I have quite number of Janis Ian albums. At Seventeen and Jesse are two of the most heartbreaking songs ever. Stars is a tear jerker too. She has changed in her 90's albums but still wonderful.
> > > I shudder when I think how kids who couldn't hide their > non-standard sexualities were treated. I left school as soon as I possibly could, which was at 15. I have never forgotten and to this day avoid walking past a school or even driving past one really. And seeing a group of kids just sends me right back. They still frighten me. Trouble is back then i didn't have a clue they knew I was gay. i didn't know I was. Or rather I didn't know that the words used were describing me.(Iwas 16 before I knew that homsexual and all the derogotory names meant me) Instead i thought they knew about the sexual abuse(one of the teachers was a child pornographer). So i just carried on feeling ashamed about my guilty secret. Not having a clue it wasn't my shame. This went on from 12 till i left, the bullying that is not the abuse. that stopped as soon as I grew hair. Funny, tho I have more or less come to terms with the absue and my home life(which was more of the same), I have never come to terms with school life.Living with the nickname 'shit' for 5 years is not easily forgotten. So today i still find groups frightening, dislike dog shows even tho i go, and certainly why Jonifest is my idea of a nightmare. But I bet anything my life is a darn sight better now than the lives of those kids will ever be. (aside-adults say children can be cruel-what they don't say is that adults are even more cruel and the children learn it from them) > > > Geek-hugs and peace to all, > > Walt -- bw colin DAK,BRO GC, 950i, 940,860,864,890, 260,Silver 830,860, 580 and 270, Passap 6000, Duo80. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tantra-apso.com
