yourMissTress
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Joined: 6/14/2005
From: Nashville, TN
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stella, thank you for a wonderful post!
I have made several aquaintances here on CM. People that I exchange the casual email with (great post, liked what you said about this, and so forth). There are posters here that I have come to respect and some even admire in their ability to be forthcoming and honest and help others understand a different view point. Some of those people have changed a few of my own beliefs and thoughts about WIITWD. I learn from reading their thoughts and ideas, and sometimes I see a thread and think "oh, I hope so and so posts here I would really like to know what they have to say about it".
I chat with some posters more frequently than others and those I would call friends. They are people with whom I can share a little more of myself than what I am willing to put out on the boards for all to read. Some I have met, some I hope to meet, and some I may never meet, but that does not change the value of their friendship to me. They are people I can talk with and exchange honest feed back and emotions.
I have a group of friends here in Nashville that I connected with through the local club. They have become family to me. They are close to me in ways that my family could never be, we share everything with each other. These are the people that are rare. The people who accept each other warts and all, listen, care, empathize, we celebrate each others victories in life and penguin* each other in times of trial. I have a few vanilla friends that I am just as close to, but for some I have to filter my words, because they don't quite understand (and don't want to) some of my relationships and their dynamics. I really prefer those with whom I don't have to filter and explain.
*When penguins are sick, they fall over in the snow and ice and will die from the cold. So, when one penguin is sick, the rest will gather around it, lift it up and hold it between their bodies to keep it warm until it has recovered from it's illness.
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Tress
"If you have to tell people that you are a lady, you are not." My Grandmother
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RE: the value of friendship in BDSM - 
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