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8/27/04

Hi Robin,

Sorry I haven't been able to come over and take advantage of the pool this summer. Hope I can before the season ends. And I hope one of these three email addresses reaches you. You might want to tell me which one is best to send you messages at this time.

Now that I have it available in convenient form, I've decided to send you a copy of an essay I wrote that reveals the roller coaster ride my life has been since the spring. Since we haven't been in touch too much over the past year or two, it's a little more dramatic revealing this all to you than a few of my other friends because it involves aspects of my life I haven't told you about. (It is also lengthy, so feel free to read just some of it and come back for more later as time permits.)

Any prayer support you may feel motivated to give me, my lady friend, and Nadia in our search to find our friend would be greatly acknowledged and appreciated. I suppose that's the number one reason I'm sending this to you. (Fortunately, Nadia has been quite helpful. She's an ex-porn star and model with a good heart.)

Thanks for any time you spend reading my story.

Peace,
Jeff

WOW! This is where you have been!!! WOW! THat's all I can say!!!
What a story!!! Have you sold this to a magazine or better yet, a movie
right!??! I could picture this as an independent film!!! Starring Liv
Tyler!!! It's so strange....but the bottom line is...."The truth is STRANGER
than fiction"...
and I thought I had a "past life story".....this beats mine "hands down".
I hope and pray that you will find your soulmate (or that she comes back to
you) I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
Please drop by when ever you have the chance.
Love
Robin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Gill" <jeff@folkimage.com>
To: "Robin Monaco" <monacographics@comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:49 PM
Subject: My current life challange

8/31/04

Yes, I know. I have thought of that aspect, particularly when I wrote about our private dance that included the conversation about the sex club. And yes, a Brazilian version of Liv Tyler - one very comfortable in a stripper's role - would be exactly what you would want. It would be an independent film that would probably push the limits of the R rating... but be absolutely riveting.

I pray she comes to her senses soon and somehow realizes that the devastating, spur-of-the-moment decision she made on July 3rd was the absolute worse, most poorly timed, most horribly misinformed decision she's made in her entire life. I don't know how she's lived with herself over the past two months... this frightened illegal alien, like a rat in a cage, trying to hide from everybody.

Fortunately, I did make a little headway yesterday in my efforts to find her. I finally found a way to get the information from the Registry I need on the tag number of the car I discovered in Brighton back on July 9th. I am 80% sure it was the car Bianca drives. It had an old green lettered plate, so if I am correct, the car is registered to the mother of her ex-boyfriend (who is her current landlady - also a Brazilian - whom she describes as her "American mom"), or the registration was transferred over to her. I'm using my position in delivery at Roux's as the reason "for obtaining information verification on a prospective delivery driver." If that registration number is tied to an address in Framingham or Westboro, I've still got a hot lead.

Nadia seems to be frustrated in her efforts to reach Bianca. (She now has her own copy of this entire story, too.)  Last Saturday night, it appeared she had been trying to direct the attention of some of the newer girls my way. I'm not complaining. Hey, it's a strip club and most of them are incredibly HOT (damn!!!). But I am also determined not to let this one go. The incredible degree of anguish and heartache I've suffered over the past two months is a reflection of just how deeply I do love Bianca.

Also, I had a really heated phone conversation with my "spiritual adviser" last week. She did clarify a few things and I may have judged her prematurely through circumstantial evidence. (It's a funny thought - perhaps I was dumping on her everything Bianca had dumped on me. Happens a lot in counseling, I hear.)  I know this sounds rather incredible, but my adviser does have the ability to work on my mind and emotions telepathically. I KNOW when she's working on me. That's why I got back in touch with her. Whether she is able to telepathically reason with Bianca's "higher self" strongly enough to reverse the decision of July 3rd remains to be seen, even if my counselor's assessment of Bianca's current state of mind and her predictions turn out to be true. It's one thing for a person to have thoughts put in their head that make them realize a decision they made was wrong. It's another thing to motivate them so strongly that they overcome the ego resistance and actually take the steps required to reverse it. That's why I think it is imperative that I FINALLY find Bianca, take her hand, and plead my case to her, face to face.

Thanks for taking the time to read it all, and your prayers and concerns.

-Jeff

8/31/04

Please becareful with the spiritual advisor. I don't want you to be "throwing" away anymore monies. Psychics and spiritual advisors can be very crafty at times.

