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Laura,

I know that you are a very busy lady and do not have time to come to the room and mingle with everyone. This is understandable because you have an unending job, a thankless job , but please rest assured that you are loved and very highly respected , although nobody takes the time to say so. As you know , when I contact you , I always apologise for tearing you away, and I try to keep things short. This site is my life as I have said to you many times. If it was not for you and this site , God only knows where I would be at today. Even though I have not said so , I truely do respect you and love you to pieces.

Respectfully SharleahLynn

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Hey Laura,

Please don't be so discouraged over this fiasco. It's not an attack on you personally, I'm sure. There are more of us who respect you and cherish all of your hard work than Augustus sleeze-bags out there. Without this site, I would have been very confused about my identity. Also, I've gained so much help from this site, along with friends. Friends who can help me pass better. I'd like to give my knowledge as I achieve it. So please, don't shut down the site.

Don't let him win.

Generally I'm not a fan of lovey-dovey stuff, but we really care about you. We care about each other. Perhaps this is just a small lesson to not be as trusting as we once were.

Anyways, we'll always be here for ya. Contact me on AIM or MSN if you ever wish to. :3

~Darrel

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Hello Laura! I"m not sure how much you know about me but, i wanted to let you know, i completely agree with what you did. I respect you, the site, and everyone on it. August, Randall, and Olivia omited. Please don't take down the site, we all need it. XOXOXOXOXO

:wub: DarienJames

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Guest MissCassandra

Laura I don't understand why it is you want to take down a support site over this. Think about the tons of people that have been helped by coming here. One fault doesn't mean it's all wrong does it? Just please reconsider and think about how many people have come here. Not knowing anywhere else to go or anyone to talk to. I've been on the chat for a while and I've seen my share of others that really needed the support. Being in the chat has been more like being in a family to me. Sure we sometimes have our differences.. but in the end we're still like family. I just beg of you to not remove the site, as a web designer/hoster I know how hard it can be at times. So I understand how you feel doing all the work toward it, it isn't easy. But don't let one person spoil all this! You've done a great thing and I suggest continuing it. Though it is your choice in the matter. But I want to thank you for creating this site, giving me and many others a place to relate. You've done a great job at it and I've felt right at home with the staff and it's members. Whatever you plan to do in the future Laura, I'm sure you'll do it well.

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Hey Laura,

I wanted to let you know that you have done such wonderful thing with your site. I realize that this is a monumental undertaking for anyone. I am so humbled by what you have done here and those that get helped everyday are so apreciative whether they say it or not. Those who need it find there way here as if this site is a bekcon of sancuary.

I know for my self how you have changed my life for the better. About 2 years ago when i found your site i was depressed, sad and very lonely. I had no one to talk two about my feelings and was very miss informed about my gender issues. I needed help and I found it here. If your site had not been here for me I would not be here now typing this up. I found the link to Graham Peveler who I worked with in therapy for almost a year. If your site had not been here I would have lost hope.

Becuase of you I now have a cert for helping suicidal teens. If it was not for you and having this site I would not have known how to help a man at my office with his suicidal friend. I owe you so much and we have never even met. I hold tears in my eyes not wanting to even address the thoughts of how to move on without what you have done here for me and all those who pass through silently picking up bits of information without so much as a thankyou. But becuase of your site and your caring these silent passerbys have a bit of hope they did not before they found your site.

I want to thank you for all you have done for me over the past 2 years, you have given me hope, you have saved me from sure suicide, you have given me friends that i would have never have met.

You have given me the opertunity to do what I like to do and that is to help others in need. Your site is a very special site and is a landmark world wide.

Please take this from a humble person as myself as a token of apprciation for how you have helped me help others

hugs and love

Claire

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Laura, along with everyone here I want to thank you for all the time and effort you put into this site. This is the only place I'm not treated as a total weirdo. I know that several of my friends might not be alive today without the information, support and friendship they have found here. What you are doing here is saving lives! Don't let one cruel deranged person destroy all this.

Come into chat one day and get bombarded with hugs, because you are loved!

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