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		<title>by: Rebecca Marie</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2905</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Patty,
Now you're changing more of my beliefs by making me feel like maybe I can be happy again, come to true grips with this disability, find a man who loves me for who I am and to able somehow to really make a difference in other people's life.

You've already helped me so much and all I can do is say thank you

Love,
Becca</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patty,<br />
Now you&#8217;re changing more of my beliefs by making me feel like maybe I can be happy again, come to true grips with this disability, find a man who loves me for who I am and to able somehow to really make a difference in other people&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve already helped me so much and all I can do is say thank you</p>
<p>Love,<br />
Becca
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		<title>by: pattydraws</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2786</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Oh my &lt;b&gt;George&lt;/b&gt;.  Yes I do know He is in control.   He's made it too clear to me lately, so I'm going to stop pressing and let Him have His way.  

You put me with John Benson &#038; Mary Catharine... oh my!  how NEAT!  As folks float and find what they like, I sincerely hope my stuff comes up free of all but what it is... freely given completely in tuned spanking erotica.  Thank you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh my <b>George</b>.  Yes I do know He is in control.   He&#8217;s made it too clear to me lately, so I&#8217;m going to stop pressing and let Him have His way.  </p>
<p>You put me with John Benson &#038; Mary Catharine&#8230; oh my!  how NEAT!  As folks float and find what they like, I sincerely hope my stuff comes up free of all but what it is&#8230; freely given completely in tuned spanking erotica.  Thank you!
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		<title>by: George</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2784</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Patty:
I am so happy that you have come as far as you have! I'm also happy that you have found John. I hope that he will love and cherish, and spank when needed, you for many years to come.

I hope that now you will continue your writing. I have enjoyed it very much. Yours and John Benson's are  among the best, as is the work of Mary Catherine Whitney! Add to the works you have started, and new ones will be welcome.
Your drawings are excellent too. You have much talent. I hope to see more evidence soon.

I think you know this, but remember, GOD is in control! Nothing sneaks up on Him! May you be richly blessed in your future life and find complete happiness!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patty:<br />
I am so happy that you have come as far as you have! I&#8217;m also happy that you have found John. I hope that he will love and cherish, and spank when needed, you for many years to come.</p>
<p>I hope that now you will continue your writing. I have enjoyed it very much. Yours and John Benson&#8217;s are  among the best, as is the work of Mary Catherine Whitney! Add to the works you have started, and new ones will be welcome.<br />
Your drawings are excellent too. You have much talent. I hope to see more evidence soon.</p>
<p>I think you know this, but remember, GOD is in control! Nothing sneaks up on Him! May you be richly blessed in your future life and find complete happiness!
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		<title>by: pattydraws</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2781</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>John, I have not felt so safe trusting anyone the way I've trusted you in more than a decade. I can't really say more now.  I've got work to do and personal promises to keep between now and July.  Time is our friend and ally, that's my first real request - I want you, I can have you, I deserve you, I already have you..... truthfully it's 'We enjoy each other, we can smile and wait out the chatter things that tend to *make the glaze,* we deserve happiness with each other, and, we've already found all of it.....  That's where my heart is now....  

Just so you know, I didn't believe you were possible.  I lived as if my past was all there could be for me.  So now, as I keep trying to work to make amends for that, I hope you will understand.  I Love you.  I need you.  You are the most amazing person to ever reach in and touch me.

&#038; hey *g* the proper spelling is JpOaHtNty.  You always come 1st, you always Lead.  Please?

&lt;b&gt;Paul&lt;/b&gt; Your positive thoughts have kept me alive, at least on line, and actually in too many of those lost lonely moments by myself.  You've always been there, and I think maybe you're one of the only people who really understood why I needed to bring Fred to life again.  I love you, and it is my fondest wish that I will find a way to get to England to thank you, hug you and tell you this in person.

Yes &lt;b&gt;Jeff&lt;/b&gt; you know it.  We all need to believe in ourselves. 

