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The Colorado craft-brewing scene is growing — which means that several head brewers are going. There have been several high-profile changes recently at the area's top breweries. The first took place when Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees, who had been with the brewery for ten years, teamed up with Austin Wiley, who ran Denver Beer Co's Platte Street tap room, to form their own operation. Rees, Collie and Darren Boyd, who had all worked together at Great Divide at one point, opened Spangalang Brewing in Five Points earlier this month. To fill the void, Great Divide promoted brewer Ethan Osborne (formerly of Crazy Mountain Brewery in Edwards) to the top job there.
Jason Buehler replaced Austin Wiley at Denver Beer Co.
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Denver Beer Co, meanwhile, hired Jason Buehler in early April to take over as head brewer at the company's Platte Street tap room. Buehler had been the head brewer at Oskar Blues's original Lyons location since 2012. "Buehler brings a wealth of experience to Denver Beer Co. from his previous role at Oskar Blues, where he managed the specialty beer brewery and research and recipe development," Denver Beer Co says in a statement about the change. "He initiated the Oskar Blues barrel-aging program in Lyons in addition to many collaboration projects with other breweries."
In turn, Oskar Blues promoted Juice Drapeau to the head-brewer position; Drapeau had run the brewery's draft nitro program that eventually led to the launch of Old Chub Nitro in a can. Drapeau joined Oskar Blues in 2010 and began brewing full-time in 2014.
Back in Denver, head brewer Andy Brown left the Wynkoop Brewing Company in December to start his own cider-making operation, C-Squared, which is slated to open later this spring or summer inside the Bindery on Blake; Brown had been at Wynkoop since 2008.
Wayne Burns, seen here at Jagged Mountain, has moved to the Wynkoop.
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Mike Hall of Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs took over briefly as interim brewer at the Wynkoop; both breweries are owned by the Breckenridge-Wynkoop parent company. When Hall returned to Phantom Canyon, though, the Wynkoop hired Wayne Burns from Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery. Although Burns – who is still part owner at Jagged Mountain – won't brew on a day-to-day basis, he will oversee the brewing operations at the Wynkoop; Greg Moore, Bess Dougherty and Charles McManus will make most of the beer.
Jagged Mountain has since tapped Adam Glaser, formerly of the Fort Collins Brewery, as its new head brewer. "His beers have been very well received, and he is a great fit for our team," says Jagged co-owner RJ Banat, adding that yesterday was the first day that the brewery's entire menu consisted of Glaser's beers.
Brett Williams, center, left Dry Dock to open Little Machine with two business partners.
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And finally, Dry Dock head brewer Brett Williams is leaving to start his own brewery, Little Machine, along with Mike Dunkly and Ben Chenard. "Although we're sad to see Brett leave, we're excited about his opportunity and wish him the best," Dry Dock co-founder Kevin DeLange said a few weeks ago after the announcement. "Every brewer dreams of having their own place and…given his experience, technical brewing skills and passion, we're sure Brett will be successful."
Dry Dock is still working on replacing Williams, DeLange says.
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This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. �119(d) from German Patent Application No. 10 2006 033 399.3, filed Jul. 19, 2006. The content of the above patent application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention concerns a marker element for marking one or more boundaries of a section of a self-expending stent with a mesh, the marker element including radiopaque material and being fitted on a device for introducing the stent into a body vessel, the device including a tubular element which is inserted through the stent.
Markers or marker elements containing radiopaque material are used when the delivering stents into a patient's body vessels to permit monitoring of the position of the stent and/or the delivery device by fluoroscopy and precise monitoring of the introduction and release.
Stents are endoprostheses made of various materials which are generally used to maintain the patency of body vessels, and comprise tubular and/or mesh structures with or without coatings. Stents are introduced into the vessels in a compressed form using a suitable delivery system and unfold in the target position, where they are to remain. The walls of the stent press intraluminally against the walls of the vessel. Self-expanding stents can, for example, be compressed for introduction into a vessel by an outer sleeve which is withdrawn after correct positioning so that the self-expanding stent can unfold and expand as a result of its elasticity.
The fitting of radiopaque markers on a system for the introduction of stents into a body vessel in the form of ring-shaped or tubular structures on the appropriate functional elements—the outer sleeve, guide wire catheter or pusher—which are glued firmly in place or held in place by precision forming, so-called "swaging", is known from the prior art. Markers for delivery systems in which radiopaque substances are introduced into the extrusion or moulding compound before manufacture of the functional elements are also known.
All these markers are used to monitor the position in the body and to check the function of the devices during implantation of the stent.
When necessary, radiopaque markers are also affixed to the stents themselves. Markers which are pressed, welded, soldered or glued into appropriate eyelets in laser-cut stents are known from the prior art. U.S. Pat. No. 6,409,752 describes such a method of attachment.
The markers are generally used to mark the ends of stents under fluoroscopy. Thus, it is generally possible to mark special stent zones with specific mechanical-physical, chemical or biological properties in the central region of the stent as well, because virtually no structures or boundaries can be identified on a stent in the folded state.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,725,572 describes another way of marking the ends of stents with a radiopaque material applied locally to the stent as a thin layer. This can be done by targeted vapour deposition or by the precipitation of radiopaque substances at defined points on the stent. The radiopaque markers should in all cases, as intended, be impossible to detach from the stent.
In addition, WO 98/57692 discloses an expandable stent and a system for introducing this stent into a body cavity which has an inner and an outer tube. The delivery system described in this international patent application has, among other things, ring-shaped radiopaque markers firmly attached to the outer and inner tubes which are used to hold the outer sleeve which compresses the stent. The two markers firmly attached to the inner tube mark the two ends of the stent. By moving the tubes with respect to each other, the outer sleeve is removed from the stent, and the latter is released.
In contrast to laser-cut stents, the prior art for self-expanding stents made of individual woven wires, so-called woven stents, describes no or only inadequate methods of local quasi-zero-dimensional X-ray marking for the visualization of the ends of stents or the boundaries of special zones of the stent with specific mechanical-physical, chemical or biological properties under fluoroscopy.
A wire-woven stent of this type with a special—so-called functional—zone, in this case characterized by its particular mechanical-physical properties, is described in patent application DE 103 35 649, to which reference is herewith expressly made. The term "functional zone", here and below, is taken to mean a region of the stent, preferably in the central section of the stent, which has a lower weaving angle than in the adjoining sections along the longitudinal axis, preferably the proximal and distal sections.
With stents of this type, the problem arises that they become much shorter when they are released. The ratio l/L of the stent length l in the loaded state to the free stent length L depends on the internal diameter d of the outer sleeve, the diameter D of the stent in the deployed state and the weaving angle α. For example, a stent of length L=40 mm, diameter D=6 mm and a weaving angle α=40�, when it is compressed to d=1.5 mm, is a factor of 1.53 longer. For a stent with a functional zone with a weaving angle of e.g. α=10�, the increase in length in the outer sleeve of the delivery system can even be a factor (1/L) of 4 to 6.
