HB,

I want to reply... Your story has evoked things inside of me that I cannot even attempt to explain. I'm not ready to.

Your story is beautiful, both powerful and kind. Harsh and gentle. I just don't know what to say.

I'm on the verge of tears, not because you struck a chord, but because FEAR has engulfed me for years and I have yet to shake it.

I might have more to say later, but at the moment - I just want to cry for a while.

Thank-you for sharing this story...

KS

Thank you for sharing, HB. You are writing some powerful stuff lately! It is difficult to find a reply, so I say Ditto to what KS wrote. It is going to take me some gentle time to digest the symbolism of your story.

This is amazing, HB. Like KS and MH said, I'm moved beyond words. The "stranger" is someone I've been looking for all my life. It sounds like you found him and in doing so, you've found yourself. And appropriate? This is relevant to therapy on so many levels that it's hard to separate them. Thank you for sharing this.

SG

It's beautiful.
I also was waiting for my stranger. He was my fantasy when I was a child and later on. I know I found him now. I almost thought that this kind of stranger may not exist, that he is just a fantasy, but it became reality now.

Hi HB I know that reading this is going to be an amazing experience and speak to my heart - so I am going to wait until I have some time on my own to read it and get all emotional.

Love
Halo

((((((((((HB))))))))))

This was a gift beyond price and I write this with tears of gratitude running down my face. Words utterly fail me, both to have described so clearly what you described, a path I also took but could not have told with such grace, and the words to express my gratitude that you did so.

AG

HB... I'm so sorry that I have been missing in action lately. I know that you are going through a rough patch and I have not been here to support you. I just wanted to say that I think you are handling things in your usual graceful and classy way. The story you wrote touched me deeply because I understand so well your journey as it mirrors mine in many ways. I wanted to ask you how you knew all those things about me.

I think, though, that it was your description of meeting that "stranger"... the one who calmed her, asked nothing of her, was unfailingly kind and always there to help...I also met that stranger who, although I still keep an eye on him, has become as vital a part of my life as the oxygen I need to live.

Thank you for writing this important piece. It was absolutely the right thing to post here for all of us to reflect upon. I wish you peace, HB, and want you to know that you have always been a shining light here on this board.

Hugs,
TN