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you are right you don't know me at all.
--- Scott Sands <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken Barber:
>
> What an ad-hominim attack. I won't pretend to know
> you, or Magenta, or =
> what's going on in TX...but I DO know what it takes
> to attack a person, =
> and not her ideas. Please forgive me if your
> comments in this case =
> strike me as less than profound, and even a bit
> mean.
>
>
> To all of you on the listserv:
>
> I hope you'll welcome me into your little group. My
> name is Scott, and =
> I'm a Writing Tutor at a branch campus of the
> University of Washington =
> in the gorgeous Evergreen State. I have mild,
> hemiplegic ataxic =
> Cerebral Palsy, and I and my brother are both
> adopted by a pair of =
> wonderful human beings.
>
> I've been "listening in" on some of your
> conversations for the past two =
> weeks or so, trying to get a better sense of this
> part of my identity =
> I've carried with me for (as of this last May 8th)
> twenty-seven =
> interesting years. At 14, I engaged in what was
> then a somewhat =
> experimental surgery, one that included both
> lengthening both of my =
> Achilles tendons and attaching my hamstrings to my
> knees. Any of you =
> know Dr. Scott Hoffinger? He used to work for
> Children's Orthopaedic in =
> Seattle, and last I heard was working in CA
> somewhere.
>
> Right now, I'm biding time at UW-Bothell, getting
> ready to apply for =
> graduate school in Creative Writing. Please feel
> free to comment, ask =
> questions, and otherwise acculturate me to the
> group...and thanks for =
> reading. :)
>
> Scott R. Sands
> (253) 315-2397
> 5604 S. 297th St.
> Auburn, WA 98001
> [log in to unmask]
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