Noteworthy Statements Made to Me By Others In The Period Since May 1987

---"No one is brainwashing you. You are brainwashing yourself, John." -- Michael Stephens, editor of the "Lockhart Post-Register" general-circulation newspaper based in Lockhart, Texas, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1988 or 1987 from my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, to the Lockhart newspaper office of Michael Stephens, a former coworker of mine at "The Daily Texan" student newspaper at UT-Austin.

---"I (Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, a kindly native of Iowa) already know how this is going to turn out, so I am not worried about it." --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my biological mother, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1989 or 1990 to Mother's and Father's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from my rental duplex-apartment unit in West Texas---an apartment unit in which I lived alone in Big Spring, Texas. I was a full-time regional-beat reporter for "The Big Spring Herald" daily newspaper during that same time period.

---"The primary intent behind the manipulative circumstances in your own life these days is for your own intellectual benefit" (a near-exact quote, with the word 'manipulative' being an exact ver batim quote of his comment to me). -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to Kent's and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from Sweetwater, Texas, where I was employed full-time during that time period as an education-beat reporter and Roscoe-football-beat sports reporter for "The Sweetwater Reporter" daily newspaper. It is possible that the exact wording of the statement that Kent volunteered to me in that early 1990s long-distance phone conversation was instead: "The primary intent behind the manipulative circumstances in your own life these days is for your EDUCATIONAL benefit." In my entire life, I myself have never requested any "educational" services violating my own privacy rights in any way.

Part III of Who Definitely Does Not Qualify for Prospective Membership in my still-one-member (myself, only) and Non-Christian Progressive Prohibitionist Religion

----Anyone who believes that the "hymnal book" for a religious service should contain any of the following words in that hymnal book: "God" "Christ," "Almighty," "the Lord," "Creator of the Universe," "Jesus," etc.

----Anyone who believes that ANY piano playing or electric guitar music or organ music should ever be featured during any event or service sponsored by their own religion.

---Anyone who opposes church-sponsored monitoring of and factual reporting on the noise-pollution level, or decibel level, at any church-sponsored event.

----Anyone who believes that a religious group SHOULD NOT strive to diligently and conscientiously protect the hearing capacity and medical health of any and all members and employees of that religious group.

----Anyone who supports "thought control" projects of any type.

----Anyone who supports the view that religion should sponsor speculations or comments about an expected or cited "afterlife" for anyone in a context in which no modern scientific evidence has been provided as of that time that proves conclusively that any type of "afterlife" for any human being upon the death of that human being does, in fact, occur.

----Anyone who believes that a religious congregation should ever serve to any of its members foods, such as deep-fried donuts or conventional ice cream or candy, that are high in saturated fats or very high in sugar content and very lacking in vitamins and minerals.

---Anyone who believes that a religious congregation should ever serve or offer wine or any other alcoholic beverage of any type to any member or employee of that congregation at any time.

---Anyone who is uncomfortable with a religion that would seek to limit the use of drinking alcohol to its usage as a flavorful ingredient in cooking, with one example of that being "cooking sherry."

--Anyone who is uncomfortable with a religion that sponsors "Pederasty Prevention Workshops" and "Pederasty Prevention Discussion Groups" and "Pederasty Prevention Symposia" that are aimed at helping to promote and help achieve a significant reduction in the per-capita incidence of sex crimes violating the legal rights and human rights of minors (minors being definable in Texas as any and all persons age 16 or younger, according to the state penal code of Texas).

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The Best Advice That Anyone Ever Offered Me

---"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right!" -- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my father, in advice that Father repeatedly offered me during my childhood inside our family's home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

---"Go East, Young Man!" -- Professor Donald Gillmor, a Media Law Scholar at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, in cheerful in-person oral advice he kindly offered me in 1984 inside his faculty office in Murphy Hall on the campus of that public university in Minneapolis. The Canadian-born Professor Gillmor in his advice to me was borrowing and modifying "New York Tribune" editor Horace Greeley's famous "Go West, Young Man!" advice, but with an Eastern Seaboard Emphasis in Professor Gillmor's own witty advice to myself.