A usable, sharply defined or quasi-zero-dimensional (i.e. quasi point-shaped) marking on a woven stent for the precise labelling of certain functional zones, required for exact positioning in a vascular lesion, has not hitherto been described. In the prior art, only the attachment of radiopaque materials to the ends of the wires by welding, soldering or gluing, as shown e.g. in the technique described in EP 0 858 299, is known.
In addition, hollow cylindrical X-ray markers can be threaded through the weave wires in the middle of the stent before weaving and then crimped or glued in place, but this method has considerable disadvantages.
For example, local quasi-zero-dimensional markers must have a very high X-ray density and an adequate volume to be clearly visible with normal fluoroscopes currently available. Stents, for example those intended for uses including cerebral or intracranial blood vessels, which are sometimes very thickly woven from very thin wires 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm in diameter, do not offer enough possible anchor points for a voluminous X-ray marker of adequate visibility.
Quasi-zero-dimensional markers can also often only be attached after production and surface treatment of the stent, as their chemical and mechanical properties have a negative effect on the treatment of the stent, for example, as a result of thermomechanical processes and surface polishing techniques.
The electrochemical interactions between the stent material and a locally concentrated marker material in blood or other body fluids can lead to detachment of the connection and to corrosion of the stent itself. The resultant risk of embolic cerebral stroke caused by fragments of stent or marker material released thereby is not acceptable.
Quasi-zero-dimensional markers must also withstand the large changes in shape of the woven structure of the stent when it is deployed, particularly the shortening to as little as one sixth of its length described above, and must not damage the inner wall of the filigreed delivery system, which can have an internal diameter of 0.9 mm to 1.8 mm. Particles of the delivery system formed by such abrasion could also cause embolic cerebral strokes in patients.
Finally, assembly and bonding techniques such as gluing, soldering, welding and crimping of quasi-zero-dimensional markers in the middle region of woven stents would require new and possibly complex production procedures.
The object on which the invention is based, therefore, is to render one or both boundaries of a section of a self-expanding stent with a mesh in the delivery system clearly and distinctly visible by fluoroscopy during its deployment in a simple and safe manner.
This object is achieved according to the invention by ensuring that the marker element between the stent and the tubular element is fitted on such that the marker element can slide on the tubular element and engages detachably into the mesh of the stent.
The object on which the invention is based is completely solved in this way.
With the marker element according to the invention, it is possible to also mark sections of a stent which change length during deployment of the stent, during its positioning and deployment. This is achieved by the marker element being connected in a form-fit, but detachable, manner to the stent loaded in the delivery system, or engaging detachably into the mesh of the stent, when the latter is in the compressed state, i.e. loaded in the delivery system.
At the same time, the marker element can slide backwards and forwards on the guide wire catheter, namely between the guide wire catheter and the stent, but cannot become detached from the guide wire catheter. The marker element can thus be attached to the stent at one point, where it is intended to mark e.g. the start or end of a stent zone with special mechanical-physical, chemical or biological properties under fluoroscopy, in a detachable manner.
The term "self-expanding stent" is taken to mean any stent or stent graft the framework of which, e.g. a wire framework, is made of a self-expanding material, in which the framework can also be connected to a textile tube. For implantation into a vessel in the body, the stent can be radially compressed, e.g. by an outer sleeve, so that its cross-sectional area is substantially reduced and it can be easily introduced into the vessel; when the compression is released, that is, when e.g. the outer sleeve is removed, the stent unfolds radially to its original shape because of the spring action of its framework, and becomes lodged inside the body vessel.
"One or more boundaries of a section of a self-expanding stent" can—on the one hand—mean one or the other end of the stent, i.e. the section in this case is defined as the entire stent. Alternatively, however, it can mean a particular section within the stent which is distinguished from the other sections of the stent in respect of its different mechanical-physical, chemical or biological properties. This may e.g. be a so-called functional zone of a woven stent, as disclosed and defined in DE 103 35 649 for example. DE 103 35 649 discloses a woven stent with a woven structure made up of a large number of thread-like elements which, in the expanded state of the woven stent, intercept a plane at right angles to the longitudinal direction at a certain weaving angle. The stent has a zone (hereinafter referred to as the "functional zone") which has a smaller weaving angle than in the neighbouring sections or zones of the woven stent. In this connection, therefore, "a boundary of a section" would mean the end(s) of the functional zone.
"Radiopaque material" means the presence of any material which is opaque or only slightly transparent to X-rays and which is therefore visible when using appropriate imaging procedures, e.g. X-ray fluoroscopy, e.g. as a spot. With the marker element according to the invention the disadvantages of the prior art can be avoided and a fluoroscopically clear and distinctly visible marking is provided at one or both ends of a section of a self-expanding stent with a mesh during its positioning and deployment in a body vessel.
The marker element may be formed from a single piece or several components joined together.
The marker element, which contains an adequate mass of radiopaque material, is positively anchored to the stent inside the loaded stent at the point of the boundary to be marked.
In one embodiment it is preferable for the tubular element to be a guide wire catheter. In this case, the stent for introduction into a body vessel is loaded in a device for delivering the stent which includes, among other things, a guide wire catheter, and the marker element is mounted such that it can slide between the guide wire catheter and the stent on the guide wire catheter, with the marker element engaging into the mesh of the stent.
When, therefore, the stent moves during its deployment within the delivery device, the marker element moves position with it. Only when the marked section of the stent leaves the outer sleeve and that part of the stent detaches from the delivery system because of its self-expanding properties, does it simultaneously detach from the marker element which is arranged on the guide wire catheter and is connected to the latter such that it can slide on it but cannot become detached from it.
The marker is thus available for use during positioning and implantation of the stent as if it were part of the stent itself, but after deployment of the stent it becomes part of the delivery device and is removed from the body with the latter. This construction permits quasi-zero-dimensional markers with a very high X-ray density and an adequate volume to be realized on the stent.
Stents made of extremely thin wires 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm in diameter and are very densely woven will no longer require, anyway inadequate, anchor points for relatively voluminous X-ray markers.
During the manufacture and treatment of the stents, there is no need to take into account complex chemical and mechanical interactions with the radiopaque material resulting from theromechanical processes and surface polishing procedures.
The electrochemical interaction between the stent material and locally concentrated marker material, and the associated risk of embolic cerebral stroke brought about by particles of stent and marker released by corrosion is avoided.
