Last night I went out and got horribly drunk. I was drinking to the memory of a very fine man, I wept for a man I had never met, I bored a close friend with anger at the death of someone who I'd not even exchanged e-mail with. I've been reading soc.motss for over a year now but I can still count the number of times I've posted on one hand, despite this lack of input I've gotten a lot out of this news group. New friends, feelings of self worth, a level of honesty I never thought I'd have the strength to aspire to and a realisation that things in my life had to change.
I pity any new readers (in a similarly hateful closet to the one I
was in last year) to this group who will not have one of my
sources of inspiration. Rob Bernado's death is a truly great loss.