Don't get me wrong, some are authentic, while others prey on the vulnerabilities of the human soul. Just be aware.
Love

Robin

 9/1/04

Another thing I am having to watch with the psychics.... the mere fact that I am a MAN and most of them are women. I found an on-line group that turned out to be a bunch of women out of Tewksbury (I didn't know they were local... and in the shadow of The Blue Moon no less... ha ha. Tu shay to them!). Robin, you don't know how hard it is to be male - in this culture, in the 21st century, and to have any sense that you have some say and influence (and yes, power) in the personal, most important matters of your life. What to know why most men, who are weaker on the inside than I am, occupy themselves with such stupid, destructive pursuits? It's the only place where they can feel they have some control and influence.

Oh yes, we men don't have any feelings, don't you know? Except violence and hatred, and all we're looking for is an excuse to stalk. Sure!

God, it's a zoo out there!

-Jeff

P.S. I think I'll give one more of these $10 or $20 cheapies a try, but it will certainly be a male this time.

9/1/04

I know...it's got to be hard. PERIOD. To be single and out there. I know I did it for a long time. I was divorced 13 years before I got married again! Lord knows I don't want to be out there, again. If anything happened to Joel...I would just be "alone"....I understand how you  feel, believe me I do!!!! I just don't want you to be wasting any more money when you could be putting it away.
have you tried any of the dating services online?

9/1/04

Well, believe it or not, I can put a positive spin on your observation. If it is as hard as it has been for me, and was for you, it also has to be hard for Bianca.

When she first arrived here she got into a relationship with a Brazilian guy because it was her first chance to have a boyfriend in America. That relationship lasted two years and when it broke up, her ex-boyfriend moved to Brazil for six months to get over it. (I doubt there was much, if any, communication between them during that time.) But since his return, they have become good friends again, and he has moved on to another girlfriend. She is still close to his mother.

She has been without a relationship for three years, but that may seem like a long time for her because she is still young. She has told me that she would like to be married someday, and from her conversations she does not at all appear to be the kind of woman who throws good people and old friends out of her life permanently.

Hey, in six months to a year, she may have an experience that reinforces just how hard it is out there. And she'll think back at me and say, "Yes, he came on way too strong that night. But you know, he really CARED about me. He entertained me and made me laugh; he taught me new English words, and he loved my attention and company." (...Not bad for a strip club dude.) Maybe as soon as December, when she realizes she IS going to miss her brother's graduation, and she has no way to leave America and come back, she may begin facing the reality check.

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monacographics wrote:

> have you tried any of the dating services online?

The only thing I've given a passing thought to is a mail order bride tour of  South America, preferably among girls who have spent some time in America and are looking for a way back (instead of a sugar daddy). But let's face it, if I went on such a tour, I would be looking for another Bianca... and all the elements - the warmth, beauty, conversational ability, and sensuality - would all have to be there. It's a pretty tall order to fill.

P.S. According to my current schedule, I can come over Labor Day between around 2 to about 4 or 4:30. If you will be around, let me know.

-Jeff

9/2/04

She is obviously young, but street savy, and that still takes some "smarts"....so it may be awhile before she catches on that she "threw a blessing away". You were probably her only "light in the darkness," so to speak. She needs to contemplate what she has done and what she needs to do about it. But, that could take some time.....being young makes you think that you are impervious to a lot (remember when we were in our 20's??)

Your best bet....Let this go.....and see where it takes YOU as opposed to allowing yourself to throw anymore money away. Allow yourself time to grieve, but then move on....if you stay in it...you will be "spinning your wheels" making yourself more frustrated. I know it's easier said than done...but with meditation and prayer.....you can move on. Bianca may or may not come back, but at least you will be a stronger person for it...either way around.

Love

Robin

9/3/04

Yes, Bianca is definitely savvy, although she has probably yet to understand the meaning of that English word. If she were born in this country, or qualified for a permanent green card, I'd say my chances of getting her back in my life would be only about 35%. But because her very existence here is illegal (an issue we discussed several times and is of great concern to her), it not only forces her to be very street smart, it is also - I think - maturing her much more quickly than the average spoiled, overly domesticated, American 20-something. Although it took me a while to figure out the exact sequence of how it will have to happen in her case, she is quite aware that her only realistic hope of ever becoming legal in this country is through marriage to an American citizen. Given her predicament, the odds for me may increase to about 45-50%. But admittedly, her severe overreaction to my behavior on the night of July 3rd may also have been rooted in her immigration status. She probably figured, "If he is going to become like this, I better bow out and protect myself now because if I ever need legal recourse, they could discover my status and I'd be deported."

