Edgar -- you hit it on the head -- perfect analogy: today being like the last day of senior year and everyone running around getting friends to sign their yearbook. I feel exactly the same way -- like shouting out "Have a bitchin summer and see you in September!"

I really will miss the option of sliding over to IM for a bit to see what's up. I know most of you will be in other groups and things will go on but we will all remember Immortal Marilyn -- and feel like honored alumni of the very last class to graduate from MM Studies at good ol' IM.

Have a great summer everyone!

David.


Hollywood pics 168

That's it folks! Well hons...you all know how I feel about this group and the people in it.....I am not going to say goodbye...Marilyn hated goodbyes AU REVOIR!!!

I know for sure we will all be meeting up again....I feel it in my bones!!!

I am already a member on FM, NJ2MM and AllAbout Marilyn and several others so I know we will meet up at one of them..I will just keep checking!

Hope you like the pics...till the next time!!!

Lots of love

Your Welsh Marilyn Friend
Dawn xxx


Can we go now?

While I'm not officially staff, I've been involved with many of the events of the past couple of gatherings and I think the one person who deserves the most credit for the growth and continued success is who I've dubbed the "Aunt Ana" of IM (though she's more it's mother):

Mary Sims.

I'm so glad that she's gotten to realize how many people's lives she has deeply touched over the many years she's been involved in IM.

We are all so blessed to have her in our lives. I know I am and can't wait to see her in person again.

Not to get all religious or anything, but whenever two or more are gathered in it's name, Immortal Marilyn will always exist.

We definitely will be having "splinter" gatherings for certain. How can we not? We're family. A big, dysfunctional, weird, definitely a reality television show family. Speaking of gathering - about Niagara Falls (Summer to Fall people, Summer to Fall - us Southerners ain't used to cold.) or Florida (great deals at the theme parks and cheap hotels and you can come in Winter!) we definitely will see each other again.

And while this might be the last day of Senior Class with caps and gowns tossed into the air, consider this a summer vacation and who knows what "college" is going to hold for the alumni of IM?

Pray for whirled peas.

Can we go now?

Eric Monroe Woodard


- Farewell precious Immortal Marilyn

Dear friends and IM,
This is my own little song tribute to the glorious IM, copy this link - http://youtube. com/watch? v=jmS41_JdVLg

I listened to it as I typed this, my last email. Immortal Marilyn, thank you for almost three happy years, I will never, ever forget you. Being a staff member of this club has been one of the proudest moments of my life, I am forever honoured!

I will not say goodbye to you my dear friends, but see you soon! Ill be over at NJ2MM as soon as I join, although it can never replace the magic I felt here with you all, and Marilyn watching over us, each and every day. And now the hard part, clicking send :(

We love you Marilyn!

Love you all,
Claire xxxxxx.


Thank you ever so!

October 5th, 2007

Hello Everyone,
Well here we are, the last day of Immortal Marilyn in Yahoo Groups.
Where do I begin...
It's wonderful to know how Immortal Marilyn has touched so many lives. I knew this was true from members who would tell me so in the past, and it really did fill me with great pride. Now it has taken on a whole new meaning and depth. I guess what I set out to accomplish I succeeded in according to so many of your letters. That was to make it where Marilyn fans wanted to come into IM to get their daily "Marilyn Fix" or their day just wasn't right.
My husband is so proud of me. How many times I overheard him telling this one or that one "My wife is the president of the largest Marilyn Monroe fan club in the world." He has always been supportive of my role with IM, because our lives are much different than most peoples. We have a son with very special needs. So our lifestyle is not that that we can go to dinner or a movie at any time we might have otherwise. I have stayed home to care for our son, and we have pretty much built our lives around our home for him. So IM was an outlet for me, a hobby I loved.
I need to remember Leslie Kasperowicz and give that young woman her due in helping to mold IM. What a smart talented girl she is, she knew her Marilyn stuff very well and I learned so much from her. You old timers here remember how articulate she is, and those of you who went to LA in 2002 will never forget her speech at the memorial. And Lisa Bates-Sloan and Leja Chavez, Amy Hewitt, Nathalie Lensink and the other staffers who helped IM for the time they could. We'll always remember them all.
Rudy and Diane Tisdale. IM will never find better friends, I know Marilyn feels your love. Thank you so much for including Immortal Marilyn in your sentiments to Marilyn each month with the flowers you send her. The flowers.
Our dear dear Carla. What a gem you are. IM was sure blessed the day you saw our flowers and ran home to your puter to look IM up! I thank God you did. Thank you for all you have done for IM, your love for it just shines through. You are very loved by us all.
Animal Haven & Hollygrove. Thank you to all who helped us with these charities in Marilyn's name. I am hoping something will be able to be worked out where charities are still supported by Marilyn's fans, I was even day dreaming of fund raising being done on a scale of all of the clubs and groups together, a real community event.
I went looking through my photos files, and OMG the memories. All these wonderful pics that I have taken for granted, what a treasure they are. I hope to do something with them on im.com that is a fitting tribute to you all, the heart and soul of Immortal Marilyn.
To each and every single one of you, from the member who posted daily on the list, to the member who quietly enjoyed IM in their private way, I appreciate you all, and I I am grateful to have shared this fine ride with you. It's been something, that's for sure. And it would have been nothing without you.
I can't explain how emotional it is for me. The special people, friends I have made since stumbling upon this group myself. I cry so easily about it, and yet I know it is the right thing and I am looking forward to my days being less stressful trying to get it all done.
I wish I could name every single person who has contributed to Immortal Marilyn Yahoo Group becoming the wonderful group she did.
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

