Moi,

Thanks a lot for your reply, and the longer the better IMHO

I almost don't want to reveal this, and hope I didn't mislead anyone here--but this is a "Memoir"--I'm 36 years old--and I wrote this about 5 years ago in a graduate program.

I tried to bring myself back to that time--when I was around 9 or 10. It is very vivid in my memory, as obviously it had a profound effect on the rest of my life. Anyway, I appreciate your post, and am happy you felt the "positiveness" in it--indeed, I had to deal with it that way, as it never occured to me at the time, to deal with it in any other way. Now that I'm an adult, and have lived life through many experiences--I can't see my attitude being the same if something similiar were to strike me now. I'll post it in the TS forum--if you think that many might not see it here. By the way, my name is Brandt--I just used Chris because I was embarrassed to actually have my name in there, even though everyone in the class knew it was about me. Now that I think about--that was kind of strange that I did that. Oh well.