TheBanyanTree: Still alive, surfacing for a question

[Tobie Shapiro]

June 28, 200000000000000000000000000000000000000121212121212121212



Dear group of writing fanatics,

	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.





					Tobie







"I'm Jewish.  I have OCD; and I'm not afraid to use it."    THS


Tobie Shapiro
tobie at shpilchas.net