Okay, girl, I know I watch more cable channels than most, but I would really like to skip the Jamaica commercials. They're too hurty.

Thanks Cindy. I am going to try working on it now. Maybe right after I pour a wee glass of wine for myself.

Thank you too, Ginger

Pretty hair roll call: Allyson, Kristen, Polgara, Burrell, bon bon, Cindy and Ginger, and if anyone attempts to deny it I shall kill them with someone's pinky. Not mine. Mine are pretty useless for anything but typing.

Alibelle, that is such a great story.

I actually only ever met ita in person at the LA F2F, at prom, when she was full of post-belt-test weariness and I felt too shy to pester her when it was amazing that she'd managed to drag her pounded-on self there at all. And I just assumed there'd be some endless array of F2Fs and visits to LA, and there weren't.

I want to choke the shit out of all her doctors. Even if whatever happened was something that couldn't have been predicted or prevented, all the moments of pain that came before it *were* predicted, with 100% reliably, and absolutely could have been prevented, or at the very least eased.

I have been writing a remeberance of my own, just as a way to help me process this. When it is a bit furthrr along I will be glad to share it in case anyone wants to cannibalize bits of it for the official obit.

Also i have a good ita story that has not been entioned so far, one you may want to share with her sisiter. Apparently at a young age (11 or so?) ita found a child pschology/child rearing book. She read the whole thing and then began applying it on her sister. So, though t heir parent did not know it, ita's sister ha a third parent playing a major role n raising her. Searches are still a bit tough for me, even with the new tablet. I'e optimized it for composition rather than internet browing. But this story is somewhere on the board, and someone may want to search for it. It is such an ita story.

Allyson, you have lovely hair.

Burrell, you also have pretty hair.

It's all wrong and stupid and it should not be.

Ginger, I added some photos that were uploaded to facebook to the flickr group, but feel free to ignore them if you're curating it somehow. I just wanted to share in case they were missed by accident.

I was actually really tempted to share a picture I have with Moji that we took to prove to ita that we really did find each other and met up when I was in England. It was tough because it was a million years ago and I definitely did not have an international cell phone, so it involved a secret meeting, a pay phone, and SO MUCH CONFUSION because ita had forgotten to tell me her sister's name (and had only referred to me as Alibelle [which was fine, except that I introduced myself as Elizabeth when I finally found her]). Or share a picture of her. But eventually we met up, and she was absolutely lovely, and we made plans to meet up again, and ended up going to see the Keira Knightley King Arthur movie (where I was confused again by the lack of popcorn at the theater, and the chocolate smarties), and then Moji was overwhelmed by all the violence and held my hand and couldn't watch the screen through all the battles. So by the time I got back to a computer, I sent ita an email letting her know that M was absolutely delightful, but I had my doubts that there was any relation between them. And I think ita threatened to break my thumbs again for saying something so crazy.

Allyson and Burrell are both really pretty with really pretty hair.

That's a wonderful story, Alibelle.

Hair, so pretty.

Reality, sucks so hard.