The quasi-zero-dimensional markers can withstand the large changes in shape of the woven structure of the stent during its deployment, particularly the shortening in an extreme case down to one sixth of its length in the loaded state and, as a result of its position inside the folded stent, cannot damage the inner wall of the filigreed device or delivery system.
The advantage of this is that the marker element with its close fit with the compressed stent marks the start or end of a functional zone of the stent even if the functional zone moves axially with respect to the guide wire catheter during deployment of the stent.
For follow-up examinations, in which individual images are generally obtained using stationary and more powerful X-ray machines, the substantially more dense weave of the functional zones described here are sufficiently differentiated.
In another embodiment, it is preferable for the marker element to have a hollow anchor element which in turn has at least one, preferably 1 to 12, radially outward-pointing projection which engages into the mesh of the stent.
This embodiment has the advantage that the projection or projections form a sort of anchor element or elements that engage into the stent and anchor to it.
For this purpose, prismatic or pyramidal projections could be formed. In the case of the formation of projections/anchors as prismatic bodies, it is preferable if these are formed with the front face towards the hollow cylindrical body. In the case of the formation of projections/anchors as truncated pyramids, it is preferable if the larger face of these is directed towards the hollow cylindrical body.
It is particularly preferable for the heights of the projections/anchors to be of such a size that the marker element has sufficient play with respect to the outer sleeve, but heights which are less than the wall or weave-wire thickness of the stent, so that the stent in the compressed state cannot slip off the marker element.
The invention also concerns a device for the delivery of a self-expanding stent in a body vessel, the device having the following components:
which also has a marker element which is arranged on the tubular element such that it can freely slide backwards and forwards but cannot become detached and is connected to the radially compressed stent in a detachable manner.
In particular, it is preferable if the device has a marker element as described above.
In another embodiment, it is preferable if the device according to the invention has an outer sleeve which has an outer sleeve marker. It is obvious that the marker element can be attached in a slideable manner to any tubular or conical element on to which a stent for introduction into a body vessel is to be loaded. What is important for the present invention is that the marker element can engage into the stent in a detachable manner, and that it can slide on, but is fitted to the tubular element in a non-detachable manner, and is thus located between the stent and the tubular element.
As the radiopaque material, it is possible to use any radiopaque material known from the prior art which proves to be suitable for the present purpose. Suitable materials are e.g. heavy biocompatible metals, e.g. the noble metals gold, platinum, iridium or platinum-iridium, but also metals such as tantalum; though it will be clear to a person skilled in the art that other materials not listed here could be used for the marker element according to the invention.
The device according to the invention, i.e. the delivery system, has an outer sleeve which holds the stent in radial compression. When the outer sleeve is drawn back proximally, it releases the stent from the distal end to the proximal end, so that, as a result of its self-expanding mechanism, the stent becomes detached from the device and the sliding marker elements attached to it. After deployment of the stent, the delivery system together with the sliding marker elements attached to it is withdrawn from the body vessel.
The term "distal" in this case designates the direction/end of the device or parts of the device leading away from the operator (that is, in the direction of the tip of the delivery system); the term "proximal" designates the direction/end of the device or parts of the device leading or pointing towards the operator.
An example of an embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings and will be discussed in more detail in the description below. In the drawings:
The stent 2 can be a self-expanding metal stent, produced using the weaving technique, as described in DE 103 35 649, mentioned in the introduction. The delivery system 5 has a handle 19, which is functionally connected to an outer sleeve 9, a pusher 11, and a guide wire catheter 6. The outer sleeve 9 holds the stent 2 in radial compression. The outer sleeve 9 has an outer sleeve marker 10 of radiopaque material at its distal end.
In this state, the delivery system 5 is introduced into a vessel along a guide wire 12 by the known Seldinger method. The guide wire 12 passes through the atraumatic tip 7 and the guide wire catheter 6 inside the stent 2 and the delivery system 5. The guide wire catheter 6 also passes through the pusher 11 (not shown here).
A guide wire catheter marker 8 is attached to the guide wire catheter 6 by the methods described at the start. The movable marker element 1 according to the invention is also located on the guide wire catheter 6, which is very useful for the stent concerned.
The movable marker element 1 and the fixed guide wire catheter marker 8 delimit the functional zone 3 of the stent 2 in the delivery system 5. In another embodiment, which is not shown here, the distal boundary marker can also be designed to slide on the guide wire catheter in the same way as the marker element 1.
4 a indicates the length of the functional zone 3 of the stent 2 in the delivery system 5. When the delivery system 5 or the folded stent 2, or rather the functional zone 3 is positioned in the target vascular lesion, the stent 2 is released distally by drawing the outer sleeve 6 back proximally and simultaneously pushing the pusher 11 distally.
The marker element 1 comprises a hollow cylindrical body 13 which can have one to twelve radially outward-pointing projections/anchors 14, depending on the embodiment. A sleeve 15 of radiopaque material is inserted inside and firmly joined to the hollow cylindrical body 13 of the marker element 1.
For a woven stent made up of 24 wires, an embodiment of the marker element 1 with, for example, three projections/anchors 14 arranged at 120� angles is preferable. Depending on the number of weave wires or the nature of the stent 2, woven or laser cut, other numbers of projections/anchors 14 can be chosen or they can even have a staggered arrangement along the central axis 18 of the hollow cylindrical body 13.
The projections/anchors 14 pass through the mesh holes 20 or the weave of the folded stent 2. The projections/anchors 14 should preferably be realized as prisms or truncated pyramids without undercutting, so that the stent 2, when it expands radially during deployment, easily detaches itself from the marker element 1.
The hollow cylindrical body 13 with the projection(s)/anchor(s) should preferably be made from a plastic suitable for medical use, for example polyoxymethylene (POM) using the injection moulding procedure. The sleeve 15 should preferably be made of a very radiopaque metal or an alloy, for example gold, platinum, tantalum, or a platinum-iridium alloy.
A press fit between sleeve 15 and hollow cylindrical body 13 would be conceivable in another embodiment, but this could lead to overstressing and breakage of the hollow cylindrical body 13 by stress-inducing mechanical creep processes. The sleeve 15 could then become detached in the direction of the central axis 18. There must be sufficient play between the sleeve 15 and the guide wire catheter 6 so that it, or rather the marker element 1, can easily slide along the guide wire catheter 6.
The height 17 of the projections/anchor 14 is designed to be sufficient to ensure that the folded stent 2 cannot slip between the outer sleeve 9 and the projection/anchor 14 from the marker element 1 in the direction of the central axis 18. However, the height 17 of the projection/anchor 14 must be low enough to ensure that the marker element 1 cannot get jammed in the outer sleeve 9.
A widening 16 of the sleeve 15 ensures that, when the marker element 1, still coupled to the stent 2, slides on the guide wire catheter 6 when stent 2 is deployed, the marker element 1 does not become jammed or wedged on the guide wire catheter 6.
