IS IT ALL A DREAM???
As I think I posted a few days ago, I have been invited to perform in a gala benefit in June; used to sing professionally in my 20s. Last night was our first rehearsal and while I didn't know some of these folks, I knew about 1/2 of them (including the director) whom I have not seen in almost 4 years. Talk about a wierd, out-of-body experience! I entered the room and no one said hello! I walked up to one of the guys I knew and said, "Hello, David, good to see you." He looked at me, stood up, shook my hand and said, "Do I know you?" He really didn't recognize me. I said, "I'm Maureen Boyd." He couldn't speak! He put his arms around me and tried to say something but he literally couldn't speak. As people came into the room, no one knew who I was! As they discovered, one by one, some screamed, one of them - a woman whom I have always deeply admired and who at the time (4 years ago) was very, very supportive in trying to help me lose weight and get well - cried. She hugged me, wouldn't let go of me, and cried, real tears, for me. The director, who called me out of the blue after 4 years of no contact...kept saying throughout the evening, "I'm in shock. I'm just shocked." He even felt compelled to call me AFTER the rehearsal. I hadn't even gotten home yet so he was talking to my husband as I walked in the door. He told Jim how incredibly proud of me he was and that I was an inspiration to anyone who knew me. Then he got on the phone with me and said it all over again - to me. I'm in a fog today. I just didn't know that the transformation is so profound that I am literally unrecognizable to people who knew me at 350 lbs. And, by the way, I'm thrilled to be singing again. It feels right...it fits right...like how this new body feels. The way it always should have been. Just had to share. Thanks, guys, and have a great day. Love, Reenie
awww thats so cool!!! And wow!! congrats on getting back to your passion! I LOVE to sing. (not that I do it that great 
) but love it! I bet you felt great with all the admiration. Although sometimes it can be overwhelming! You deserve all the positive attention you have done an awesome job and you're such an inspiration 
Way to go!!! 
((hugs))
Elizabeth M 
) but love it! I bet you felt great with all the admiration. Although sometimes it can be overwhelming! You deserve all the positive attention you have done an awesome job and you're such an inspiration Way to go!!! ((hugs))
Elizabeth M 
Thanks for sharing your story, it was a great one! There's been a few different times that I wasn't recongnized and I must say that it was such an awesome feeling, I know exactly how you must feel! Congrats on your success, you have done a great job! Be proud! Take care.
Kelley
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Ah Maureen,
I just don't have the words to describe how happy I am for you!!! You are a wonderful person and a great friend and I'm just delighted that nice things are happening to you. You deserve it!!! Maybe now you begin to see what all of us have been telling you. Celebrate your success, you've worked very hard for it. That rumbling you hear is a big hug heading your way through cyberspace....better brace yourself........IT'S A BIG ONE!!!!!
Mike
Wow Maureen - that's enough to bring me to tears! I can just see how it all played out in my head...and all these people so happy for you. Boy - that is just incredible. Incredible that they care so much and that they share in your joy. Heck, in regular office environments many people get treated in a catty way as they lose. Yet here you are in a creative environment where it is innate in people that they are the center of attention and they are truly happy for you.
Sounds like a wonderful group of people to be associated with. Makes me want to come right out there and become a groupie! 
I just wonder what that songbird sounds like now? 
Dina
I just wonder what that songbird sounds like now?
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