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Sunnyg A couple of things struck me about your writing:

1. It is very powerful. I don't claim to have an appreciation of poetry as art but the last couple of entries could be poems.

2. I really pick up on the powerful love and concern you have for your daughter. As a father myself I can really relate, I think it is great for your and for her sake that your overriding concern for her wellbeing seems to help keep you grounded.

Also I can really sympathize with having a baby that doesn't eat well, our son had severe problems in this area for the first year or so of his life. He seemed to have abdominal pain all the time, he wasn't gaining weight, was constantly hungry but too upset to eat.

Primary care pediatricians were very dismissive, first telling us it was "colic", then reflux. The reflux medicine helped a little but it wasn't until our second Emergency admission to a world-famous children's hospital that we finally got a correct diagnosis, and were able to manage the problem after that (my wife was breast feeding him, he had sensitivity to dairy proteins that caused inflammation in his digestive tract. When my wife had any dairy the partially digested proteins went through her breast milk and were making him sick, she switched to a dairy-free diet and his problems went away almost immediately).

Also I understand your reluctance about writing anything that could be used against you in a legal proceeding. Unfortunately that is the world we live in today, I'm not an expert on any of these matters so I really don't know what rules could potentially govern the use of that kind of thing.

I know there are sites out there where people put various types of writing, one I am somewhat familiar with is Livejournal.com. I know you can control who is able to comment on your entries, you might even be able to control who can view your entries. Not to discourage you from posting here, it is just another potential outlet.

Sunnyg wrote:Kevin,
You asked what legal implications I was talking about.
1. If my husband decided to divorce me. He could use my journal against me in a custody battle over my daughter.

2. If the signs had been clearer that I began to follow, then I may have become a danger to society. I was afraid of acknowleging any "ugly" ideas that crept into my mind. By ugly ideas I'm talking about the ideas that involve harmful behaviors. After all I thought I like la femme Nakita. As a side note... I am not anything like la femme Nakita...

3. Well there is the issue that is typical with erotomania... It is a long story. I'll summarize.... The physicians lawyers wrote a letter claiming defamation... I posted a section of my story using the physician's name... I wrote about how I remember his lingering touches, his being near me, but mostly I wrote about the origin of my story... It all started with The Examination I experienced during the birth of my daughter.

Sunny

I see your point now - yes - and it is very unfortunate that these things could actually manifest themselves in real life, and all just because you felt like expressing your true thoughts. How did you feel after you posted all of this here anyway? I have already commented on it via PM, so I will forgo writing further comments here.

I like peytonmanning18's response to it though, and especially his use of the word 'power'. It is a feeling that I got too while reading the extracts from your journal.

Take care,
Kevin

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Sunny,

If you want to delete what you have written, then you are, of course, welcome to do it (I mean, if it is causing you distress). The point has been made that you HAVE written it out and posted it, and that is a great step to take within itself.

You have not provided any information that could lead someone reading it to suggest that it was wrotten by you. As long as you keep personal information out of it, then you will be fine. You should never use your surname, of course, your address, or your email address. Google has a habit of picking things up from this website, but if you are sensible about what you type, then you will be fine.

Kevin

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