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- From: lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Laurie Mann)
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- Subject: Re: My 5-year HS Reunion... the results!
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 13:55:13 GMT
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- Tracey McCartney writes
- >In article <1hon97INNc79@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- >tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >My 10-year class reunion is in a couple of years. I graduated with 125
- >others from a rural high school.
-
- Similar to mine---only I went to a suburban high school, not a rural
- one. Still, everyone knew everyone else's business.
-
- >But lately I've been thinking that I'd never be able to look at myself
- >in the mirror if I cowered in the closet during this reunion.
-
- I think it's very educational to be out at your reunion, but you
- can choose how out you want to be.
-
- I lost touch with most of my high school classmates as I went 600 miles
- to go to college and rarely went home. I'd hear tidbits from my mother
- over the year about my high school classmates who attended the same church
- as we did. One classmate, a very up-front type of woman who played trumpet and
- had the most phenomenal long black hair all through school shaved her head and
- took up carpentry. While she didn't come out at the reunion, I'd be VERY
- surprised to hear that she was straight.
-
- Anyway, we had a great time at the reunion. But, a woman that she'd been a
- close friend of during school grew progressively more uncomfortable during the
- evening and disappeared early. I don't know if she felt threatened by the
- other woman or not.
-
- In short, while visibility is important, do what you feel most comfortable
- doing.
-
- * In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak *
- * because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I *
- * didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade *
- * unionists, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a trade unionist... *
- *Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up.*
- * Rev. Martin Niemoeller [Why to March on Washington in April] *
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