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    Do You Remember Everyone You've Had Sex With?

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    I liken it to coats and jackets. I remember having them, they vary by season and some stand out as clear memories. Most fulfilled their function and I haven't thought of them in years. Just as I couldn't count all the coats and jackets I've had over the last 40 years....the same would go for hook ups and escort encounters!

     

    Kipp

    "Will and Grace" is back

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    So remember when Leo showed up at Grace’s breast cancer scare?

     

    Jill Goodacre, a former model and the wife of musician and actor Harry Connick, Jr., revealed Wednesday her secret five-year battle with breast cancer.

     

    Goodacre, 53, told People that she went for a routine annual mammogram in October 2012, and though that test came back clear, her sonogram didn’t.

     

    After undergoing a biopsy, the model learned she had Stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma, the most common form of breast cancer.

     

    She immediately underwent a lumpectomy and radiation, which she says “absolutely wiped (her) out.”

     

    Connick, who lost his mother to ovarian cancer when he was just 13, admitted that his wife’s health scare left him fearful.

     

    “I was scared I was going to lose her, absolutely,” he told People. “I wasn’t going to let her see that, but I was. I know from losing my mom that the worst can happen. She’s my best friend, and I really don’t know what I would do without her.”

     

    The couple also revealed that one of the most difficult parts of learning Goodacre had cancer was breaking the news to their three daughters.

     

    “It broke my heart,” she said.

     

    In the five years since her diagnosis, Goodacre says she’s continued to take Tamoxifen, an estrogen modular that helps halt breast cancer — but that the negative side effects, like weight gain, have been difficult to deal with.

     

    “I’ve always been a pretty fit person, and so to be just rounder and heavier and not to really be able to do much about it — that’s been hard,” she said. “It’s taken a lot out of my self-confidence.”

     

    Connick and Goodacre — who tied the knot in 1994 — explained that since she’s been in remission for five years now, it felt like the right time to share their battle with the world.

     

    “It wasn’t like we were superstitious, like if we said something about being in the clear we’d somehow jinx it,” she said. “But we wanted to be well on the other side of things before we told everybody. The doctors all say that after the five-year mark, things look optimistic, so we’re starting to feel pretty good.”

     

    Goodacre will talk more about her breast cancer battle on Thursday’s episode of her husband’s show “Harry.”

     

    I hope the trend of "heavy issues" isn't the moniker for the new series. We've CSI et al for that!

     

    Kipp

    Favorite Song??

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    Eric Hutchinson: "Watching You watch Him"

     

     

    Keep your eye on the dark haired guy in the red shirt. It seems to have homoerotic subplot with Eric's sights set on the red shirt guy! Lots of energy...

     

    Kipp

    Diminutives & Nicknames

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    A life lesson to be learned is usually to stick with a tried and true formal name as a legal one and you can modify it anyway you want later. Case in point--30+ years ago one of the students in one of the classes I was teaching was named Nikki. The problem was that by his sophomore year he was 210lbs and 6 feet tall and a star on the football team--"Nikki" just wasn't going to cut it. When he turned 16 and was old enough to do so, he marched right down to the court house and legally changed his name to Nicholas. Lesson learned-- what may seem timely or cute may not stand the test of time! My nephew was going to formally be named "Alex". I begged them to legally make it Alexander. God only knows but 30 years from now "Alex" may be a girl's name. My cousin was named Alexis--often a boy's name. Each year when she got back to school she was on the seating chart in the front of the classroom with the boys because the nuns thought it was a boy's name and planned the chart before school started. Sometimes common sense has to trump novelty.

     

    Kipp (short for Kippy)

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