Wow, I am speechless. I have been with the group since the Hollywoodland days. It just seems like such a shock after riding the high of the Memorial week. Anyway, obviously Mary it is your group and I understand you wanting to remember it the way it was - great idea to keep the im.com site up.
I wish I would have spent more time recently checking the messages. I must admit the sheer size of this group and volume of messages has become too much for me. Hopefully, people will just filter to the other yahoo groups and message boards and the community will ultimately remain.
Again, thank you to everyone at IM for all your hard work it has been a great experience and I will never forget it.
Melinda
www.marilynmonroe.ca


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Dear Mary:
I sit here in my hotel room absolutely gobsmacked by the news that the IM Group is closing! I understand the reasons and know just how hard everyone on staff has worked to try to find a way to make it all work out. But despite what I know, my heart is aching from this sad sad news.
Right now in this sterile room I'm pondering what life will be like without this amazing group of people. Sure, I'll be able to visit the IM website, but without the spirited interaction we have at Group, it will mostly be a more passive Marilyn resource and a place for us to relive our memories.
I will miss the casual, comfortable chats among old friends that I've grown used to finding there each day... the warm birthday greetings... the lovely OT family updates... the endless requests for information about Marilyn's life that always are answered - how I'll miss all the wonderful IM stuff that fills my mailbox to over flowing and which has become such an uplifting part of every day.
A thousand thanks to all the staff who have given so much of yourselves for so long to make this such a remarkable place... I'm proud that you fought so valiantly to save it. You all will always have a very special place in my heart.
Love ya all!
Woody/aka Bruce


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Dear Mary, staff and all IM members,
I was saddened by he news but every decision you make has my support. I haven't been that active on the list and went from Daily Digest to No Mail whenever I got carried away with work, play, fiends, but with this years' memorial, I've been an avid reader of both the IM messages and the Memorial Week messages and it was so much fun.
I've 'met' some wonderful people, in real time or only virtually, and even made friends.
I got to meet a Belgian member, Linda T, and went to a Marilyn exhibit with her years ago. Also Linda W became a friend although we never met (so far). My latest good friend is my roommate Melinda whose most
recent Podcast is indeed wonderful if you're ready for a trip down to Memorial Lane.
But there's so much more, and there are so many more. Mary Mary Mary, I will always cherish you, you are a true friend and I wish you all the best.
I won't name everybody out of fear to leave someone out but all of you, whether you are from the US, the UK, Australia, France, Italy (Grazia :), the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Canada, ... I loved reading your messages, replying every once in a while, I will miss you all but let's keep that warm feeling towards Marilyn and towards each other alive.
I even started on my photo album from the Memorial week which is hell because it'll be all I'll be doing in the next days, or weeks, GRRRRRRR.
Looking forward to 'seeing' all of you on maybe another forum and remember, no tears only cheers.
Love and thank you all,
Carolien


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I have just read all the messages about
this and they are all so heart warming. I can definitely say that this was a hard decision for all of us on Staff to come to, but in the end the right one. I do hope to always keep in touch with all the dear friends I have made through IM. The group has brought so much into my life... the people I've met, places I've visited... memories I will cherish forever.
Today will actually be my last day on the list as tomorrow I leave for a week and a half to visit family and friends in Boston & Connecticut. This trip has been planned for a while, but it is sad that I won't be here to share memories with everyone. But for sure we will always keep in touch! As Karen and others have said, there are other Marilyn groups out there... not to mention our Claire's message board she is working on, so I hope to see you all there!
huge hugs,
heather


Cheers no tears!

The club brought Eddie & me together.
I've met & made new friends.
Tons of new information about Marilyn.
A trillion new Marilyn pictures.
Thank you I.M for all that you've done through the years.
With loads of love
Boppa


Farewell

Will miss the group, I am sorry to see it go, this was the first group that I joined. I made many friends here, I am saddened to hear the news.
Julia


