Post by Brian on Jul 16, 2009 22:53:19 GMT -5
03/04/07 at 08:42 PM
douglasboulding
I just need to say thank you all for having this place here. I wish Matt and Maria could have been here long ago. All of this has taken so long to ever be talked about. It should have been said years ago. But my family did not have a way to get there words out. Some wanted to not talk about it at all. Some wanted to but was afraid of what the family would say, like myself. But because of this place I can now say what I know and think its time for all to let the past go. I held all this in for a lot of years. There are many who still do in my own family all these years later. At times I find my self wanting to say more than I do. but I never want to hurt anyone. There has been to much of that all ready. I am sure my family will see all this one day and some will get very mad at me. I hope not but I know better. I just want to say to Matt and Maria THANK YOU
keneth d boulding
03/04/07 at 09:02 PM
Maria
Dear Doug,
This is the highest compliment I ever ever received. Thank you my friend. For you to feel free to express your need to talk about this very personal tragedy rather than to have to keep it inside any longer means that this documentary and this message forum have served a grand purpose and that we were right in bringing it to the world via these means. For these compliments to come from a relative of the Lawson family means so much more to us than you can know. I am so very glad that I sent you that email back last year asking if you would be willing to talk to me. It took you awhile but I let you get back to me when you were ready, in your own time, and when you did I will never forget our first conversation together where at the end of it you said, "Maria, I am so glad I talked to you. I feel so much lighter for doing so. You feel like part of my family now". That made me so happy. This is what it's all about my friend.
Maria
03/04/07 at 09:13 PM
douglasboulding
WELCOME TO THE LAWSON FAMILY MATT AND MARIA ITS BEEN LONG OVERDUE NEW COUSIN DOUG LOL. ITS MEANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND AND NEW COUSIN DOUG.
keneth d boulding
03/04/07 at 09:21 PM
Maria
I'm proud to be your friend AND cousin Doug.
MARIA
03/04/07 at 09:44 PM
Matt32
I second that emotion- thank you, Doug.
many can do what no One can-together, we Can beat domestic violence-
Matt32
douglasboulding
I just need to say thank you all for having this place here. I wish Matt and Maria could have been here long ago. All of this has taken so long to ever be talked about. It should have been said years ago. But my family did not have a way to get there words out. Some wanted to not talk about it at all. Some wanted to but was afraid of what the family would say, like myself. But because of this place I can now say what I know and think its time for all to let the past go. I held all this in for a lot of years. There are many who still do in my own family all these years later. At times I find my self wanting to say more than I do. but I never want to hurt anyone. There has been to much of that all ready. I am sure my family will see all this one day and some will get very mad at me. I hope not but I know better. I just want to say to Matt and Maria THANK YOU
keneth d boulding
03/04/07 at 09:02 PM
Maria
Dear Doug,
This is the highest compliment I ever ever received. Thank you my friend. For you to feel free to express your need to talk about this very personal tragedy rather than to have to keep it inside any longer means that this documentary and this message forum have served a grand purpose and that we were right in bringing it to the world via these means. For these compliments to come from a relative of the Lawson family means so much more to us than you can know. I am so very glad that I sent you that email back last year asking if you would be willing to talk to me. It took you awhile but I let you get back to me when you were ready, in your own time, and when you did I will never forget our first conversation together where at the end of it you said, "Maria, I am so glad I talked to you. I feel so much lighter for doing so. You feel like part of my family now". That made me so happy. This is what it's all about my friend.
Maria
03/04/07 at 09:13 PM
douglasboulding
WELCOME TO THE LAWSON FAMILY MATT AND MARIA ITS BEEN LONG OVERDUE NEW COUSIN DOUG LOL. ITS MEANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND AND NEW COUSIN DOUG.
keneth d boulding
03/04/07 at 09:21 PM
Maria
I'm proud to be your friend AND cousin Doug.
MARIA
03/04/07 at 09:44 PM
Matt32
I second that emotion- thank you, Doug.
many can do what no One can-together, we Can beat domestic violence-
Matt32