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Meeting with Friend Two

by Tom - 16 July 2009

Here, again, the contact was swiftly established thanks to Friend One’s introduction and it wasn’t long before Friend Two and I talked on the phone. And Friend Two also lives within reach. Funny how things just happen, at times, in life.

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Meeting With Others

by Tom - 13 July 2009

A while ago, I asked Sean if he had any contacts in France with other transabled folks. He kindly and swiftly introduced me to someone via Email. Let’s call this chap Friend One.

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More on The Handless Maiden

by Tom - 3 June 2009

I had told Chloe about The Handless Maiden by Loranne Brown, and she eventually read it. I had been thinking of writing a post about it for quite a while, but I never managed to get past the first few lines. Then, Chloe published her post, The Handless Maiden. I’m not going to say much about the novel in this post, I’m not even trying to get to anything, this is just a bunch of reactions that I went through while reading Chloe’s post. And this is very personal.

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BIID Day In, Day Out

by Tom - 16 April 2009

There are days in and days out. Days in when I jump head on into being one handed, feeling very happy about it. And days out, when I look back in horror and think to myself how could I do that?!? And there are days not in, not out, normal days when the thought of it doesn’t even cross my mind. These are the best days in my life. But as time goes by, days not in, not out become scarce.

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Choice and BIID – Varying Opinions

by Collective - 13 April 2009

The following post is a collection of entries on the topic of “BIID and Choice” from different people. Everyone was asked to write about that topic, but were not given more direction than that. I chose to leave it up to people to go in the direction they thought best fitted the topic. I am quite happy with the way it’s turned out and might repeat this experience with another topic. Sean

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