----"Don't live your life with the intent of striving to be 'popular'. You don't need to be popular with anyone." --- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my biological father, in an emphatic statement he made to me in the 1970s inside our family ome in Westlake Hills, Texas. Father took pride in giving his own often-blunt and very candid opinions about a wide range of topics, including deplorable destruction of the environment in Texas for which my professional ecologist Father faulted many Texans as having an alarming role in that damage to the environment in our state.

----"Whenever you travel out of town on a business trip, always try to accomplish at least two career-related objectives on your trip (approximate quote)." -- Steve Fox, the managing editor at "The Journal" daily newspaper in New Ulm, Minnesota, in emphatic oral advice he offered me in 1980 on how I could increase the number of feature stories and news stories I was writing as a regional-beat reporter for that New Ulm-based newspaper. If I was planning a trip to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, in order to interview a former nun there, for instance, I should make a point of also identifying and scheduling an interview with some other resident of Sleepy Eye who also might make for a good feature story, Steve Fox's helpful advice reminded me.

----"Never quit a job until you have been hired for a new job!" -- Ann Rotramel, a podiatrist and former landlady of mine with the nickname of "Doc Ann," during a long-distance phone call I made in 1986 to her home in New Ulm, Minnesota, from my rental apartment unit in Quincy, Massachusetts.

----"I (Doc Ann Rotramel) recommend that you lead a completely celibate life and remain single throughout your entire life. Living alone and being single are preferable to living with or being married to someone you are not compatible with! (approximate quote)." --- Ann Rotramel, a lifelong single lady and landlady of mine in New Ulm, Minnesota, in helpful advice she offered me in 1980 or 1981 during an in-person meeting I had with her inside her podiatry office in downtown New Ulm. Her medical clinic was situated directly below my apartment unit, and was situated virtually next door to the newspaper office building where I was employed full-time as a regional-beat reporter in the newsroom of "The (New Ulm Journal" daily newspaper.

----"As a private attorney and regular reader of 'The Journal' here in New Ulm, I urge you to move from New Ulm, Minnesota, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, as soon as posssible! It seems to me (attorney Roger Hippert of New Ulm, Minnesota) that you have not lived very much. If you move to Minneapolis, that will give you lots of valuable life experience that will be very helpful to you in your career ambition to write fiction!" --- Roger Hippert, a youthful German-American gentleman and married man and kindly father, and a personal friend of "The (New Ulm) Journal" daily newspaper managing editor Steve Fox, during a 1981 visit that Roger Hippert made on his own initiative into the newsroom of "The Journal", a visit in which Mr. Hippert then chose to approach me in the newsroom of that workplace for me and urge me to move to Minneapolis as soon as possible for the sake of my thereby enhancing my own ability to become a successful fiction-witer for my expected eventual career, Mr. Hippert suggested.

----"I don't care what you write, as long as it is well-written!" --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my kindly mother, in advice she offered me in 1986 inside her and her husband's family home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

----"Since you are definitely a direct descendant of the Rev. William Brewster, head chaplain on the Mayflower, and you are also a gentleman of good character, you should easily qualify as an individual dues-paying member of the William Brewster Society that's headquartered in New England (approximate quote)." --- Cousin Jack Dane, a first-rate private attorney in the Quad cities region of Iowa, in a long-distance phone call I made to Cousin Jack Dane in the first decade of the 21st Century from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in Austin, Texas. Shortly after that helpful telephone conversation of mine with Cousin Jack, I was officially approved that same year for individual membership in the William Brewster Society honoring the first full-term Puritan Governor of what is now the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

----"The key to life is to adapt successfully to changing circumstances in your life.(a very rough approximate quote, recalled strictly from memory)." --- First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in one of the books she wrote that I enjoyed reading several decades ago.

