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Reply #30 posted 04/05/10 10:05am

Efan

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Good story. Thanks for sharing this!

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Reply #31 posted 04/05/10 10:18am

JustErin

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Congratulations!

Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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Reply #32 posted 04/05/10 3:18pm

bluefish

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PunkMistress said:

Can I ask you a question, Chris?

What do you do when the physical pain and emotional difficulty of being dependent on others becomes too much?

How do you deal with those feelings and decide to keep on keeping on?

These are questions that I'm beginning to wrestle with (though not to the extent that you must have to), and it would be helpful to hear how someone else copes and keeps doing what they've gotta do.

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Thank you for your questions, FunkMistress.

For me, when things get a bit too difficult, I always turn to Prince's music to lift me up. The Lovesexy album brought me closer to God when my maternal grandmother passed away in 1989 (I was nine years old and it was my first experience with the death of a loved one). Then there's the pivotal "Purple Rain" moment that I discussed on the video (I've had many similar moments since then while listening to Prince, but none so powerful as that one was).

Prince is a big part of who and where I am today. I may sound like a total sycophant in saying that, but it is the truth. I see a lot of similarities between him and me: the shyness, the creative nature, the playful disposition, the perfectionism, the egotistical outbursts that mask hidden turmoil, etc. But at the same time, Prince has many attributes I wish I had: good looks, musical skill, animal magnetism, tremendous self-discipline, self-confidence, etc. In a sense, Prince represents both who I am and who I want to be.

I realize he's as human (flawed) as the rest of us, but that doesn't keep me from wishing to meet him one day, to tell him how much he has meant to me in my life. Everybody has at least ONE goal in life that they hope to achieve before they die, and meeting/speaking with Prince is at the very top of my "bucket list."

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Reply #33 posted 04/05/10 6:37pm

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bluefish said:

PunkMistress said:

So immersing yourself in Prince's music, and identifying with him as a talented but flawed man, is enough to bring you through the dark times? That's wonderful. rose