Congratulations @Luna20 for naming the thread and an honourable mention goes to @Madame No for coming up with the thread title.
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MRShavershamsdress
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Friday at 8:33 PM
. Life hurts us sometimes, but we can become better people for it.
KyBourbon
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Friday at 5:03 PM
Thank you for your stories.![Red heart :heart: ❤](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/2764.png)
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Lochness Monster
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Tuesday at 9:40 PM
KyBourbon
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Friday at 6:02 PM
![Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile: 😄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f604.png)
Also, I iron my tablecloth!![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f606.png)
That reminds me…I really need to clean my house today!
Here’s a picture of what I served for the lunch (pre-plated), and another picture from a different meal showing more of the wall.
I think I can do as good a job as Phi Phi! But, I guess I’m REALLY gay!
(I don’t use tin foil in my candlesticks, though!)
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You have such a beautiful home, well dining room(?).
Marquis de Potpourri
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Tuesday at 8:42 PM
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Including this one![Backhand index pointing down :point_down: 👇](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f447.png)
Marquis de Potpourri
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Tuesday at 8:51 PM
Meanwhile, at Lalande...
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None the less. There's the wiki and happy tattling.
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MRShavershamsdress
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Friday at 8:33 PM
Thank you for sharing that. It’s never easy. Many of us of a certain age have horror stories of homophobia. I was accidentally outed in high school by my own actions. My father gave me the choice of conversion therapy with a Christian therapist or homelessness. I was self aware enough at the time so I decided to play his game to finish my senior year. I left for university and never looked back. Mom kicked his ass to the curb my freshman year. I didn’t see him again until eleven years later when I identified his body after he drank himself to death. I loved my dad very much. After their divorce was granted I told him he’d made his choices and lost his oldest son as a result. We had a lot in common but he chose to succumb to his demons. In many ways it was my most hurtful experience with homophobia. My mom, brother and the grandparents were totally different. Their attitude was you’re family and we love you. So much so that my mom did have a history of calling before a big event to see if I was available for hair and make up, and maybe something sparkly from the drag bag. But the most horrifying experience with homophobia was the suicide of my boyfriend at university. We’d been together for two years. I moved off campus so we could quietly live together even though he still had a private dorm room. He was outed when his fraternity brother saw him leave our apartment to go back to campus. It was a small southern school and I was out. The news was all over campus by the end of the day. To compound matters he was African American, literally. One parent from the DRC and the from the American southern Atlantic coast. I am white. So there was a heaping helping of hate for both our orientation and races. Someone called his parents and they made him come home. On Monday I went into my newspaper job and found a note in my box to call his fraternity’s faculty advisor as he’d killed himself over the weekend. I was told I was unwelcome at the funeral and that his death was my fault. Obviously that was not true, but my mental state fractured and I shut down. My best friend moved in and protected me. She got me through finals, made sure I ate and bathed and refused to leave my side until the next term started. I didn’t date again for years, and I refused to ever let anyone force me back into the closet. To this day I think of what a fine and wonderful young man he was. I miss him still almost 40 years later. I do not wonder “what if” because that is fruitless. It’s one of the reasons I’m still active in my community, attend pride and refuse to dim my light for anyone or any reason. @KyBourbon I sympathize with your experience and send you a virtual hugKyBourbon said:
I have no friends from childhood. I was deep “in the closet” until I turned 25 years old. I had a best friend in high school. He and I happened to be in the same classes the entire time we were in school. We hung out together, and our families even got together and socialized. We went to separate colleges and stayed in contact. After he graduated, he moved back to my city. He met a girl at college and proposed to her shortly after graduation. Since we were such close friends, everyone thought he would ask me to be in their wedding, but he didn’t. I was really surprised, shocked, and a little embarrassed (especially when people asked why). He said they wanted to “keep the wedding party small.” My family and I were invited to the wedding, but I wasn’t included in the wedding party. His best man was a guy we had both known in high school (on a side note, his best man was too busy to coordinate a bachelor party, so I stepped in and threw the party for him). He even told me I didn’t have to go to the wedding if I didn’t want to…the wedding was in his fiancé’s hometown 6 hours away. My family and I sent a gift, we drove 6 hours to the wedding, we attended the reception, and wished the couple well. After he and his wife returned home, I reached out to him a few times, but he was always busy. So I thought I would wait for him to call me but he never did…I was ghosted. I’ve never seen or talked to him or his family since…that was almost 30 years ago. After I came out, several people confided to me (independently) that his parents suspected I might be gay at that time and they didn’t want “someone like me” in their son’s wedding party. My friend didn’t stand up for me, so I assume he felt the same way. It was a hurtful experience. Homophobia at its finest. Luckily for me, I met some truly wonderful friends as an adult who stood by my side even after I came out. And I have a wonderful partner of 20 years. So, when Michael Petherick cried “homophobia” after people unsubscribed from his channel when, in fact, they really unsubscribed because he blew all their money on rent boys and parties, I was angry. I’ve experienced homophobia directly and personally…Michael’s false claims to garner pity really cheapened the experience of anyone who has truly been a target of homophobia.
