| Subject: You sound sorta like MRAK in this thing, MK, but I know what you mean. I met Leslie. He's still cute and great to hang out with but my heart didn't race the way it does when I see a picture of precious Derek. I've had a lot of support on the Ian board and you've become the best friend I've never seen. PeachJam was great and I got to meet a lot of great girls I'll never forget. I hope to meet many, many more and, with MK's help, I'm hoping to go to Rollerfest in Anaheim. Anybody figured out how we get to Anaheim from Santa Ana? I HATE buses! Love you all and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Date Posted: 16:25:19 12/29/04 Wed
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MK
's message, "Year End Musings of a Maniak" on 10:42:54 12/29/04 Wed
>Hello Friends,
>
> It has been some time since I last posted for
>which I apologize. Work and home have been keeping me
>very busy to the point that I can barely read my
>email. Recently my hours were cut back to 30 per week
>so I'm squeaking as much as I can from each penny.
> Let me say belated Happy Birthdays and Merry
>Christmas to All. And an early Happy New Year as well.
> Recently on one of my coveted days off (when my
>husband was at work and my son at school) I began to
>think about how we all came to be friends and close
>friends and best friends in some cases because of two
>completely different things. The first is the
>Internet. That strange little (sort of) box on our
>tables or desks. Through the simple use of electricity
>and metal and wires and silicone, which a few years
>ago was the size of a house just to calculate
>mathematical problems, we are now able to communicate
>with people ALL over the world. Better than we could
>with our own telephones. And more often. I have been
>"talking" to friends in Switzerland, Canada,
>Australia, California, Florida and many other states
>and countries.
> We have all told each other about our days, our
>families, hopes and dreams (and other various things
>which I won't mention). We have asked for and received
>prayers and comfort from our online friends. We have
>also had our disagreements. We are, after all,
>different people with different opinions.
> The other thing that brings *us* together is our
>affection for eight gentlemen by the names of Alan
>Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Leslie
>McKeown, Stuart "Woody" Wood, Ian Mitchell, Pat
>McGlynn and Duncan Faure. Collectively know as The Bay
>City Rollers or the Rollers.
> "Back in the day" when we were in our teens did
>we ever really think that there were this many fans?
>Despite the pictures we saw of the throngs at the
>concerts could we ever have thought about just how
>many other girls had the same love for our favorite.
>Did we ever think "no one could love him more than I
>do"? How many of us said "I'm going to marry him"? How
>many tried everything we knew to meet them?
> How do we thank these wonderful gentlemen for
>simply being alive and becoming famous? How would our
>lives have been different if they had not become
>famous? If they were just eight average guys in this
>world.
> For me - well- I suppose it would have been a few
>more years before actually began to "bloom". I was a
>"late bloomer". Because I grew up in with five older
>brothers and the boys at school were always picking on
>me, I had trouble thinking of boys as cute or even
>likable. When I first saw Derek's face my heart
>started to beat so hard I thought it would explode. He
>became my only thought and my first love. (I have had
>other thoughts since then)
> To hold them in closely in our hearts with all
>the affection of our youth to me is the greatest
>tribute we can give, but it just does not seem to be
>enough for all they have indirectly done for each and
>every one of us. For now let us wish them peace, love
>and joy for the coming year and let us be happy for
>having had them in our lives.
>
> Thank you for allowing me to rant here. I now
>return you to you to your normally scheduled life -
>already in progress.
>
>MK
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