TheBanyanTree: Still alive, surfacing for a question

[Dale M. Parish]

Long time since I've heard your voice here.  How are the twins?  

Dale
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Dale M. Parish
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thebanyantree-bounces at lists.remsset.com [mailto:thebanyantree-
> bounces at lists.remsset.com] On Behalf Of Tobie Shapiro
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 12:57
> To: The Banyan Tree
> Subject: TheBanyanTree: Still alive, surfacing for a question
> 
> June 28, 200000000000000000000000000000000000000121212121212121212
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> Dear group of writing fanatics,
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> 	This is Tobie Shapiro.  Remember me?  I think the last time I was
> active in here was in 2007 when I sent in an excerpt every day that I
> called, for want of a better title, "Life Stories_____", and gave them a
> number.  Of course before the post of the out of order pieces of life
> memories, I blathered away, much as I am doing now, telling everyone
> what was going on at the time in my actual non parallel
> universe life.   Then after the two hundred somethingth installment, I
> suddenly shut up and disappeared, to no one's great alarm or
> anything.  The alarm went on in my private life.     As it still
> does.   But much has happened in the positive column as well.
> 
> 	However, I'm not going to bother you with that tawdry stuff.   I'm
> going to come begging for advice.   This is how it is........I got a
> call from an old and dear friend who had made the awful mistake of
> googling herself and finding her name attached to some goings on in my
> Life Stories project.  She contacted me, upset, asking me to remove the
> reference to her.  Too many people involved, truths revealed,
> uncomfortable apologies due (I kneed the floor for a few weeks and
> promised to edit out the personally identifiable text.  I felt
> terrible about it.....writing as if no one were ever going to read it
> (though that is understandable seeing as how I recall posting what I
> thought were stories as powerful as land mines but much kinder and
> hearing absolutely not one word from anyone here.  Well, I do that, but
> that's another story altogether.  None of us is personally like the rest
> of them impersonally)/
> 
> 	I want to correct that piece in the archives.  Is there someone who
> can tell me how to get that done?  I love my friend and yet, internetly
> typical, I posted highly personal information for all 7 billion of us to
> see, with in mind that only two or three people would read it, and of
> those, maybe .0003% of them would recognize my friend's name, and of
> those .0003% maybe less than .
> 000000000000000000000000002413% would call up and harass her 30 years
> after the fact.   Nevertheless, it's the principle of the thing.  And
> I was what is known as a rat.   So my work is cut out for me.
> Can anyone help me out here?   I wrote to Paul a few months ago, but
> never heard back.  I could have typed too softly.
> 
> 					Say hello to the nice lady.
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> 					Tobie
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> "I'm Jewish.  I have OCD; and I'm not afraid to use it."    THS
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> Tobie Shapiro
> tobie at shpilchas.net
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