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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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12-13-2002, 09:55 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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I desperately need some help with this
I have been contemplating mentioning my situation here on this board for several weeks, but I hesitated because it seems like you are all such good friends and I'd be kind of butting in. But I can't take it anymore and I need anyone who can to listen and pray for my friend.
On December 3rd, my good friend Cheryl at work called Diane, another coworker into her office. Diane went in to find Cheryl pale, clenching and unclenching her hands and complaining of a terrible pain in her head. Diane got some wet paper towels and turned off the light, thinking Cheryl was having a migraine. By the time Diane called someone else to come help, Cheryl began barfing her guts out. Diane called 911 and our Medical Rescue Team at work came over with all their stuff. Then Cheryl fell to the floor out of her chair and had a gigantic seizure. We were all standing around watching and it was horrible. The ambulance came and they rushed her to the hospital. An EKG determined she had had a ruptured aneurysm in her brain. She was life-flighted to Hermann Hospital in Houston. She had brain surgery the next day to repair the ruptured aneurysm and they found two more, unruptured. She has been in ICU ever since, and has not regained consciousness. It is so hard to go see her. She isn't herself. She is only 40 years old and has two teenaged children and no husband or anything. She has been struggling financially and with teenaged daughter problems for awhile. When she had the accident, we all wanted to believe it was stress. She is worse every time I go see her. She now has a ventilator and they suspect internal bleeding. The blood that leaked into her brain when the aneurysm burst caused permanent damage. On Monday we learned that the doctors do not expect her to ever walk, or even speak again.
I talked to her literally 30 minutes before she went down on the 3rd and she was fine. Now her life is completely changed, as is the lives of her children. It's so awful. I feel so sad when I let myself think about it all. And here I was feeling sorry for myself because I didn't qualify for a loan to refinance my house. Everything seems so trivial to me now.
It's just shocking how your life can take such a drastic turn in an instant.
Please pray for Cheryl. Her name is Cheryl Walker and her kids' names are Kalynda and Jay. If anyone knows anyone this has happened to before, please tell me something good.
Sorry to go on and on for so long. I hope I didn't overstep my welcome here.
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12-13-2002, 10:20 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: I desperately need some help with this
Ours prayers are here for her now. I'll also pray that you have the necessary strength to go thru this.
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12-13-2002, 10:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: I desperately need some help with this
I am so sorry about your friend. My heart goes out to her and her family. You are right that everything that we are going through seems trivial compared to her and her families' problems. May God bless them all.
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12-13-2002, 10:55 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: I desperately need some help with this
I am so very sorry to hear about your friend Cheryl. From what you have written, it looks like the medical staff has & still is doing everything they can to help her. Will be keeping her & her family in thought and prayers. Sending you some cyber hugs & will also be keeping you in prayer too.
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12-13-2002, 11:28 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: I desperately need some help with this
Our thoughts and prayers to Cheryl her family and her friends. It sounds as though there is a long road ahead, please keep us updated.
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12-13-2002, 11:46 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: South Elgin, IL
Posts: 1,043
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Re: I desperately need some help with this
Very best wishes to our friend, and to her children. You just never know what might happen, good or bad . ..
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