---"The Mormon Church opposes thought-control projects, so I urge you to develop friendly dialogues with Mormons. The Mormons would feel comfortable with your own emphatic opposition to thought-control projects (approximate rough quote)." --- Dr. Michael Kim McMillan, an older brother of mine who is himself a chemistry researcher and medical researcher at Keck Medical School of the University of Southern California in the Los Angeles area of southern California, in an E-mail letter that Dr. Michael Kim McMillan wrote and sent to me from his official USC Medical School professional E-mail address in 2013, I believe it was.

---"The two nationalities in the entire world that I personally regard as the friendliest and I (Dr. Calvin McMillan) recommend to you the most are the people of Scotland and of Australia. I learned this through my extensive travels throughout the entire world as a Botany researcher. I might add that the Asian Indians I met in India were quite warm to me, which was particularly impressive in view of the widespread extreme poverty that can be found in India of the 1970s (approximate and very rough composite quote combining several separate comments that Father made to me in the 1970s)." --- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my biological Father, himself with an exclusively Scottish and English ancestry, who in the summer of 1991 made a point of himself volunteering to me on the telephone from his home in Westlake Hills Texas, that he was very dismayed by a reported scandal about an "unethical British media company" apparently headquartered (?) in England that Father complained to me about on his own initiative during a long-distance phone call I made to Father's and Mother's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from my rental home private residence in Cuero, Texas, a city where I was employed as a full-time regional bureau reporter for the "Victoria (TX) Advocate" daily newspaper.

----"If you want something done right, do it yourself!" -- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my father, a Professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, in advice he frequently offered me in the 1970s during my teenage years in Westlake Hills, Texas.

----"The best neighbor is a fence!" --- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my father, in expressing his own view of neighbors during my childhood. That comment to me from Father helpfully underscored the value of protecting one's own privacy rights inside one's own home.

----"When you feed squirrels outdoors at your apartment complex, I recommend that you only use unsalted nuts for that. If you feed squirrels salted nuts, the high sodium levels could kill those squirrels." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest brother and an Austin-area resident, in helpful practical advice that Kent offered me either on the telephone or possibly in person during one of Kent's early 2006 visits to the apartment complex where I have resided in northwest Austin ever since August 2001.

---"You should never judge the architecture of a building based on the exterior appearance of that architecture. The key additional question should always be: Is the building both attractive and, in addition, comfortable and practical to work in or live in for those persons who actually are employed in that building or who actually live in or visit that building (rough approximate quote)?" ---Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest brother and a former architecture student at The University of Texas at Austin, in oral advice Kent helpfully offered me in person or on the telephone in 1978, I believe it was, during a period in which I wrote and had published a full-page feature-spread article for "The Daily Texan" student newspaper at UT-Austin on the overall caliber and style of architectural contributions to the campus of The University of Texas at Austin by a prominent architect called Bubie (sp?) Jessen.

----"Be a columnist. Novelists are a dime a dozen." --- Mark H. B. Williamson, then an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, in advice he offered me in 1983 or 1984 on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his private apartment unit in Minneapolis from my own top-floor efficiency apartment unit, also situated near the main campus of the University of Minnesota.

----"Be serious and see what happens. If you are serious enough, the usual fools will accuse you of being funny, and you are on your way to becoming a humorist." (approximate quote, recalled by me from memory)." -- Russell Baker, an oped columnist who wrote satirical humor columns for "The New York Times," in a 1983 or 1984 signed reply letter on official "New York Times stationery" that Mr. Baker in the northeastern U.S. kindly wrote and mailed to me at my top-floor efficiency apartment where I was living alone in that apartment unit near the main campus of The University of Minnesota in 1983 or 1984 in Minneapolis.