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Hi Mary and the gang......I don't post much as you all know but I try to follow the goings on as much as I can and was horrified when it was first mentioned that there was a possibility that IM might close. Then when Mark, Betsy and Carla offered to help it was a huge sigh of relief that it was going to carry on, differently,... but it would still be there. Then having come back from a weekend in London with Suzie and having worked all day and I logged on late last night to see your latest announcement Mary I was so shocked! I was really upset and wouldn't even acknowledge it (I was doing my ostrich head in the sand...it will go away act!) till I read it again just now having come home from my healing group and have to come to terms with the fact that it is true. I just don't want to believe it! Believe it or not IM is a big part of my life and I try to log in most days just to see what's going on, have to whizz through sometimes but I try to keep up with the happenings.
It started for me when I came back from my 2nd LA Marilyn trip in 2002 having bumped into the IM group at one of their stops(I was there with Barbara, Carol and Marie from NJ2MM where I was a member back then...and still am) and IM were having so much fun I vowed to find out more about them and when I got home I joined.....and the rest as they say is history!
I think this group has such a lively forum and has so much going on in the way of Marilyn information, photo sharing, quizzes.....you don't have to join in to find it interesting. It is fun and very informative. And the fact that it has so many members..... says a lot.
I have made so many dear friends through the Marilyn community...not just IM. But we in IM have some brilliant memories especially our trips to LA and then New York....they are pretty damn special! The friends I made on those trips are so very dear to me and I feel so close to all of them! They really do feel like family and I am very sincere when I say that. I am filling up as I type this and I know I'm silly and old enough to act more maturely but that's me....people mean a lot to me. And you are dear to me IM friends..you know who you are. I don't know if Claire's board thing can replace what we have here, maybe it can. Hope so.
I know Mary you have been talking for a while of standing down...as far back as New York in March 2005 so we are lucky to have kept going this long. I must admit though I always imagined someone else would step in like you did when Leslie stood down...never thought for 1 second that it would end up closing. I think this is a remarkable group with remarkable people and I am going to miss it. I check out my other groups too but it is IM I go to first!
Presumably this means that there will be no more LA gatherings for Memorial Week? I know I said I probably wouldn't be coming again but if things changed I would probably come. I will miss the Orchid and Grace and co! I love it there! I have some absolutely fabulous memories from LA and New York, really mean that guys...they mean such a lot to me.
On a lighter note ...I will post the last of my Hollywood pics this week .....I am sorry it has taken so long....I have sent all the ones that I took when everyone was there...the ones I have left to post are those I took when Suzie Eric and I were on our own and then after Eric had gone those I took of Suzie or she of me. I've already posted 650 pics and still got more to go.
Guys I'm gutted!
Your Welsh Marilyn Friend
Dawn


Important Announcement concerning IM

Hi Mary, Heather & Shaney,
To the three of you and the staff, thank you for running a wonderful MM group, and best of luck as you move into the future. It will be sad to see IM close but lives change and more time has to be devoted to family or work. I feel honored to have been part of this fine group, and though I am quiet for most of the time, I'll miss all the messages which I read daily and the multitude of photos that were shared between the group members. Not being able to attend the memorials, it was great to see all the photos taken by various members. It will take a while but I will try to join another group to help keep our girl alive.
Warm Wishes,
Tommy


I'll miss you all!

My goodness it just hit me that this will be the last week of IM! I will miss you all so much! To have had an open window that reaches you all late at night... It's been a wonderful experience to have had the chance to open up about myself as I have done in the past years. I can only be grateful for how much love I've received from all of you. How less lonely I feel. How my self esteem grew with your kind words and the sweet friendships that developed through the years.
I think Marilyn knows how much we love her. Our love is energy and that energy reaches every part of the universe including her..... I love you all out there in the MM community. I thought about you as I sat in my trailer at Universal Studios and remembered how much fun we had watching Gentleman Prefer Blondes in LA! How much fun was this last IM memorial week! I hope to see you again for next years memorial in LA.
For those of you CSI fans my episode will air on November 1st at 9:00PM on CBS. I think you'll like it...
Let's take this week to open our hearts to one another!
Mary and Staff, you are the best group of people! Having brought to us such fine quality entertainment for so long!
I hate goodbyes, so this will be a see you soon to all!
I'll be tuned in all week!
Love you,
Carla


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Dear Mary and staff,
I am completely in shock and hoped IM will go on at Yahoo. I am not a longtime member as many others are, but besides that IM really feels like a family. You and the other staffmembers are always so helpful and nice (and also the members..). I will sure miss IM on Yahoo! On the other hand I am very happy that the regular website stay on the net and that we all can stay in contact with eachother via email. Though I feel sad about it I can understand the decision to close the Yahoo group. But I will sure miss it. Well maybe in the future...IM will be on Yahoo again...who knows.
Thank you so much for all you did for IM and its members!
Love and hugs from Holland!
Adriana


Farewell Calendar Oct 2007 & what IM has meant to me.

Hello My IM Friends & Family
So it is that this is the last calendar i will be doing for IM.
With much sadness i have just made it.
Over the years i have made some wonderful friends, been to wonderful places and seen & TOUCHED some wonderful Marilyn items.
Most of this would not have been possible with IM.
I remember when i first got a PC all those years ago , the first thing i typed in was Marilyn Monroe into the search engine, and up popped Immortal Marilyn ! ( Leslie was President then )
Of course i had to join, and have never looked back since that day.
I can still remember the day when Mary asked me to be on staff here !
Oh my god, i couldn't breathe ! i thought i was dreaming, i was so taken back...me? She asked me ! i couldn't believe it.
It was a great honor to say yes, and i have never looked back since. I was welcomed in to this group, i have been accepted, warts 'n' all. The friends & family i have made i shall forever be grateful to IM for, she will always have a place in my heart and will always be number one to me.
I will frequently visit IM.com & will love to stay in touch with each and everyone of you, here is my new email address nightlady86@yahoo.com email whenever you fell like a chat & we will of course still see each other at the other MM groups.
So farewell IM, i will always love you !
My life or my inbox will not be the same without you.
Three cheers for IM, HIP HIP Horrrrrraayyyyy, HIP HIP Horrrrraaaayyyyy, HIP HIP Horrrrraaaaaayyyyy !!!
Love
Shaney
xxxxx










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