&lt;b&gt;Jim&lt;/b&gt; you've made me cry... not a sad cry either.  I've done it a lot lately.  For so, so, so long I wouldn't even let myself hear the thank you's from folks who thanked me and appreciated my messages from before I confessed that I was a widow and all the things I'd been sharing were history.  My shame and the outcry of disgust was all I could see.  I'd feared it for so long actually, I think when it came it was a kind of blessing.  That's past now.   Thank you for your faith.  Thank you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John, I have not felt so safe trusting anyone the way I&#8217;ve trusted you in more than a decade. I can&#8217;t really say more now.  I&#8217;ve got work to do and personal promises to keep between now and July.  Time is our friend and ally, that&#8217;s my first real request - I want you, I can have you, I deserve you, I already have you&#8230;.. truthfully it&#8217;s &#8216;We enjoy each other, we can smile and wait out the chatter things that tend to *make the glaze,* we deserve happiness with each other, and, we&#8217;ve already found all of it&#8230;..  That&#8217;s where my heart is now&#8230;.  </p>
<p>Just so you know, I didn&#8217;t believe you were possible.  I lived as if my past was all there could be for me.  So now, as I keep trying to work to make amends for that, I hope you will understand.  I Love you.  I need you.  You are the most amazing person to ever reach in and touch me.</p>
<p>&#038; hey *g* the proper spelling is JpOaHtNty.  You always come 1st, you always Lead.  Please?</p>
<p><b>Paul</b> Your positive thoughts have kept me alive, at least on line, and actually in too many of those lost lonely moments by myself.  You&#8217;ve always been there, and I think maybe you&#8217;re one of the only people who really understood why I needed to bring Fred to life again.  I love you, and it is my fondest wish that I will find a way to get to England to thank you, hug you and tell you this in person.</p>
<p>Yes <b>Jeff</b> you know it.  We all need to believe in ourselves. </p>
<p><b>Jim</b> you&#8217;ve made me cry&#8230; not a sad cry either.  I&#8217;ve done it a lot lately.  For so, so, so long I wouldn&#8217;t even let myself hear the thank you&#8217;s from folks who thanked me and appreciated my messages from before I confessed that I was a widow and all the things I&#8217;d been sharing were history.  My shame and the outcry of disgust was all I could see.  I&#8217;d feared it for so long actually, I think when it came it was a kind of blessing.  That&#8217;s past now.   Thank you for your faith.  Thank you!
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		<title>by: Jim</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2780</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Wow you guys.  You have invited us into your lives, dreams and hopes.  You have shared laughs, loves, sorrows and hopes.  Patty you helped me realize this thing we do is natural and right.  I feel blessed to be in your company and wish only happiness and love (and a warm bottom)for you two.  Patty thanks for all you have done for me personally, you will never know how much you have helped me.  John I know that you know what a wonderful lady you have in this beautiful person.  Bless you both and know that you have a true friend here up north.

Love to both

Jim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow you guys.  You have invited us into your lives, dreams and hopes.  You have shared laughs, loves, sorrows and hopes.  Patty you helped me realize this thing we do is natural and right.  I feel blessed to be in your company and wish only happiness and love (and a warm bottom)for you two.  Patty thanks for all you have done for me personally, you will never know how much you have helped me.  John I know that you know what a wonderful lady you have in this beautiful person.  Bless you both and know that you have a true friend here up north.</p>
<p>Love to both</p>
<p>Jim
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		<title>by: jeff</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2770</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>The secret of life is that you deserve everything you wish for:You just need to get to the point where you believe that yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The secret of life is that you deserve everything you wish for:You just need to get to the point where you believe that yourself.
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		<title>by: Paul</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2760</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Patty, I doubt that I can say it better than John.
Yes yours was the first blog that I read, that helped me realise that I wasn't alone.
My secret is, that love rules all, that we need to be grateful and aware of the gifts that The One gives and that like it or not, we will be at-one with the One, everything else follows from this. Positive thoughts, positive feelings, positive doings, this is what keeps me going since my beloved moved on, this is what keeps her alive in my heart and mind.
I hope dear Patty that your dream of a life with John becomes truth.
Love and warm Hugs, :-) :-) :-)
Paul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patty, I doubt that I can say it better than John.<br />
Yes yours was the first blog that I read, that helped me realise that I wasn&#8217;t alone.<br />
My secret is, that love rules all, that we need to be grateful and aware of the gifts that The One gives and that like it or not, we will be at-one with the One, everything else follows from this. Positive thoughts, positive feelings, positive doings, this is what keeps me going since my beloved moved on, this is what keeps her alive in my heart and mind.<br />
I hope dear Patty that your dream of a life with John becomes truth.<br />
Love and warm Hugs, <img src='http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Paul.
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		<title>by: John</title>
		<link>http://pattysgallery.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/the-secret/#comment-2742</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>To the woman I love...