After deployment of stent 2, the delivery system 5 and the mobile marker element 1 attached to it are withdrawn from the body vessel.
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"It's time to fasten the men!" Geraldine shouted. She swept her arm across the table, knocking over the tea cups Tenzile had just set down. "It's time, goddamn it!"
Geraldine was always shouting that it was time to fasten the men, so nobody paid her much attention. The tea cups were molded plastic, ugly but high-end; you could toss one out a three-story window and it wouldn't crack.
A fourth-story window, now, that was different. Rae and Rodja (the railroad girls, Janace called them, but then Janace thought she was funny) had conducted that experiment late one afternoon after Melvina's granddaughter had stopped by for one of her five-minute visits. The granddaughter was a lawyer, real estate or taxes or something boring like that; she talked to them like a kindergarten teacher addressing a group of slow children she was obliged to pretend were sweet. One thing about lawyer-girl, though—she never arrived empty-handed. The women figured it must give her a thrill to think she was smuggling in contraband.
"You know, you could tell her you don't drink," Haidee said, but Melvina just mumbled something about it being the thought that counted.
That time R&R had thrown the tea cups from the fourth-floor window of Rae's room and busted two of them, they'd filched the bottle of Maker's Mark right out of Melvina's nightie drawer. They were decently ashamed afterwards, but Melvina still gave them both the silent treatment for a week.
When Geraldine knocked over the tea cups, there was no harm done. They'd been empty; the tea was still brewing. Silently, Tenzile righted them. That was just the way Geraldine was. A little volatile, more than a little obsessive—once she got a hair up her butt, there wasn't any way to yank it out again, so the women humored her, while making sure to keep a safe distance when she jumped. Two years away from eighty, with one hip replacement under her belt, Geraldine still moved pretty good. She'd worked construction for thirty years, and had quite a bit of muscle left from those days.
Everybody kept her mouth shut and made like nothing had happened. Geraldine kicked a chair, then stalked out of the room. Once she was gone, Zyta brought the teapot over to the table, and Doris bustled up with her eternal, blessed sugar cookies, which were dry as sand and nearly always disintegrated into a cascade of crumbs at the first bite. Doris liked them, so no one complained.
"Napkins," Haidee said. They were in her room today.
Nobody thought much about where Geraldine had gone, until they heard yelling in the courtyard. Rodja and Rae were arguing about the idiots running for governor. Tenzile had brought her backgammon set, and was gazing at the others hopefully. Melvina already had her knitting in her lap; she would use that as her excuse, as usual. It was her excuse to avoid Doris's terrible cookies, too. Haidee and Janace, who had about as much interest in backgammon as Melvina, smiled at Tenzile, then picked up their teacups. "Nice weather today," Haidee said.
"Certainly better than yesterday," said Janace.
Zyta said, "Let's go to the park. I like the park."
"We know," Melvina said.
"I like the ducks."
"Those aren't ducks, dear."
"I like them anyway." Zyta slipped one of Doris's cookies off the plate, and casually eased it into the pocket of her cardigan. Everybody saw, including Doris. She laughed, and nudged the plate closer to Zyta.
"The ducks like them," Zyta said, a bit bashfully.
Janace said, "They're not ducks."
"Close enough, don't you think?"
Rae and Rodja were following this exchange now. "No," Rodja said, with the authority of someone who had taught biology for forty years. Rae just rolled her eyes.
"If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck—"
"Zyta, they've got black scaly tails and teeth."
Zyta repeated, "I like them anyway."
"Of course you do, dear," Melvina said.
They could all tell that Rodja was gearing up to launch into a lecture that would almost certainly have the words mutation, punctuated evolution, environmental niche, and avian die-off in it, not to mention hell in a handbasket, and goddamn chemical-industrial complex, so they stirred their tea and braced themselves. Then the commotion began in the courtyard.
"Where's Geraldine?" Janace, Rae, Haidee, Doris, Melvina, Rodja, Tenzile, and Zyta exclaimed, in near unison.
They looked around. They looked at each other.
"Shit," Rae said.
"Let's not jump to conclusions," said Haidee.
Outside, more than one person was yelling. Sometimes kids—from the high school a couple of blocks away—took a shortcut through the courtyard. Sometimes they fought with each other. Sometimes they commandeered the benches and tables that were exclusively for the use of the residents, until Mr. Fitzhugh, the daytime security guard, inched out from behind the monitors on his desk and marched out of the lobby door—with one hand holding the door open—to plant himself six inches from the threshold and glare at them severely. This tended to cause an escalation in the noise level. Sometimes the kids threw soda cans. Or worse.
It did not sound like teenagers in the courtyard.
It sounded like Geraldine shrieking and Mr. Fitzhugh—who, while twenty years younger than Geraldine, couldn't have weighed more than a hundred and twenty pounds with his boots on—shrieking even louder.
Tenzile was the first one to stand up and go to the window. It should have been Haidee, since that day they were meeting for tea in her room, but Haidee had never made the first move in her life.
Janace said, "Tell me she's not chasing him around the courtyard."
"No. Worse."
Melvina drew her bag out from under her chair and dropped her knitting inside. Rodja and Rae joined Tenzile at the window.
Zyta said, "She's not 100 percent wrong, you know."
"God, not again." Doris stood up, but she did not go to the window. She stood up so she could turn her back on Zyta.
Janace said, "She's hitting him?"
"Worse," Rae and Rodja said.
"And these two think it's funny," Doris observed.
Rae said, "Sorry, Doris."
"Mr. Fitzhugh is just trying to do his job."
"We know, Doris."
Janace said, "Don't tell me she's—?"
Tenzile answered, "She's got him down on the ground and she's tying him up."
"Tying him up with what?"
"Great, we're going to have the police here again."
"That poor man."
"All right," Melvina said, standing up. "Let's go."
Haidee, the born follower, got to her feet as soon as Melvina rose. Rodja and Rae glanced at each other.
Zyta said, "She's going to do it one day. She's been planning it forever. Since she was young."
"She should have done it when she was young," Janace said. "When we were young. Then there might have been a chance."
Tenzile said, "We didn't know her then."
Janace said, "Doesn't matter. I'm saying, then she might have had a chance."
"None of us knew each other when we were young."
"We know that, Doris."
"She showed me how to do it," Zyta said. "In theory, I mean. Well, sort of in practice, too. We did it on a dog."
"Oh my God," Haidee said. She loved dogs.
Rae and Rodja glanced at each other again. Rodja began to say something, then thought better of it.
Haidee, her voice shaking, said, "You people have lost your minds."
"Maybe we've just come to the conclusion that we have nothing to lose," Zyta said.
