and wondered if you are still here? My lovly men, you are dear, and will always be on my mind in times of hardship, what you show the world here is heroism, and I bet with all the love in your hearts you show that no matter where your lil' cold toes take you! I wish for you long life, long love , and eternal peace in knowing you have made a difference in others lives. I bet even miss priss couldnt denie that! I am a Bi woman who loves my husband a closet bi( except to me, he tells me all his secrets! hee hee ) and cannot begin to tell you how happy i am that fate showed me your site today. I hope this finds you in good spirits, and health,,,,,,,,,, lots of lov n hugs,,, bev |
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Date: 2003-02-22 17:37:25 Douglas Stambler ( wowidaho@baptistmail.com / http://thewatchmen.net) wrote: Hello: I am writing to you from Kamiah, Idaho, where a new kind of American militia group has decided to pick up the pen rather than the sword. WATCHMEN ON THE WALL is a pro-constitutional, political advocacy group that is making waves here in Idaho County, and is beginning to build a network of like-minded Americans, who are concerned that the federal government is overstepping its bounds into state and local affairs. Led by the outspoken intellect of 40-something, Tom Simmons, WATCHMEN ON THE WALL is setting a new standard in the American patriot movement, by organizing peacefully and inspiring other Americans through its non-violent example. Of course, being a militia group in principle, WATCHMEN ON THE WALL is very controversial within the local area, because it keeps local politicians and the law on their toes. But the group itself is uniquely positioned to inspire more civic participation, and to keep the American flag flying no matter what. Visit the WATCHMEN ON THE WALL website at "thewatchmen.net" Tom is very outspoken about American political issues, and he's also a gifted patriotic singer, too! So, tell your friends about WATCHMEN ON THE WALL: an Idaho militia group that has taken up the pen rather than the sword. Thank you, Douglas Stambler Moscow, Idaho |
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Date: 2003-02-14 22:07:30 Howard Kanelakos ( howardk@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom, Glad to know about your move to S.D. and glad to see your new place. Will let you know when we get out there to visit one of Terry's friends. |
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Date: 2003-02-04 04:28:13 Shelley (Selene) ( SeleneAnna@juno.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello Wes and Tom! Its been so long since I've spoken with you. My computer died again and it took me awhile to save for a new one. I have missed hearing from you. I just finished reading your christmas letter. It sounds like you have had quite the year of ups and downs. I'm glad to see that you have made it through. Congrats on moving to San Diego! I'm quite jealous. Write me if you have the chance. I hate to let a friendship with such wonderful people as yourselves lapse. I've missed you. Big Kisses, Shelley |
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Date: 2003-01-24 04:46:48 Caitlin ( caitlin@NmOeSoPwAwMw.com / http://fearthereligiousright.com) wrote: Wow, your aunt Priscilla sucks ass. I could probably think of a nicer way to put it, but WOW, I could not believe the bile in her letters. I wish your aunts and uncles could see the lonely unhappiness they're condemning their children to by shielding them from all homosexuality. When I was growing up in a small(minded) town in Wisconsin, I never met one out gay adult. All I heard were vile rumors and innuendo. The festering self-hatred that I am still trying to shake off is the condemnation that parents who deny the existence of homosexuality will to their children. "Hate the sin not the sinner"? I felt the hostility and hatred towards homosexuals, which I experienced as raw personal hatred for me, before I ever committed a homosexual act. When the roughly ten percent of their children that are not straight realize how their family feels about their orientation, they will too. I can only imagine how much happier I'd be now if I'd known just one or two pleasant, out homosexual couples like yourself and Tom at that age. And what was the deal with all that equating homosexuality with NAMBLA? HELLO, half of homosexuals are female. And besides, you can bet that if there was a NAMGLA (man-girl) straight people wouldn't be rushing to make them the poster children of heterosexuality. And along the same lines, what is this AIDS is the gay disease from God crap? If that were the case wouldn't it be more epidemic in lesbians than heterosexuals? And what was the deal with people writing that you were being selfish by wanting to attend your family party? YOU weren't preventing anyone from going. That was such crap. You were willing to go and put up with your Aunt Priscilla, who as far as I can tell is a snide, boring, and altogether repellant person. Why the hell couldn't she choke down her hatred of homosexuality for a few hours? And how dare she blame you, like you were holding a gun to her head if you didn't go? What a control freak. I also can't believe anyone called you selfish for posting her letters. These interactions are invaluable for those of us who grow up queer, un-"recruited", totally alone. I thought it was incredibly generous of you to make this personal story available for people to learn from. Maybe some kid will come across your pages and realize that even though his whole family is telling him he's going to hell, and his life is worthless in the eyes of god unless he marries a woman he'll never love and live out a miserable and lonely life, that he can break away from all that and find somebody wonderful and build his own life. Also, I think it speaks to who is and isn't ashamed of what they've written. The fact that you were willing to post what you wrote, and she feared it speaks volumes. If she didn't want people to know what kind of person she was she shouldn't have put it in writing. Doesn't it make you crazy that even though you're clearly smarter than she is (judging by the logical depth of your letters, and the conclusions you draw from your research,) you'll never convince her to see things any differently? Strangely enough, I found your site while trying to find "neti pot instructions". (Thanks for those.) I'm a chronic sinusitis sufferer who just happens to be queer. I plan on memorizing those statistics about homophobia in heterosexual men to quote at parties. :D |
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Date: 2003-01-23 22:14:52 Paula ( pjcopy2001@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: i came across your site while surfing and i love it! Your site is one of the most honest, heartwarming, and informative sites i have ever visited. its great to see two people that love each other so much and that deserves great respect. i hope your lives are greatly blessed. |
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Date: 2003-01-19 06:03:35 Anne Miller ( aandamiller@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your website while looking for Dr. J. Kosoy. Dr. Kosoy performed an operation in 1978 that gave me my quality of life that I have enjoyed and are still enjoying. As for your family situation, one who has never loved deeply will never understand. Anne Miller |
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Date: 2003-01-14 06:36:53 george ( sbg@personal-domain.com / no homepage) wrote: Sir, Sir, please pardon, Sir. Sir, unknown if You've received and thus read any prior emails, thus a brief note here, Sir. Sir, noticed Your most recent photos on Your site as of Jan 2003, Sir. Sir, wonderful photos, Sir. Sir, trust that Your preparations for moving are not too tiring and that all goes well, and that Your new year is going well and that Yyou're Bboth in good health, Sir. Sir, am doing well here and have Two Masters and Wwe are developing Oour relationship, Sir. Sir, have periodically done updates to my own site, if it pleased You, You could view them on that catagory page, and the most recent was some quotes added to the animations page, Sir. Sir, please do continue to be happy and healthy and my best regards to You and Tom, Sir. |
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Date: 2003-01-05 15:16:05 dr. Fetish ( dr_fetish@planet.nl / http://members.lycos.nl/drfetish/index.html) wrote: Love your homepage! I was fascinated bij the family correspondences. It was very recognizable, because I'm from a christian environment too. All the best for the future! Doc |
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Date: 2002-12-25 21:44:06 Becky ( antrebecky@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Merry Christmas and Good luck, Love, B and family |
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Date: 2002-12-13 23:21:57 Kari ( karichay@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I actually found your site because I was searching on Google for help writing a good Christmas letter. I had just searched for "Christmas Letter" and lo and behold... I have been rapt, all day. I haven't gotten a thing done at work. Although my bosses may not be too happy about that, I sure don't mind! this has been gripping reading. At times I've laughed, but mostly I've been in awe for the dignity, sense of humor, perseverance, and patience you have both displayed. Go you! |
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Date: 2002-12-11 06:13:09 Bob ( 7curved@cx.net / no homepage) wrote: Granted as an HIV+ gay male I am biased, but I really have enjoyed your site, and spent a lot of time on it. And I'll bookmark it as a reference for the letters and as a example of what a personal site can be. I left a church because the minister when addressing AIDS, talked about a congregant that was dying of AIDS and seeking counseling so as to be right with God when he died and the minister told him he couldnt have anything to do with his partner--a long term relationship. The inhumanaity of asking a dying man to disassociate from the most significant person in his life was, to me, shocking. thanks for listening |
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Date: 2002-12-07 22:44:14 boy ned ( nedocasey@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Officer Wes, i hope You will take it as more a compliment than a complaint when i say that i just wasted an ENTIRE AFTERNOON reading Your site! What i found most interesting, as a perpetually single boy, was to read a virtual diary of Your pursuit of various Dom/sub relationships. Thank You for being so forthright. i have in fact been aware of You for several years, as a result of my sometimes furtive, sometimes desperate, always confused search for a relationship that satisfies both my need to serve and my desire for a loving interPERSONAL relationship. Although i didn't find answers/solutions to my questions/problems on Your website, and i'm clearly not the sort of boy You're looking for (even if i do find You completely and totally HOT), i couldn't tear myself away from Your site. i am sorry that the early years of Your relationship with Tom predate the inception of Your website, because it sounds to me as if they entailed an exploration of the sort of relationship i think i might be seeking...a 'vanilla-ish' relationship with dom/sub weekends. i'll leave it at that, because i have so many questions and concerns that i really just have to explore for myself that if i tied to articulate them i'd be writing all night, in circles, if i even could (articulate them). Anyway, i felt compelled to write and thank You for Your site. i profoundly respect You, SIR, for the grace with which You seem to pursue Your life, relationships, and health, and for sharing the details with the world. Good luck with Your move to California. boy ned |
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Date: 2002-10-22 08:26:04 LUXURY CHRISTMAS HAMPERS ( no email / http://soccerpartners.org/foodanddrink/marksandspencer.html) wrote: NICE SITE |
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Date: 2002-09-16 01:36:43 Bill ( wmavt@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi from Honolulu, Just a reminder it is 2003. You seem to know more than most about the web, Why not use it. Oh and It is really OK to FIRE Stupid Doctors. "My Austin doctor wanted to try and reduce my pill load, especially to reduce fatigue." WRONG it was working so dont change it, how about treat the side effects. My wire is not bacicly the same med's with the same probs. I Fired her So-Call HIV Doc because he wanted to change most of her meds. V-L <50 T 4's 1152. yep with #'s like that he wanted to change. The only major prob she had was Fatigue, and depression witch all POZ people are to some extent. I found a New Doctor that gives us anything we ask for and added dextroamphetamine, basicaly Ritilin witch has been FDA approved for use with Hiv/Aids patients, Its you life, I would Fire the Doc, lots of luck, have fun Bill |
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Date: 2002-09-03 19:54:55 Amanda Jackson ( amanda_jackson@urscorp.com / no homepage) wrote: Any advice on coping with the after-effects of sinus surgery. I go under the knife next Monday and I'm kind of freaked out. Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful! |
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Date: 2002-09-03 07:45:40 Liz C. ( ma_petite7263@yahoo.com / http://www.geocities.com/ma_petite7263) wrote: I *heart* Wes and Tom! I came across your webpage, interestingly enough, from a link that I found on a site about Bob Jones' University's intolerance of gays. I hope everything is okay for you health-wise, and I wish you the best of luck! |
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Date: 2002-09-01 12:11:42 Dre' ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I don't think this will do anything but, please stop being gay as a personal favor to me. Well, more e-Mails to send, Dre' out! |
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Date: 2002-08-20 19:58:47 Cindy Guenzer ( cguenzer@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi guys! I just wanted to write and tell you that I just happened to come across your web-page and am very glad I did. Wes, you have such a talent for writing and are an incredible romantic (I appreciate this because as I was writing it felt as though I was reading something that I would do also! I'm not full of myself or anything, just letting you know how I can relate:) I am so happy for the two of you and hope and pray that you'll continue your love forever! You sound like some incredible people and are an asset to everyone that you know:) Thank you for sharing your lives with all of us:) Sincerely, Cindy |
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Date: 2002-07-30 23:46:50 1 ( no email / no homepage) wrote: my last name is westom and i find it discusting that some fags have to use it as the title to their website. |
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Date: 2002-06-29 03:17:39 Lee and Amy Virgilio ( starseas@prodigy.net.mx / http://www.RainbowRESanMiguel.com) wrote: Hey you guys.....we would love to hear from you. Better yet why not come visit? Please drop us a note so that we can chat. We celebrated Amy's graduation from Doctor School and would love to tell you all about it. hugs....L & A |
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Date: 2002-06-06 16:52:00 Cindy ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I can really sympathize with the sinus problems. The pain is disorienting, and its hard to do ANYTHING. Also, in my opinion -- regarding your aunt -- I have found that it is MORE painful for people to be IGNORED that for you to respond to the hateful letters (your comments were excellent however). My mother had me undergo an exorcism when I was 12-years-old b/c I had a 'demon' inside me. I finally told her to stop contacting me. I was hard, b/c it was so easy to shoot-down all her stupid reasoning. But she will always be insane, and so will your aunt. Please don't think I'm being disrespectful by saying so -- its not their fault, but neither one of us can do anything about it. Take care, love ya, Cindy |
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Date: 2002-05-24 00:03:00 Steven Haley ( minnrenrat@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: In-fucking-credible! Your site, with its soap-opera-esque "storyline", may well set homophobia back, oh, at least a decade or two. The whole tale of "The Prisilla Letters" and the escalation of "hostilities" from an innocent family get-together is hilarious and head-shaking entertainment and information. It was amazing to see how one self-righteous old biddy's refusal to pull her head out of the sand wound up being an interstate battleground. What it all boiled down to was "If the children (read "me") don't see it, it won't exist and they (read "I") won't have to confront my discomfort with anything strange and different". But the best thing about the Letters is that they will resonate with many readers who are not gay and/or have no gay relatives, because the Letters touch nerves present in a great many families regarding a great many other issues. This incident of the party invitation and the gay relationship that some people wanted to pretend did not exist was only one topic among a thousand that causes rifts in families across this country. And it raises the question of why so many people who claim to have a religion based on love and afirmation so readily use that religion to hate and hurt others who have committed no other crime than to simply be different. And it is this aspect of the Letters that I think will prove their greatest strength in being a positive force for greater tolerance. I myself was looked askance at for being a science fiction fan and a "nigger lover" long before I realized that I was gay, so I can relate in the larger way I've referred to when I say I believe that the Letters can be read to good effect by those who have faced other family conflict situations other than that of being gay. Being gay is probably just a bit more incendary than being a SF fan, but the net result can be relatively similar! Thanx for publishing the Letters, health and happiness to all concerned (even Aunt Prisilla!), and here's hoping that Wes and Tom have a relationship of 52 years themselves! |
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Date: 2002-05-21 12:26:00 redge4me ( redge4me@yahoo.com / http://www.yahoo.com) wrote: Thanks so much guys for the inspiration and all the stuff that you wrote on your website. Infact, I was just surfing on the net tonight and so happen that I found your site to be so interesting. I have learnt alot fro you guys. Keep up the spirit and all the best in your years/months/days to come for the two of you. |
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Date: 2002-03-30 23:45:00 Michelle ( mavmichelle@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I got here by typing Folsom Street Fair in the address bar. I have one question. As a police officer in San Francisco do you find any discrimination not only as a gay man, but also a man living with AIDS? |
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Date: 2002-03-15 09:22:00 Carolyn Keelen ( toptexx@aol.com / http://_ ---) wrote: WOW! It's now 1:21 AM and I still haven't finished reading the whole site.... and I started early this afternoon. OK, I took a few breaks, but this has been an experience, to say the least! You must have spent an amazing amount of time creating all this. |
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Date: 2002-03-11 06:51:00 Darrell Matula ( drmatula@ev1.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom, Thanks for your instructions on the use of Neti Pot. I just bought a plastic one at a yoga conference - right here in Houston. I have some problems using it, as water gets in my ears. Also, got a bad rebound effect in the opposing nostril, a few hours after I first used it. I've had persistent sinus allergies at least since puberty, rarely get a good night's sleep, and am never really feel good - never married either, at 45. (but I'm not gay or a homophobe). I'll keep trying. |
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Date: 2002-03-08 03:39:00 Seamus ( mail@queervisions.com / http://www.queervisions.com/) wrote: Hi Wes! Hi Tom! Great site. The Letter Wars remind me of my family so much. I have a site called queer|visions in which I showcase a number of queer sites or queer friendly sites I find interesting. I've chosen yours as one of these 'queer visions'. Let me know what you think! Take care and keep it up, Seamus |
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Date: 2002-02-25 15:00:00 Stacey Blanc ( syblanc@hotmail.com / http://members.rogers.com/stacey-blanc) wrote: Hey guys, I just surfed on here by accident. This site makes me feel so much better - I just lost a loved one to HIV - I wish he had lived longer to become an advocate or learn to live with it, but I guess that wasn't part of his destiny. Anyways, it's good to see people who can live with it and are willing to educate everyone out there. Thanks xoxo -s |
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Date: 2002-02-18 07:00:00 Alan Shorter ( moscow@rconnect.com / no homepage) wrote: Gentlemen, I came across your page by accident looking for a different person. I must tell you how moving I found your page of all your friends. I stopped counting at 70 people who had left my life ... I couldn't keep track ... people were turning into numbers for me. The eloquent way in which you have memorialized your friends here is a tribute to friendship and love. As I recollect all those I lost, I can't even begin to think of how difficult building that page must have been ... so many, many memories. Thank you for sharing it with me. Damn the bigots ... hold your heads high. You have fulfilled one of the strongest obligations of friendship ... to remember. Thank you, Alan Shorter |
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Date: 2002-02-17 20:08:00 Jan M. ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I have always had the utmost sympathy for gays until reading your site. I just hope that not all gay relationships are like the one between the two of you. An open relationship that includes leather boys is no real relationship at all, IMHO, and greatly harms the effort to win legal recognition for gay couples who are truly committed to one another. However, after reading your comments on this site, I am beginning to wonder if such gay couples even exist! |
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Date: 2002-02-07 22:04:00 lynda marsh ( lyndamarsh@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: How do you beat the posse comitatus? There is a hornet's net of them (several hundreds) in my county and some are politicians! These are terrorists of the worse kind. Even the Sheriff has joined them to mine and others horror. Reply. I am desparate for a human and civil rights court that is within the United States--do you know of such a court of law, and/or a Federal judge who has had experience dealing with them and who will sentence these creeps to jail? If you don't believe me, I would appreciate you taking the time to come to my state and county and see the posse in action for yourself. |
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Date: 2002-01-31 09:49:00 Carmen ( CSGarrison@adelphia.net / no homepage) wrote: I just spent the past 2 hours viewing your web site. I bookmarked the site so I can come back and look at it again. I was doing an Internet search on something totally unrelated. Don't know how this site ended up on the search, but, I don't believe it was an accident. In 1980 my uncle Wayne was brutally murdered. The case was never solved. A few years before his death he talked to me about his sexuality. I have become an avid supporter of him and others like him. I am the only person in our family he felt comfortable enough to open up to. I still feel his presence in spirit. Lately I have had an even stronger feeling that I need to come full circle with all of this. Many of my family have been embarassed by his lifestyle. Not me. I have been feeling a need to contact friends of his. People who knew him as he really was, not what he presented as. I have real sadness in my heart that he felt he had to hide the real "Wayne" from his family out of fear of rejection. My memory of him was a man who really loved his family. He was so giving. So loving. So gentle. He did not deserve what happened to him. His partner at the time of his death is still living. I know he loved Wayne very much. I know he wasn't alone in the pain he endured in life. Thank you for your web site. Carmen Garrison |