I do promise to give you my love, and to spank you, and to do my utmost to understand your moods and give credence to them. May God grant me wisdom to achieve this.

I also pray that somehow your tremendous talents may come to be a source of income for you to bring you the level of comfort you seek in this life. I agree wholeheartedly that you indeed deserve it. I think your regular readers here will attest that you have been a beacon to many on their journey of dealing with this desire, this lifestyle, this fetish, this thing--whatever way you want to put it or whatever word you want to use to describe it. You have been like a lighthouse to many a weary sailor, an island of acceptance in an ocean of reressiveness.

You know well that I believe in the Law of Attraction. And, that "The Secret" as it is currently being put forth has indeed been around forever under many guises... the simplest of which might be--positive thinking. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale has been a modern day Saint in my book... and his message of positivity, gratitude and hope have been a source of great comfort and inspiration to me over the years.

Same for Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Marianne Williamson... to name two others who are still alive and spreading th good news... there are really so many prophets of hope. The challenge to all of us is to believe and follow the message in the circumstances of our own lives... and apply the tenets of hope and faith and positive expectation to the particular problems which each one of us faces in the life where we find ourselves. Every one of us has the potential to be great, to be the best person that we can possibly be, to be the sons and daughters of Our Father in Heaven. We are that, but sometimes it feels safer or easier to hide our light under a bushel basket, or to settle for a life less worthy than th one He calls us to... The Lord wants the best for us. We have to be willing to share that vision and work passionately toward it's fulfillment.

So, what's on my list? You made one, and I will as well.

1. I want to know and do--God's will.
2. It's my prayer to have one woman to give my love to for all my days (or for all of hers--whichever of us should be called first...)
3. There's no place on earth I'd rather live and die than on Maui.
4. To one day get to a place with my art where working at anything else is no longer an economic necessity.
5. To be fit and strong well into my old age--until it is my time to die.

It was wonderful to talk with you again tonight on the phone, Patty. The emails and phone conversations we share in the months and weeks leading up to our first emabrace have to tide us over...

Love,

pJaOtHtNy
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<p>I do promise to give you my love, and to spank you, and to do my utmost to understand your moods and give credence to them. May God grant me wisdom to achieve this.</p>
<p>I also pray that somehow your tremendous talents may come to be a source of income for you to bring you the level of comfort you seek in this life. I agree wholeheartedly that you indeed deserve it. I think your regular readers here will attest that you have been a beacon to many on their journey of dealing with this desire, this lifestyle, this fetish, this thing&#8211;whatever way you want to put it or whatever word you want to use to describe it. You have been like a lighthouse to many a weary sailor, an island of acceptance in an ocean of reressiveness.</p>
<p>You know well that I believe in the Law of Attraction. And, that &#8220;The Secret&#8221; as it is currently being put forth has indeed been around forever under many guises&#8230; the simplest of which might be&#8211;positive thinking. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale has been a modern day Saint in my book&#8230; and his message of positivity, gratitude and hope have been a source of great comfort and inspiration to me over the years.</p>
<p>Same for Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Marianne Williamson&#8230; to name two others who are still alive and spreading th good news&#8230; there are really so many prophets of hope. The challenge to all of us is to believe and follow the message in the circumstances of our own lives&#8230; and apply the tenets of hope and faith and positive expectation to the particular problems which each one of us faces in the life where we find ourselves. Every one of us has the potential to be great, to be the best person that we can possibly be, to be the sons and daughters of Our Father in Heaven. We are that, but sometimes it feels safer or easier to hide our light under a bushel basket, or to settle for a life less worthy than th one He calls us to&#8230; The Lord wants the best for us. We have to be willing to share that vision and work passionately toward it&#8217;s fulfillment.</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s on my list? You made one, and I will as well.</p>
<p>1. I want to know and do&#8211;God&#8217;s will.<br />
2. It&#8217;s my prayer to have one woman to give my love to for all my days (or for all of hers&#8211;whichever of us should be called first&#8230;)<br />
3. There&#8217;s no place on earth I&#8217;d rather live and die than on Maui.<br />
4. To one day get to a place with my art where working at anything else is no longer an economic necessity.<br />
5. To be fit and strong well into my old age&#8211;until it is my time to die.</p>
<p>It was wonderful to talk with you again tonight on the phone, Patty. The emails and phone conversations we share in the months and weeks leading up to our first emabrace have to tide us over&#8230;</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>pJaOtHtNy<br />
(John)
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