"Geraldine isn't all there," Doris offered. "Come on. Do any of you think she is?"
"Absolutely not," Haidee said.
None of the others said anything, except Janace, who muttered, "It's just too late, that's all."
Melvina, her back straight and her hands folded, cleared her throat. They all turned toward her, even Zyta, even Doris. Haidee, murmuring dogs? dogs?, began to sit down again, then caught herself.
"We all need to go to the courtyard together," Melvina said.
Tenzile exclaimed, "Oh, dear."
"What did she do?" Zyta asked eagerly.
"She's slung him over her shoulder. I think she's bringing him back inside."
"Zyta, I wish you would stop enjoying this so much. That poor man."
"Stuff it, Doris."
Rodja said, "Maybe we should head down to the lobby."
"Tenzile, can you make out Mr. Fitzhugh's condition?" Melvina's voice remained calm and authoritative. This was the tone that pissed every single one of them off, including Haidee, but which they all put up with.
"She's got his ankles and wrists tied, and something black around his head. Maybe tape."
Haidee said, "Where did she get tape?"
"They do sell tape at the store, dear."
"Around his head? You mean over his mouth?" Zyta asked.
"Yes. Over his mouth and around his head."
"Explains why he's not screaming anymore," said Janace. "Is he struggling?"
"Bet she bopped him a good one."
"Why do you keep acting like this is funny?" Doris snapped.
"I don't think it's funny."
"I can't see them anymore," Tenzile reported.
Everybody looked at Melvina. "All right. I assume that Geraldine, even given her agitated state, will take the elevator and not the stairs. Now, we have two problems."
"Only two?"
Melvina shot Janace a brief glance. "Two immediate problems. Did anybody see Geraldine fasten Mr. Fitzhugh outside, and will anybody notice her lugging him around inside? Rae, Rodja, would you two go to Geraldine's room and wait for her there? Janaca, Zyta, I'd like you to go to the lobby and take a look around, then check out the courtyard, as well."
"And what do we say if the cops roll up while we're checking for witnesses?"
"Nothing at all," Melvina said. "You are two innocent elderly ladies out for a bit of afternoon sun. You don't know anything about a disturbance."
"You do realize it's cloudy."
"You are two innocent, somewhat addled elderly ladies who don't know anything about a disturbance."
"You should send Doris."
"Stop it," Melvina said. "Tenzile, Haidee, Doris, you're going to deal with Mr. Fitzhugh, once we get him away from Geraldine. I'm sure he's going to be very upset—"
"Poor man."
"Indeed. There's about a quarter left of that bottle Rae and Rodja liberated from my bedroom. Now you go liberate it from my bedroom, and try to get as much of it down Mr. Fitzhugh's throat as you can." She looked around. "Do you all have your cell phones?"
The women busied themselves checking. Rodja and Rae waved their phones at Melvina, and headed for the door. Doris said, "You know I don't like those things. Shooting microwaves through your brain. That can't be good for you, I don't care what anyone says."
Tenzile, who was still at the window, said, "Billy Gant from the second floor is in the courtyard now."
"What's he doing?"
"Sitting on a bench with his newspaper."
"Billy Gant's all right," Haidee said.
"None of them is all right," Zyta said.
"Oh, you," Doris exclaimed. "You're almost as bad as—"
"We're not having this argument now," Melvina said.
"Again, you mean," said Janace.
Zyta, arms folded, said softly, "You were wrong before. About its being too late. The only thing that's stopping us, the only thing that's ever stopped us, is our own fear."
"I don't believe you actually did it to a dog."
"More than once."
"Oh dear God," Haidee said.
Janace shook her head. "And you're saying it worked?"
"Yes." Zyta paused. "I could teach you."
"It wouldn't do any good. Can't you see that?"
"Each one, teach one. Each one, do one. Domino effect."
Janace shook her head again. "Sorry to tell you, Zyta, but there just aren't enough dominos."
"People," Melvina said, sharply. "This isn't the time. Let's move."
Zyta said, "You gave everybody a job but yourself."
They locked eyes. "Who do you imagine is going to be dealing with Geraldine?"
"Fine," Zyta muttered. "Come on, Janace. We have our orders."
Rae and Rodja had already left. Haidee and Doris began to move. Haidee looked over her shoulder at Tenzile. "We're supposed to take care of Mr. Fitzhugh."
"First we get the whiskey," Doris said.
"Right. Tenny, you're with us."
"Something's happening," Tenzile said. She was standing very still. "Billy Gant just jumped up."
"Billy Gant can't jump," Doris said. "He has Parkinson's."
"His newspaper went everywhere." Tenzile raised her hands to her face. "Oh, my."
"What happened?"
"Geraldine's back."
"In the courtyard?" Haidee turned toward the window.
"Let's go," Melvina said. "Now!"
"She's got him," Tenzile said. "He's on the ground. She's fastening him."
"Now, people! Move!"
Janace grabbed Zyta's sleeve and tugged her to the door.
Haidee said, "The police have to be coming. Someone must have seen."
"If she's got Billy Gant now, what did she do with Mr. Fitzhugh?" Doris asked.
"Maybe she finished with him," Zyta said, from the door. Janace tugged her again, and Zyta pushed her off. "It doesn't take long, really. So if it's started—"
"He's probably in her room," Melvina said. "Rae and Rodja went there. They'll—"
"She's carrying Billy Gant inside," Tenzile said. Her voice had been quiet from the first. It was still quiet. Haidee frowned at her back, then glanced at Doris.
"It's started," Zyta said. "Rodja and Rae can't undo what Geraldine's done."
"We can stop her from doing it to Billy Gant," Janace snapped.
"We don't know that she did anything." Melvina's gaze darted from one of them to the next, resting on no one. "We don't know anything for sure. We need to—"
"You wouldn't even look out the window," Zyta said. "Why is that?"
"We need to move," Melvina said.
"Do you still want us to go to the courtyard?" Janace asked.
"No. No. To Geraldine's room. Everybody—together." Melvina swept her arms up, in a shooing gesture. Her lip trembled.
"Everybody together," Zyta said. The way she said it was very different.
"What did Billy Gant ever do to you?" Doris said to Zyta.
"Or Mr. Fitzhugh," Haidee said. "Mr. Fitzhugh was a nice man. He liked to do crossword puzzles."
Zyta shook her head. "You people. Why do you keep thinking it's some kind of punishment, some sort of revenge? That's not it. It's not like that at all. Melvina. You know better. You do."
"So do I," Tenzile said. "But Zyta. . . I need more. Like Janace said, people aren't dominoes. Mr. Fitzhugh, Billy Gant—two men. Convince me we wouldn't be throwing everything away on a symbolic gesture."
