TheBanyanTree: Still alive, surfacing for a question

[Monique Colver]

Tobie! There you are! So nice to see you again dear.


Monique Colver
Colver Business Solutions
monique at colverbusinesssolutions.com
www.colverbusinesssolutions.com
(425) 772-6218



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Tobie Shapiro <tobie at shpilchas.net> wrote:

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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.
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>        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)/
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>        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.
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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
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