This is a translation table partially for my benefit and partially for yours. Think of it like a cast of characters for you. For me, it removes these people’s names from my web site, which permits me to avoid conflating me and them. Otherwise, I’d be showing up in a Google search together with them. I don’t want to be associated with some of them ever again, especially one in particular who has a relatively high profile, having been in TV and done some work by name on Amazon. The fact she also has a criminal record now (post-relationship) isn’t helpful either. Want to stay a million miles away from that.
My fuzzing up things probably won’t hide from any of them that I am writing about them. It’s just no one else will ever know. Since I have substituted names for everyone involved that isn’t dead and fuzzed up the dates a bit, it’ll help me keep things straight.
Characters: Girlfriends/Wives
- Gina - First real girlfriend in high school. She's dead so i'm leaving her name alone
- Eleanor - First sexual partner/girlfriend in 1987-88 - an alcoholic
- Patti - Brief girlfriend in 1990 or so. Very oral.
- Mary/Marina - First wife, from 1994-2001, with bipolar disorder. Never got over being married, fuck buddy off and on until 2011 or so, last incident 2022
- Alexia/Cathy - Girlfriend in 1999, from CA, some kind of depression
- Tiffany - Girlfriend from 1999-2002, live-in until 2003
- Vivian - Tiffany's bisexual friend and fuck buddy in 2003
- Insloan - Woman from Chicago, 2001-2003
- Darlene - Girlfriend from 2002 to 2007, stalker for a while after that, from GA. She had some kind of personality disorder, perhaps multiple personalities. Probable narcissist.
- Bethanie - Slashdot chick, just flirty really, phone calls and a kiss
- Debra/Salty - On and off girlfriend from 1999 to 2008, from British Columbia. Had a traumatic brain injuriy that affected her memory, and most probably an alcoholic
- Jolene - fuck buddy from PA in 2005-2006
- Ariel - Online girlfriend from WI 2006-2007 - probably an alcoholic
- Analie - Girlfriend from 2008-2014, Second wife from 2014-2022, from MN. Narcissist, opioid addict and alcoholic
- Leah - Girlfriend from Upstate NY - 2012 - The one that got away. Best woman I ever dated, but went back to Analie.
- Emily - Girlfriend from Frederick, MD 2022 - alcoholic, first post-Analie gf
- Angela - Girlfriend from near Baltimore, 2022. Manipulator, hit me up for money almost immediately.
- Donna - Girlfriend from near Baltimore, 2022. Therapist, first decent woman I dated since the early 2000s
- Amanda - Girlfriend from near Baltimore, 2023. Anti-Trump NPR listener, insistent on her views.
- Phil - Girlfriend from near Baltimore, 2023. Has some issues, hoarder, slob, probable codependent
- Danielle - Girlfriend from near Baltimore, 2023. Some kind of personality disorder.
- ...leaving out a couple dozen at least because I can't remember the names or they aren't signiifcant.
Characters: Family
- Normina - First daughter, anxiety
- Shartbox - Second daughter, borderline personality disorder
- Mom - she'll remain Mom, codependent
- Poppy - Mom's father, alcoholic, diabetic with a leg amputated, dead
- Tom - my father, narcissist, he's dead
- Tony - my stepfather, alcoholic, some kind of narcissist, also dead
- Little Tony - my stepbrother, dead
- Erica - my natural sister, another codependent
- ...will add more as they need to figure in
Characters: Friends
- Grace - Mud chick, just flirty
- Norman - my friend in high school, gay, addict, dead
- Marc - another friend in high school, alcoholic
- Jason - Friend from work, alcoholic, dated Normina and was abusive
I feel quite certain i’ll have to add additional characters as time goes on. These events were more or less real, but some details are probably not entirely 100% accurate. The mind plays tricks with enough time. I tried to be as faithful to the facts as possible.
And yeesh, I look at the list of women and realize my number is higher than I thought. And I haven’t even included about three dozen minor players, some of whom I can’t even remember their names. I suppose if I am substituting, it hardly matters. Just more characters.