"It's not a gesture, and it's not symbolic. It's a beginning. And what's begun doesn't have to stop. It doesn't have to stop, Tenzile. Besides, exactly what the hell are we throwing away?"
Janace grabbed Zyta, not gently. "Shut up and let's go."
Melvina herded Doris and Haidee in front of her toward the door. After a moment, Tenzile left her post at the window and followed them.
Geraldine's room was on the second floor. Without consulting any of them, without even looking around, Janace headed straight for the stairs, bypassing the elevators, her hand still clamped around Zyta's wrist.
"What about the whiskey?" Doris asked.
"Wait! I didn't lock my door!" Haidee said.
There was no one else in the hallway. There was no one on the stairs. There should have been. Residents used the elevators, but aides, attendants, and the building's service people were encouraged to take the stairs. Melvina's eyes narrowed.
"Where is everybody?" Doris asked Tenzile. "Do you think they're hiding?"
"The men are, if they've got any brains," Janace said.
"I didn't lock my door."
"Haidee, I think your collection of nineteenth-century knickknacks is safe for the moment."
"Eighteenth century. And anyway I was thinking about my laptop."
Melvina was the last to reach the bottom of the stairs. The others waited for her, Janace breathing a little hard, Doris still holding on to the handrail. Janace ruefully said, "You know Geraldine could kick all our asses."
"She's not going to do that," Zyta said.
"Right. The spirit of sisterhood will protect us."
Melvina, breathing harder than Janace, said, "We're her friends. She knows that."
"She was yelling, before," Haidee said. "And she kicked over a chair. But she's always yelling and throwing things. Why did she go and do that to Mr. Fitzhugh and Billy Gant today? Do you think something happened to her?"
"A lifetime happened," Zyta said.
The second floor hallway was empty, as well.
"Does this feel like a lockdown to you?" Janace asked. "Maybe there was an announcement and we missed it?"
"There wasn't any announcement," Melvina said. Geraldine's room was number 216, on the right at the far end of the hall. Melvina took the lead now as they advanced down the corridor. Janace wasn't gripping Zyta's wrist anymore. At the bottom of the stairs, she'd let go, and somehow, a moment later, they'd wound up holding hands. Doris and Haidee clasped hands as well. Tenzile, like Melvina, walked alone.
"Where are Rodja and Rae?" Doris sounded frightened. "They were supposed to be here, waiting."
"She got them, too," Haidee whispered.
"That's not how it works," Zyta said.
"Right," Janace said.
"It's not. I told you. I've done it."
"They might be inside," Tenzile said. She moved up next to Melvina, and said something to her under her breath. Melvina jerked her head away.
"Come on. What the hell are we throwing away, Zyta said. She was right." More loudly, Tenzile continued, "What can we lose? Old women, drinking tea, playing cards, waiting for doctor's appointments, waiting for the heart attack, waiting for the stroke, waiting for the fall in the bathtub."
"I've got a granddaughter."
"So do I. So does Geraldine."
"Geraldine has three," said Haidee.
"We are free," Tenzile said. "We are some of the freest women on the planet."
Zyta said, "True. Funny how that works, isn't it?"
"We're going to lose what we have left," Melvina said. "All because of two old men who can't possibly make any difference."
Slowly, Tenzile said, "A blizzard starts with a couple of snowflakes."
"First dominoes, now blizzards?"
They were outside room 216. For a moment, no one said anything. In the hallway, there was no sound other than their own breathing.
Doris said, softly, "Are we going to knock?"
Janace said, "Wait. We still don't know what we're going to do."
"We still don't know if we have to do anything," Melvina said. "Except sit on Geraldine until the cops get here."
"It's much too late for that," Zyta said. "We can either move things along, or get out of the way."
Janace jerked at Zyta's hand. "You want to go gather snowflakes?"
"It's not like they'd be very hard to find."
"You're a fanatic."
"I'm just ready." Zyta's voice was pensive. "I'm ready now."
"We should knock," Haidee said. "Rae and Rodja are probably in there, hiding like everybody else. We should let them know we're here."
"They're not hiding," Zyta said.
"They might be scared."
Even Melvina's lips twitched into an almost-smile at that.
"Somebody's in there," Janace said. "Maybe Rae and Rodja, maybe Geraldine, probably Mr. Fitzhugh and Billy Gant. Geraldine had to put the men somewhere. So." She let go of Zyta's hand.
"So you've decided what you're going to do?" Zyta asked.
"I've decided to see what we're up against."
"We're up against the future."
"More like the past," Tenzile said. She leaned forward, until her head was nearly touching the door.
Doris asked, "Do you hear something?"
"Yes." Tenzile looked at Melvina. "Can you hear it?"
"I'm not sure. Oh, damn it. Yes. Yes, I hear it."
"What?" Haidee asked. "What is it?"
"The snowflakes," Tenzile said. "The dominoes."
Janace said, "But Geraldine only fastened two. And then we came down here. She hasn't had time—"
"You're forgetting Rodja and Rae," said Tenzile.
Doris said, "They didn't go out. We would've seen them."
"No, they've been hunting in the building."
"You don't know that," Melvina said.
"You're right." Tenzile took hold of the doorknob. "What I do know is that it's time to take sides."
"Wait, I hear something, too," Haidee said. "Like crying."
"Not so strange that they'd be crying," Zyta said, coming to stand next to Tenzile. "Considering."
"You didn't really do this to dogs, Zyta, did you?"
"I did."
"And they cried too?"
"Puppies cry, don't they?"
Janace said, "You're seriously telling me you made female puppies?"
"Yep." Zyta glanced at her, briefly. "Like I said, it's not hard. Geraldine showed me. I could show you. You could show your sister in Tucson and your niece in Santa Fe. And they—"
"Stop it," Doris said. "Please, I know Geraldine talks about it all the time, but that's because she's losing her marbles. Now she's gone and hurt some people, and we have to try to help them."
"That isn't why we're here."
"That isn't why you're here, you mean."
Zyta looked away, then nodded. "Like Tenzile said, time to take sides."
"There aren't any sides," Doris said. "There's crazy, and there's not crazy."
Tenzile said, "Janace is with us. She just needs to see it with her own eyes."
"Don't speak for me," Janace said. "Don't."
"Melvina?" Zyta asked, softly.
Melvina made an attempt to step back, but Haidee and Doris were right behind her. Except for Tenzile and Zyta, they were all trying to shelter behind each other. "I wish we could do it to ourselves."
"That's not how it works," Tenzile said.
Haidee said, "It can't be Billy Gant and Mr. Fitzhugh crying like that."
"There are more than two in there," Zyta said.
"That's not what I meant. I mean it sounds like—"
"Tenzile," Zyta said. "Open the door."
