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- From: aberson@enh.nist.gov
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- Subject: RE: My 5-year HS Reunion... the results!
- Message-ID: <29DEC92.17202317@enh.nist.gov>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:20:23 GMT
- References: <1hon97INNc79@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <168CC1E2.TMCCART3@ua1vm.ua.edu>
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- In a previous article, TMCCART3@ua1vm.ua.edu (Tracey McCartney) wrote:
- >In article <1hon97INNc79@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- >tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >
- >(A lot of way cool and extremely encouraging stuff about Tom's HS reunion
- >deleted...)
-
- Ahhhh! Something happened to my feed, and I never got this. Can someone
- e-mail it to me? Thanks.
-
- >My 10-year class reunion is in a couple of years. I graduated with 125
- >others from a rural high school. Skipping the reunion is *not* an
- >option for me; I am the class president and will have to organize the
- >damned thing. So I've been thinking a lot lately (I know, I know, it's
- >kinda premature) about what I'll do when the day rolls around.
-
- [Plans for reunion, and worrying about former classmates deleted.]
-
- >Oh, well... I have two years to stew over this. Any input is appreciated...
-
- My ten year reunion was in September. I still have a few close friends
- from high school, all of them straight (at the moment at least, for just
- about anything will bend if hit hard enough), and know that a large number
- of my former class-mates are queer (about 50% of the top 40 of our
- graduating class). I was class faggot, the one who got all the taunts
- and harassment, while the others were left alone. I was not out to anyone
- nor was anyone out to me in high school.
-
- Daivd and I went with our friends and their spouses. We were the only
- same sex couple who went, most of the rest living out of town. I made no
- plans, except to let people know that they were correct in assuming I was a
- faggot. Many of the former harassers were there, and all were quite civil
- to me. Most made an effort to talk to me, and a number told me more than
- I really wanted to know about their lives. I was even voted something like
- "Most changed since high school" by my peers, and for that won a cheap
- bottle of wine. Daivd, usually frightened in such situations, had a great
- time, and can't wait for his 20th.
-
- I don't know how much this would apply to you. This was Miami Beach.
-
- Input? Just be yourself. Don't go to great pains to worry about everyone
- else or to make plans for how everything will happen. Just go and have
- a good time. Enjoy.
-
- Sim Aberson Ft. Lauderdale, FL aberson%3328.span@sdsc.edu
- "Home is where your roof landed" - t-shirt seen in Miami
-