From: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org (hotcakes-digest) To: hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Subject: hotcakes-digest V2 #18 Reply-To: hotcakes@smoe.org Sender: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hotcakes-digest Friday, January 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- more on carly from AOL [Whydja@aol.com] Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! ["A] Re: Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! [catman Subject: Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! I had something very, very sad happen yesterday. My best friend Kim called me crying. She was crying so hard I thought maybe she had gotten a horrible e-mail or something. I couldn’t understand what she was saying, so I got in the car and went over to her place. She was still crying when I got there. After I mixed her a drink to get her to calm down she told me that her son Terry had taken his life. I was really shocked because I have baby sat him years ago. I was drying to find out why it happened but Kim just didn’t know anything and was really upset. I wondered if maybe he had found out he had AIDS and that is why it happened. Kim told me that Terry wasn’t gay, but I reminded her that often parents don’t know. She just started crying a lot more and I didn’t know what to do. Finally, I remembered that I had bought her Clouds in My Coffee for Christmas two years ago. So I put “Life Is Eternal” on her stereo and told her we were going to listen to it until it sunk in. Finally, she told me that she understood what Carly was saying and didn’t want to listen to it anymore and just needed to be alone. I was so grateful that Carly was able to say all the words that escaped me in this trying time. THANK YOU CARLY!!!!!!!! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:39:52 +0000 From: catman Subject: Re: Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! A terrible experince for your friend. Just a point tho that stuck out in your email-gay and AIDS are NOT synonymous. In fact, millions more str8 people have HIV infection than do gay people. I am amazed that in 1999 people still make this mistake. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:26:46 -0500 From: "Quentin Johnson" Subject: Re: Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! Catman, Thank you for pointing this out. Quentin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:58:09 PST From: "Adel Perkins" Subject: Re: Carly is always there for me when words fail! Thank you Carly!!!!!!! Colin: You are ABSOLUTELY right. But in my country, the USA, AIDS is still primarily a gay disease. That is why I said what I said. When you look at the whole world you see a different story. My sister is a nurse and she told me that most AIDS cases are in Africa and almost all of them are contracted by heterosexual contact. It is sooooooo important for people to know this so they don't foolishly think they can't get it. AIDS truly is a "human" not a "gay" disease. What worries me so much is that it seems like the people who can't afford the expensive medicines now are the only ones dying! I guess I made my comment because I had always thought that her son was gay and was worried about what he was doing. Anyway, I spoke with my friend this evening and she had taken some anti-depressants and sounded better but it will be a long time before she is OK I know. I want to be there for her. I really, really thinkt hat listening to carly this afternoon helped. I know it helped me. Just her voice is so soothing to me. Thanks for the info Colin. As usual,you were right! Adel Adel ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of hotcakes-digest V2 #18 *****************************