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I am so so excited for this and I want you (Rachel and all of you!) to ask me absolutely anything and everything. No question is too personal or too simplistic or too repetitive or too dark or too silly or too self-serving or anything. I love them all and I will be thrilled when you just open your mouths to speak. I always like to talk, but with this group especially so, because of all the thought and care that Rachel is putting into the whole event. Let's have fun!

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Hi Rachel! So psyched for the Open Secrets "summit" in May!

Springtime in NYC is magical to begin with...but this event promises to be next level. (not to mention it being two days before my 59th birthday! )

I am in the process of writing a memoir. A question I'd love to see posed to Jane Pratt is "is it wise to include several major events in the timeline of a memoir, or stick to one central theme?" The main thrust of my book has always been that I was raised in a radical religious cult and escaped at the age of 26 with my four year old daughter. Surrounding this time period however , was my discovering that there was a community of people who shared my longtime-secreted kink/fetish ( bdsm~ specifically spanking). This propelled me into many years of exploration: parties, travel, relationships, writing erotica...even being a professional Domme for a while. Interwoven throughout these layers of my uniquely non-linear life was being a single parent, job and apartment hopping, grappling with alcoholism and many rehabs ( I'm in recovery and am sober 16 months). Also...total estrangement from my mother and brother due to the cult, and the untimely death of my father when I was 13. He was not a cult member. It has proven to be a rather daunting prospect to organize and unpack all these details on the page , and I'm wondering if I should write separately about them. ( in the style of, say, Augustin Burroughs) Thank you!! See you soon!

Lisa Guerci

Carmel NY

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