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Date: 2002-01-28 06:03:00 Heidi ( heidz@sympatico.ca / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom, I am a 2nd year nursing student at the University of Windsor, Canada. I am conducting a qualitative research project about the personal experience of living with AIDS/HIV. In doing this project, it is my hope that I will be better able to understand the experience of this kind of chronic alteration in health. Furthermore, I wish to learn from you, so that my own nursing knowledge can be enhanced. All I am asking is to converse via email with you two questions over the next few weeks. Please email me back if you guys are willing to participate in my endeavour. Thanks so much for your time. Yours in Nursing Care, Heidi |
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Date: 2002-01-20 04:46:00 Tim ( Johnson / Tim_Johnson@baylor.edu) wrote: i am a young college student that needs to get somethings off my chest. Anybody want to listen? |
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Date: 2002-01-20 04:41:00 Jeff ( Riddell / no homepage) wrote: love your site i am also gay |
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Date: 2002-01-05 18:27:00 u stink ( no email / no homepage) wrote: cool site guys youdirty aidscum gay bastards. I HOPE YOU DIE |
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Date: 2001-12-22 22:30:00 Lori ( PeanutHead120964@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes and Tom! I'm one of your lesbian sisters out here in Calif! Hope you dudes are doing good. Loved your web site though I haven't finished reading it all yet. I found your web site using a search engine looking for some cool gay/lesbian christmas greeting cards. Though you don't have greeting cards on your site, something caught my eye and thought I would check it out, glad I did! Hope you both have a Happy Gay Christmas! Lori |
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Date: 2001-12-15 02:55:00 T.C. ( no email / no homepage) wrote: thanks for the sinus maintenance tips! :) very helpful! |
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Date: 2001-12-09 03:18:00 Norman Walker ( nwalker@houston.rr.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes & Tom Being the holiday season, Roseann and I wanted to wish you both a very merry holiday season and even better New Year. Since we have NO idea where you are (other than presumedly Austin)it was our only way of communicating with you. We're sure you are well aware of the disintegration of our previously employer. While we take no enjoyment from this, we're not totally surprised. Anyway, we both with the two of you the very best health and happiness. Norm & Roseann |
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Date: 2001-11-25 16:28:00 Eamonn ( irisheamonn@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes & Tom, I am a gay medical student who is currenlty writing my disseration on AIDS, and i stumbled across your site, it is fab! I was wondering if i could quote some of your experiences in my dissertation? Even if not, thank you so much for sharing your story E x |
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Date: 2001-11-16 22:04:00 Joel Gonzales ( jag5@edsamail.com.ph / no homepage) wrote: I am very hot! email me at jag5@edsamail.com.ph |
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Date: 2001-11-15 00:20:00 FAG ALERT! ( no email / http://www.geitenhok.f2s.com) wrote: ÕH MY!!!!!!1111111 |
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Date: 2001-11-14 20:21:00 opal ( argent_opal@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: hey Wes, i keep coming back for more .... weg .... one day i will have read your entire site,maybe. i do enjoy reading the things you have here, you 2 have led an interesting life. hugs, opal |
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Date: 2001-11-13 00:15:00 Krista ( whfssweety@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey, gotta say your page is informative and fun. I stumbled across your page, while doing research for World AIDS Day for my sophomore class Health project. I think you guys are awesome, and I was wondering if you would be willing to answer a few questions about your experiences. If not, it's all good :) Keep up the good work, and take care!! |
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Date: 2001-10-25 20:55:00 Michelle ( michelleloveswes@hotmail.com / http://www.homestead.com/wesandmichelle/home.html) wrote: What a touching site (and well done, too)! I stumbled upon your site looking to see if MINE finally showed up on yahoo as a personal website - I was searching under Wes - my husband's name. Do all Wes' have drug & alcohol related accidents as teenagers? (haha) My husband wrapped his motorcycle around a lamp pole on the highway, and heard from a friend driving the other way that he looked like Superman flying toward the pole (I'm thinking he was stoned....). Well, have a good day, and thanks for sharing! Michelle |
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Date: 2001-10-17 18:03:00 Bob Morris ( Bobmorris1@msn.com / no homepage) wrote: I'm a journalist (NY Times, NPR) working on a book about being a gay uncle, and although it is tangential to your subject matter, I loved reading your recollections of the uncles party. Does that still happen? Anyone I could contact about it? |
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Date: 2001-10-11 06:08:00 kwon ( hotlek@yahoo.co.kr / http://clubjj.wo.to) wrote: it's cool. thanks for giving me good experience.. have a nice day.. :) |
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Date: 2001-10-08 23:07:00 andre ( wisdombh@terra.com.br / no homepage) wrote: im an adult gay and i would like to know more about aids. |
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Date: 2001-10-07 19:28:00 Micael Hicks & Gary Devine ( mfh@ev1.net / no homepage) wrote: Just ran accross your site. Your family sounds as bad as mine. I came out at 18 over Thanksgiving dinner, I have not had any contact with my family since my spouse and I moved to Houston three years ago. My spouse left his wife to be with me five years ago. His children, both adults, had a hard time adjusting, but they both finally came around. Then about a month ago after he visited his daughter and two grandsons, he recieved a letter stating that she could no longer condone his lifestyle and that I was no longer welcome in her home. I had always been welcome in her home. Suddenly she said she had to protect her children, like she thought I was going to molest her boys. We have yet to figure out what is going through her mind. Hope things have straightened out for you. We would welcome a e-mail God Bless You. Michael & Gary |
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Date: 2001-10-05 22:55:00 Deborah ( dknittel@nasalcups.com / http://nasalcups.com) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom, Glad to see you are keeping up the good work of letting the world know about the benefits of nasal irrigation. Thought we would let you know that we just instituted a new coupon for $5 each Narial Nasal Cup ordered from our site for those who find our site through links from other sites. Since you have provided that link, you get to offer your readers the coupon. Just tell them to type in NNC 1200 in the coupon section and they will automatically receive $5 of their order! Thanks for all you do. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help. Deborah at Narial Nasal Cups, Essential Products Alliance. www.nasalcups.com |
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Date: 2001-09-11 07:09:00 Tim ( timmytool@msn.com / no homepage) wrote: I have the twin to your FLHP, isn't a sweet machine? Mine is a 99, gettin ready to put Thunder Slide kit in, filter charger, and Vance and hines exhaust, love this machine. Be safe,tim |
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Date: 2001-08-17 17:40:00 Tim Stone ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Hey guys, I realy enjoyed your site, it was very good reading. I just had a sinus surgery and I am feeling much better. I did not have the type of problems that you had, however it was not much fun. I am week out of surgery and things are going great. I had my first cleaning, which included removing two very large splints that looked like miniture boomarangs. I did not have packing. My wife has played nurse for the last week and is glad I am back on my feet. We did not realize the problems associated with this type of surgery and your site has really put it in comman terms. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. |
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Date: 2001-08-14 21:15:00 David ( mtnboy64@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys, Somehow I had found your site while doing research on sinus surgery of all things and really enjoyed the rest of it! My partner and I have been together 5 years now and it's helpful to read about other gay couples and their lives. Wes, I understand about you not wanting to post your email address, but I was wondering if you could write to me at the above address, I would really like to ask you about your doctor in Houston and how your sinuses are doing now. I appreciate your help! I'd be willing to travel down south to get the best treatment. Hope to hear from-best regards, David (in Denver) |
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Date: 2001-08-12 02:33:00 Jo Anne Barney ( Jobarney82@cs.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Tom and Wes, I've got to share this with you because I hope it will make you laugh. . . I spent over three hours right here in this little window composing a letter to the women in your family - I was actually quite proud of it - I don't know if I'll ever have the same energy or zeal to do it again. Just as I was about to wrap it up TA DA! my friend came on line with my laptop computer and kicked me off. Three+ hours of serious thought whooshed away! I am sorry for you (I swear, it might would have made them think) but I am glad that the reason I lost your message (sorry!) is because my friend is starting to use it. She just found out 2 weeks ago that she is HIV/HCV positive. I have been everywhere looking for imformation to help her. When I finished reading the letters - I felt compelled to write - I just can't do it again, but let me say this, when I got to the end of the letters and found your treatment regiments for 2001, I cried because I was so happy that you were still here. That was the most important part of all of it, anyway! I will be praying for you guys and for my friend. God Bless You! Jo |
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Date: 2001-07-23 17:10:00 Stephen ( edge01@fan.net.au / no homepage) wrote: Wes & Tom, this is truely a remarkable site. I have read some, not all of the letters and will be back to finish them.. I have never had an issue with my family excepting my partner so I find it so hard to understand how someone like Wes' aunt could be so hurtfull and disrespectfull towards the commitment you have both made. I wish you both happyness for the future... well done on a great site and thanks for sharing part of your life experience. Steve |
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Date: 2001-07-13 04:44:00 Ben ( pianopete@earthlink.net / no homepage) wrote: Came across your site quite by accident, and have now spent the better part of an hour reading the letters, even though I should be doing other things. I haven't been able to find on the site how y'all are doing these days, but I hope you are well. |
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Date: 2001-06-20 23:08:00 Matt ( matt@linear-t.net / http://linear-t.net) wrote: I came across your web site accidentally while doing research here at my office--which happens to be GlaxoSmithKline. Anyway I fell into the [don't tell my boss] point-counterpoint lettres, and am amazed that you didn't just disown the lot. Family for me is made up of people who are caring and loving. Offensive it may be, but what a load of hypocritical looneys! Well best wishes anyway, recruit, recruit, recruit...LOL |
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Date: 2001-06-20 18:30:00 deborah ( deborah@nasalcups.com / http://www.nasalcups.com) wrote: Wes, All of us here at Essential Products Alliance want to thank you for including us as a source of neti pots, or nasal cups, on your site. Through you we have talked with many really neat people and have had the opportunity to help them improve their health with our product. You do a great service to many, many people with your information on nasal irrigation. We wanted to let you know we are working hard to expand and improve our company. Every one of our cups has our 800 number on the bottom and each of us here is equipped to answer questions to ensure a successful nasal irrigation experience every time. We also just put up our web site, www.nasalcups.com, which has lots of usful info and a store locator to help you find the store nearest you which carries our product. Today the new Yoga Journal came with a great article on yoga positions which help relieve symptoms and improve immune system functioning for AIDS patients. We immediately thought of you and the wonderful work you do informing the public about health issues for AIDS patients. Hope this is good info you can pass on. Thank you again and keep up the good work. Your website is awesome! Deborah, VP of Marketing and Development, Tim, CEO, Richard, President. |
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Date: 2001-06-05 16:29:00 Jody ( jlbeede@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: connected to your site from an AIDS Ride message board. I am riding from Minneapolis to Chicago to help support AIDS related charities in the Heartland. |
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Date: 2001-06-01 06:23:00 Steve Jackson ( scjackson@worldnet.att.net / no homepage) wrote: Hello bear, I wanted to first give my sympathies in loss of your mom and to tell you I know your feelings for I too lost my father last year(00)of colin cancer. A terrible disease that also took his bother just this year. I also have made some changes with regards to my personal life as well. After 10 years my lover and I decided that we were both going different directions and so came the end to our relationship. One that comes with pain of doing but hopes that we both find the happiness we deserve. I have also moved back to Houston to be closer to my mom and to help her as well as myself. I hope to hear from you soon. Take care my little bear, MEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Date: 2001-05-02 04:55:00 marie gonzales ( no email / no homepage) wrote: doing a yahoo search on relationships. in love and life, i guess there is hope for us all. and because there is nothing sweeter than two men in love. |
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Date: 2001-04-28 00:16:00 the hobofoam ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Your neti-pot and you... I use mine every morning in the shower. I also do it in the bathroom sink. If you bend at the waist, so that your head is lower, the water flow up into your sinuses and not down your throat. Just a suggestion. |
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Date: 2001-04-27 18:26:00 Craig Stansfield ( baby_face_jack@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Loved your web page . . . was looking for something on Folsom Street Fair. I am planning on attending this year. Craig from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Date: 2001-04-24 02:30:00 Skip Everheart ( bugs@airmail.net / no homepage) wrote: Here's my new email. Drop me a line when you can. Love y'all! |
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Date: 2001-04-18 09:20:00 Mark ( mark.a.clark@asu.edu / http://www.public.asu.edu/~clarkm2/) wrote: The "letter wars" make a fascinating and educational journey - thanks for sharing! You should seriously consider publishing this in print. A nice brief paperback with some sociological/ contextual commentary would be great. It'd probably be easy to find an academic or writer who'd be interested in contributing to the text, and many might want to use the material. BTW, I got here through some links starting from www.talkorigins.org ; directly from home.dencity.com/bojo/award.htm |
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Date: 2001-03-30 07:53:00 Debi Alexander ( debrajan1517@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Just wanted to say how sad to have known so many people who have died such a tragic death. You have done a marvelous work talking about each one of them. My blessings to you in the name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus. |
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Date: 2001-03-24 18:27:00 Elmer R. Baldridge ( baldridg@gauss.math.montana.edu / no homepage) wrote: I'm scared to write as there was no 2000 Christmas letter (yet?) I'm a 46 year old math instructor at the Montana State University. All my relatives live in Ohio (that's close enough). Life is like an onion, you peel it off layer by layer and sometimes you cry. When my sisters and I were young, we were surrounded by family. Four healthy, working grandparents. Great grandparents even. As time passed the layers of the onion peeled away -- maternal grandmother died in 1963 (lung cancer), great grandparents, paternal grandfather then grandmother, maternal grandfather, then our mother was killed in an accident so we're now half way to being orphans. I'm the black sheep of my family: I've never been arrested, never been divorced and I'm not a lesbian. I was the first to graduate from high school, my sister (1 year younger) didn't, my mother got her GED and graduated from college before I did. My sister Arlene married and started reproducing, divorced violent husband (just like dear old dad). My sister Darlene (2 years younger) went the bulldog, dagger dyke way. My brother, James, 7 years younger, married, reproduced, divorced, married and reproduced again -- we haven't spoken in decades. The youngest sister, Melissa, 9 years younger, married a hard core drug dealer and divorced within a few months. Has one kid who, although still in high school, smokes dope with his mom. I stay away from all of them. My sister Arlene is the only one in the family worth knowing so, of course, all the dysfunctional jerks are constantly defecating on her. She's too good for all of them and I've invited her to Montana (not as enthusiastically as I'd like because I'm afraid they'll all follow her. I'm hoping you're both o.k. as o.k. can be. I see someone wrote you just 20 days ago so I'm hoping you're still t/here. X Elmer I remember an Outer Limits episode when I was young about an alien spacecraft that hovered over a neighborhood, a cone of light came out and a big chunk of realestate was beamed up. The community was taken to another planet to serve as slaves/workers for a degenerate race physically unable to tend to their affairs. Somebody ran off into the fog and contracted the disease/virus with which the alien race was infected. The entire community stood in a circle (I believe it was in a church) and held hands, deliberately infecting each other rather than submitting to be slaves to the bosses. I've wondered what it would take for us to all join hands, refusing to be slaves to the fear. Rather than ignoring things for years, if Ronald Reagan would have addressed the nation by television, rolled up his sleeve and deliberately injected himself with H.I.V.,looked the nation in the eye and said, "We are going to beat this thing. We are going to form the Manhattan Project II and the will of this nation will prevail." A friend of mine wrote a book, "The Lawyer in Defense of Jesus Christ" - what would have happened if Jesus had had a lawyer. The ending was the same. I've blabbed enough. Go in peace to love and to serve. Thanks be to God. Elmer |
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Date: 2001-03-16 01:09:00 Debby ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I was searching for mentions of my friend Rob. Your list of friends who died from AIDS brings back wonderful memories of Steven, Brian, Mo, Karl and others. I miss them all. |
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Date: 2001-03-11 09:38:00 Gifford ( outgiff@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I came across your website and was thoroughly entertained by it. It really makes me appreciate my parents all the more because they accept me for who I am. I'm currently not as fortunate as you two are for finding each other, as I have been single for the past 7 years. I do envy your relationship and hope that you both are currently in good health. Please take care, and regardless of what "Aunt Priscilla" says, God Bless You! |
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Date: 2001-03-11 08:12:00 David (again) ( DCKLondon@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I do have an email address! Why doesn't it appear on your page? It is DCKLondon@aol.com And yes, I know it is Aramaic NOT Aramiac. It was just a typo. Do you guys ever get the feeling that you are "professionally" HIV+? |
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Date: 2001-03-11 08:06:00 David King ( DCKLondon@aolcom / no homepage) wrote: I don't understand - why does it end at 1999? And not to be flippant about this, but have you thought about turning your family saga into a Soap? I think HBO et al would be quite keen on the concept. Oh, and by the way, if you do, I've already suggested it so I get credit (and dosh). Anyway, I've been +ve for about 6yrs now and it was just so refreshing to read about someone else's experience. I have to admit I'm not too aware about christianity (I'm jewish), but your family doesn't seem to understand the "how" of the bible. It only seems to keep on interpreting and re-interpreting the "said". There isn't enough space for me to elaborate, but suffice it to say, unless you know Aramiac, Greek, Latin, French, and Olde English, then most any interpretation of the Bible is going to be highly suspect. I do hope this finds both of you happy and well. David. |
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Date: 2001-02-26 00:30:00 Moses ( believein@god.com / no homepage) wrote: Those "Patriots" sure seem to know alot about rights. Why don't y'all ask yourself one question, If you do not know your real rights then you must be a slave? Oh, I see, you believe everything your politician's & lawyers tell ya. But if y'all goin to talk law then get off your dufus and learn about it instead of whinning cause your soap opera's in commercial. Good Luck! |
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Date: 2001-02-22 21:16:00 Brandi ( brandiwine123@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I stumbled across your home page by trying to find information on HIV/AIDS. I am trying to determine how long my father-in-laws partner has to live, so that I can make sure I am with him. You have a really good website. Keep up the good work, and if people don't like what you guys choose to do whether it be this website or your sexuality, then they don't need to have anything to do with you. As long as you are happy, that is all that matters, as life is too short not to be. Take care! |
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Date: 2001-02-04 04:06:00 cindy ( cindi57103@cs.com / no homepage) wrote: I was searching for places that might help me find donations to sponser me with my Aidsride from Twin cities Minnesota to Chicago Il a five hundred mile ride for Aids. I foyu know anyone or someone reads this that would like to help me out email me and I'll send you the form to donate thanks cindy |
