some of us are still around. And this is perhaps for the best.

Thanks man, it actually means a good deal that there are still some people around. In a lot of ways, I have a good deal of mixed feelings about the last few years. They were years where I finally managed to brak out of my shell, and truly become comfortable with myself socially (and, in the process, become one of the 'cool' downtown people. I've learned that people I don't even know tell stories about me, for Christ's sake!) But, at the same time, i feel like i sacrificed certain parts of myself which had been important. Its odd. The last few years in Fargo have been some of the best in my life, and I love them, but there seems to have been a cost; one which I didn't truly understand when I took up the adventure, if you will.

I had the same sort of thing happen... I had a major crush on this guy (worked at my local Sunmart) and we hung out a few times. Then I didn't hear from him for awhile, then I ran into him again and found out he had a girlfriend. Then he called me a few months later, got drunk, and BAM he said he'd always had a crush on me and felt sexual tension, blah blah, and it led to some heavy petting. Then I never heard from him again, until I moved out to CA and a year later he messaged me on facebook apologizing, saying the same kind of thing this girl used on you.

So you see, it's not just girls. I'm sure it usually is, because we can be kind of nasty sometimes with the mind games. But it happens... maybe they just get scared, or maybe they just don't know how to react to certain feelings inside themselves. And of course we are going to have some major reactions, here are these people we've been kind of in love with telling us they were feeling the same, and then they want to take the feelings back? it's tough.

I wandered over here from Dating Sucks, and just want to say that things are likely to work out for someone as honest, thoughtful, and willing to learn as you seem to be.

It's been quite a while. Are you still around? What's been going on with you?

Are you stil around? It's been a while since we corresponded. Hope all is okay.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, homeboy.

Happy New Year. I am glad t know someone as decent and grounded as you are.

Hope your new year is rad!

I'm actually German, Polish, Irish, and English. Making your response kinda funny. I'm pretty much 52% German and the rest is mixed equally. It's quite interesting. My dad has actually been spending a lot of time looking into our ancestry--we can trace it back to the 15th Century precisely then it gets a bit hazy. Your story about WI is kinda funny, because I felt the same way when I visited eastern PA which supposedly has a lot of German immigrants (that's where all the Germans in my family started anyway).

I just saw you in the Member since 2003. Group! I had no idea you went that far back!