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KyBourbon
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Friday at 5:03 PM
I have no friends from childhood. I was deep “in the closet” until I turned 25 years old. I had a best friend in high school. He and I happened to be in the same classes the entire time we were in school. We hung out together, and our families even got together and socialized. We went to separate colleges and stayed in contact. After he graduated, he moved back to my city. He met a girl at college and proposed to her shortly after graduation. Since we were such close friends, everyone thought he would ask me to be in their wedding, but he didn’t. I was really surprised, shocked, and a little embarrassed (especially when people asked why). He said they wanted to “keep the wedding party small.” My family and I were invited to the wedding, but I wasn’t included in the wedding party. His best man was a guy we had both known in high school (on a side note, his best man was too busy to coordinate a bachelor party, so I stepped in and threw the party for him). He even told me I didn’t have to go to the wedding if I didn’t want to…the wedding was in his fiancé’s hometown 6 hours away. My family and I sent a gift, we drove 6 hours to the wedding, we attended the reception, and wished the couple well. After he and his wife returned home, I reached out to him a few times, but he was always busy. So I thought I would wait for him to call me but he never did…I was ghosted. I’ve never seen or talked to him or his family since…that was almost 30 years ago. After I came out, several people confided to me (independently) that his parents suspected I might be gay at that time and they didn’t want “someone like me” in their son’s wedding party. My friend didn’t stand up for me, so I assume he felt the same way. It was a hurtful experience. Homophobia at its finest. Luckily for me, I met some truly wonderful friends as an adult who stood by my side even after I came out. And I have a wonderful partner of 20 years. So, when Michael Petherick cried “homophobia” after people unsubscribed from his channel when, in fact, they really unsubscribed because he blew all their money on rent boys and parties, I was angry. I’ve experienced homophobia directly and personally…Michael’s false claims to garner pity really cheapened the experience of anyone who has truly been a target of homophobia.MRShavershamsdress said:
I was raised in a very small southern US town with all the viciousness and attendent minding of everyone’s business but their own. I was also something of an odd child, much older than my years. Add in that my parents were influential in state and national poltics both personally and professionally and it was a recipe for disaster. As a result I had only a few friends, none close until university. Even those scattered to the four winds after graduation. I met my best friend in my first job out of uni and now 35 years later we still talk and write each other regularly though we are several states away from each other. I introduced him to his husband and they are still together. I have a small group of good friends. Even one or two that would help you hide a body.My friends are a diverse group of men, women, straight, gay, green and purple. Fanny’s lack of close relationships speaks volumes about her psychology.
Thank you for your stories.
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Lochness Monster
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Tuesday at 9:40 PM
Oh my goodness. That is it. Pethericks are turning the convent into a rehab centre for chateau nutters, both owners and patron can try and recover whilst….a bell tolls every hour and Ryan knocks on your door and shouts crack onTea with lemon said:
Why is Dan talking about windows?
I am not an expert in construction works, but it seems to me that a building must first have a roof.
Do any of you 15 know if there is a chateauverse rehab clinic somewhere for me to sign up for?
KyBourbon
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Friday at 6:02 PM
Thank you! I hired an artist to paint the walls in a landscape scenic (it’s bright and cheery…mostly blue and green, with some splashes of color). It took her about a month to finish. It represents the scenery and landscape around my house. Because it’s painted, I don’t have to worry about wallpaper seams! No crayons for me!
![Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile: 😄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f604.png)
Also, I iron my tablecloth!
![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f606.png)
That reminds me…I really need to clean my house today!
It’s painted, so I don’t have to worry about seams!Jules100 said:
Your place looks beautiful. Did you paint the mural or is it wallpaper?
Here’s a picture of what I served for the lunch (pre-plated), and another picture from a different meal showing more of the wall.
I think I can do as good a job as Phi Phi! But, I guess I’m REALLY gay!
![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f606.png)
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You have such a beautiful home, well dining room(?).
Marquis de Potpourri
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Tuesday at 8:42 PM
To make sense of what she wrote, try reading her comment out loud with Nati's accent.Madame No said:
Hmm....Ms. Gooder is slipping with her grammar. I am suspicious about her identity. Why is "Moat" capitalized? "Historical" should be historically. "...so he will enjoy to swim there" should be "he will enjoy swimming there". There are other awkward sentence structures in addition to these. This is not her usual carefulness. I agree with others that she is a CD plant.
You beat me to it!
Including this one
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Marquis de Potpourri
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Tuesday at 8:51 PM
Meanwhile, at Lalande...
![Direct hit :dart: 🎯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f3af.png)
![Direct hit :dart: 🎯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f3af.png)
![Direct hit :dart: 🎯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f3af.png)
![Direct hit :dart: 🎯](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f3af.png)
None the less. There's the wiki and happy tattling.