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Date: 2001-01-29 02:37:00 C.J. Randall ( lovewestny@cs.com / no homepage) wrote: Your Aunt Priscilla and the rest of them are just crazy. My biological father, who has no business telling me anything anyway, caused this very same situation this past summer here in upstate New York. Mind you, I haven't seen him in about eight years. So he trounces in and says that unless I leave my partner of four years (who I am to marry in May) at home, I cannot see him. The rest of my family was pissed because he caused quite a ruckus. I try not to talk to any of them anymore, except my Aunt Audrey (a N.O.W. member) and Uncle Bob, who had a hand in raising me after he and my mother abandoned ship. (Good guy, huh?) They are the most supportive people and they are the kind of people who should be saluted by our gay community. We need people like them. Great site! Best of luck to you both! |
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Date: 2001-01-24 11:53:00 Noxid ( debacle27@yahoo.com / http://i.am/vomitous) wrote: Thank you for being so impartial on your website. I am a Christian, but I agree with what you said. I think the Bible has been grossly misinterprated for many years, and I appreciate your bravery. I would love to recieve an email from either wes or tom, to further this discussion, because I believe the Bible was meant to be believed because you have learned what it says, not believed because some homophobic Baptist says it says God hates homosexuals. I believe God loves everyone, and I believe a true Christian would treat a homosexual with respect whether or not homosexuality is a sin (and I ams still unsure as to what the Bible says about that so far. I have a lot of studying to do, and I will not condemn anyone!). I respect your bravery, wes and tom, and would like to hear from you guys some day! Please write to me so we can shaire ideas! I don't know how often you check your guestbook, but when you do, please write to me so we can share our opinions! Thank you very much for opening my eyes to knew possibilities and ideas! NoXiD |
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Date: 2001-01-19 08:32:00 Drew ( drew@citytravelguide.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes, I can't tell you how much I loved reading through your site. I can also tell you that I'm a fellow sinus sufferer. I'm so plagued by the problems of tiredness, stuffiness, the inability to breathe, sleep, nasal sprays, steam machines, etc, :) :). It is soooo bad that, even though my sinuses have bothered me practically my whole life, starting about three years ago, I've had to sleep on my left side so my right nasal/sinus side can "drain" and not back into my ear. It's almost weird though b/c as much as it sucks, there is nothing better than that first feel of the congestion moving to the other side, and that gush of air pushing through up the sinuses and out the back of the throat. As you can see I have an obvious obsession. Quite obviously b/c I'm up at 1:30 am looking for as much visual and video information to show me surgical procedures on the nose, sinus infomation, etc, etc, etc. I have had the problem so long that starting back when I was a kid I couldn't wait to get a hold of my brothers anatomy book so I could stare at the cross section of the head to see the sinuses. Now I bet you never have seen obsession like that :) :). I'll even go one better, and I'm quite sure that this is definately bad, I take one of those facial steam machines, and have developed my own "instrument" for dealing with my pesky sinuses. I put two little dixie cups jammed at the base where the steam comes out of, I take two straws and cut them down about a 1/4 the way each. At the tip of each straw I wrap a little bit of electrical tape, I stick the staws in my nose, I put the machine on low, and let the steam directly into my nose for two straight minutes while my eyes tear. Now you have to admit that is just crazy. That's what this damn condition will do to you. :) I put smiley faces but, I'm being serious. The one good thing is that I get bad attacks every month or so, but after a few days of being on Vacenase Double Strength the swelling goes down. I have to face facts that some type of surgery is needed, and take the time to deal with it. Loved the site. Drew |
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Date: 2001-01-19 02:55:00 Bryan ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I was looking for a leather jacket and did a search on AOL using the keywords 'wilsons leather'. Somehow you're site was included. It's sad to see that our culture has legitimized perversion by simply renaming it 'alternative lifestyle'. However, I'd hate to see you and all you're butt-buddies suffer slowly. Why don't you just jump off a bridge and get it over with? Make the rest of us happy...have the guts to do it quick, and get off our planet. |
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Date: 2001-01-12 01:34:00 Smarti ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Thank you so much fos sharing your sinus horror stories! I can so relate. I too actually found this site looking for info on Neti Pots. My co-worker was telling me about hers today and after seeing your site and how you explained how to use one I can't wait to get one myself! I have suffered from constant sinusitis and daily headaches for years. I too went through the wonderful surgery when I was a freshman in high school and found no success. But anyway, your site brightened my day! Thanks!! |
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Date: 2001-01-08 16:05:00 Teddy Bear ( tedbear@fuse.net / no homepage) wrote: Sure hope you and your nose are doing better these days. Your pages were great. Just what I needed this morning. I feel like crap AGAIN due to my sinuses. Just jumped online to see if I could find some pictures of what these buggars (excuse the pun) actually look like and came across your site. Thanks for the info. I really had no idea about surgery for sinuses and I appreciate you letting me know upfront that it doesn't have to hurt. The thought of the surgery at all sucks big time but I've been through these infections so many times and suffered so many nights (like last night) that I'm willing to try about anything right now. So anyway, thanks for the information and for the laughs, I needed them this morning. Respectfully, Teddy Bear AND her nose. LOL! |
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Date: 2001-01-01 01:24:00 Kevin ( Khathomeorwork@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I was looking for dirty pictures and found your site. I don't know how. I stayed quite a while and had a great time. I guess I wasn't QUITE as horny as I thought I was. Loved the honesty. Keep up the good work. I'll be back to see how things are going. I'll also start being a little more open myself. How does it feel to be INSPIRATIONAL? Thanks, Kevin |
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Date: 2000-12-29 22:13:00 Vicki ( vhaberman@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey, I dont even remember HOW I got here----I was looking for an AIDS volunteer organization where I might be able to help----I dont work, and I have a lot of free time to give, but I dont like to drive into the city, so I thought I might be able to find someplace in the northwest part of Houston (Spring/Tomball area) where I could volunteer some time, so I just kind of stumbled on your website and thought I would take a look----ITS AWESOME! I am a middle aged "latebloomer" lesbian, and my son is bi-sexual, so I feel like I really need to contribute something to the gay/lesbian community. I dont know anyone with AIDS, but I know there must be a great need for those people that have it and dont have anyone to take care of them. I know there must be people living in this area who need help with household chores, cooking, pet care, etc. I just dont know how to go about finding them so I can help. I just feel the need to give of my TIME and of MYSELF to someone who needs it. Does this make sense???? Anyway, your website is terrific, and I put it in my "favorites" so I can come back and look at it again. Take care guys and good luck. Vicki in Tomball |
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Date: 2000-12-14 20:02:00 Tricia ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Can't wait to read your November and December updates! |
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Date: 2000-12-08 08:35:00 Lawrence ( no email / http://members.nbci.com/law87) wrote: I wish I could know more people like you in real life. |
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Date: 2000-12-07 02:05:00 Dee ( cdee@ticnet.com / no homepage) wrote: I stumbled across your page, I am sure by a mutual "Angel" .. Burt Picone. He was the sweetest person ever. I knew him for several years when we worked together at Southwest Savings. He is and always will forever live in my heart. I see he touched many souls. |
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Date: 2000-12-03 14:34:00 A male hetero from Norway ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Great site, lots of interesting stuff. Keep on publishing, keep on fighting! Love from Norway |
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Date: 2000-12-02 02:33:00 Ryann ( no email / no homepage) wrote: me again -- found your folsom pics |
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Date: 2000-12-02 02:21:00 Ryann ( ryannhaines@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wow! I was looking up sites on how to use a Neti pot, and got totally wrapped up in the Priscilla letters. A big thanks to Wes for such an informative look at the truth about homosexuality. I was surprised I didn't find any mention about your attending the Folsom St. Fair -- maybe i missed it somewhere. If you haven't been, please join us in the Bay Area for (as a friend describes it) The High Holy Day for Pervs on the last Sunday of September next year. As a straight female with only a bit of kinkiness, I love it. Love seeing the expression of healthy attitudes towards sexuality. I wouldn't want to participate in everything I see, but it makes me proud to live in an area where diversity is celebrated! |
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Date: 2000-11-29 09:20:00 Robert Callahan ( boy_genius_2000@email.com / no homepage) wrote: I just finished reading a document regarding American Patriots and Common Law Courts. I have to admit that I have been taken in by thes proclamed patriots and common law courts. If you want to argue your position successfully, I think you need to back up your claims atleast as well as they do, point for point, citing the lawful authorities chapter and verse. I know people generally believe what they want to believe, but to date all mmy research indicates that the common law courts do have a place and would better serve us than the current courts. I would love to beleive that there is no common law or common law rights but my consious will not let me do so without someone putting up a better arguement than the patriot groups do. So if you ever get bored. Give me the basis for you reasoning. |
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Date: 2000-11-27 05:03:00 Thea ( ladythea@theglobe.com / no homepage) wrote: I really love your site - I admire you for beeing so open about your lives. I wish I could know more people like you in real life. |
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Date: 2000-11-22 03:58:00 brad ( bradbug68@hotmail.com.au / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys, Had a quick scan, good to read about how you got together, has inspired me to: (a) wear more leather (b) believe (c) embark on a long distance relationship with current partner, who is heading for the bush. I was just surfing (the web) and came across you from a cyberqueer site listing, and you's are the first comment book that I've ever signed. Well that should insire you to keep doing what you do. Have a great day! |
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Date: 2000-11-09 18:36:00 sin kills ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Thank you for letting everyone know of the dangers and pain of sin. That people choose to disobey God's laws is their right, but it has consequences. Thank you again for letting people see the consequences of their sin. |
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Date: 2000-10-28 05:31:00 Skip Harrington ( highflyer@mediaone.net / no homepage) wrote: Hello Wes & Tom: I found your interesting page when I was looking for stuff about Bancroft Tower. When I was a boy, I lived just a few hundred yards below it, on Drury Lane. I was curious as to how you reached the "homo" conclusion from the fact that Salisbury and Bancroft lived together. Please understand, I am not a homophobe. I just wanted more info, that's all. Thanks! Skip |
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Date: 2000-10-21 18:49:00 Russ Whigham ( mrw3@rocketmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Your site of 100 memorials to friends who have died of AIDS was quite moving. I lived in Houston and Austin in the late 70s and early 80s. So, I knew a few of the guys that appear on that site. I have a big blowup poster version of Armand's refrigerator magnet in my kitchen, though I didn't really know him, just admired him from afar. Thanks for the bittersweet memories of when Houston and Austin were still fun cities on top of the Gay world. You have inspired me to consider putting together a similar site for those that I have lost. Thank you. |
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Date: 2000-10-05 04:24:00 mark ( mv1168@mediaone.net / no homepage) wrote: a friend told me about ur site i am hiv poz for 2.5 yrs now have had a fever of unknown origin for 4 months now the dr want to do sinus surg on me and your site was very helpful will be having the surg on oct 26 |
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Date: 2000-09-28 14:34:00 Samantha Stewart ( sks@mweb.co.za / http://_- sorry dont have one.....sigh) wrote: Hi there, I found your website while doing some research on the incidince of HIV+ people who deliberately infect other people. Dont ask me......that is how the search engines work. Anyway, I am working for a clinical trial unit in South Africa and am producing a newsletter for HIV+ patients who are receiving anti-retroviral therapy. The idea is to try and provide education as well as tips for compliance (I think you call it adherance in America) etc. I loved you story about China Cat.....I am a cataholic myself and have also loved a precious one to kidney failure, one to liver failure, 2 to cars, one to kitty AIDS....the list goes on. Anyway, just thought I would say HI and that I think you guys are amazing. Samantha |
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Date: 2000-09-24 05:14:00 Caitlin Phillips ( art7684@aol.com / http://members.tripod.com/~caitlinphillips) wrote: Hey Wes and Tom, just checking in to see what's new with you guys. Glad to see you both are doing well. Keep up the great site! Love and smiles, Caitlin @¿@ |
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Date: 2000-09-21 07:09:00 Margali ( Margali@bigfoot.com / no homepage) wrote: A gay friend of mine gave me the link to your page. I must say that I am very angry with "Aunt Priscilla" (but love the obvious link to "Priscilla, queen of the desert"). Auntie dear takes intolerance to new highs. You are really quite inspirational. But then most non-heterosexual couples are. The rough road you travel would frighten off most people. You just go on loving each other and let the bigots sort themselves out. I am a great believer in Karma. Also in Leather.... Marg |
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Date: 2000-09-15 03:17:00 Brian Foley ( btf@t10.lanl.gov / http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/) wrote: Glad you are both doing so well! I sort of "surfed" into your site way back in 1996 and have been checking in periodlically since. Wow!! You've done great! Written up in the news and all. Keep up all the good work. |
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Date: 2000-09-12 22:14:00 Mark ( ardennai@ardennais.com / http://www.ardennais.com) wrote: Wonderful (and sad) website - Fortunately my family is much more understanding - both my partner and I are invited to family functions (both sides). Found the website while looking for some information about viral loads - much to my surprise, the site is 'cyber patrol' blocked at work. Fortunately I can still get to the site >:) Live long and healthy. |
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Date: 2000-08-24 03:24:00 Claudia ( cezek@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I am amazed at your courage to face life with a smile on your face. Be proud of who you are. Remind people that no one is forcing homosexuality on anyone. The marches are just a way of saying 'we are proud of what and who we are'. Also I believe that homosexuality has nothing to do with moral values. The son of the Lord said 'He who is without sin, cast the first stone' We all know that no stones where cast. We all must remember that jugding people is wrong. It is not up to us to say what is right and what is wrong, for we are human - we always make mistakes. We must remember that life is a gift, we live it in the best way we can. You don't need a priest or a church to hear the word of God. All you need is to look up in the sky, and you can feel in your heart what is good, and what is not. Good luck for the future, and may your lives be an inspiration to others in similar situations |
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Date: 2000-08-23 06:26:00 Rebecca Roberts ( phs85becky@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello, Tom and Wes I love your site as much as I love my uncle. Don't worry I wont tell anyone in the family, Tom. I love the story of your first date. Tom, just remember I love you unconditionally that means all of you and everything about you. That is what family is whether it is nucleur or biological. Love, Becky |
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Date: 2000-08-23 05:41:00 Dudley "Joey" Primea ( polyurea@flash.net / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes: I am Armand's brother, whom you have listed in your web site. Sure do miss him! Just wanted to say Hi! Joey |
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Date: 2000-08-21 23:38:00 Josh ( mrflexyapecks@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I just read The Letter Wars. There intolerance on both sides. Not everone who disagrees with homosexuality is homophobic. The truth is that most people don't care. Its only when it forced upon us through marches and rallies that we speak out against it. Ther are no heterosexual marches. Why? Because its not important. Why not just live life and be who you are regardless of what others say? |
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Date: 2000-08-13 04:49:00 Stephen ( stephen_a_wilcox@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Great web page, found you while looking for an old friend Alistair Donkin. If you can contact him pass on my details. I used to share a house with him in Market Drayton a long long time ago. Have fun and keep up the work. |
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Date: 2000-08-08 05:43:00 David ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Wow - Wonderful how "natural" lifestyles create such disease. Do you think maybe God's trying to tell you something;-) |
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Date: 2000-08-07 08:07:00 Madeleine Cynader ( fallen-angel@crackdealer.com / no homepage) wrote: I was extremely touched and impressed by the series of letters I read on your website. The impartial and calm way in which you refuted many family members' mistaken ideas about homosexuality and AIDS was amazing, and I was also very impressed with the way you continue to have such a positive outlook, even in the face of the deaths of many friends and your own illnesses. May the two of you enjoy many more years of happiness and health together, and may your less supportive family members embrace your life and your choices wholeheartedly. God Bless both of you. |
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Date: 2000-07-25 07:24:00 T. Frahm ( no email / no homepage) wrote: It's amazing how how upbeat you guy's are considering that you and some of your friends are dying of AIDS. You are systematically destroying your family relationships because they don't understand why being gay isn't "natural". Mabye you two should have some children from this "natural" relationship and that would calm your Aunt down a little. She would love your kid's! T. Frahm |
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Date: 2000-07-22 17:41:00 CBC ( horsie2767@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi- I just wanted to thank u for the great website. I started reading the letters, but ended up using a great deal of the info on sinus infection/treatment. I wish u the best, and hope u & your partner are feeling well. I appreciate your sharing your struggles with the rest of us. I just have two small observations: For Aunt Pricilla: understand that u have no right to try to control or dictate who other family members bring to "their" reunion Wes: understand some people are going to be offended by your sexual preference/disease. More folks will accept you when u can stop making it such a major focus of who u are. I really did enjoy your site and even the yucky pictures. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into it. I spend about 2 hours there. May your higher power be with u always. Carolyn |
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Date: 2000-07-18 03:14:00 Gerald Crowley ( dcrowley35@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I would like to know if you could suggest some HIV Personal sites. Looking for a partner in the Missouri area. dcrowley35@yahoo.com |
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Date: 2000-07-04 21:31:00 DOREEN LADY BOXER ( doreendream@hotmail.com / http://TOPLESS_BOXER) wrote: I WANT TO FIGHT GUYS SO WHEN CAN WE FIGHT I AM PRO AND I FIGHT ALOT SO LET FIGHT I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS AND YOUR GIRL WOULD FROM ME I AM BETTER SHE NOT GOOD and i would rip her tis off her body and kick the buitch ass |
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Date: 2000-06-25 23:46:00 Doug Henry ( dwhenry@home.com / no homepage) wrote: I did a search for "neti pots" and ended up spending the afternoon on "letter wars". Amazing. Just as I finished reading the last letter and saying, "Jeez, I should have spent more time researching the neti pots" a friend and fellow sinus sufferer dropped by with one as a gift. COINCIDENCE?!? Enjoyed your site! Off to irrigate my sinuses... |
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Date: 2000-05-28 07:00:00 charles leverette ( cleanwool@webtv.net / no homepage) wrote: united we stand |
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Date: 2000-05-21 21:27:00 Laurie ( 2chics@mindspring.com / no homepage) wrote: Thanks for this website. I am having the same operation on my nose (first time) and my girlfriend came across this website and now I feel better about it. I wanted to know if Wes had any memory loss? And how long did it take to recover? Thanks for sharing your experience. Laurie. |
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Date: 2000-05-12 21:52:00 Dan Colilla ( colilla@erols.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes, I wanted to say I found your Nose website very interesting. I found it by searching Hotbot for "sinuses picture." I had one sinus surgery about 5 years ago and it looks like I'm ready for another one. I have a terrible pain behind my eyebrow, but zero discharge! I'm glad you put up your nasty discharge pictures too; now I know I'm not the only one whose body creates such neon colored stuff. You've kept an amazing good humor through your ordeals. I've gotta know, how have you been since the fourth surgery? Is there ever and end to all of this? |