Tenzile let go of the doorknob, raised her hand, and knocked twice.
Doris and Haidee, who'd managed to keep behind the rest, stepped back. Janace and Melvina stayed where they were. They looked at each other. Zyta looked at both of them. Tenzile faced forward.
When the door opened, it was Rae who gazed out at them. She didn't speak.
"How many?" Tenzile asked.
"A few," Rae answered. A smile glimmered in her eyes, then vanished.
"Where's Geraldine?"
"With Rodja."
"Gathering more?"
Rae hesitated, then nodded.
"I'm with you," Zyta said.
"And me," said Tenzile.
Rae looked past them to the others.
Doris and Haidee took another step back.
"At least come in with us and see for yourselves," Zyta said.
Melvina, now that Haidee and Doris were no longer crowding her, moved back a pace. "What do you think you're going to accomplish? What do you imagine you can change?"
"The tipping point," Rae answered.
"Critical mass," said Zyta. "We're 51 percent, more or less. That's not enough. Maybe sixty percent will be enough. Maybe seventy."
"We'll never know," Melvina said. "We can't."
"You're right, because we won't see the end of what's been started here. We can only help with the beginning."
"Oh, I'm pretty sure I know how this is going to end," Janace said, with strained bitterness.
Rae opened the door of Geraldine's room wider. "Come on, if you're coming."
"Mr. Fitzhugh was nice," Haidee said. "And Billy Gant never did anything to you."
"Really?" Rae replied.
"Well, he never did anything to me."
"Why aren't the police here?" Melvina asked. "How did you get everybody to stay in their rooms?"
"What makes you think everybody is in her room?" Rae's smile grew, slowly, into a grin. "Rodja and Geraldine aren't the only ones hunting."
"The whole building?" Zyta exclaimed, softly.
"Pretty much. We outnumber them more than three to one in this place."
"I didn't know Geraldine had gotten others on board."
Rae nodded. "Rodja used to think she was nuts. Hell, I used to think she was nuts. But you gotta give her points for persistence. And then, you know, she showed us, and that persuaded most people."
"What about the ones like them?" Tenzile jerked her head at Doris and Haidee.
"Fewer than you might think." Rae paused. "There are some. We're hoping to bring them over."
"We'll never get everybody," Tenzile said.
Zyta said, "We don't need everybody. We just need enough."
Suddenly Melvina said, "Mr. Fitzhugh wasn't the first. The whole building? You couldn't have done that in an hour."
"Come in," Rae said. "Come and see what we've done."
"When did you start?" Tenzile asked, quietly.
"This morning."
"So all the time at Haidee's—"
"Yeah." Rae grinned at Zyta. "Geraldine lost it a little. She was supposed to take you and Tenny and Janace aside. She's been pretty wired, though."
"What else is new," Janace muttered. "Your leader is a fruitcake."
"Our teacher, not our leader. Come on."
One by one, the women went inside. Doris and Haidee were the last to enter, but they were the first to sit down on the stools at the head of each row of cribs. After a moment, Haidee put her hand in the nearest crib and touched the infant there. Then Doris touched the one closest to her.
The rest of them stared, trying to take it in.
"Geraldine put all these together herself," Rae said.
"Just how long have you been planning this?" Janace asked. She spoke quietly, because of the babies.
"Me? None of it. Geraldine woke me and Rodja up before six. That's when we found out she'd started. And when we found out she could really do it. But I think Geraldine's been planning this most of her life."
"I guess it's time to buy stock in diaper companies."
Rae grinned.
"Look at them," Haidee said, leaning forward. "Just look at them."
Doris stroked the head of the baby in the crib nearest her.
"Twelve," Melvina said. "You've got twelve." She sounded like she was about to cry.
"In this room, yeah," Rae said.
"They're going to catch you," Janace said. "There's no way in hell some of these men won't be missed. The aides? The cleaning staff?"
"Which is why we have to teach as many women as we can how to do it. And they have to teach others."
"Yes," Zyta said. "That's what I told them."
Doris said, "They're lovely. Aren't they lovely?"
Tenzile said, "Doris. Haidee. You understand who these babies are? Who they were?"
Haidee said, "Just because we think you're wrong doesn't mean we're stupid."
"You can't change them back, can you?" Doris said.
"No," Zyta said.
"That's what I figured. So now someone has to take care of them. I hope you all considered that. And don't tell me Geraldine put the cribs together, and stocked up on baby formula. That's not what I mean."
"We know what you mean," Rae said. "So I guess you and Haidee are okay about helping us out on that end?"
Doris and Haidee looked at each other. "Well, somebody has to do it," Haidee said.
Rae's grin got wider. "Rodja owes me ten bucks. I bet her that's exactly what you'd say. Now, how about the rest of you?"
"My butt-wiping days are long past," Janace said.
"How about your bomb-throwing days?"
"I was never part of that." Janace shook her head. "I kept my head down, I focused on practical things. And you know what happened to most of those guys."
"But this is a different sort of bomb," Zyta said. "The explosions are silent, and the impact much more dramatic."
"It's still killing people."
"Change is not death. Change is change."
"Tell that to Billy Gant. Which one of these baby girls used to be him? Which one was Mr. Fitzhugh? They're gone, and they're never coming back."
"They've been given a second life, Janace."
"But not as themselves. And they were certainly not given a choice."
"How much choice did we ever have?" Tenzile countered. "Any of us. All of us. For hundreds of years, thousands—"
"Not a lot," Melvina said. "For most, none at all. So what's next? What do you want us to do?"
"You're in, then?" Zyta asked.
"We're here now. We're in it."
"You can walk away," Rae said. "You do have a choice."
"I'm not walking away."
"I am," Janace said. She didn't look at the women in the room, or the babies. At the door, she paused. "Don't worry. I won't tell. But I can't go along with this. Sorry."
When she was gone, Tenzile said, "She'll tell."
Rae said, "It doesn't matter. If Janace doesn't, someone else will. Meanwhile, we do our work. Zyta."
"You're going to take over here. When Geraldine and Rodja get back, me and Rodja are heading—um, somewhere else. You teach Tenny and Melvina, and supervise their first few times. Then you get someone else in here, and watch Tenny and Melvina teach them."
"I got it."
"And then," Rae continued, "all three of you get out of here. Out of town. Don't tell anybody where, not even each other. Keep on teaching, and making sure those you teach teach others, for as long as you can. Everybody follow?"
The women nodded. A baby whimpered; another let out a wail. Doris and Haidee rose to tend to the infants. Nobody smiled; every expression was somber.
"Have a seat," Rae said to the others. "Rodja and Geraldine will be back soon, and then you can start."
