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One blog could no longer contain us.
The tabs at the top are our current and archived poetry....
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For the month of May 2011, Mental Health Awareness Month
Generally this website will be for our poetry though....

10 Things You Should Know About US That MIGHT Surprise YOU:

1. We used to be a Baptist missionary (yeah, can you fucking believe that shit?!) [we are NOT religious]
2. We were once married (didn’t last long) [one of our stories talks about him]
3. We have had nearly 30 physical addresses in 30 years, mostly as an adult (nothing could contain us in the early days) [we actually own a house, but choose not to live in it]
4. We’ve lived in 2 countries: 1 province and 6-7 different states (running much)
5. We have lost 120 pounds since the age of 24 (100 of it when we were 24) [and it's close to 140 pounds now)
6. We had a full time job...which we were proud of, but we got fired in the summer of 2011.
7. We deal with social anxiety type symptoms every day (and these days we choose not to leave home much, but for going to work) [there are about three people we feel comfortable with being in public with and sometimes we have to be out there alone]
8. We have multiple “mental illness” diagnoses (doesn't everybody?) [p.s. all misdiagnosed]
9. We have two beautiful cats, who piss us off every day (but they are special, because they put up with us) [though one of us hates them beyond belief]
10. We have struggled to survive, over and over, defeating the odds thrown against us (read our stories) [seriously, how are we not dead yet?]
    
    
    We've copied the links to the stories written specifically about our past, from other blog, called:

From "Just Call Me Frank: One Womans Endeavour At Being Frank"  

1. The Emergence of Frank: The Beginning (8 Yrs Old)
1b. The First Boy We Liked, That Liked Us Back (12 Yrs Old)
2. The Emergence of Frank: The Second Coming (13 Yrs Old)
2a. Our First Girlfriend
2b. First Love
3. The Emergence of Frank: Three Times A Rescuer (21 Yrs Old)
4. The Emergence of Frank: Frank's Failure (23 Yrs Old)
4a. Our 100# Weight Loss
5. We Go To University & We Take A Lover
6. Life Without Frank - The First Two Years
6b. Collision: The Other Girls Accident/Franks Coma (2004)
7. Culinary School and Affairs
7b. Culinary School: Part Two
8. The Dawn of Something Different
9. It Spins Madly

Where We Write Almost Daily: http://just-call-me-frank.blogspot.com/p/our-recommendations-weeded-from.html [topics include sex, religion, life, relationships, politics, art, opinion, philosophy, as well as mental health...and probably more