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Date: 2000-05-08 14:18:00 manoj ( info@healthandyoga.com / http://www.healthandyoga.com) wrote: hi wes, we regularly ship neti pots alongwith instruction booklets anywhere in the world for seekers of the benefit of neti. You might consider mentioning it in your article in the future to make it easier for those in need. |
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Date: 2000-05-08 04:57:00 alvarez-naturology ( ------ / no homepage) wrote: from #215 i forgot to put my e-mail alva@xsn.net. |
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Date: 2000-05-08 04:54:00 alvarez-naturology ( alva@xsn.net_ / no homepage) wrote: wes coments are clear, and sometimes or most of the time people point with there fingers and forget that we have a heart and have feelings, well my profetion is to help the immune system get strong by correct supply of nutritional products to balance your system,by educational ways. if interest e-mail. |
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Date: 2000-05-04 04:46:00 Mark ( _ / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes - I hope this message finds you well. I sped past your page and reversed to read the "letters". I'm 38 and was raised in Austin, TX and now live in Dallas. The statements made from "Cilla" is my family. Not as far to the "right" but I must say I am going to cut and paste from your letters if needed. Have you thought of having the stage players from Greater Tuna make this into a play? I don't mean to dilute your family trials but humor is a great way to deliver a message to the masses. You are a great writer, why don't you try to write a play? Your new friend, Mark P.S. The nose section of your homepage gave me the skeeves. ;) |
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Date: 2000-05-03 05:58:00 Mo ( moczech@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Did Tom even want to go to the Uncle's party? Your family gets points for caring enough to disagree. Apathy is true enemy. Wish Priscilla would write again. Maybe one day she will understand that publishing this work could be the big cash cow in the sky... she could then retire and not have to worry about any governmental subsidy. |
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Date: 2000-04-29 15:25:00 Rakesh Bhargava ( rakesh_bhargava@usa.net / no homepage) wrote: I just finished reading the article on Jal Neti on your web site. I learned neti a log time ago and am glad to see such a well written article. I would like to make one suggestion. I was told that usually one nostril has better "sur" than other, which means that one nostril has more air flowing than the other one. This can be judged by by placing your finger under your nose and gently blowing it. In order to get better results start with the noistril with better sur i.e. better flow of water. Please let me know if you agree with what I was told. Regards Rakesh Bhargava USA |
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Date: 2000-04-25 20:44:00 diane clark ( diane_clark@co.harris.tx.us / http://www.rwpc.org) wrote: Hey there Wes & Tom!! I just happened upon your page while I was searching for links to add to the Ryan White Planning Council website. I didn't find a link to our site from yours - perhaps you would consider adding one. I saw on the "Wes' Friends who have died..." page that you have John O'Donnell listed; he was a member of the Planning Council as well. If you don't mind I would like to borrow some of your information to use on my site. Your site is a wonderful celebration of life & love and I can tell ya'll have put alot of effort into it. Thank you for sharing your experiences. -diane |
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Date: 2000-04-22 19:29:00 susan ( tickledpink444@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: boy...priscilla is really something! I am 100% straight(hope this is not an issue)...he he Just so you know,they ,whomever they are,say that blood is thicker than water,not always the case...your family out here is ever so much larger than anything dear auntie could ever offer you! You are now in my heart and the hearts of many others i am sure....if i ever decide to have a reunion of sorts you would be welcome, with arms wide open,,,,,susan |
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Date: 2000-03-28 23:19:00 Rita Marrinson ( rmarrinson@kkgpc.com / no homepage) wrote: This is a list of the friends I have lost earthy touch with because of AIDS: Philip "Aimen" Stanley, a warm, funny, skinny blonde with beautiful brown eyes and big old lips, was my best best friend for years. We met in college in English classes and read Faulkner together. "Once a Bitch always a bitch." He helped other people with the plague up to the end, even when he was very sick himself. I love him, need I say? His lover (and also my friend), Duck, a beautiful hunky gentleman and artist, died about a year before Aimen. He loved the "essence" of things. My dear, dear friend Jerry West, who lived with HIV for years, was once the "best looking blonde man in Atlanta" according to his lifelong partner and also my dear, dear friend, David Hill. Jerry checked out while listening to "If you go to San Francisco, Don't forget to wear a flower in your hair." He had been a ballet dancer, made whole elaborate dinners of bizarre and tasty appetisers, taught me how to dance. He loved to dress up in crazy costumes. He was very sweet and gentle. David was almost crazy with grief with Jerry died, and it was a relief when Coke transferred him to Belgium, away from the memories haunting the house he shared with Jerry. He was finally starting to be happy again when some EVIL DEVIL stabbed David to death. David had so many friends there had to be two memorial services to hold all of the people. Brian was a beautiful, tall man who lived across the hall from me when I was in college. His apartment was flawlessly decorated circa 1925, down to the toiltries in the bathroom. He wore a t-shirt that said "Golden Ghetto" on it when I met him the first time. He went away to Colorado to die, in a beautiful place in the mountains. Thanks for letting me share. One more thing: have you tried douching your nose with Alkolol? i enjoyed the nose things. I'm a three-time surgery vet myself. |
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Date: 2000-03-24 23:50:00 Melissa ( abelincoln_54901@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: I have never known anyone intimatly that has had or has HIV or AIDS. I am a recovering alcoholic-addict . I have been clean and sober for about 7 months now. A couple of months ago, I had an HIV test done, and it came back negative. Those two days waiting were stressful. I put it off for a long time because I was afraid. I didn't know what the results would be, and I didn't want to know, but part of my program is taking care of myself. I'm glad I got tested. I will get tested again in a few months to be safe. I feel very fortunate, because I know that I did a lot of risky behavior. In this day, I am ashamed to admit that when I know the risks, but I didn't care enough about myself, plus I was under the influence much of the time. Now that I'm clean and sober, I don't practice risky behavior. I have a lot of gratitude today and I show that by giving to an AIDS foundation ( the Elton John foundation.), because I know that I could have easily contracted this deadly disease. Thank you for having your website, and allowing people to share their stories. You are an inspiration, and I wish the best for you. Sincerely, Melissa |
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Date: 2000-03-17 01:15:00 Sinclair Roberts ( ViaAfrica@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes. Love your page-you have all the ingredients that make the world go round. I am a straight male, 39 years old from Zimbabwe.I presently live in California and want to draw attention to the most homophobic country in the world-mine.I run a childrens AIDS organization, Village of Hope, Africa which creates awareness of the Africa AIDS crisis and also promotes awareness among African populations. I need assistance in getting attention focused on the Zimbabwean situation and its official anti-gay stance and am selling t-shirts with an abstract zebra on the front with the word " galz". There is a variation of that one-three zebras, two black and white and the third with diversity colors with the words "dare to be different- harare, zimbabwe" If you or anyone in the ring are interested in ordering shirts, please e-mail me. Take Care. |
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Date: 2000-03-08 16:30:00 Andrew ( adepledge@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: erm, i was surfing for my name cause i was bored and your site popped up. in your news week oncampus story 1984 it said kappa kappa kappa depledged two gay students, what does this mean? cheers |
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Date: 2000-03-08 04:21:00 Deborah Bancroft ( deboruss@myhome.net / no homepage) wrote: I found your cool site through a search for bancroft + worcester. I'm fascinated to hear that my great great grandfather George Bancroft was gay? What is the your source? |
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Date: 2000-03-06 22:06:00 Clint ( Poz_HouGuy@aol.com / http://hometown.aol.com/pozhouguy/) wrote: Hey guys!! checking for the updates and needed a good laugh! Hope your doing good!! |
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Date: 2000-03-04 14:53:00 Kent ( piemur@ptsi.net / no homepage) wrote: Hey guys been a while since I've been by thought I would say hi. Sounds like you are doing well. I have recently just entered into my own triad with another man and a woman, I'm finding it more and more interesting, but nothing can take the place of a mans rough stubble against my skin. Of course you already know that. any way nice to talk to you again ciao Kent |
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Date: 2000-02-24 01:02:00 Andrew Coile ( andrew@coile.com / http://www.coile.com/Andrew) wrote: Hi, guys! Just happened across your page and was fascinated. I'm due to go in for my second sinus surgery in about four weeks. Not to mention we share lots of other interests (like leather!). My parents were homophobic, but got over it (see "Searching for the Half-Brother I Never Met" in the Writing section of my site). Congratulations on a great and interesting site. ....Andrew |
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Date: 2000-02-21 22:09:00 Lee Klement ( lee.klement@intranetsol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey Wes -- I got to your site in an interesting fashion. As a lark, around the office, we were all exploring the results of doing quoted searches on our own names (and those of our co-workes). For example, I did a search at my favorite search site, www.ask.com for "Lee Klement" That's how I got to your site. You see, among other things you and I have in common (more on that in a second), you and I were both mentioned in the Newsweek On Campus, May 1984 article about being Gay on Campus. Back then I was the President of the Gay student group at the University of Minnesota. Not to worry, I am already out at work, so that wasn't a problem. Since it predates the birth of the web as we know it I was particularly surprised to see the article out there. It was a fun reminder though. As for what else we have in common, we both are 'blessed' by the HIV virus, we've both been known to frequent leather bars, and we're both 36. Who knows what else? Just wanted to say hello. Love to hear back from you if you're inclined. Lee Klement |
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Date: 2000-02-18 07:06:00 Sarah ( Whsprnurse@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey Guys...I'm a nurse in a local hospital...a friends little brother is doing a report on HIV for a high school paper and I'm just surfin' around looking for info...thanks for the invite to your site...take care and be happy. |
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Date: 2000-02-01 05:44:00 Tee ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Today's Sign the World Is Ending About one in three people who engage in activities that put them at risk for contracting AIDS say that improved treatments make them less concerned about getting the disease. One in five of these people say that because better treatments exist they engage in riskier activity such as unprotected sex or use of injectable drugs. A seven-state survey of attitudes among nearly 2000 individuals was reported to the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco. |
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Date: 2000-01-28 08:25:00 Tee ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Aids is not caused by lack of government funding. Does promiscious, carelessnes and uncontrolled desires have anything to do with it? I hope that not another nickle of my paycheck goes to fight aids. Why should I have to pay for your lifestyles? If I were reckless with my credit cards, should you have to pay my bill? I pay for my own mistakes, hard working responsible taxpayers should not have to finance the irresponsible gay community. Gay pride? Get real. You only hear what you want, and the world is supposed to pity your recklessness? |
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Date: 2000-01-11 03:17:00 Kathy ( kathymarlene@worldnet.att.net / no homepage) wrote: I just don't see you two enough. I miss YOU BOTH. Happy New Year, Kathy |
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Date: 2000-01-09 00:19:00 Deanna ( dkpigg@erols.com / no homepage) wrote: Stumbled upon your web site from a link on a sinus-related site, read the Letter Wars, and was VERY concerned`that I didn't see a '99 Christmas letter. Found your '99 update, and am glad you both are coping so well. I think the letter wars are of real usefullness, and will refer some folks to your web site. Have to say that I don't understand the triad development, but I'm sure you might not understand some aspects of my life, either. Isn't it lucky that we don't have to, and can still care about each other? God bless us all, and I hope to read end-of-year news about y'all for many years to come. |
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Date: 2000-01-05 17:35:00 dominic and efrain ( dnakedpotter@hotmail.com / http://---underconstruction) wrote: ciao wes and tom 1. just found you through alternative media through about.com 2. we are a couple who have resently experienced family discrimination----efrain was ommitted from and invitation to my neices wedding-----i attended the church, "having my then 4 yr old grandson in the wedding"then i wisked him away for a day at the beach-----we did not go to the reception---- the gift ting is another story------ 3. we were invited to christmas this year----i came out to my mother last summer 4. now my older daughter has "religion"----our up-coming visit to texas may be in jepardy due to not liking our sleeping arraingements and my now five yr old grandsons questions.. is not life grand??? more again love to you both ciao |
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Date: 1999-12-29 17:44:00 Margaret ( honestpeg@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom!!! I keep losing your email address. Please write me when you get this!! I wanted to check up on you and see how everything is and how the holidays were!! Me |
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Date: 1999-12-28 08:54:00 tim brown ( mrtim91402@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: i would like to be a good slave, i am fifty years old white male. send me more information if you know of any good master here in las vegas. slavetim |
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Date: 1999-12-21 23:33:00 Jackie Costa ( dreamseas@att.net / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom, I did not read the letter wars. As a past president of a P Flag chapter and a training facilitator for our local Aides Task force, and as the mother of a Gay son who is living with AIDS I,m familiar with most of the sick homophobic comments.I am especialy incenced by the ones that are in the form of the previous message 191. God does indeed have a plan for you and it involves being yourselves just as he made you to be, you don't need a miracle, you are a miracle. I have nothing but pity for Aunt Pricilla, she has missed out on a lot of love and acceptance. I have Mothered many young men and women who were abandoned by their families. What a sense of joy and wholeness the love I have recieved in return has brought into my life and it has healed all the holes and empty places of a very painful childhood. You will both be in my heart and my prayers especialy on Christmas as we celebrate with my Son and Son-in-Law in their beautiful home at which I am honored to be invited. Hugs and Smiles, Jackie |
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Date: 1999-12-11 20:46:00 John ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I prefer to remain anonomous. But I respect your right to be homosexual. I know I did not wake up one morning and decide to become a homosexual. I feel that you did not wake up one morning and decide to become a homosexual. Your brain dictated to you your personal gender, however disgusting and repulsive it may be to others. I in no way condem you for your feelings. I only pray that God will work a miracle and straighten out your sexual orentation..............May God strenghten you and bless you.....Again,,I say I love you and He has a divine plan in your life. |
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Date: 1999-12-07 07:05:00 Carl ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I am profoundly straight and permanently heterosexual, but post-homophobic and I must openly appreciate your openess and enthusism for what you believe and your experiences. I hit your site after researching sinus surgery and I want to thankyou for your contribution to the subject. I have a third surgery upcoming which is described as very dangerous by my surgeon, with the loss of eye sight and brain damage possible. He stated he was very concerned with his oath to "Do no harm". Unlike Wes's surgeries, mine will be Image Guided. I know you suffered big time, glad its over for you. Take care guys. Carl |
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Date: 1999-12-05 17:46:00 gemma ( gemma-hill@england.com / no homepage) wrote: hello everyone, i am from england and i am curently lost on the web trying my hardest to find some statistics about dallas for my college assignment........HELP!!!!!!!!! |
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Date: 1999-11-29 02:28:00 Sandi ( smourterot@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your web page from the Metacrawler search engine. Having lots of sinus trouble and headaches someone told me about the Neti pot and the seacrh was on! After several months I was able to locate one and have be hooked ever since. I have turned on several people to them and your web site. I was wondering if you could help me find a non breakable neti pot. I travel alot so I need a metal or plastic pot. Thanks for any help you can give me! Sandi Atlanta, GA smourterot@aol.com |
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Date: 1999-11-26 02:12:00 rl brown ( explorer@pdq.net / http://www.platinumphoto.com) wrote: I have never gone to anyones guestbook even though I spend about 10hrs/wk on the net. But yours, was definity worth it. I love your shot of downtown and the wide angle lens was a touch of genius. I have been shooting everything downtown with fireworks that I could possibly get to, and have put a few of them on my site. I have not, unfortunately, not had any time to put the lastest ones up, so it was refreshing to see that someone had done so. If you know or anyone that would like to do some web updating and maintenance, please have them contact me at explorer@pdq.net Carpe diem, rl |
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Date: 1999-11-15 21:49:00 Chandos ( Stutterfingers / no homepage) wrote: Dear Friend, I happened upon your website and wanted to let you know that we have something in common, we have both lost a loved one. I have chosen to do something about it and I would like to ask for your help. In a few months, I will be participating in a very special and powerful event to help fight the battle against AIDS. In July, 2000, I will take six days out of my life to ride a bicycle 500 miles from Minneapolis to Chicago with 1,750 other people in the Twin Cities =>Chicago AIDS Ride 5. We are riding in order to raise money for people living with AIDS, and important AIDS prevention programs. I've agreed to raise AT LEAST $2,300 in pledges between now and the beginning of the ride on July 10th. I need your help. I would like to send you a pledge form for you to fill out and send in on my behalf. If you are interested in contributing to my cause, please reply to me with an address, PO Box, or fax number so that I may get a pledge sheet to you. The pledges are sent directly into the sponsors of the ride and go to immediate use. When I ride, you will be riding right along with me. I can't do it alone; I need your support. As word gets out about the AIDS Ride, I'm constantly asked why I'm doing this. There is no simple answer for that. I'm doing it for me. I'm doing it to make a difference for all of the people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. I'm doing it because AIDS has touched all of our lives in one way or another. We all have a friend, a family member, a neighbor or an acquaintance that has been infected or affected by this disease. If you don't, you're one of the few lucky ones. Personally, I have. My cousin Josh died from AIDS as a result of contaminated blood factor he received as a teenager. Unfortunately, the number is growing and Josh is far from alone. Since you too have lost a loved one, you understand the pain involved. I'm tired of sitting by in pain, I want to do something about it. Why am I doing this? I'm doing this for me, so I can make a difference. I'm doing this for Josh because he would have done the same for me. I'm doing this for all of the me's and all of the Josh's that are out there. It is estimated that over 33,400,000 people worldwide are infected with HIV right now. AIDS has taken over 410,800 people in the United States. By the time you have finished reading this letter, those numbers will have grown. Help me make a difference. I think you know how much it means. "The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr. All my best, Chandos AIDS Rider #1092 stutterfingers@aol.com |
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Date: 1999-11-12 00:44:00 Pat Sinnott ( PatSinnot@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes, congrats on mention in advocate. Just from my own experience with chronic sinus infection, I take one garlic tab a day and it keeps the infections away. I hadn't had one in over 18 months, and then I left my garlic tabs at the lakehouse on Monday and by Friday I had an infection! Just 4 little days without the garlic tab! Anyway, it sure works for me. You might mention it in you page, as I tried all the alergy drugs (Flonase, Beconase, Claritin, and the other once a day one I can't remember) and they helped, but garlic tabs are a LOT CHEAPER! Anyway, glad to see you get some recognition. PS Jim and Stoney both say HI! Take care...... |
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Date: 1999-11-02 09:37:00 Tom Mayo ( tomayo@webtv.net / no homepage) wrote: I've been living with HIV-AIDS for 13 years now. Din't know thay outhes have sites I am new on the web lots to learn |
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Date: 1999-10-26 07:16:00 Cara ( cara@caronet.net / no homepage) wrote: I found this site looking for information to talk myself out of upcoming sinus surgery. What I found was stunning. I am speechless. Thank you. |
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Date: 1999-10-19 09:00:00 don powell ( donnieland@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: absolutely AMAZING!!! what HEROES the both of you are to so many of us around the world!!! as an added little 'plus' for me, you've reminded me why I'm so thankful I live in los angeles, and not in one of the hundreds of 'homosexually challenged' locations in the 'land of the free, and home of the straight'!!! LOVE TO YOU BOTH!!!! |