In balance, you have to consider the "hiding" aspect, as well - and this is something that simplistic, feminista Nazi on-line "psychic" had no room for in her spin on the situation. (Apparently, she thinks that any woman who runs from a man finds instant, conflict-free happiness and contentment.) How much of her life does Bianca want to tailor around making sure I never find her versus tailoring her life around what SHE wants and what makes HER happy? A case in point is stripping. A week after the disaster of July 3rd, a bartender at the club told me he simply could not conceive of Bianca not stripping for very long.

[In one of my discussions with her about clubs, I mentioned that the Winchendon club burned down several years ago, and that there are huge areas of central and western New England where there are no strip clubs in a 50-mile radius. She came right out and said, "That's what I want to do: start a club." I can easily picture myself in that kind of a business life with her.]

Bianca is a very sensual woman from a sensual part of the world, and she has even had the opportunity for a few sexual experiences that may be classified as "alternative." (Yet, she is definitely no slut, which makes her all the more intriguing. Yeah... talk about "street savvy"!) And she is still an unattached woman. Isn't the desire to strip going to come back to her, even just the financial incentive? Unless she is in a stage of serious ambivalence over what she did on July 3rd, she may emerge at a club where I am less likely to find her, perhaps at Alex's in Stoughton, where she had a brief start before moving on to The Other Side.

[God, I hope that happens! Even just for the sake of the plot of our "independent film." Let's say sometime later this month, after finding out she's there and on what nights, I'd wait until she was on stage before I made my presence known. I'd put a $5 bill on the table. She sees it and sees me and we glance at each other for a few moments. I ask, "Can I have a private dance?" She nods her head "yes." (Would she in real life? Yes.) At the dance, I sit and absorb it all in silence and awe. When it ends and she's finished dressing, I stand up and say to her softly and passionately, "Thank you, beautiful angel. This is for you." I hand her $60 - three times the normal tip - plus from my hand bag, a rolled up copy of my complete immigration proposal, which maps out a plan that takes her from "undocumented" to dual U.S./Brazil citizen - her ultimate goal. (The immigration proposal also doubles as my marriage proposal to her, needless to say.) I touch her right shoulder, kiss the top of her head, then turn and exit the club, giving her another month to contemplate the proposal and what she just experienced... God, what a killer scene!!!]

As for coping and "moving on," I'm going to try to confine my "Bianca activities" at this point to these areas: 1) my private spiritual practice, 2) completing the immigration proposal, should I ever have the (sudden?) opportunity to give it to her, and 3) investigating whether she has emerged at another club. The tag number of that car in Brighton may also be of value, but basically she'll be confined to those three areas of my life for now. No more counseling (from anybody) or money. I'll play it totally by my own inner voice.

I am still going to the club, usually twice a week with varying degrees of satisfaction. (I was there last night.) The presence of beautiful, erotic women loosens me up, and when you talk to the girls, each has her own fascinating story. They like me there and I'm one of the "nice guy" regulars, which is much more the norm at this very "un-Fitchburg" Fitchburg strip club than at some other places. But unless Bianca, or my experience of her, comes up in conversation, something is always "missing." It's just not the same.

I don't know if you read down far enough into my last thread, but I commented about a mail order bride tour. You might skim down for my comments. If nothing budges with this situation by early December, I may think about doing that in the winter. (I will assume that unless she has had exceptional luck, Bianca will remain stuck in this country and won't see her brother graduate. And once she gets use to that, my chances would have really dimmed.) But it will be difficult to accept, if it comes to that. The time of year won't help either. I don't like the "holidays" and I hate the late fall and winter, especially in New England, and especially without something special to look forward to. All the love I've ever known has come to me during the spring and early summer, and this was no exception. No wonder spring into summer is my favorite time of year.

Also... did you miss the part below when I said I can come over to visit on Labor Day between around 2 and 4:30? Let me know if you and Joel will be home.

Love,
Jeff

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