thank you taurie, for my childhood, and everything after.

thank you tiffany, my hospital friend, for all the good and the bad...who knew erasers and plastic silverware could be so dangerous?

thank you sarah, for sticking with me through all the bad things and loving me still.

thank you trent, my rapist, for all you've given, and taken away.

thank you enrico, my rockstar, for all your beautiful words, and for the candles that smell like every dark thing i've ever wished for.

thank you goth-matt, for your pretty bedtime stories, and for loving all of me as i am. i know i can say anything to you and you'll still be there.

thank you adam, for all the great sex, and for loving me in ways i never before thought possible.

thank you Y staff, for disregarding my history and giving me a chance.

thank you amanda, for keeping me alive all these years, giving me life when i'm so far down.

thank you travis, for your cold hands and quiet letters.

thank you to all the girls in the SR (sexually reactive) group, for making me feel just a little more normal.

thank you brian,for being my love (and hate) through my teenage years. With out you, i would never have known about the Hole, and all it's secrets.

thank you jessica and angela, my cellmates at J. Reuben Long, for your patience, generosity, and compassion.

thank you sam, i don't have the words to even -begin- to tell you how much i love you and how happy you have made me. 

thank you to the  epidural man, for making my birth expirience much more enjoyable

thank you tina-marie, and her many 'sisters' for rescuing me at three am when i'm lost and have no one.

thank you virgil, adam's white-trash friend, for fixing my car and being such good late night company. 

and finally, thank's to my parents for giving me life, and for making me the person i am today