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Date: 1999-10-12 02:30:00 Matt ( lanierjp@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Stumbled on to your site by accident. Stupid me. Spent about five hours (in between answering the phone) reading the letter wars. Loved it. My lover and I have been together for 2 years and I am not allowed at his family functions. If I ever had the notion to start writing letters, I think that I have now changed my mind!!!! Best wishes to you both! |
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Date: 1999-10-10 07:54:00 Bruce ( brucecat@telus.net / http://village.fortunecity.com/celluloid/685/handles/images/bccat2.jpg) wrote: Hi guys! Just wanted to say that I TOTALLY related to your Letter Wars. I am estranged from my thorougly up-tight Baptist family and have had to make my own family. I am fortunate to have many loving friends I consider part of that family, and feel my blood family is the group that lost out. I'm a poz guy myself and hang out in the Poz Guys room of Gay.Com (US Pacific Coast floor). Drop it sometime - it's a great bunch of guys. *smooch* BCcat |
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Date: 1999-10-07 23:14:00 Genine Bednarski ( genine_bednarski@allentele.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes and Tom- First of all, I happened upon your site because I am experiencing severe sinus problems and will be having surgery in November. I plugged in "Turbinate" and ended up spending the entire afternoon getting to know "Wes and Tom". I TRULY enjoyed reading your site, and hope that you are in good health. And just remember.....life is too short.... and every day spent not happy is a day wasted. Stay happy... only GOD is the true judge...he made us, he loves us, and he will one day call all of us home. |
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Date: 1999-10-01 06:20:00 Suzanne ( scottontx@aol.com / http://www.freehomepages.com/houtxbagl/index.html) wrote: Hi Wes, I'm visiting your page again. I remembered that you had a nice write up on Brian Bradley, which is why I'm writing you. I'm in the process of creating another web site and I would like to talk to you about the possibility of using your biography on Brian. Please e-mail me to discuss further. Thanks! Hope all is well. Suzanne |
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Date: 1999-09-30 22:21:00 Jeff ( jpark@accessweb.com / http://www.accessweb.com/users/jpark/) wrote: Great site. The Letters were interesting reading, to say the least. Humorous, heart-breaking, frustrating and hopeful. Thank you for sharing! Best wishes to both of you!!! |
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Date: 1999-09-28 14:33:00 anonymous coward ( beansmom@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Don't know how I got here. My brother died of Aids 4 years ago. This summer my daughter told me she thinks she's a lesbian. I hope you are not suffering terribly with your disease. I know some advances have been made in treatment. God bless you. |
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Date: 1999-09-07 01:02:00 Octavia ( wong2@planetdirect.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your site because I've been surfing around looking for info on GLA-ATP. You mentioned the injections on the page that I found. I have CFS & wondered how you did with the injections -- if your energy improved & how long were you on 'em. Thanks, Octavia |
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Date: 1999-09-06 06:58:00 Hannah ( palmer@voyager.co.nz / no homepage) wrote: Hi! I hope you're having a great day :) I just had the greatest time reading the letters - your aunt etc need to get a grip and realise that there's more than one 'right' way to be!!!! Her opinions and arguments are so typical of prejudiced small-mindedness! I'm 19, I live in Auckland in New Zealand, and I'm a (heterosexual) communications student who wants to either act or write for a living (my major is journalism.) I just want to send my congratulations for a) a brilliant site and b) having found such a happy relationship (I wish I could be so lucky!) and my best wishes for the future. Good luck with everything and thanks. Your friend, Hannah. |
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Date: 1999-08-23 20:52:00 Kenton ( s214047@northwest.missouri.edu / no homepage) wrote: Ever find your third? |
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Date: 1999-08-21 10:32:00 Graham Leatherbarrow ( hortilad@queer.free-online.co.uk / http://www.queer.free-online.co.uk) wrote: Hi Guys, Thanks for all the information on your site. I found through Yahoo! Would you like to exchange links with me Graham. XXXX |
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Date: 1999-08-20 17:46:00 Diana Bancroft ( DBanc53093@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: George Bancroft is my maternal grandmother's grandfather. Is one of you descended from him? I was checking out information on George Bancroft at Metacrawler and I ended up on your site. Diana Bancroft |
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Date: 1999-08-12 05:07:00 Kent Clark ( piemur@ptsi.net / http://geocities.com/westhollywood/3874) wrote: Hi guys been a long time since i got to talk at you hope everythinbg is going well for ya things are pretty good up here |
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Date: 1999-07-25 12:42:00 Alex Bernal ( moviepal@gateway.net / http://members.tripod.com/~movie_pal) wrote: I'm looking for Jay Cherin. I searched his name and got your website. If he is around please tell him Alex from The Ark is working with Susan Grant to compile stories about The Ark and want his input. Please give him my e-mail if you don't mind. Thank you very much. PS your site is impressive |
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Date: 1999-07-21 16:57:00 Mindy ( Grit30@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I would love for you to contact me regarding some of your sinus sugeries. I just had a nasal septum repair and sinus surgery due to a cyst in my right maxillary sinsus and I still feel like hell. I would love to talk with someone about what I should be feeling. |
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Date: 1999-07-18 09:17:00 Erika ( e_loder@yahoo.com.au / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom, My name is Erika. I am a seventeen year old student at an all girls, catholic boarding school in Australia.I accidently stumbled across your web site/page (I am computer illiterate) when I was looking up research for a school assignment I am doing on HIV/AIDS. I have to say that I laughed and cried and got extremely frustrated about the "Pricilla Letters". Thankyou for having the courage to share it with the world. Congratulations on finding love. From An admirer. |
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Date: 1999-07-05 23:07:00 John Hill ( joeeveryman@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey guys... I recently came out after an 18 year marriage to a wonderful person. I also have four wonderful chlidren. But I was miserable for years knowing I was gay, but trying to do the "right" thing as I had been taught in the Mormon Church. I love my family and I still love my wife; I did not choose to be gay, and I recent anyone who makes such an ignorant comment to me. I went through hell emotionally and spiritually trying to fit in to others' description of happiness. I know I made the correct decision when I moved out in April of 1999. Your Letter Wars are inspiring...I had no such trouble when I came out to my family; I haven't told my sister the real reason my wife and I split up because her husband has proudly told me of his history of gay bashing at gay bars years ago...I just can't deal with that kind of ignorant person. Good luck and good health; Your gutsy decision to "publish" your family's struggles was the right one in my opinion. |
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Date: 1999-07-04 14:27:00 Patrick Dennison ( bigguys@silcom.com / http://www.silcom.com/~bigguys/millennium.html) wrote: Hi Master Wes, I am finally getting in touch with you again. Numerous crashes, busy at work, bought a house, lots and lots of neat things happening...I don't have your email address anymore, so you'll have to write to me so we can reconnect. I surely would like to talk to you again, and catch up on what's new and rehash the old. Looking forward to hearing from you. buddy Patrick |
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Date: 1999-06-22 04:50:00 Lt. Col. Cliff Anchor (RET) ( anchor@wclynx.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom, your spirit is a delight. I recently was attacked by a Fundy self-righteous bitch. She felt compelled to "minister" to me as a Gay man. She was upset that I would not allow her to "share" her Bible. I told her that offering to share the Bible was like offering to share Syphilis. Hugs to you both. Cliff Anchor POB 250 Monte Rio, CA 95462-0250 PS - Referred by Alan and Steve! |
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Date: 1999-06-21 15:39:00 Irene ( rainbows@camtech.net.au / no homepage) wrote: Have you had a look at this web site: http://www.blackfamilies.com/community/groups/AIDS-HIV/The_Story.html |
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Date: 1999-06-17 02:26:00 Kevin Smith ( SmithK@indigo.ie / no homepage) wrote: love it loads |
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Date: 1999-06-01 06:14:00 Regina ( Skielar1@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I ended up on your web site because I was looking for information on Bancroft Towers. I was curious if you may have any info on that. I visited it today for the 1st time and I am very awestruck. It is beautiful and peaceful. Any info would be greatly appreciated. I also enjoyed your web page. I am not gay, but I believe that eveyone has a right to make their own choices and live their life however it will make them happy. I give you serious credit for being brave enough to live your life your way and just being you. Happiness is everything. Sincerley, Regina |
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Date: 1999-05-31 22:09:00 Paul Beyerl ( paul@thehermitsgrove.org / http://www.thehermitsgrove.org) wrote: Thanks, men. I've been teaching botanical medicine for nearly 25 years. I've been HIV+ for 11 and know that it has made a tremendous difference. I use it as supportive therapy to conventional medicines and began combination therapy in December of 1996, two and a half years ago. My t-count remains very strong, my viral load very low and I continue to be asymptomatic. |
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Date: 1999-05-26 12:05:00 Tim Haffner ( THAFF@webtv.net / no homepage) wrote: Our people are in grave danger and our leaders wontsay a thing. All they are worried about is bi-partenship they could give a fuck about us as long as they are reelected. It's time that americans stand up for themselves . |
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Date: 1999-05-26 08:57:00 Tasha Tailor ( _Tashatailor@webtv.net / no homepage) wrote: i like your openess! thanks for sharing !!!! how are you doing now guys? i too suffer some, you have a great partnership it sounds like ! everyone should be so lucky ! love, Tasha |
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Date: 1999-05-16 12:16:00 Tiffany Lavender ( lavender05772@treeoflife.net / http://tiffany.lavender.net/) wrote: I just loved the letter war aka Point-Counterpoint! This is both fun and educational at the same time. Hey, I am the queen of the Northwest, though! Tiffany Susanne Lavender Portland, Oregon 97205 |
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Date: 1999-05-13 07:56:00 Robert Hammond ( BxrsDown@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Just stumbeled onto your website and had a ball reading and surfing. Thanks for the entertainment. Robert Hammond Houston Texas |
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Date: 1999-05-10 20:14:00 Pat Sinnott ( Pat_Sinnot@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes, Good to see your page expanding. Started back to work three days a week, and am doing well. If you ever get up to Dallas, call me for lunch or dinner. Jim and I would like to see you. the # is 214/691-3886. Take care guy.... |
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Date: 1999-05-01 05:02:00 ARLIE ( SNAKEVINE@AOL.COM / http://MEMBERS.AOL.COM/SNAKEVINE/ADVICE/INDEX.HTM) wrote: WES I TALKED TO ALICE TONIGHT ON THE TELEPHONE SHE SAID FOR YOU TO SEND ME A PICTURE OF HER . YOUR SISTER IS VERY SWEET ; I HAVE DEEP FEELINS FOR HER ;COULD YOU SEND A PICTURE OF HER PLEASE |
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Date: 1999-04-18 16:33:00 Morrie Johnston ( Moderick@Yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Guys, will try again, as previously site was too busy. Just wanted to say what a fantastic site was. Your letters read like something else, almost Maupinish, when thingo writes to his Mum from hospital. Your folks are fantastic people Wes, more power to them. Hope your support network is coping. Too many people on the list of friends who died from AIDS. Just keep the faith guys. Theres got to be a morning after. Love, Morrie Johnston Sydney, Australia |
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Date: 1999-04-10 19:22:00 Shadow ( mhicks@spiritone.com / http://www.spiritone.com/`mhicks/index.) wrote: Great website! Just stumbled on it while doing research on Neurontin, which my doctor prescribed to me because I still have some residual pain from the shingles I contracted 5 weeks ago. Since I am HIV+ and do suffer from minor numbness in my feet from time to time...she thought that it might help that also. How was the nuerontin.....were you happy with the results? I also plan to read "Letter Wars" ...I no longer have issues with my family but I remember them! I live in Oregon (Portland) so perhaps we will meet on day... Thanks for the time. Shadow |
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Date: 1999-04-04 08:43:00 Suz Cotton ( scottontx@aol.com / http://www.freehomepages.com/houtxbagl/index.html) wrote: This is a truly wonderful site! It brought back a lot of memories of ACTUP and my friendship with Brian Bradley. Thanks. Suz |
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Date: 1999-03-28 22:54:00 douglas dmitri mosier ( domotran@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi, Wes. I'm the bonehead who wrote to thee back in March of 1997 (message 37 in the SPiN guestbook). I am not trying to justify myself here. I just wanted thee to know what was going on at that time that caused me to be insane ;). I had come out rather unexpectedly in the first week of January 1997. Then three weeks later, an unfortunate computer glitch at school caused a huge problem on campus. Another student had gotten into my email account because of the above mentioned glitch's not logging me off properly. He looked at my name, then decided to have a little "fun", to whit, he looked up "Dmitri" on the directory, only he spelled it "Dimitri" and had instead found one of the students from Russia who was in school as well. He then sent Dimitri a note basically blackmailing him, saying that he was going to tell "everyone" he was gay if he didn't fork over some money. Apparently Dimitri went after this guy with a baseball bat. Luckily (for Dimitri) the guy was away that weekend, otherwise he'd be dead, I'm sure, and Dimitri would be in jail. Well, of course, there was a big mess. Dimitri was almost sent home, this guy was at first arrested for extortion or something like that, and finally kicked out of school.....well, I took all this a "sign from God" that my accepting my sexual orientation was wrong, and so, back in the closet I ran! I quit the two choirs I was in at school (one was the "elite", "prestige" touring group....) and totally turned my back on anything and everything that would entice me to weaken....including some very good friends. It was during this time that I wrote message #37. The irony of the whole situation is that by the end of the semester, thanks to one of the aforementioned good friends who would not leave me alone, I have come to my senses, and understand that being gay is not the sin that I had always been taught it was. I tell John that he saved my sanity, and quite possibly, my life with the book he loaned me. And, so, dear one, I write to apologize to thee and anyone else that was "lucky" enough to have read my message for the stupidity that it contained, and beg forgiveness. I moved to a very gay friendly environment in May of 1998, have very good friends and a life that is going well. cheers! dmitri |
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Date: 1999-03-28 18:43:00 Mark Milam ( mmilamnow@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes, It was good to see you at Kroger!! Glad to know that all is going well. Take care. Mark and Bob |
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Date: 1999-03-22 05:44:00 Genevieve: like that name ( AliceHAtty@aol.com / http://yeah_sure - I just got here) wrote: Hi Baby Brother! Hi Tom! This is the first time I hace gotten to see your site on a real monitor - one that I can see instead of trying to view on your laptop. This is a lotttt funnier now than it was while it was happening. But where have all the relatives gone? Love You both !!! |
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Date: 1999-03-22 01:58:00 Kim Bonner ( KBGrays17 / no homepage) wrote: i am doing a research paper on people living with aids. i am interested on educating myself on the subject. If at all possible could you write to me and let me know about your lives? about descrimination you have encountered because oyu have aids, or how people treat you, it would be a big help.! thanks!! p.s i thought oyur page was interesting and i enjoyed it! |
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Date: 1999-03-22 01:58:00 Kim Bonner ( KBGrays17 / no homepage) wrote: i am doing a research paper on people living with aids. i am interested on educating myself on the subject. If at all possible could you write to me and let me know about your lives? about descrimination you have encountered because oyu have aids, or how people treat you, it would be a big help.! thanks!! p.s i thought oyur page was interesting and i enjoyed it! |
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Date: 1999-03-15 00:12:00 Greg Fox ( KylesBnB@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/KylesBnB/index.html) wrote: I very much enjoyed your site & it's eclectic variety of gay links. Very, very cool! I found you through WebCastro, while surfing around. Hope you get a chance to check out my website, (I've included a link, above). I write & draw a comic strip about a gay b&b called "Kyle's Bed & Breakfast",(which you may have seen in GENRE magazine)....you can see episodes and find out all about it at my website. And if you like it, I'd be honored if oyu'd include a link at your site! Peace, Greg |
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Date: 1999-03-03 22:50:00 melissa ( nouveau_posh@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi there! I am an OAC student in Canada came across this sight trying to find information about AIDS. I am doing my I.S.U project in memory of my Uncle Dougie who died of AIDS. It sickened me that no one wanted to remember him because of what he died of and the fact that he just happened to be gay. I also felt sick that i didn't know him until after he died because no one wanted to talk about him. Every day I feel the loss, because it was a great person I never had the chance to know. they just wanted to forget he ever existed. He has aright to be remembered and that is why i am doing this project. No human being should ever be forgotten by their own family because they didn't understand. I want to do this prject so maybe some one else can understand and not turn their back on a friend or family member with AIDS. So I am putting out a plea. I need help. I want to know what it is like to be a person living with AIDS. I want to know all I can so some one that I lost won't have died in vain. |
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Date: 1999-02-23 20:25:00 Mandy Booth ( mbooth1012@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi guys, What a wonderful outlook and relationship you both have. Seems to me like you are making the most out of your lives. Maybe your aunt should do the same. This is the first time I have been on your site and i can't seem to get off of it. Anything new for this year? Well, I wish the both of you love and happiness in life. Take care Mandy Booth |
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Date: 1999-02-21 15:04:00 Christina Capowich ( capowich@attmysite.com / no homepage) wrote: Hello Wes and Tom..... I am very happy that you made this site. It really made me aware that family feuds like this do exist. It is so petty that you are fighting with your aunt. I think she should lay down the battle ax and hug you instead. I have 2 gay uncles and we have never had this in our family...one died from AIDS a few years ago. I think we should all learn that life is short and we should live it up and love the people while you can. Sincerely, Christina |
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Date: 1999-02-20 09:24:00 Sharon ( o.m.i@sk.sympatico.ca / no homepage) wrote: Your site is Superior. What a fantastic outlook you both have. The letters touched my heart. We have gays in our family. Fortunately we have not had the heart breaking struggles that your family seems to be experiening. The God I know wants us to love and accept each other as we are. It always seems so strange to me, that we heteros should be thought of as having to accept gays. (That seems to infer that Heteros are somehow elevated... which is of couse ridiculous)...I ask what's to accept? We are all HUMANS. As far as I know our beautiful earth is here to be enjoyed by all people and other forms of life. We each have a journey which is unique. You are so fortunate to have found in each other such a loyal and loving partner. Even through all your pain and suffering, I am aware that you are blessed. It is exquitsite that you are embracing life and using your many talents and abilities to make each day count. Thank you so much for your beautiful site. |
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Date: 1999-02-15 03:17:00 ELIZABETH DYER ( PARROTHEADS@PRODIGY.NET / no homepage) wrote: Hi, Thanks for inviting me to your web page. I am a graduate study in nursing who is studying the phenomena of PWA and HOPE with a special interest in art/music/photography or anything that gives you hope. I would appreciate dearly if i could hear just what keeps you going each day and how you cope with medication burden and society at large. If you decide to not reply I will understand. Thanks for your consideration.. Be well. LIZ |
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Date: 1999-02-13 09:15:00 Kimberly ( lydon1200@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I found your site by accident while looking for some home remedies for a raging toothache - which led me to sinus info. Anyway I have just spent 2 1/2 wonderful hours at your site and have forgotten all about the toothache. I will be telling everyone I know to visit ASAP. Thank You!!!! |
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Date: 1999-02-09 01:11:00 Wes Miller ( poetwess@geocities.com / http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Vine/8190) wrote: Greetings: I found you on Yahoo by searching my name. I would like to invite you to peruse my sight then would like to feature a link to your site, eventually from either 'My Desktop' or 'My BIO' when I get it listed. the information you present, and your personal honesty is an inspiration to me, especially at this time just beginning life at 33 with HIV. My page currently isn't matter of fact. I was born with crayons in my hands and express artistically. I struggle with this contradiction: the openness I need to cultivate to live with HIV and the mystery that is required to propell art. Please take your time to explore as I will at your site. Be Well and Blessed Be. Wesley |
