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Originally Posted by Un-rêve
I once did a 5 km run for a cancer charity and it was a total waste of time. I have lost both my mother and father to this terrible illness and it will most likely get me too. Well I'm done with this as it's like flies on shit.... so fuck you.... and fuck the 3002 people who walked for effin nothing!!
And I'm sorry too...
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Well I'm not sure how much I might have discussed this in here in general or maybe in private with others, but I will go ahead and relate it here. Back in the mid 90s, I was living in Georgia, about a thousand miles south of here. I got divorced after being married for 11 years to a woman I was actually in a relationship with for 15 years. It was very painful for me. I wasn't a great husband, but I felt I wasn't a bad husband.
As many of you know, I'm an aircraft mechanic. This is a long story, but I'll try an shorten it. I had worked for Gulfstrean, a job I absolutely hated, but luckily I was hired to work for a charter company there. I took another part time job with an airline contract company there and through a lot of hard work, we won the contracts of every airline there.
One of those companies was Value Jet. They were a low budget airline which bought a lot of old Delta airline planes and formed an airline that grew probably too fast. I met a woman who worked for them who was an incredible character. She worked hard for them and was a huge reason for the success in this station. We met at a time when I was probably still not over my ex. We quickly fell in love with one another, but there were problems with in which direction we each wanted to go. Me and my ex had been in money problems for years and when an opportunity came up for me to take a good paying job, it was hard to turn down. At first she was willing to leave, but then at a time that was too late, she decided to stay. There were issues between our families too. In the end, it led to our break up.
This led to what I've often mentioned in here, my 7 years of depression, until I found out about the incredibly beautiful young singer named Alizée and the two talented persons who had so much to do with her success and that is MF and LB.
I used to be big into Napster, the file sharing site where I had downloaded so many songs and videos from. I had made up many cds with my favorite songs. This woman from Savannah I met, used to do some small time gigs in a band with freinds at different clubs. So whenever we were driving around together, she'd always be singing along with my cds.
So after we broke up, all my favorite songs would remind me of her. That's one reason why Alizee and even French music has meant so much to me. No bad memories from French music. No songs that reminded me of her.
I've often tried explaining this story to freinds and family and coworkers, but they quickly grow tired of this long story, so nobody around me understands my devotion to Alizée.
Well I heard this woman I left had married and though there were some complications, had a baby girl and I was very happy for her. I thought she had finally found happiness, though there was still a lot of depression in my life.
A few times I've gotten gift certificates for a store called "Bass Pro Shops", from family members at Christmas. I kind of hate that because to get to this store, I have to go down this road which is about 20 miles long with a signal light every mile. I didn't go out there until about 6 months later. I walked in the store and there was a song playing over th p. a. I had never heard this song before or the singer, but it was of such a familiar tune of songs my former girl freind would sing, that I left the store. I didn't just go out and wait until it was over, I jumped in my car and drove home.
Well a couple of years ago, I heard this woman had developed breast cancer. It was in a difficult location and they had to call in a specialist to try and remove it. Well it was removed and it came back. It also spread to one of her lymph nodes and in the resulting operations, she lost use of her arm and then it came back again. It turns out, though she didn't know it at the time, her family had a long history of breast cancer. If she had only known! So great a reason for breast cancer awareness!
Because of this, I had contact with her again and it was obvious she had never gotten over me and after all these years, it brought all those painful emotions back to the surface.
So this event in Rennes is to raise awareness for breast cancer "screening" and I can assure you as I write through the tears, it's no small matter.
The Marie-Do event is to raise money for cancer research. Marie worked in aviation as do I and my former girl freind and so it means a lot to me to donate to this cause. My mother died of cancer. I had some skin cancer successfuly removed last year and I was told I may or may not have prostrate cancer. I have to go every 6 months for check ups.
So I think these walks are a noble effort by thes people to raise money for this cause. I sent a check to Chez Paulo just a couple of days ago for $300 for this cause. I didn't ask for contributions in here because I've gone to that well too often. If anyone doesn't believe me, please contact them through the link below and ask them to send a picture of the post mark.
https://www.facebook.com/chez.paulo.3?fref=ts
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In fact here is a message I sent Chez Paulo about making a donation...
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