x0x0x
Mary

"Remember now, cheers, no tears...."
~ Marilyn


Thank you ever so!

I want to thank IM for giving me Eddie.

Tonya


Could not resist 1 more email!

Ill be in my room alone
Evry Post Meridian
And Ill be with my diary
And that book by Mister Gideon

Bye Bye Baby,
Remember youre my baby
When they give you the eye
Although I know that you care,
Wont you write and declare
That though on the loose,
Yuo are still on the square,
Ill be gloomy
But send the rainbow to me
Then my shadows will fly,
Though youll be gone for a while
I know that Ill be smiling With my baby bye and bye

Bye, Bye Baby,
Remember youre my baby
when they give you the eye,
And just to show that I care,
I will wirte and declare
That Im on the loose,
But Ill stay on the square,
Ill be lonely
But even though Im lonely
Therell be no other guy,
Though Ill be gone for a while
I know that Ill be smiling
With my baby bye and bye
With my baby, bye and bye.

God Bless you Mary, Staff and everyone! I love you! xoxo -Joey


Hollywood pics 168

Loved the pics Sweetheart of the exhibit and Suzie. Fun to see her look, she knows I love it! I still have some more yet to open but thank you for sending all these on our last day. It is so appropriate Dawn when I think of it. You have always been the keeper of the camera in recording everything for IM, or anything to share with IM, like these. Thank you so dear for all your support and love and generosity and faith. You feel like my big sister in a way ya know, not in the physical sense *LOL*, but in my heart.
We're not saying goodbye.

Love you,
Mary


To Mary And All of Immortal Marilyn

Hi Everyone,
I have been a member of Immortal Marilyn for several years.
I don't post messages very often, but I do take the time and pleasure in reading all the wonderful posts through these many years.
There are a few things I want to mention in this letter.
Immortal Marilyn and all its members are the closest and largest Marilyn Community in the world!
An organization of this immense size, as it has worked together as a single unifying Marilyn-Force through out the world has accomplished wonders.
This is the most highly respected, most well organized group on the Net. Why? Because of the mutual respect and love each member has for the other.
This massive group of people, spanning the entire globe, has proven itself time and time again that if we as a united people, with a clear objective and goal in place, it can move mountains.
The objective of this Group has always shown itself to be one that truly honors Marilyn Monroe.
You have all, each and every one of you, from the oldest to the newest of members truly honored Miss Monroe and yourselves as a cohesive, truly special group.
Marilyn was indeed quite shy in private. She would have been simply overwhelmed with admiration and pride in each of the members of this Club.
"If I am a Star, the people made me a Star ..." she once said.
Your generation has kept her Star still shining ever so brightly. It has not dimmed, but grown in its brilliance -- due to the efforts and the very kind hearts of all the membership of this Club.
I want to take a moment to personally thank Mary. Mary, I know I didn't post much.
And when I did post it was almost of novel-length and no doubt got overwhelmed by the many, many posts that happened daily in this group.
But, even though I never posted often, every time I contacted you through email your response was always prompt and always most kind and most friendly.
I never felt like a stranger.
I'm just a very busy fellow out there (who seems to be getting a lot busier lately) who never really took the time I should have to try to post more often.
But, rest assured, I still read practically every message and viewed every photo that was ever posted here at IM since I became a member.
Like so many others, I thought Immortal Marilyn would always be there. How much we all take for granted!
I just want you to know I KNOW the countless hours and days you have spent nurturing and shaping this Group into the Grandest of Marilyn Forums to ever exist.
That says a lot about you, personally, Mary. Your personality and strong good character is one of the key reasons why Immortal Marilyn ALWAYS honored and uplifted Miss Monroe's memory, keeping it at the very highest of levels.
That has a great deal to do with you, Mary. This was your Group. This was your Vision of Marilyn Monroe.
Everyone was treat here with equal respect. Everyone here was always shown prompt attention -- whether you were a daily chatter or a very infrequent poster. Everyone was treated with the utmost dignity, attention and respect.
That says an enormous amount about all of Immortal Marilyn's members.
All, and I do mean all, members of this Group helped focus that Vision into something unique and very special -- love and respect for each other.
It is a Vision that took thousands of members from many differing backgrounds and locations through out the world and merged them all together.
Your Vision, your Club, Mary, brought all these differences together as One, truly honoring and remembering Miss Marilyn Monroe.
I am honored to say I was a Member of Immortal Marilyn and even a small part of Your Vision at this Marilyn Monroe Fan Club.
You will always be Marilyn Monroe's Number One and Very Best Fan Club.
You all have made Marilyn very proud, I am sure, as she looks down upon us all tonight.
This Club truly is the Grand Lady of the Marilyn Groups!

