Barbara, You wrote: > When my face was a "mask" (and thank God it's just as expressive now as it had > been prior to the PD!!), even if I was in a crowd I felt "removed" - > distanced, as tho I was observing events from perhaps 30 feet away. It reminded me of something I wrote 15 yrs pre my PD. Loneliness Empty conversations with children from another world, amid the growing knowledge of unreadyness, that seeps slowly, surely, from the gut; taking all that was; and replacing it --- with absence. Dennis Greene ++++++++++++++++++++ Dennis Greene 47/10 [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++