Zyta, Tenzile, and Melvina glanced around, then together, silently, moved to the sofa that had been shoved against the wall. They sat down. Zyta took Tenzile's hand, and Tenzile took Melvina's. They waited, quietly, for the soft knock on the door, and the fastened men Geraldine and Rodja would be bringing for them.
Patricia Russo has had stories at Fantasy, Chizine, Daily SF, and in many other fine publications, both online and off. Her first collection, Shiny Thing, has recently been published by Papaveria Press.


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Experiencing Doubt In Recovery
We've all gone through the experience of feeling doubt and confusion, sometimes to the point where it feels like being on an emotional rollercoaster. These are normal emotions to deal with in everyday life, but when they get overwhelming the inner turmoil that results can be too much for a person to handle.
The early days of recovery are a vulnerable time, especially when it comes to experiencing emotions like doubt. Feelings of uncertainty and confusion can simmer inside of you for months, creating a serious threat to the progress of your recovery. It's important to understand doubt and know about some strategies to handle it to prepare yourself.
Everyone experiences doubt in recovery, it's the way you choose to handle it that makes a difference between letting it turn into an obstacle or treating it as a an opportunity to grow and learn. The following strategies can help a person in recovery do just that.
1. Connect with others in recovery.
Recovery can't be done alone. That's why it's so important to begin reaching out to others early on. The people you connect with can be the people you meet in rehab, in support groups or 12 step meetings, or a sponsor.
Reaching out to others may be the last thing you want to do when experiencing self doubt, shame, or uncertainty, but the only people who are going to understand these feelings are the ones who have gone through the same experience themselves. Listening to their experiences and what they did to get through them is a good way to inspire yourself to stay motivated and develop your own strategies for dealing with doubt.
2. Change a negative outlook.
This one is tough, as the early stages of recovery are when you feel most emotional and vulnerable. You probably also have some pretty negative views of yourself and others that have been with you for many years.
This kind of negative outlook can be hard to shake off or even be aware of, but that doesn't mean it can't be changed. Instead of dwelling on old ideas and perspectives, embrace the change you're about to make in your life.
Just the fact that you've made the choice to begin recovery is a big step in the right direction. Train yourself to notice when that old voice of negativity creeps up in your thoughts and influences your actions.
That voice can sometimes be so quiet it's barely noticeable or it can be an overwhelming presence. Either way, you don't have to listen to it anymore. Remind yourself that positive experiences and possibilities are everywhere. You just have to be open to them.
3. Pick your goals and work toward them.
You may want to make big changes in your life, but it's not going to happen without any action. Start by deciding what small goals you want to accomplish. Make a list and then figure out what steps you need to take to make those goals happen.
A goal could be something simple that you can practice daily, like saying something nice to a friend or coworker, reading a book or looking at another source of information about recovery, or being helpful in any small way you can. As you practice these small actions every day, you'll soon find that progress is being made.
As you begin accomplishing these small goals, you'll find that it becomes easier to begin taking steps towards larger ones. Just remember to take time at the end of each day to reflect on the progress you've made.
4. Take care of mental health
If doubt is persistent or especially overwhelming, look at the state of your mental health for a possible source of these feelings. Don't be afraid to ask for help from a sponsor, counselor, or therapist if you feel a mental health disorder could be the culprit.


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Rinoa as Rinoa Heartilly in her Dion Rogers dress! <3
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Photo by Max Pellegrini
I saw a rendition of this concept on DA and I'm going to use that rendition in a Dead Fantasy Calendar pic I'm doing. I'm gonna give the creator of that rendition credit in that pic and I'm also going to give you credit for the concept in the pic as well. Just thought I'd let you know.
Hey I'm working on series of pic of characters from Dead Fantasy if they were modeling for a calendar. I match each character with the car I feel they would own. I've been posting them on the Dead Fantasy facebook page each month. I haven't done one for Rinoa yet but I'd like to. Problem is I can't find any good renders of her. I saw this pic [link] and the poster of that rendition said the idea and concept was originally yours. I'm still trying to reach the poster of that pic but I figured I'd ask you since the idea came from you. If it's alright with you I'd like to use it. If you do, I'll be sure to give credit to you for concept and idea of that pic. I'm still searching for other renders but right now that is the one I'm looking at. You can see what I've done for each month so far on my deviantart gallery under Dead Fantasy Calendar.
Wow! Looks just like Rinoa! I'm so in <333!
That´s a good photo. Very good cosplay. You look good as Rinoa. You are a good cosplayer. Beautiful belly button.
I never heard of that dress, but it's perfect!
You are the most beautiful cosplayer I ve ever seen
You are the most beautiful cosplayer i ve ever seen
I love the full body poses, btw very nice as always!
I think I'm... in love. Wait, no--no, wait, I said that right.
Great cosplay! Beautiful outfit x
Rinoa was my favorite ff girl. Nice cosplay!
I love the outfit hope i had one
Damn, that is how you spell r.i.n.o.a.
I love the outfit,and the fact that you made it is beyond AMAZING,and your so pretty to ^_^
Love the pic!
really cute.. I want to draw you!!
I really like the window/mirror reflection shots
>///< glad you like it! Thanks!
absolutely one of the best!
Every Rinoa cosplay that grabs my attention seems to be yours... You really are the best Rinoa on the internet!
great image and the model is stunning
Ohhhh wonderfull Shot... you're very sexy!! ^^
Great cosplay and shot and model is incredibly hot!


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The term en femme is used in the transgender community, usually by male crossdressers, to describe wearing feminine clothing or expressing a feminine personality. The term is derived from the French, meaning literally "as a woman". Most crossdressers also use a femme (female) name whilst en femme.
Many transgender organizations hold en femme events, including holidays and cruises (such as the annual Tri-Ess "Holiday En Femme").
Many male cross-dressers correspondingly refer to their usual male presentation (boy-mode) as being en homme. "In drab" has also come to be used among some crossdressers in this way.
EnFemme is the name of a magazine for crossdressers which was published between 1987 and 1991.


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Show opening: Thursday September 22
Blue Sage Center for the Arts
Paint Paonia 2016 is an annual painting competition coinciding with Paonia's Mountain Harvest Festival. Participating painters will have one day (12 hours) to capture a piece of Paonia within a two mile radius of the Blue Sage Center for the Arts.
A "People's Choice" award will be given by gallery visitors and our judges will select first, second and third place paintings. Winners will share in prizes totaling $600, generously donated by the Kampe Foundation.
This year painting will take place on Saturday, September 17th with the show opening on Thursday, September 22nd in conjunction with the annual literary event Harvest of Voices.
For more information and to register for Paint Paonia please visit www.bluesage.org, call (970) 527-SAGE or stop by the Blue Sage Center for the Arts at 226-228 Grand Avenue, Paonia.


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