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Erica
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From Total Hate To True Love - (by Ashley)
Hi! My name is Ashley. When I met Bryan during the last year in college it was "ugh" at first sight. I thought he was the good-looking jock and acted kind of cocky. It only made him charming. How I eventually found out he thought I was a suck-up because I was focused on studying and wanted to graduate as an A student. He practically avoided me wherever I showed up and changed directions if he would see me from far away. At that time he had a girlfriend but soon they broke up and I saw how much it changed him. I wanted to help him get over this because I knew how that felt after the split. Once I came over and began a casual conversation and somehow he got into talking about the break-up. I told him I was sorry and he was impressed that I cared about him. I was surprised that big man on the campus actually had heart and feelings to express. Thus we became friends. At a party we danced for the first time to Usher's "My Way". And we just kind of clicked...a sparkle ran between us and we both lit up. Without even talking we let each other know that was more than friendship between us. I felt like I was drawn to him and he got attracted too. Soon we became a couple. He became patient and understanding about things that are important to me in my life like school and my grades. Now we work at different places but we make plenty of time to see each other, loyally attending each other's homes and events. I love him and how this love appeared doesn't matter to me.
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Posted on 11 August, 2006, 3:38 am by Erica
Author: Ashley
Category: New Love
When I was 2 years old my parents divorced. For the next three years I split my time between my mom in Midlothian and my father in Chicago while they went through a custody fight. During that period my father began sexually abusing me. It was horrifying! He threatened to hurt my mom if I told anyone about it. But it was too hard to keep the secret – I had been having nightmares about him and I shared it with mom.
My mother was simply furious. She made the abuse documented by doctors and than she filed police reports. However, it didn’t seem to help the custody case. Neither the judge nor my dad’s lawyers believed me. I was scared when dad was still getting unsupervised visits with me. Once when he tried to take me to his house for a visit I tried to jump out of the car. By law my mom still had no right to object dad’s visits. Seeing how scared I was convinced my mom to do something about it. One night she told me she had decided that the only way to keep my dad away from me was to run away. For the next nine years my mom and I were fugitives.
My mom said that we had to leave town without telling anyone – not my grandparents or my aunts – where we were going. So with only few clothes in a bag and my Barbie dolls we went to the airport.
I was young then and it felt like an adventure. For more than a year we traveled all over the country, by bus and plane and lived in motels in the places we stopped. And since we figured that dad and law enforcement would be trying to find us we both changed our identities and got new birth certificates. ...- Read full story | 1 comment
Posted on 8 August, 2006, 12:26 am by Erica
Author: Alese
Category: Miscellaneous
I Am Legally Blind - (by Sally)
Hi, my name is Sally. I'm currently 16 years old. I have Peters' Anomaly, which is glaucoma, aniridia (a rare disorder where iris fails to develop from the very birth) and nystagmuses (this is when you can't control your eye movements). Basically, I'm severely short sighted and can't control my eyes moving from side to side. I can't see far away, only really close up. I'm legally blind and have been like this since birth.
I can see people but I can't pick out features like eye color - I have to be very close otherwise it's blurry.
I have to pick out my friends by their voices. I can't read off a blackboard at school and when I read a book it has to be a few centimeters from my face. I have bad peripheral vision and I don't have any depth of perception, so I can't tell stairs or uneven ground.
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Posted on 1 August, 2006, 3:54 am by Erica
Author: Sally
Category: Miscellaneous
Peter and Mary's Story, Mary'... - (by Peter and Mary)
I had never thought about relating to a blind person. The situation had never presented itself in my early life, and I never had any education with regard to the subject -- a rather common experience for my age group (senior). It seems amazing to me now, that I have loved two men who lost their vision. One was my first husband George, who lost his vision at the end of our life together; and the other is Peter, who was blind when we met. By that time, I had had some practice in knowing how to interact with a visually impaired person, but as Peter and I have had more life experience together (we've lived together since 1994), I have found myself learning more about what is required to make ever so many things work for us.
Peter has had light perception only since the age of 33. He also has had a hearing impairment since he was 7. There are many issues I, a sighted person, have to deal with because of living with a visually impaired spouse, such as allowing enough room for two paths wherever we go. Revolving doors are another challenge. And I must read the mail for both of us, every day. There are always challenges, such as how to negotiate a public swimming pool when on vacation. Peter's guide dog had been retired, and I am often in the position of acting as a sighted guide, a job with a whole array of "do's and don'ts," all of which make logical sense, but require patience on both our parts. And, I might add, a good sense of humor.
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Posted on 24 July, 2006, 6:16 am by Erica
Author: Peter and Mary
Category: Friends & Family
My husband and I met in high school. I was the "new girl;" he was a smart-mouthed member of the cool kids, a year older than I. At first, I thought he was a jerk and he thought I was crazy. Later, I realized he was actually sweet, and he learned I was really... well, crazy.
We started going out when I was sixteen and he was seventeen, during the production of a school play. We were completely into each other -- totally obsessed. Our friends combined our names -- Tabitha and Babu -- into "Tabu" in honor of our devotion. But from the beginning, our relationship operated under certain constraints.
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Posted on 24 July, 2006, 6:12 am by Erica
Author: unknown
Category: Secret Love
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