How would you like me to respond to your story? How does your lifestory square with your current perception about illegals and city crime?

I have no closet stories of abuse, just stories of ordinary, low-income immigrant parents who typically foisted their own dreams onto their children (nothing new here. Typical of immigrants.) and stories about a big family, living in small Canadian city (Mennonite and German base) feeling abit out of place at times, then later, big cities. I ended up there ..primarily because I thrive in cities, not rural areas. Rural areas ere supposedly there is less crime. I guess, but abuse can happen in rural areas undetected, with less support services.

Unlike you, my life is modest, and if there are accomplishments, really they are in a way, yes, 2nd generation of children of immigrants, made good. Sure some family dysfunctions exist but not interested in...publishing a book like you.

There are some life parts that are perhaps abit more melodramatic..but really I feel the powerful need to focus on the future, since I still much to hone my own skills/passions that I barely have time outside of a full-time job.

I wish could meet you dancer to understand what you are really like.

Last week I reunited with a friend that I met several years ago via Internet. She is 49, close to my age, and coincidentally, she was engrossed in art (more than I), since she had formal art college training but had a medical malpractice situation recently that nearly left her dead, now permanently abit disabled (she can't bike anymore) and now the case is proceeding the courts. I look forward to when she visits me here in Vancouver from Toronto ..probably by the Winter Olympics.

I initially did have to meet her to make her story real for me.