Thank You All So Much,
Stuart


Bye Bye To My Group

I'll allow my favorite lady to say Bye Bye for me.I will miss this group more than i can ever say.
Love you all my Marilyn friends,
CoolDog aka James Smallwood

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=iVJM_5BKYCw


Farewell Immortlamarilyn

Hello everyone...well, I guess this is it, huh? I've been wanting to write in one 'last' time, but held myself back..until now. What can I say, that hasn't already been said by so many others? Just know, that I feel the same way. I really, really do. And I'm going to miss this group. I've been reading the 'goodbye' letters and they are truly amazing to read. But when I read the simple subject line of Eric's...'Can We Go Now?' I felt this tremendous sense of loss and it hurts, it truly does. It hurts. I've been holding back the tears because I don't want Danamo to see me cry...lol. But I tell ya, it's hard to hold it back. I'll probably have to go take a walk around the block after I send this. Lol! Seriously, it's getting to me.

Thank you all so very much. Even if it was just 'being here'. I'm at a loss for words right now, so please forgive me. I love you guys. And I hope we can keep in touch and get to meet again.

With lots of love and a whole lotta hugs,
Beth


Last Pic & Quote of the Day!!!

Dear IM friends, My turn to say goodbye. I will certainly miss the 'pic & quote of the day', Linda ! I will miss the beautiful colorizations, 'Marilyn in the news', rare MM photos, etc., etc. but most of all I will miss all of you ! It has been a pleasure, no - an honor, to meet all of you here. You are such special people. I belong to a few groups and I must say this is the most genuine and fun of them all ! And I've learned so much here, too. I always looked so forward to 'my time' at the computer to write to my friends here at IM or even just to read the interesting posts, and view the gorgeous pics/clips of our girl, Marilyn. I've had fun here, and it saddens me that IM will no longer be, however I understand that's how it has to be. Some of us will keep in touch and some of us will meet again in different groups, I'm sure but no matter what, we'll always remember, and treasure in our hearts what we shared here. Thank you, and take care all !
With all my love,
Sandra
XXX


Good~nite

Good~nite Immortal Marilyn.
I'm going to truly miss you
My last post. At exactly 11:00 pm
Boppa


Thank you ever so!

Mary,
I love you. I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my cheeks. I hate goodbyes. So, it's not a good bye, it's a see you soon, in another place very soon.
Thank you for "adopting" me as you did. You gave me your friendship and I day dreamed sometimes that you were my mother - isn't that funny. But you did you listened to me and were so uplifting to me.
I love you all.
Always,
Carla
Charleen
Josefina
Mendoza
Cherkes


Goodbye IM

I've been a member ever since day one of Hollywoodland. IM has been the group that kept my interest in Marilyn going and helped me with my first trip to LA many years ago. I will miss this group but hope to continue to see everyone in different places in our small world. Goodbye IM...I hate to see you go.
Tony


So Long Farewell

Last one out turn out the lights!

Seriously, hats off to IM and all the great accomplishments of a great group. It's the end of an era and you will be missed.

This year's memorial in LA was the best ever and I found the love of my life, Beth, there... thanks for everything, Immortal Marilyn!

Warm regards and best wishes,
Danamo


Fair Well Immortal Marilyn

Dear Friends
So the time has come to us to say good night to our beloved IM, everything about what the group & all the friends i have made mean to me, i have already said, but i have just rushed home from work to try and get to email one last time before the lights finally go out.