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Date: 1999-02-07 01:55:00 Skip & Lonnie ( Vandelton@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: You're page was very entertaining and informative. My partner and I are both positive, and this took some of the gloom out of it for us. At least we never had to go through the "Letter Wars" |
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Date: 1999-02-02 23:04:00 Gaylen Erickson ( tamra1@pdq.net / no homepage) wrote: I really enjoyed reading your home page. The inter- net is new to me, but finding this made my day. thanks a bunch, Gaylen |
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Date: 1999-02-01 04:04:00 JoEllen ( mcvey55555.com / no homepage) wrote: Hey guys! Just checking up on ya - the site is great, as usual. Lots of hugs and kisses to you both! |
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Date: 1999-01-21 07:03:00 Vikas Malik ( flyhigh@mindspring.com / no homepage) wrote: Excellent site. I really liked the link to the More Tales of the City. Letters are also very good. Are these letters published in a book yet? Thanks, Vikas |
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Date: 1999-01-08 23:54:00 Alan (of Alan & Steve) ( alanandsteve@geocities.com / http://www.geocities.com/~alanandsteve/1001-p6.html) wrote: Hi Wes & Tom. We have communicated often in the past and I put a link to your homepage on my religion homepage (above). I wanted to let you and your visitors know about a new site I wrote as a result of a series of letters with an Aussie Homophobe (whom I dubbed "AssHo" for brevity) on this page: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/8708/homophobes.html I've also written some other amusing things including this: 
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Date: 1999-01-08 20:51:00 Keith Heller ( kheller@umich.edu / http://www.umich.edu/~kheller) wrote: I was looking up "Sinus Infections" and found your site. I ended up blowing an entire morning reading the letters. It was quite entertaining, but I didn't learn too much about sinus infections. Cheers, Keith |
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Date: 1999-01-04 20:19:00 Paul Collister ( paulc@dial.pipex.com / no homepage) wrote: Thanks for the info on the Neti Pot, its usefull to see the pics, I just need to find a source in London UK now, that shouldnt be hard. |
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Date: 1999-01-02 19:45:00 Christine ( cfort@uclink4.berkeley.edu / http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~cfort/) wrote: Again, neat site... I don't remember exactly how I got here the first time. I probably mentioned that in the other guestbook. Happy New Year! |
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Date: 1998-12-20 19:20:00 Matthias (fuckface) ( GmnSlvTrne@aol.com / http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/5881/index.htm) wrote: Sir. what a delightfull new years letter and news. The pics were wonderful to say the least. all the best for the new year and lets hope we meet in SF at the 15 one day, SIR. fuckface |
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Date: 1998-11-30 22:15:00 rkcInNC ( rkcinnc@bellsouth.net / no homepage) wrote: I enjoyed reading your family problems that arose from Tom not being invited. I heard about your page from a mailing list I am on. A nice soul sent it to the list for those that are interested to read. The list is a list for older gay men and their admirers, of which, I am an admirer, being only 24. I am in a situation now that I am not sure how to deal with my family about. I have met someone I love dearly and will be moving to Chicago from NC to be with him and to move in with him. My family doesn't know I am gay, and I will, at least, inform my parents of the situation before I go to Chicago. It's something I guess I've been wanting to do but don't have the courage right now. I don't want to have a big family problem over it because I love my family, but I also love my partner dearly! I really am at a loss about it all, especially after reading about your troubles. I do not believe my family would be that way, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Loved the website and the letters! drop me a line...It's always nice to have new friends! |
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Date: 1998-11-06 01:00:00 michelle ( michelle.s.kelley@boeing.com / no homepage) wrote: Your site is truly timely as I have just come out to my distant family and I live in the Pacific NW! I feel truly blessed that they love me and accept me and have invited my partner to the next family gathering. I was afraid to open the can of worms, but it has worked out fine so far. Thank you for sharing your letters and struggles with the family. Great information for others to read and I will point my friends and family toward it. Love to you, michelle |
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Date: 1998-11-05 04:19:00 G.W. ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Dig your t-cell and viral load charts. Stay healthy! |
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Date: 1998-11-05 04:15:00 Murray Grossan, M.D. ( entconsult@aol.com / http://www.ent-consult.com) wrote: enjoyed your site. Please visit. |
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Date: 1998-10-27 01:48:00 Greg Gordon ( ggordon@cvn.net / http://members.aol.com/ggord4553) wrote: Great site...I wish you the best!!!  You can visit my page by clicking on the banner. |
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Date: 1998-10-25 05:36:00 Craig ( cad500@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys: Wow! What a site.It was a little overwelming to read in one sitting. I come from a big family too and understand how stuff can blow up into collosal nightmares. Anyway ,hope your still happy. Craig |
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Date: 1998-10-05 07:08:00 Beverly ( bev.wpdocdr@worldnet.att.net / http://home.att.net/~bev.wpdocdr) wrote: Wes, I admire your ability to have a sense of humor about all those surgeries on your nose. You poor baby! I happened upon this site searching for some info about surgery to correct sinusitis as I have had a sinus infection now for 3 months and have just started a 4th row of antibiotics and it looks like I may have to have surgery. You definitely displayed all the options, didn't you? I had no idea there were so many different methods/surgeries to do on the sinuses. Ouch! I feel better knowing someone else has been there, but take no comfort in the pain you have gone through. Thank you for sharing your experiences. God bless you and Tom and hopefully your sinuses will give you no more problems. Beverly |
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Date: 1998-09-25 03:45:00 Anne Beattie ( serenity@sugar-river.net / no homepage) wrote: Love you guys--it has been a few years now since I have been coming to this site. This is with special love and memory of my brother, Steven Narus and his partner Ron Lane. Standing together, we will win this battle and see a world of love and peace. Hugs |
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Date: 1998-09-21 06:30:00 Richard ( cm2inaz@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Was glued to the monitor for an hour reading the letters. Strange, I was looking for genealogical material, etc. from the New Albany, MS sites and followed the signs here. I'm a member of the community here in Phoenix. |
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Date: 1998-08-25 15:34:00 Charlene and JJ Guerra ( guerrac@spring-branch.isd.tenet.edu / no homepage) wrote: Hi guys, I'm e-mailing from school. Wanted to tell you NOT to have the workers reattach my fence. Roger will be putting mine up soon and there is no reason to mess up your pretty new one!! |
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Date: 1998-08-18 07:46:00 Kerry Farley ( kerry_farley@juno.com / no homepage) wrote: Wes - As a registered nurse and AIDS volunteer, I was quite impressed by your web site. The letter wars made me want to cry. It's so very sad how families hurt each other. I hope some resolution has come to your family situation. I was fascinated by your viral load charts and impressed at your explanations of T-cells, viral loads, etc. Having three older brothers made me a bit of a tomboy, so I was also fascinated by your nose history. Nice pictures! I pray Tom and you are feeling strong these days. The only thing that made reading those letters bearable was knowing that you had him to lean on and comfort you. If you get a chance, an update on your family would be interesting. Keep up the good fight. God bless. Love, Kerry |
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Date: 1998-08-08 14:29:00 rob ( no email / no homepage) wrote: What a wonderful web page. I cannot begin to tell you how much I enjoyed the "Letter Wars". As an HIV positive person (12 years) and someone who has gone through the vicious tongues of family members, it brought back memories and gave a good chuckle to start my early Saturday morning. Thanks, and best wishes to both of you. Rob |
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Date: 1998-08-04 08:51:00 L A Conner ( chelola@webtv.net / no homepage) wrote: Enjoyed your site. I've been looking over those letters for several hours. WoW! Impressive to say the least. Hope you are both well. God Bless |
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Date: 1998-07-24 07:06:00 Simon & Alistair ( spiker@netcentral.co.uk / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys, Sorry we couldn't get together more while we were in town. Hope you enjoyed San Fran. See you next year, maybe. (Hugs & Swats) |
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Date: 1998-07-16 23:51:00 Selene ( SeleneAnna@juno.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Sweeties! I haven't spoken to you in awhile, so I thought I'd take a sec. to send my love. I hope you are having a WONDERFUL day!!! Kisses, Selene |
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Date: 1998-07-13 11:58:00 Stafford ( sstrange@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu / http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~sstrange) wrote: I spent nearly an hour reading all those letters and I must say.. I don't know if I should laugh or sigh. The worst I have to put up with from my family is a grandmother who constantly badgers me to "go to church and meet a nice girl.. like your father did." |
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Date: 1998-07-04 10:08:00 Peter Arning ( arning@yahoo.com / http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/5789) wrote: I cruised here after seeing the info for Bodypositive@onelist.com. I loved the Letter Wars! I'm going to share your URL with everyone I know! I'm also going to subscribe to the mailing list. I've been poz since 1984, and people are always amazed at my "positive" attitude. Keep up the Good Work! |
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Date: 1998-06-30 22:00:00 Clint Grimes ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I just finished reading most of you correspondence. Thank yo for sharing this with me (us). I think it took a lot of courage to live through something like this, and I wish the two of you all the best |
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Date: 1998-06-28 00:59:00 Ben Pearson ( no email / no homepage) wrote: I enjoied reading your web page! See you at the office. |
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Date: 1998-06-24 23:18:00 AGG ( no email / no homepage) wrote: intresting thing about your realationship. Great web page you guys take care.... |
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Date: 1998-06-24 06:03:00 Shanna ( sfreeman@coe.uga.edu / no homepage) wrote: Hi! I surfed here from BiNet Atlanta (http://www.mindspring.com/~binet/) & read your Letter Wars. I found them to be highly informative concerning Christianity & homophobia...in addition to sadly reminiscent of my family's general position concerning les/bi/gay people (albeit a much quieter one...so far anyway). The page is interesting & very well done. Best wishes for happiness always. |
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Date: 1998-06-17 18:20:00 carol ( snareking@zebra.net / no homepage) wrote: I like your web site. very informative. my sympathies over so many surgeries. Quest: Have you ever heard of an exploded sinus? I've been to 3 ents and each has a different story when viewing my sinuses.I didn't feel pain. |
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Date: 1998-06-15 07:53:00 Douglas ( ophicleide@hotmail.com / http://members.aol.com/dmcmurry) wrote: Greetings guys! I think you may be acquainted with my friend David from Pensacola. Actually I'm housesitting (for he) & ran across the link while surfing with his browser ;-) I haven't totally explored the site yet but it looks way kewl. I'm a long term AIDS victor since 1988 (documented ... was probably before that) and am impressed by your courage & tenacity. What do you think about the new info on fat redistribution in protease inhib patients? I've been to baseline 0 V-Load for 6 months since going on viracept ... but all of a sudden I have developed this beergut that I never have had in my life (and I'm drinking and eating far less than I have in the past) - have you heard anything about this new development - I'm wondering if it's true or if I've just all of a sudden started gaining tonnage. I'm sorry you had to remove your email address - this probably means I'll get spammed too - but it's only a temp address while I;m housesitting so who cares ;-) Take care!!! Great site!!! |
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Date: 1998-06-15 03:45:00 Bob Fisher ( robertfisher@iname.com / no homepage) wrote: This is my second visit. My first was several months ago. I haven't checked out your latest edition. I am also a PWA, a volunteer at The Center for AIDS and half of a gay male couple. My partner in life of 15 years is HIV negative. If memory serves me (which it frequently fails to do lately), I found your cool site through a link from the Center for AIDS site. I found it very interesting and entertaining and "bookmarked" it. I found the AIDS memorial listing particularly intereseting. I ran accross a couple of mutual friends there. One, I had lost touch with and didn't even know had died. I did the Experience weekend in Houston in February, 1981 with co-founder David Goodstein as one of my facilitators. Its always interesting to see PWA lab results and therapies too. Sorry if this comment is a bit long. I've missed seeing you lately at the Center (Tuesdays 11:30-3:00). I hope you have been well and silly as ever. By the way I am often very slow answering email. |
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Date: 1998-06-12 10:40:00 Bob Brunson ( bob@riverbusiness.com / http://www.riverbusiness.com) wrote: I think you have done a wonderful thing! Remembering our friends who have passed is so important. They all died for no reason. It's insaine that we must loose those who are so important to us and mainly that they should have to miss out on their most important days. We can only hope that through this loss we will become stronger and more powerful in finding a cure for this killing disease. I have been HIV+ for 10 plus years and am trying to do as much as I can to help our brothers and sisters. I'm going to send you a copy of what I am presently involved in and maybe you can put this out to a few friends. Once again I highly commend you for your positive support in remembering those you loved. The 9th Annual Rivers Cup Canoe Race & Regatta is being held on August 22,1998 as a Benefit for AIDS Emergency Fund, Sonoma County. Sonoma County People with AIDS have been cut off from AIDS Emergency Fund, San Francisco of over $100,000. in funding grants. We are reviving the Rivers Cup, which has not happened since 1994 due to the flooding of the Russian River over the past 3 years. We are hoping to raise enough money to get these grants back to the people of Sonoma County living with HIV & AIDS. There will be an all day concert on the beach with many pop artist performing and a large group of Diva's joining together to perform for this cause, i.e. Jennifer Holliday from Dreamgirls, Evelyn Champagne King-Shame, Martha Wash-It's Raining Men, Cynthia Manley-Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Linda Imperial, Jessica Williams & many more, plus some fabulous local talent. There will be many political figures that will be judging the Regatta along with the Head Judge, Bob St. Clair(San Francisco 49er 12 year Captain & NFL Hall of Fame). Please give us any help you can in order to help us raise the $100,000.00+ needed to fund theseindividuals in need. Thank you! Sincerely, Bob Brunson Owner, River Business Chaiman, Rivers Cup Rivers Cup P.O.Box 2334 Guerneville, CA 95446 707.869.3400 Please make any donation checks payable to Russian River Chamber of Commerce/Canoe Race. All donations are Tax Deductible. |
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Date: 1998-06-02 22:20:00 Laura ( LKK206@mail.usask.ca / http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/sanjacinto/330/index.html) wrote: I found your webpage from Shawn Decker's webpage 'My Pet Virus'. I'm super impressed with your webpage and I'm hoping to come back to it soon and spend more time reading it all. :) I'm super proud to see people like you on the web and keep it up! :) |
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Date: 1998-05-29 06:55:00 GCG ( nolanparks@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Thank you for posting those letters...they were most interesting. The opposing points of view concerning Christianity and homosexuality i found particularly valuable. It is my hope that we ALL learn from your experience and live in tolerance and love with one another. How one can claim to be a Christian yet practise intolerance, I find very contradictory. I hope that one day your family can heal from the experience. |
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Date: 1998-05-24 01:04:00 DJ ( CleaverD@AOL.com / no homepage) wrote: I have also experienced 2 of the sinus surgeries that Wes has gone through. I had an evil doctor remove the packing during my first surgery. Ouch! I am also a scuba diver. I can relate to some of the horrible things that come from the nose, before and after these surgeries. I am in need of another surgery! Help! I live in Orange County, CA. I hope to find a good medical team like Dr. Jerome Kosoy to do my next surgery! |
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Date: 1998-05-21 02:24:00 Angel ( angel_rhodes@yahoo.com / http://www.netropolis.net/dusty/hombrew.htm) wrote: Nice picture from the fireworks in Houston. I could not miss that event, since i live in Houston. It took them a month to get everything to gether for a 1 hr show. Lots of fun! |
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Date: 1998-05-19 11:00:00 anonymous coward ( no email / no homepage) wrote: from australia informative |
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Date: 1998-05-19 01:19:00 Paul Jacobs ( pjacobs@stratos.net / no homepage) wrote: I was looking throught your site, and I am generally very impressed by it! I just have one question - why is the objectivism usenet group under the possibly dangerous patriots category? |
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Date: 1998-05-04 00:18:00 "Spamily" ( cuendillar@usa.net / no homepage) wrote: I got to The Letter Wars through a link on BiNet Atlanta. I have to echo the many people who say 'Wow, I thought that MY family was bad...'. My husband's mother cut off communcations with us for many reasons, but partially because I was outspoken concerning her brother's racist beliefs. Good thing she didn't know that I am bisexual, who knows what could've happened then? ;P I very much enjoyed looking through your page (except what came from your nose, Wes, I could've gone my whole life without reading that stuff :)) and thank you. Best wishes to the both of you for a lasting life of love, happiness and acceptance. Love, S |
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Date: 1998-04-30 20:17:00 John Taylor ( jrtaylor@uiuc.edu / no homepage) wrote: Very interesting to read about your "sinus adventures". I am meeting with a pulmonologist soon to discuss a snoring/sleep apnea problem that I believe is cause by chronic obstruction of my nasal passages. I am trying to educate myself as much as possible so that I don't end up with any incompetent doctors, or wrong diagnosis, etc. I hope my condition is curable. If you know of any other good web sites for people with sinus problems I would appreciate hearing. Thanks. John |
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Date: 1998-04-28 03:37:00 William A. Tirrill ( wtirrill@juno.com / no homepage) wrote: Enjoyed your web site which I found via webcasto hotlinks and the Bancroft Tower. If it's English or French I will like it ! :) |
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Date: 1998-04-17 23:23:00 Kelly E. Davis ( daviske@rascal.guilford.edu / http://members.tripod.com/~eleasure) wrote: Wow. I got here through a link on a BiFems site, and just finished the Letter Wars. I echo another woman's response when I say that I thought my family was dysfunctional! I'm currently working on a theatre project called "Pieces of the Quilt," a collection of plays about AIDS and the people who live with AIDS. It was serendipitous that I found your site - we open in a week - and a lot of your info has been valuable to me, in dealing with both the play and with life. Huzzah to both you. Blessed Be! - Leash |
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Date: 1998-04-13 20:20:00 Michelle ( onepospro@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I was just surfing the web. I am a hiv+ woman looking for avenues on meeting men. Only I prefer to meet men that are available!!! |
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Date: 1998-04-08 01:37:00 Krystofer E. Rosiere ( altalnce@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/altalnce/) wrote: I have just finished reading many of the letters in your "Priscilla Files" and thank you. All of my family, just as yours, know that I am gay and they are all very accepting. You have reminded me how truely lucky I am, and how thankful I should be. My partner is always welcome and expected at family events, just as my best friend (who is gay) is also. My family considers them both to be extended family members. Again, thank you for reminding me how truely blessed I am. |
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Date: 1998-03-25 22:14:00 Gensym87 ( gensym87@geocities.com / http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/4239) wrote: Hello, I was surfing the PLWA ring and well I guess I was bored but your site sure took care of that. I was grossed out by the nose thing but I must say of all the weird things on the web that should get an award. Anyway, at least I'm not bored now. Come visit my(in comparison to the nose thing) boring site. ;-} Gensym87 |
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Date: 1998-03-22 20:20:00 Robert E. Lewis ( rlewis@brazosport.cc.tx.us / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom: I just finished reading the "Priscilla Letters," and had to comment. I saw a sometimes painful recognition of my own family in the cast of characters. There must be thousands of people who feel they're the only ones who have to deal with sanctimonious busybody relatives. I hope that we can all deal with such battles as competently and calmly as y'all did. Well done. -- Robert |
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Date: 1998-03-13 06:28:00 Betsy and Wes Wesson ( wwwes@aol.com_or betswesson@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I am in tears! Your site devoted to all the people you have known that have died from AIDS does not include a friend from Austin or my husband's cousin from Dallas. And these guys knew everyone! My husband (the coolest hetero ever) and I both lived in Austin and we are so sad to see so many names we know. I spent many nights at the Boathouse and miss those crazy nights! Thank you for making us all remember via your great site. |