----"You are off to a good start (in your pursuit of a column-writing career). Keep writing and re-writing, and remember what Pete Hamill once said. Writing is the most difficult activity in the entire world that does not involve heavy lifting" (approximate quote, recalled strictly from my current 2014 memory of that 1980s letter to me from Ms. Goodman)." --- nationally syndicated and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Ellen Goodman of "The Boston Globe" staff, in a 1984 or 1983 signed reply letter on "Boston Globe" stationery that Ellen Goodman very kindly wrote and mailed via the U.S. Postal Service from Boston, Mass., to my second-floor efficiency apartment unit address near The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

---"I believe in One World. Any contribution you can make to the United States or any other nation in this entire world is admirable." -- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my father, during a December 1990 outing for himself and myself in which Father drove me from his and Mother's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, to the airport in Austin.

---"I recommend that you always live in an English-speaking nation, regardless of whether that ends up being a foreign nation where English is the primary language spoken. Your writing skills in English are so strong that it makes good sense for you to remain in an English-speaking country." -- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my father, during a December 1990 outing for Father and myself in which Father drove me from his and mother's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, to the airport in Austin.

---"You can accomplish whatever you set your mind to do!" --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my beloved mother, in emphatic advice she repeatedly offered me inside our family's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, during the 1960s and 1970s.

---"Just smile as a new employee at that Whataburger chain-restaurant job you just got hired for along Barton Springs Road in Austin, and act like it's the very best job in the entire world!" -- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my kindly mother, in well-intended advice she offered me in person in 1986 inside her and Father's home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

---"I (Elspeth Rostow) was sorry to hear that you had turned into a desk clerk in Minneapolis. I (Elspeth Rostow) hope you will return to pursuing a professional career, such as newspaper reporting, as soon as possible (rough approximate quote)." --- Elspeth Rostow, then-Dean of the School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, in a 1981 long-distance phone call I made to her faculty office on the east campus of UT-Austin from the lobby of the Parkway Motor Hotel where I was employed as a motel desk clerk in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Parkway Motor Hotel at that that time was situated near Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am very sure that I would have made that 1981 long-distance phone call to Dean Rostow solely at my own personal expense, and that Parkway Motor Hotel definitely was not billed for that long-distance phone call I made that morning in 1981 upon conclusion of my midnight-to-8-a.m. "graveyard" shift at Parkway Motor Hotel.

----"I recommend that you make sure you have as much health insurance coverage for yourself as you can possibly get (approximate quote)." --- Ernie Motloch, a former work supervisor of mine at Souper Salad Lakeline restaurant (a corporate-owned chain restaurant situated near Lakeline Mall in Williamson County, Texas), who has himself generously offered me very kind and constructive and polite and very helpful advice on the telephone this 21st Century for many years.

---"If something specific and tangible comes up in the way of criminal activity that violates your own legal rights, I definitely recommend that you press criminal-law charges through the Austin Police Department in Austin, Texas." -- Ernie Motloch, a former work supervisor of mine and people-friendly businessman who has very kindly agreed to provide me with a very favorable reference to any prospective employer for myself that might ever at any time contact Ernie in regard to myself. Ernie offered me that helpful advice in 2012 or 2013 on the telephone after I repeatedly complained to Ernie on the telephone and through E-mail letters I wrote and sent to that kindly gentleman and married man that I had myself been victimized by alleged illegal intruders or alleged criminal persons inside my bolt-locked apartment unit who allegedly had subjected me to alleged personal injury crimes during my sleep----and also during periods in which I was conscious and awake in regard to alleged possible contamination of my foods and beverages--- inside that top-floor, vaulted-ceiling, one-bedroom apartment unit where I myself have resided ever since January 2002 in northwest Austin.

