So one of the best things about being in straight for 15 months and then having to internalize it for over 25 years is that I have gotten to meet and become friends with wonderful people like you Sammie. You are the best. Lemme see now...my straightling friends are SammieM, ChrisT, BobP, EddieD, GingerW, KenR, DanL, RichardB, WesF, LeighB,even my old time foster bro from straight, DavidK. David has quite a bit of learning to do about what straight and its legacy programs, but every one in their own time. Hmm...gotta be more than that! I also have acquiantences (sp) that I am fond of from this site. Those people are too darn many to list. So if there is one silver lining from being in straight, it is that I have some wonderful friends that will not desert me when I make mistakes, or put my foot in my mouth, or when I disagree with one of them, or even when I am accused of something that I didn't do (that is how I lost some so-called friends from straight). My true friends, don't leave me. And, if I have left anyone out...forgive me but my brain is a bit cooked with tiredness.
Best to all the straightlings out there - may be some day if I am lucky, I will need my toes to count my friends on.
Mike, Straight Survivor, St. Petersburg
'78 - '80