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Date: 1998-02-19 18:06:00 Juan Palomo ( juanski@centuryinter.net / http://www.TheSaltJounral.com) wrote: Wes, Tom: Forgot if I sent you the correct address for our magazine's website. It's www.TheSaltJournal.com If you can include it somewhere, I'd appreciate it. Juan |
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Date: 1998-02-13 23:03:00 Stark ( starkism@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Tom & Wes, I truly admire your strength and perseverance. I only hope that I could be as strong if faced with the same circumstances. Best wishes to you both for a long and happy life together. Love, Stark |
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Date: 1998-01-29 01:08:00 Steven Jackson ( sjackson@espritcomm.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi, glad to hear about your boy. I say, make em beg! meow |
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Date: 1998-01-09 07:24:00 Drew Tucker ( DrewJDT@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/Drewjdt/1.html) wrote: Thank you for posting the letters. My partner Alan gave me the internet address (after introducing me to Wes at the gym today) and thought I would find them interesting. I found myself reading every word and could almost see my extended family had I been more upfront with them. |
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Date: 1998-01-02 11:55:00 Brian Berezowski ( b.and.b@sk.sympatico.ca / http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2048) wrote: Love the site guys! Great as always. Nice to read your latest christmas letter, congrats on the changes made in 1997 (school, etc.) Hope things in 1998 are better. |
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Date: 1997-12-31 21:45:00 Jack Dozier ( jdozier@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: enjoyed your page very much very informative. I was just diagnosed hiv and appreciate the info thanks Jack |
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Date: 1997-12-28 07:27:00 Rick Keister / Richard Acosta ( rjkrpr@swbell.net / no homepage) wrote: Hey guys hope you had a wonderful christmas! |
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Date: 1997-12-25 05:21:00 probkinz ( probkinz@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/ProbKinz/index.html) wrote: We've been reading all your wonderful, informative, funny, and heartfelt pages. Good job guys, we both wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy 1998!!! SALUTE, Sonny & Tim |
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Date: 1997-12-23 13:45:00 Anne Beattie ( serenity@sugar-river.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom--you will live forever in our hearts. To you both, to all who visit this site, a greeting of love. The humor, the love, the memories and the hope comes thru with each visit to this site. I thank you! Hand in hand, heart to heart we are one! |
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Date: 1997-12-22 01:18:00 Steve Schalchlin ( Steve_S@Cliffhanger.com / http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1173) wrote: Wes and Tom, we've had twin websites for a very long time (and I'm from Texas), so I just want to wish you both a fantastic new year. Like myself, I'm also reconstructing my life and figuring out what it means to live with possiblity of future. Yours is the best website on the net. |
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Date: 1997-12-12 05:46:00 selina savedra ( dazyblue@aol.com / don't_have one, sorry!) wrote: I found your webpage while conducting a search on homophobia. I just want to write down a few comments. (1) I think you and Tom are absolutely incredible, and my hats off to you for defending yourselves in the wake of family feud. (2) I think your mother's letter to Priscilla was awesome, too! Way to go, mom! Anyway, I enjoyed reading the letters, even though they pissed me off to no end. I'm 18 years old and I'm a freshman in college. I have a good number of gay friends, mostly guys, but a few girls. I belong to a group here at school called BiGala, which is a group for gays/lesbians/bisexuals and also straight people that they call "allies." I am an ally. I'm also a Roman Catholic. I'm not proud of this, because of the general Catholic view on homosexuality, but I was glad when the Pope said that thing about loving your gay children. I think you should send that around to your entire family, and send two copies to Priscilla. If the Catholic church can reform their ways to accept gays/lesbians/bisexuals, why can't everyone else? During Gay Awarness Week here at school, all the bulletin boards advertising special events related to the week and also boards informing people about gays/lesbians/bisexuals were all torn to shreds. Not only did this put a hurting on everyone's checkbook because of the vandalism charges, it made a pretty harsh statement about the people of this campus. After the third bulletin board was torn down, I posted my own little note on the board informing the vandals what I thought of them. On behalf of all my gay/lesbian/bisexual friends, I just want to say congratulations on all you have accomplished so far, and I'm sorry that you have to go through this argument with your family. I would like to hear from you guys if at all possible! Selina :) |
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Date: 1997-11-16 23:49:00 M Carter ( bomemo@bbc.net / no homepage) wrote: Thanks for sharing-- |
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Date: 1997-11-07 22:34:00 Selene ( selene@oasiskc.net / no homepage) wrote: I've been visiting your page for months, and decided it was finally time to sign your guestbook. I just wanted to tell you that I love you two, and am grateful that you have taken the time to put such an informational site on the net. Finally, thanks to you, I've begun to realize that it's ok to be who I am. You could never imagine how much your site and example has impacted my life. I wish you much joy, love, and health in the years to come. If you ever need a friend, I'm always here. Light and Love, Selene |
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Date: 1997-11-05 10:25:00 LittleBlu ( Blu@sisna.com / no homepage) wrote: Dear Wes and Tom--- I came across your page by accident this evening about 7pm.... and haven't stopped reading until now (midnight). I actually shed tears from some of the nastiness.... laughed at your contagious personalities ... and LEARNED from your shining example and integrity. For your interest alone, as well as others involved (hence, the "family"), I am a STRAIGHT female and a very proud Mother of a 4 year old son. I would be absolutely thrilled to claim you both as dear friends of mine, therefore, my son as well. I want my son to learn the meaning of love, acceptance, and the beauty of embracing difference in a world that seems to have forgotten these most important and basic qualities. You have made me think tonight. You have made me realize that life is for living. You have made me realize that others suffer from hardships. You have made me remember that I, too, am guilty of discrimination at one time or another. You made me smile and laugh. You made me more aware. You gave me strength. Thank You for your gifts. You have made a difference, as random as I may be. I would *really* like to hear back from you (Wes, Tom, or both). Continue to live life to the fullest... most of all... continue to love one another and be happy!!! Friendship & Happiness--- LittleBlu |
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Date: 1997-10-30 23:54:00 Derek chiong ( dchiong@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I need to get in touch with bruce, do you know how? may be his email address, this is aserious businesss, no prank intented, if you could help I will be most grateful.thanks.Derek Ps or you could give him my email address . |
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Date: 1997-10-08 06:12:00 Michael Liebmann ( xwinger@MCIONE.com / no homepage) wrote: Very interesting. I feel sorry for those who try to use christian dogma to tell you your life is wrong. I'm just wondering: what's the status of the who thing as of now? |
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Date: 1997-10-07 06:54:00 Josh Leon ( joshleon@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: I am in complete awe after going for a ride through "The Letter Wars". I have always considered myself a lucky man to have a supportive family, but after reading your story I know that I have been truly blessed. I must also comment on your WONDERFUL sense of macabre humor you shared with "Things From Wes' Nose". I just happened upon your fabulous site & I now know that it was no accident. Good Luck in all you do & God bless. |
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Date: 1997-09-30 03:36:00 Howard Marmell ( HOWARD.MM@mci2000.com / no homepage) wrote: Wow! |
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Date: 1997-09-16 18:50:00 Suzanne ( sstough@pacifier.com / no homepage) wrote: Guys, You have truly put the fun back in dysfunctional! What a scream, there is one in every crowd! How come it always seems the more religious people get the smaller their minds become?? |
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Date: 1997-09-07 23:52:00 Jeff ( jtromble@mnsi.net / no homepage) wrote: Just a little note to say great job guys . Your stories are very funny , glad to see other people with this disease be so open and in good spirits. P.S If anyone who reads this would like to be come e-mail pals drop me a line. |
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Date: 1997-09-03 01:56:00 Steve Taylor ( STaylor148@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I love it!!!!!!!! I don't know when I am going to stop laughing. My family seems so gentle and harmless when compared to yours! I guess the difference is we aren't real good about talking about my AIDS diagnosis or our 11 years of being roommates (in my mother's words). Keep up the good work, Wes and Tom. My sister is who gave me this link to your page... she was laughing so hard when she phoned I thought I was going to have to send over a cardiologist. |
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Date: 1997-08-17 00:22:00 Denny (Radec) ( stl560@netguard.net / no homepage) wrote: Guys, I was here until 6am this morning. I finished the Letter Wars, but I will return to read the rest. Thanks, Denny |
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Date: 1997-08-07 21:49:00 Wild Honey ( wildhony3@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/wildhony3/index.html) wrote: cool links |
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Date: 1997-07-26 18:23:00 Betty Ross ( dsmlswmp@erols.com / no homepage) wrote: I spent over 1 and 1/2 hrs viewing and reading your site. I found it humerous, informative and very interesting. Isn't that the way with families. I'm very sorry both of you have AIDS. I feel that you both have much to offer society and each other. Best wishes to you both and may God bless. Love, Betty |
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Date: 1997-07-18 14:17:00 Gary Hill ( bugsbu521@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: That is quite a story when you were in the hospital Hope all is ok today?? Gary |
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Date: 1997-07-17 22:38:00 Kevin ( globey@aol / no homepage) wrote: I got to your page by doing a search on Mark Doty after reading Heaven's Coast. I got completely hooked reading the Letter Wars and thought that it was really incredible. It would probably be similar if I were to come out to my very religious family. The whole thing was really fascinating and more dramatic than fiction. It is by turns hilarious and horrifying. Thank you very much for sharing it. I'm going to tell some of my friends about it. Thanks again, Kevin P.S. Sorry if this got sent more than once - I don't really know how to use this guestbook I guess. |
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Date: 1997-07-12 22:10:00 Adriano ( puntel@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote: Wanted to say thanks and keep up the great work! With love, Adriano. |
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Date: 1997-07-10 01:04:00 Daniel Larsen ( N/A / no homepage) wrote: Hi. Was surfing the 'net out of boredom and stumbled across your site. Had to tell you it had an enormous impact on me. I ran the gamut of emotions reading through The Letter Wars. Wanted to say thanks and keep up the great work! |
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Date: 1997-07-08 03:22:00 Sara Steen ( sara@insync.net / http://www.insync.net/~jim) wrote: Dear Wes, Jim and I have been surfing your coolsite and ALL the links. Jim started a CUSeeMe ref (he likes to watch). He's having fun learning a lot about the Unix box it runs on. I sure am learning a lot about the computer from both of you and just can't thank you enough. Thanks for everything, you computer stud you!
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Date: 1997-07-06 23:26:00 Mitchell ( mbond@drew.edu / no homepage) wrote: I ended up on your page through a message from Methodists for Social Action. Thanks for sharing the letters with humor and compassion. I hope that many can read and learn from your experiences. Peace, Mitchell |
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Date: 1997-07-04 08:52:00 Rod Walker ( Soryk@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/Soryk/soryk1.html) wrote: Hi guys - Followed a link from JayK's page to your site. I have you bookmarked, and am looking forward to the many hours of entertainment I can already discern I will find here. I first tested positive in the summer of 1986 and have been through hell and back - as they say. If you choose to visit my site, I beg you to remember I am quite new to this form of expression. Looking forward... Rod |
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Date: 1997-06-29 02:45:00 Dave Martin ( macdave@tamu.edu / http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1987/) wrote: Howdy, guys. While my experience with my family was much easier, it did begin with writing letters. After a few exchanges, misunderstandings (relatively very minor), and discussions, our family got through it in one piece. It's always a shame when--in the name of protecting their family--the staunch conservatives would rather break apart their own family, than let it survive to accept homosexuality. Unfortunate that a family so heavily vested in its belief in God can fall apart due to hatred in God's name. As an atheist, despite a moderately-religious family (my sister is married to a preacher), I don't believe in the existance of God. However, I find the teachings presented by Jesus to be good life lessons, worth following, and am always saddened when those that lay claim to him as their teacher (and Messiah) fail to understand the simplest of his teachings. When I wrote my letters to come out to my family--January 1, 1987--I had prepared myself for rejection, having mentally & emotionally said my goodbyes to my family at our family Christmas party. I fully expected the kind of response that you received (though I should have known my family better). While I don't think I even still have the initial coming out letter (I don't remember if I hand-wrote them, or typed them on my old Atari 800 system, which I no longer have), I do at times reread the old letters I got from my family afterwords, including the one from my aunt, chiding me for thinking that the silent goodbyes I gave were not accepted. Perhaps I will post them at some time, to share them with others, as you have shared these very personal and painful letters of yours. It's been a while since I've read through them, anyway. Having just celebrated my 10th anniversary of wedded bliss (even if the church & state don't recognize it), it might be good to peruse them again. I have learned that, by coming out to my family, I made it much easier for my step-sister to come out to my dad. Thank you so much for posting The Letter Wars. Good luck with the family that you still have, and (for both of you) your health. BTW--Howdy, Ray (message #55, 19.6.97)! Funny running into you here--sorry to hear that you're having difficulty with your mother. Hope it works out OK for you as well. Talk to you later. Dave & Kenny (also from backwards Bryan/College Station) |
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Date: 1997-06-19 01:26:00 Ray McKinney ( ray-m@tamu.edu / http://sibelius.tamu.edu/) wrote: Thank you so much for your letters. I am fighting the same struggle with my family. I fear that we are splitting apart irreparably. I have downloaded your letters, and am formatting them (staying as close as possible to the HTML format) in MS Word so I may send them to my mother. There is lots of great information in them, and I am sure my mother will recognize the parallels between your family and mine. I am only hoping your letters backing up mine will make a difference in my situation. Thank you ever so much for making them available. With brotherly love, Ray (from the backwards town of Bryan/College Station) P.S. Copyright info will be retained in the letters I send to Mom. |
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Date: 1997-06-11 02:37:00 Anthony ( asloan@home.com / http://members.home.net/asloan/index.html) wrote: great page guys! |
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Date: 1997-06-09 04:54:00 Robert ( TazForPrez@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/tazforprez/index.html) wrote: I really enjoyed looking through your web site. I just hope my family doesn't react the way your aunt did when I come out to them. Keep up the good work! |
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Date: 1997-06-06 02:55:00 Anne BT ( serenity@sugar-river.net / no homepage) wrote: Love the new page and the changes. You are special! For all the brothers and sisters our there, thank you--remember--be proud! Know you are loved. Take the time today to tell just one person you love them |
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Date: 1997-05-31 22:41:00 Orlin ( okcvrw@swbell.net / no homepage) wrote: You wasted me. I need a nap now. I did read most of the letter. I think you all had good points. I think it is great that you have tried to make them all understand. I guess,,,Keep trying. My family accepts Vernon very well. I guess I am lucky. Vernon's brother is very redneck but he is very accepting of our relationship. I am grateful. See you soon I hope. Orlin |
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Date: 1997-05-30 08:44:00 Steve Doonan ( scd@mindless.com / http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/1621/) wrote: The letter wars were interesting and wild! My dad and I have problems because I'm gay. He's older (60s-- I'm 45). I'm his first-born child, and have been a great disappointment to him (because I'm gay). He wants to have a friendship with me, but he doesn't want me to ever bring up the subject of homosexuality, so I can't even talk about my life around him! I've given up. Like your Aunt Pricilla, he's a hard case-- Best wishes, Steve |
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Date: 1997-04-20 03:46:00 Mac ( gmac@aloha.net / http://www.kauai.net/~kwc2/fwcathp.htm) wrote: Enter Stargate Gateway You wont regret it. |
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Date: 1997-04-19 15:22:00 don and wil ( wil234don.aol.com / http://members.aol.com/wil234don/wildon) wrote: cool pages and links. many more years of happiness for you two. |
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Date: 1997-04-17 21:09:00 Pat Coate ( bpcoate@gte.net / no homepage) wrote: Was just thinking about you and your wonderful website again today, and directing positive thoughts your way. Have you everthought of compiling these missives into a book? |
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Date: 1997-04-16 06:04:00 Pat Coate ( bpcoate@gte.net / no homepage) wrote: Your Letters were the most invigorating reading I've found in my two years of surfing the 'Net. I'm a heterosexual woman, and I don't understand the gay lifestyle, but I understand that you are a special person. Please try to forgive your Aunt Priscilla. All anger comes out of fear, conscious or not.( P.S. Purgatory is the correct spelling.) |
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Date: 1997-04-15 04:03:00 John Hansford ( John_Hansford@notes.wustl.edu / http://---none_yet---) wrote: I'm not really sure how I found this oasis--just followed one link after another. I want to say how much your site impresses me as a microcosm of gay life (not lifestyle). Your interests, concerns, and issues cover the whole spectrum of life and living, love,family, society, government, and religion. I really respect your conviction and your commitment. My partner of 23 years and I confront some of the same attitudes you do, but fortunately not from within our families, and some of the same challenges, like guarding our health (one of us is HIV+, the other HIV-; one of us is diabetic, the other hypo- glycemic; one of us survived non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the other has fought back from severe clinical depression; both of us have chronic sinus conditions (I could tell you some stories!!!). Dinner table conversation often revolves around each other's current state of gastrointestinal uproar; it's so nice to have something in common to talk about! Just keep on doing what you're doing, and thanks for sharing so much. |
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Date: 1997-04-06 00:32:00 Roger Walkup ( rwalkup@student.uwsuper.edu / no homepage) wrote: Found your page via Tammy Jones, my e-mail buddy. I spent most of my afternoon reading the Letter Wars. These family disputes are so wierd; I'm in the middle of one too, sort of in the position of your sister, Susan. I really hope something (medication) works for you. My mom has been living in Uganda for the last 15 years or so. The average lifespan of a PWA there is 5 years. Good luck and prayers to you. |
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Date: 1997-04-03 01:34:00 Elissa Palacios ( AkaneCutie@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi Wes! This is Elissa, Lynn's secretary from ABLED! Just stopping by to say that your page is great! Very cool ^_^ Talk to you later! |
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Date: 1997-03-30 06:12:00 Bob Varney ( lightbearer@mindspring.com / no homepage) wrote: I'm a 35 year old male. I live in the south, I'm on disabiliity, gay, and have AIDS. I have never gotten much responce to any writing I've done with family members. It's amazing to me that this experience is so universal. It reminds me of people who are against interacial mariage, because the children will have to live with their prejudice. It's also apparent to me that gay people often have strong feelings about family. Where does that come from. My dad has said ten words to me in 20 years. Neither parent called or wrote after 4 hospitalizations. Why do we, gay people everywhere have the same stories. I wish my family members knew how to use the postal system, phone and computer networks, but it ain't happening. I will keep checking for updates on your site, it has helped me to feel less isolated. |
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Date: 1997-03-28 19:52:00 Laura Amoscato ( lamoscato@blue.austinc.edu / no homepage) wrote: A friend mentioned your homepage to me and I loved it! Keep up the great work. Best of luck to you both! |
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Date: 1997-03-22 00:54:00 charla mustard-foote ( charla@charla.com / http://www.charla.com/charla) wrote: What an amazing family story! Have you thought of syndication? This weekend, I'm going to meet my SOs family...big family...extended family...weird family. We're hets, but I'm fat, so it's probably the same thing without the g-d stuff. Reading your letters has prepared me for the worst and given me a great attitude. Can you say ATTITUDE??? Thanks for the insight...hope you're both well. c |
