These Photos are beyond beftiuaul, Becky and Nabil both look fantastic.  You captured some pretty tender moments with children and adults both.  This was such a special treat for those of us who were not able to be with Becky and Nabil on their special day  thank you  pictures are more beftiuaul than the royal wedding!

At last, after years of unhappiness, fulfillment has arrived for Kim, so I wish Kim luck.
We all make mistakes, as I did in 1939 and refused to give in to my dreams, so today some 70+ years on and still all alone in life, I regret everything. If only I had found a loving wife in the 1940's and fathered children of my own, my happiness would have been complete, but today no one wants to know me, never having had a partner.  

I'm sorry it took so long for me to read this.

I have only one comment to make.

Thank you. Thank you for baring your soul to us. Your story hits very close to home for me. (at least in some ways)

I wish for you success and the continued love of all your friends. (The love of one's friends is, as you said, one of the only true things of value we can have, another being health neither of which can be purchased)

Ok so I had more than one comment. (so sue me)

Love, MsT.

Kim.

 
first of all, let me say, Happy Birthday. If I were a BIT more aware of the world around me I would have known that this event was coming.  As it is, I'm lucky if I remember that tomorrow is Saturday.  (It is, isn't it?)  

Second, and maybe more importantly, I wanna tell you how happy I am that you're "back".  I have been worried out of my skull about you AND about Piper.  I have no words of "wisdom" to pass along to you, only the sure and certain knowlege that, "This too, shall pass".  I consider you a friend and, with all that's happened over the lastfew months to you AND to those close about you, I've been on the edge of my LAST nerve, wondering if you'd be ok.  I know that you don't think that what you are doing, transitioning, is something that requires courage, but, let me TELL you, it takes a LOT more guts than I'll ever have.  To open yourself up to ridicule and embarrassment in order to become what you know you REALLY are, takes, well, I was gonna say "balls" but......!   Anyway, I admire you, Kim and I love your writing.  To be able to write cogently and with such feeling in the midst of perhaps the worst time of your life, with the excepton of the transition, shows your strength, your fortitude and your intellect are second to none.

 I DO care about my friends, Kim.  That's why I wrote what I did at the cyberboard.  I care about you and Piper in a way I never thought possible just a year ago.  We've never actually met, face to face, but I feel as though I can trust you with my innermost secrets.  I've never trusted ANYONE until I began meeting the wonderful people I've met on the net.  Yes, life can be a bitch sometimes, but sooner or later, things have a way of working out.  I hope and pray that you and Piper will find your niches in this world and that they will be profitable ones, both financially AND spritually.  Although I am "only" a crossdresser" I CAN and DO feel what you wrote about in this work.  All I can say in response is keep on plugging, Kim.  You have friends out here and we're all in your corner, for what that's worth.  Glad you're back, Kim.  Glad you're ok.  Glad you are FINALLY able to be who you always knew you were.  I know you'll make us proud of you.
                Cathy_t_ said that, with love.      

Kimmie dear,
There is nothing I can say to you but this.. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

Love always.
Auntie Nora

Kim, your essay touched on the very topic that had been swirling around in my head for the last couple of months.  Like you, I have started my RLT and the nagging impression that we are tainted individuals still haunt me.  I've have an overwhelming amount of support from family, friends, and clients, but the fact still remains that the negative views, though not directed at me, still flow.  Last month, while visiting a client's office the first time as female, the office manager was amazed at how good I looked that she didn't recognize me.  Less than a minute later, she confided in me to say she was afraid that I would look like a man in women's clothing.  She said all transsexuals looked that way but was glad I didn't.  I wasn't too sure how to take the comment but was grateful that she felt I was very presentable.  We do require a tremendous amount of ego-stroking but I'm sure, in time, that too will abate.