Thank you to everyone who made this group what it was, i will never forget it or the people.

I want to wish every single one of our members the very best for the future, some i will stay in touch with privately & most i will still see in other MM groups.

Either way, i do hope to stay in touch, i don't ever want to loose touch with the Marilyn community, what a fantastic place it is to be.

Love to you all, see you around,
For the last time,
Shaney
xxxxx


Bye Bye

Have you gone now?

Your Welsh Marilyn Friend
Dawn xxx


Sentimental Journey

All week, I have been working on what was to be my farewell to Immortal Marilyn. But, it remains unfinished. I guess I couldn't bring myself to do it. So, here goes a much shorter, much less mushy version, off the top of my head. ...

I love Immortal Marilyn. Here, I found people who loved Marilyn as I did. People who understood Marilyn as I did. People who were more Marilyn friends than Marilyn fans. And yet, all of these people came from incredibly different backgrounds. Marilyn touches people everywhere. It's a beautiful thing to see. I don't know that I would have really seen it without IM.

I feel honoured to have been a part of so much here. ...

Contributing to Marilyn's flowers would be very high on my list. Certainly, it's something I could easily do on my own, with a phone call and credit card in hand. But, somehow, knowing that a huge arrangement, which no visitor could possibly ignore, and which could really shows how much Marilyn means to so many - it was just so very special and I thank the folks at IM for making this such an important part of the club activities.

Being named Club Reporter was a great honour. I may not have contributed much aside from trip reports (and never did get 2007 done, amid all the changes for IM!), but it was nonetheless something I was always thinking about and planning for. Immortal Marilyn was never far from my mind, at any time. When not posting, I might have been reading. When not reading, I was surely thinking of IM. My Marilyn home.

Being able to visit Los Angeles and New York with fellow IM members. Again, the trips were things I could do on my own, with a notebook full of addresses. But, how could that possibly compare to being guided along by our resident location expert Eric, with side stories we may not have known, and sharing these moments with others to whom the moment means as much as it does to us? No comparison. I thank IM and Eric for these opportunities. And even just to socialize with other Marilyn friends, during the Pools Parties, dinners, etc. It's something I will never forget, would never wish to trade, and never would have experienced, were it not for IM. Thank you.

Making such beautiful friends. All so different, but with a single unifier stronger than most things in our lives: Marilyn. I feel closest to those I met personally, but I feel I am friends with so many I haven't met, either. I wouldn't dare attempt to name all of you who mean so much to me, because there are simply too many of you. But, Mary, Heather, Shaney, Dawn, ... I think all of you know where you stand in my heart. You'll always be there, and I thanks you for our lovely chats, which I hope will continue. I know that many of us at IM are sure to meet again, because friends always find a way. Family always finds a way. I see many of you here at IM as my Marilyn family. There's a bond that is so strong, we may as well be family. It's a warm, comforting feeling, and it makes it all the more difficult to accept that our Marilyn home will be gone tomorrow.

Woody, I completely get where you were coming from with your suggestion not to turn out the lights. Even if the club aspect must end, why must the conversation? I do understand. I love the write-ups at IM. But, I can live without them. I love the photos shared. Again, something I can find elsewhere. Love the contests. But, I have a nice Marilyn collection, and don't really need more. (Want, yes!! Need, no.) What I dread is losing out on the conversation. As I said, even when not posting, I was probably reading. I feel a connection to people here even without the words. But, I don't think it would really be Immortal Marilyn if left to only chatter. A different incarnation that isn't as warm and fun as IM. You're a lovely man, and I know I'll see you on one of the boards or in another Marilyn club, and I hope you find the same warm, comforting feeling you had here at Immortal Marilyn. I know I have hopes to find it again.

So, dear friends, my Marilyn family, I hope to see you again someday soon. On a message board or group. Sharing pictures and facts about Marilyn, defending her, loving her, honouring her. Even better - perhaps I'll meet some of you in LA, or New York, or Niagara Falls for a meet. Even though IM will be no more, I am sure a group of us will find a way to continue the IM Meet tradition!!!

All good things come to an end, to grab a cliché. And we can be honoured and thrilled to know that we were a part of something very special in the Marilyn community. Even though it's coming to a close, no one can take that away from us, nothing can change it.

Take care of yourselves always. Holding a good thought for you all, and, as always, for Marilyn...
Betsy


Did I make it in time?

Hi Everyone

I think I just made it - it's 3 minutes to 7 here.

Good bye everyone and thanks for everything you've done for me.

Thanks most of all for your friendship.

Good luck to you all.

Love
Michelle
xxx








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