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Date: 1997-03-19 08:46:00 Joe Duve ( JVD919@swbell.net / http://www.geocities.com/westhollywood/6911) wrote: I left long comments over in the LP Guestbook. Make sure and read them. As another Houstonian, I would love to get together for coffee or just chat sometime. Maybe we have mutual acquaintences. E-mail me if you have time. |
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Date: 1997-03-08 11:07:00 andrew ( prezzemolo@hotmail.com / http://not.yet.in/respectable.form.html) wrote: Hey guys, I just stumbled across your page and wish I had time to read 'Letter Wars,' particularly since tomorrow heralds the first time my nuclear family will gather around a table for a meal (and not to split up some dead geezer's loot) since I was five. Your tact and self-respect are helping me hold my chin up in my own personal sturm & drang. Thanks for publishing something worth lingering on! Buona salute, andrew |
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Date: 1997-03-08 00:04:00 douglas dmitri mosier ( u398@academic.truman.edu / http://www.churchsurf.com/host/free/kirksvil.htm) wrote: Dear Wes, I read all the letters including the one from a step cousin's ex (?) and the one from Priscilla's daughter (#22 I believe). I came across thy site when I found (I don't remember how) Gabi Clayton's page in memorial to her son, Bill. While I feel for all of you who are and have been victims of the stupid hatred of many in the so-called radical right/fundamentalist camp, I must say that thy attitude, especially toward thy aunt, does nothing to convince the ignoramuses of anything other than you are just as bad if not worse than you accuse us of being. Letter #14 made some valid points on interpretation of the biblical passages that you cited. Thee would do well to think over his points. As to thy attitude and treatment of thy aunt, I say that thee is a spoiled child in a man's body. It definitely seems to me that thee wants everything in the world thy way or no way. I cannot imagine telling any of my relatives to not bother coming to see me if they would rather not have my girlfriend/fiancee/ wife with me. Thy glee at the prospect of thy aunt's humiliation, as thee put it, was quite obvious and also quite childish. I hope thee grows up and wisens up before thee meets Jesus because the way things are now, I would not wish to be in thy shoes at that time. (Jesus told us to judge righteous judgement i.e. in accord with the Scripture, so I don't want to hear any truck about Matthew chapter seven. That passage refers to hypocritical judgement.) Hoping thee will see the error of thy ways, I remain Thy servant, Dmitri PS I will pray for thee and Tom. |
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Date: 1997-03-04 07:31:00 Kathy Kennedy ( vfgraves@pop.erols.com / no homepage) wrote: I am taking an AIDS Awareness Class and studying to be a Social Worker. Though it has not touched me personally, it has touched my heart. Pain does not discriminate, neither do I. I hope you have many more years of happiness together. I'm glad you are able to experience the travelling and luxuries you have. You have to put a whole lifetime into a few short years. It is so easy to see the side you are on. If your aunt had been born gay, she would have been just as adimant about gay rights. I always try to put myself on the other side. Why would anyone choose to live a life that makes them outcasts? You are who you are. You have made the best of all that life has given you, and you handle yourself with a quiet charm and maturity. I would be proud to call you my family or friend. You are a wonderful person especially in loving and forgiving the hatred and discrimination. They are guilty of the very thing they preach against. I consider myself a christian and feel that it is God's place to judge, my place to love and be the best christian/family/friend I can be. I would love to hear from you both. I am hoping they will find a cure or at least something to stop the progression of AIDS. Anyway, I've written enough. Be proud of who you are and all you have accomplished. You have many supporters. |
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Date: 1997-03-01 10:05:00 Don Weston ( Donaldo666@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Well guys... i learned of your site from a brief article in ETC magazine here in Atlanta. I picked up ETC tonight as i was leaving the re-opening of the Otherside Bar after the bombing. Attending tonight was important to me and to the capacity crowd (nearly 10X the usual Friday night attendance) because it gave notice to those that do not agree with our expression of love that we cannot be intimidated and in the face of disaster and fear- we become stronger. And as I read every word of your site - from your Rolls date to your present health conditions to the guestbook comments - I am very appreciative of your struggles and breakthoughs and what an impact it had on me... and those that are viewing it. Thanks for sharing it ALL like this... it is the comtemporary history of all of us and ya'll have made it very enjoyable and accessible. If ever passing thru Atlanta, please let me know..I'd love to thank ya'll personally... Good luck and good health... Don |
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Date: 1997-02-27 06:48:00 Bruce Mears ( BwMears@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Hi ladies, Been doing the Wes and Tom Webpage thing. Looks wonderful. I am impressed that you put so much into it. Everything is wonderful here. Will call you this weekend (02-01~02). Love ya, your wonderful... |
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Date: 1997-02-27 04:08:00 Monica Marsicek ( mmarsice@knox.knox.edu / no homepage) wrote: I really don't know what to say. I strongly support both Tom and Wes and applaud them for their perseverence in the face of damaging family relationships. I have a gay friend who has been through family disowning (not the entire family, just a few) and I understand it personally. I have come to believe, after reading at least 90% of the letters in these pages, that perhaps Wes should have waited to display his loving relationship to his family until they had time to adjust to the issues. Maybe this could have alleviated or avoided some of the hurt which occured--but I guess we'll never know. Once again, I applaud Tom and Wes and look forward to visiting this site again in the future! =) |
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Date: 1997-02-27 01:06:00 Joe Fisher ( joefisher-ngi@worldnet.att.net / no homepage) wrote: Happy Birthday, Wes! |
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Date: 1997-02-26 18:16:00 Terry Van Fleet ( tvanfleet@worldnet.att.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes and Tom, I rec'd your email message, and decided to check out your page again. Things OK, Glad to see your viral loads appreciably down since introd of protease inhibitors. My life has rebounded as I said earlier. Someone becoming HIV+ in the 1996+ years has a much better situation than I did in 1983. . . more is known, and for the first time since forever, the virus can be controlled in most people if caught early enough. Regarding the homophobia by your aunt--forget her, have your own family reunion, invite everyone, and if she decides to stay home, praise God, she has to live with her own illusions. You cant educate everyone, nor should you try. Enough of this. Got to go--Enjoy your page, and someday well meet in Houston, as Im sure we see each other, just dont know weve communicated. Terry |
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Date: 1997-02-26 05:39:00 mic ( psu07548@odin.cc.pdx.edu / no homepage) wrote: hey you guys...thanx for being out....thanx for having a web page with lots and LOTS of stuff on it....and i'm sorry, after years of working as a veterinary technician with all its accompanying grossness, i said no thanx wes's nose page......keep up the rest of the good work though!!! |
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Date: 1997-02-18 23:12:00 Cynthia ( cynthia@corollary.com / no homepage) wrote: I read all the letters today on your web page. I think that they are representative of the types of dialogs and differences going on in families where GLB people force a confrontation. I did this in my family as well. What I find really heart-rending in your case is the way that this has escalated. I find Priscilla to be mean-spirited and narrow-minded, and representative of many of the hypocritical fundies out there. What I see, also, though, is a continuence on your part in fanning the flames which is sad, as I think that it will only continue to distance you more from your family and reduce the chances of having the relationship back that you stated in your reconciliation letter to Priscilla. Mentioning the web site the first place, and then rementioning it in your '96 newsletters to your family ......... you have to know that this is/would be like pouring gasoline on a still burning fire. Maybe the high drama is rewarding for you and it was intentional? Please differentiate this point from the fact that you did the web site. I don't think your family would even know about it if you hadn't told them. I think that it is thought provoking and interesting for others, telling them and letting them know that you are going to put your family's private lives on display (without their permission) and that you continue to do so seems like you have now reached the level of frustration with them, that you don't care how far you take this and that you have decided that this issue is more important, which is fine....except you state otherwise at times. A personal opinion. Personally, I find the letters an amazing microcosm of our society and family interactions. I think that they would not only be instructive in classrooms for discussions about homosexuality, but also family dynamics and personal interactions. I'll watch for replies to your Dec. 96 letter to see what transpires. I really hope that something occurs to de-escalate this whole situation in your family. |
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Date: 1997-02-14 21:25:00 Matthew Tileston ( BosSailor1@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I really enjoyed your site! I found out about it through the Pride! forum on CompuServe. I'll be back to visit to follow your adventures! Good luck to both of you. |
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Date: 1997-02-14 00:40:00 Stan King ( StanK@ix.netcom.com / no homepage) wrote: I have seen and read part of the great page you guys have. I admire the both of you and hope to meet you someday. I live in Houston with my lover of 33 years. I am 68 and he is almost 56. We are both healthy and are really thankful for that. Do take care of your- selves and again, thanks for the great page. |
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Date: 1997-02-13 03:35:00 Arryn & Kim ( KAxpress / no homepage) wrote: Thanks for your great home page!!! We haven't read the letters yet but plan to do so soon! We appreciate your open-ness and positive attitude -- and VISIBILITY! (No, I'm not talking about what came out of Wes' nose). Best!!! |
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Date: 1997-02-10 23:37:00 Mike Randall ( 76361.54@compuserve.com / no homepage) wrote: Whew! We'll hafta' ccompare notes sometime on f families...I'm new to all this, I just found out in Nov that I am HIV +...Wish me luck Mike |
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Date: 1997-02-10 22:58:00 Scott Baxter ( baxter@facnet.ucla.edu / no homepage) wrote: Wes & Tom, Thank you for that wonderful experience. As the son of right wing fundamentalist parents it is a situation all too familiar. I must say that my parents have come a long way in ten years and now freely come to visit and stay with me and my partner of four years. They love him dearly. They have a lot of learning to do, but remember there is hope even for Aunt Priscilla. I would love to know how you are both doing healthwise these days. Do send me an e-mail if you have the time. Take care... A former fundamentalist christian who is now convinced that actually no god exists! |
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Date: 1997-02-10 22:41:00 Ann ( Autumnfest@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/autumnfest/index.htm) wrote: Thank you for doing this!!!!! I can relate totally (as can most of my friends, whom I am going to share this with!) As a lesbian who comes from a Evengelical Free Baptist Family, it's like a revisit of my own family's intolerance, and while it is painful, it's also extremely funny! I come from a large family, (and yes at least 10% are queer!) and the funniest thing I ever heard was my grandmother telling my uncle (her brother) in response to his comment that he was gay was no you're not!.......this man is in his late 60's now, and still gay as ever...... Oh, the website if for the Midwest Womyn's Autumnfest, a festival that I co-produce in IL |
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Date: 1997-02-10 20:45:00 Lisa Poultney ( johngordon@wwdc.com / no homepage) wrote: Great pages. And your letter to your aunt is one of the best I've read combatting homophobia of the I don't hate the sinner, just the sin type. I ran into problems to read the letter after your aunt called to say Tom wasn't invited to the gathering. Was told it wasn't on the server. I hope this is just a temporary situation. I'll be back. |
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Date: 1997-02-10 15:24:00 Dan ( Dan_In DC@aol.com / Coming_Soon!) wrote: Chalk another hit up to the GLAAD listing. I'll surf back in when I have more time (I didn't want to get too into the letters). Hope you all are doing well. |
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Date: 1997-02-09 22:24:00 Brooks Graham ( brooks@null.net / no homepage) wrote: Oh, me too! Except my weird family is just the opposite - all my aunts and uncles are very supportive and my folks are the fundies. Thanks for sharing this with the world. It reminds us all that we're not alone in this. Congrats on the coverage!. (I found out about this through GLAAD announcements) bdg |
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Date: 1997-02-09 01:44:00 Pam Rhoads ( Zeep77@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Congratulations Wes! I am officially recognizing you as a member of a PNAF (Perfectly Normal American Family). As a lesbian I have come to the realization that thereare so many dysfunctional families in the USA that it has become normal. And your family certainly fits the mold! I am particularly offended by your Jesus Freak Aunt who see everything through the veil of Christianity. I am a Pagan and do not subscribe to all that religious tripe and hate when it is shoved down my throat. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Anyway, you two guys hang in there and remember there's a lot of people out here who think like you, we're just not well organized! Take care and blessed be. |
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Date: 1997-02-09 01:42:00 Pam Rhoads ( Zeep77@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Congratulations Wes! I am officially recognizing you as a member of a PNAF (Perfectly Normal American Family). As a lesbian I have come to the realization that thereare so many dysfunctional families in the USA that it has become normal. And your family certainly fits the mold! I am particularly offended by your Jesus Freak Aunt who see everything through the veil of Christianity. I am a Pagan and do not subscribe to all that religious tripe and hate when it is shoved down my throat. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Anyway, you two guys hang in there and remember there's a lot of people out here who think like you, we're just not well organized! Take care and blessed be. |
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Date: 1997-02-09 01:34:00 Pam Rhoads ( Zeep77@Aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Congratulations guys! I pronounce you part of a perfectly normal American family (PNAF). Oh, yes, there are so many incredibly disfunctional families in the US that is has become the norm. I know my family has a long tradition of PNAFism. Although I came out as a lesbian to my family a good 20 years ago, I find they best handle it when we just don't discuss the subject. I can't for the life of me figure out why straight people are afraid of gays and lesbians. What's up with that? I don't do anything they don't do including work and pay taxes, mortgage, and bills. I'm lucky enough to have a life partner who is intelligent and a truly good person. We've been together for 7 years. I don't understand why that is threatening to some born again christian in Ohio or Tennessee or New York City for that matter. You guys are showing a lot of courage and patience in this matter. It just makes me so damned angry when people expect me to stop being a lesbian because it makes them uncomfortable. |
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Date: 1997-02-08 23:27:00 Louis Hemmi ( hemmi1@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/hemmi1/index.htm) wrote: Love this Web site ! Keep up the great work, and maybe we'll see you on the cover of an Internet Magazine, or the Advocate ?! |
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Date: 1997-02-08 03:13:00 Joe Fisher ( joefisher-ngi@worldnet.att.net / no homepage) wrote: Wow! Wes, yours has to be one of the most methodically dysfunctional families around. (My family's best row -- about four years long -- was over car windows left down in a rain storm and lumpy ice cream. Sadly, no documentation exists.) Reading these missives (missiles?) changed the way I think about homophobia. Typically, my emotional response to people like Priscilla was anger. Now I just feel sorry for anyone who could be so pathetically deluded. Stay Brave and Happy! Joe |
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Date: 1997-02-07 00:00:00 Rebecca ( aquarum@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: I love the page, guys! Makes me really not look forward to coming out to my father's family, but, hey, I never liked them anyway. I saw the article in USA Today (actually read it in QNews), and had to check it out, especially because of the cop uniform. I hope the whole Priscilla matter is settled now. |
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Date: 1997-02-06 21:37:00 Frank ( frankg@zzapp.org / no homepage) wrote: Great web page especially for someone like me who is dealing with HIV on a daily basis. Keep up the good work. |
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Date: 1997-02-06 05:06:00 Buffy ( hawbeck@midwest.net / no homepage) wrote: Wes & Tom! Awesome awesome site!! I read about it in USA today and just had to come! I was not disappointed. The nose stuff was a bit much for me and I'm even a nurse!(I've never handled nose things well, I hate placing Nasogastric Tubes!) hehe The letter wars were interesting, thanks for sharing. Best of luck and health! Buffy |
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Date: 1997-02-06 01:36:00 Charlie ( mauchar@keys.4ez.com / http://www.keys.4ez.com) wrote: I love your site! You seem so energetic and articulate in the face of all this ...stuff.I want you to fight on and live!I am not sick myself so I don't really know. But still there is the passage of time and young lives; I've seen it. God bless you. C |
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Date: 1997-02-02 19:18:00 anonymous coward ( iso_morphi@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Great set of letters. Both the literacy and formality of your family was shocking. I have filed you under Queer Politics and hope to return for a more detailed reading. Wishing you both happiness from NorTex. |
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Date: 1997-01-30 19:49:00 samuel g potter ( sgpotter@unccvms.uncc.edu / no homepage) wrote: My friend saw the USA Today article and thought I would enjoy this sight. She was right. I am so glad to see you guys share your story. There are a million of us out there with our own stories and it gives me courage to tell mine to one more after reading what you have gone, and are going, through. Thanks for your inspiration. |
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Date: 1997-01-30 07:02:00 Greg Serochi ( Serochi@csus.edu / http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu) wrote: Saw your stroy in the USA Today. I have read all of the letters that your family has written and most of all I feel a great sadness that some members of your family cannot accept the both of you as simply two people who are living life to its fullest together. I am a straight man who has no problem with what two consenting adults decide to do with their lives and I hope all of the people who read these letters realize that we should love and support all the members of our families, especially if they are suffering from such a terible disease as AIDS. I hope your drugs are working well for you and that you will associate yourselves with positive people and ideas. You are in my prayers... |
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Date: 1997-01-30 06:58:00 wyatt hines ( jacwa@bellsouth.net / no homepage) wrote: more fun than parlor games! especially enjoyed your political links. keep it up. i'll do my part to encourage visitors. -wyatt |
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Date: 1997-01-30 05:14:00 Connie Folleth ( ConnieKay@aol.com / no homepage) wrote: Great web page. Read about you in USA Today. I have downloaded the letter wars and will be reading soon. I hope you will stay with us a long time. We need more with insight and humor among us. |
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Date: 1997-01-30 00:46:00 George Hazimanolis ( ghaziman@wqed.org / no homepage) wrote: Hi Guys-- Of course I read the piece in USA Today today and couldn't resist checking it out. I'm speechless. Soap opera is my word du jour. Have you thought of taking this to the next stage, dare I say it - The Today Show?? I haven't gone through everything, but you are now bookmarked. Good luck, George in Pittsburgh. |
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Date: 1997-01-30 00:17:00 Ralph/Richard ( no email / no homepage) wrote: Saw the article in USA Today while at gym. Called Richard at work and he cannot wait to get home to read. Hope you two have plenty of time to handle all this. Best wished from both of us. Ralph |
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Date: 1997-01-29 21:09:00 Jason Alexander ( jalex@richnet.net / http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/1319/) wrote: I think it is awesome you have even the mispelled words, grammar, and such in the letters. This is definately a worthy page of reading. However, there is a God, there is truth, and if a person misses, how do they know they missed, when they haven't hit anything. You haven't hit the truth, and you will not know. Every criminal claims innocence, and if God is just, how can you claim to someone who doesn't make mistakes, that He made one. You rejected the truth, seem to be well-set in your beliefs, and I care, but not as much as God. God cares alot, and He is concerned. I am not trying to convince, you; just adding another brick to a wall of truth, I see you ignore. After all, the wall can be as big as the beholder. Again, nice page. I commend your work, and definately recognize you as talented. Take care. Jason A. P.S. Wish you were president, even though I disagree with you lifestyle. You put effort into it, and Clinton is lazy. Anyone who can put some fire behind his beliefs(you), deserves to lead. If ya can't, well, coffins are like beds....the lazy get used to death before they even get there. |
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Date: 1997-01-27 00:41:00 Wes ( TopDadTX@aol.com / http://members.aol.com/topdadtx/) wrote: Hey everybody! I'm trying out a new guestbook based in Denmark. Go ahead and write some comments! |
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