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Mark Maker Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:03 AM
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Welcome to my coming-out party
Edited on Thu Jan-06-11 11:47 AM by Mark Maker
By Steve Buckley
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - Updated 1 hour ago

A candid admission: There was a time when I hated it when my mother would call with an urgent request that I drop everything to take her shopping.

These trips often involved the pursuit of trivial items — shoes, a table lamp, frozen strawberries. Or scatter rugs: In any given year, my mother would acquire enough scatter rugs to cover every inch of the playing field at Fenway Park , including the bullpens.(snip)

"Yes,” she said. “Just go ahead and do it. And then we’ll have a party.”

She was talking about the story in which I would say that I am gay.


http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?&articleid=1307703&format=&page=1&listingType=col#articleFull
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:18 AM
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1. Recommended.
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:21 AM
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2. That is lovely.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:38 AM
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3. Awesome. I forwarded this to my Daughter. It will make her day tomorrow when she wakes up. n/t
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reggie the dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 03:11 AM
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4. this is great
i hope lots of teenaged gay kids read this and then have their own coming out parties. people deserve to be loved and respected for who they are
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 03:22 AM
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5. Very nice story ~
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 05:07 AM
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6. It's too bad she didn't live to share this. His mother would have been so proud. n/t
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thanks_imjustlurking Donating Member (462 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 08:31 PM
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7. K&R
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