a friend of mine died

I guess thats why I also love sci-fi and Lexx so much. For that short time I can live another existence without the constraints and heartaches of the real world. Good Sci-fi is so much fun. [/B][/QUOTE]

amen sapphire, i am an only child and i cannot begin to explain to people what books and art mean to me, when i was hurting, i very early learned to lose myself in a book or music, meanwhile my subconcious could work things out so that when i came out of my fantasy world i found that things were not so unsurmountable anymore and that i could actually begin to cope with them…in my case, it meant to close people that i didn’t seem to care, that i was hiding in a book, but i just never learned to talk about really painful things face to face, i have to let some distance set in and then i can at least talk around them… stephen king’ anne rice, paul donovan, et al (and now you guys) will never know how much money and time i have saved in psychiatry sessions!