---"You should take pride in your very natural and healthy very strong emotional and aesthetic affinity and enthusiasm toward many of the law-abiding heterosexual men your age or younger, and many of the law-abiding heterosexual women (approximate and very rough quote, with some elaboration from myself at this time for the sake of clarification of what the advice means to me today). As a morally and aesthetically straight and law-abiding and permanently alcohol-free and cleancut as well as clean-talking and anti-marijuana-minded and law-enforcement-minded single adult Anglo gentleman, you are a good match for the straighter crowd" (a very rough approximate quote, with some elaboration by me at this time for the sake of clarification about what that advice means to me today)." ---- Michael Crothers, a self-identified fiction writer and English as a Second Language instructor and kindly older gentleman, during a 1991 or 1990 long-distance phone call I made to him at his Mother's home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"All of your own friends can be heterosexual! Just keep on going the way you are going in your civil and law-abiding lifestyle, and you will easily achieve that long-term goal for yourself!" --- Sarah Goodfriend, a former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin Independent School District and a former varsity cross-examination debate competitor representing Austin High School (along with her debate partner, Carrin Patman), in very reassuring 1990 or 1991 personal advice on the telephone that Sarah Goodfriend kindly offered me from her private residence in the northeastern United States, or possibly in North Carolina, during a long-distance phone call I had made to Sarah's private residence from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"You could be one of the most handsome men on this entire campus at Washington University in St. Louis, if you would just lose some weight!" --- Susan Reynolds, the daughter of a male medical physician in Fort Hays, Kansas, who was herself a female classmate of mine, pre-med student, and college dormitory neighbor of mine, in very helpful and constructive oral advice that Susan Reynolds kindly offered me in 1975 or 1976 on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The diet plan I ended up using shortly after that advice from Susan was a diet plan I already knew about from having myself on my own initiative mail-ordered and purchased and obtained a low-carbohydrate-diet-strategy book during my senior year or junior year of high school in the Austin area of Texas. A matter of weeks after Susan Reynolds offered me that very helpful advice, her college roommate who had been pre-assigned to room with Susan in the fall semester of 1975 by the Washington University administration, Robin Warshawsky, in early 1976 offered me very memorable and inspirational praise when I happened to run into Robin outdoors one day near Wohl Center Cafeteria on that private university campus. "John, you look great!", Robin Warshawsky, a very attractive and articulate female classmate of mine at Washington University in St. Louis and a polite neighbor of mine residing in the same student dormitory as myself on that campus, commented to me. Robin, who was herself from Allentown, Pennsylvania, made the inspirational comment to me that I will always savor as very special after I had reduced my weight to exactly 200 pounds as a student at Washington University (my height was 6-foot, two and one-half inches).

'VOICES' AND BACKGROUND NOISE POLLUTION ON THEIR MINDS: VARIOUS TEXANS AND OTHER AMERICANS AND ONE BRITISH-GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE VOLUNTEER THEIR IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS

---"The voices don't do justice to you!" --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my biological mother, in an emphatic statement she volunteered to me during a May of 1987 long-distance phone call I made to my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from an outdoor pay telephone in downtown Quincy, Massachusetts.

----"I (Dr. Calvin McMillan) can't handle the voices! I would prefer that you remain in the Boston area in order to work this out!" --- Dr. Calvin McMillan, my biological father and a retired Professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, in a late 1987 emphatic comment that Father made to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from an outdoor pay telephone in Quincy, Massachusetts.

---"You can get the voices to end overnight!" -- Mrs. Josie Barnes, the Far East Asian-born wife of Dan Barnes, himself a polite tennis player and nice Anglo gentleman who was employed during that time period as a staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., during a one-to-one meeting I had in 1987 with Mrs. Barnes inside that married couple's private residence in either Cambridge, Mass., or Boston, Mass.

----"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) urge you to go from physician to physician as long as it takes until you have finally succeeded at permanently and lawfully terminating this very unwanted and unpleasant connection involving yourself and the unethical person who's been sadistically violating your own privacy rights in this manner (approximate quote)." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in very emphatic advice that my oldest brother offered me on the telephone in 1987 during a long-distance phone call I made to him and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from a workplace of mine in Boston, Massachusetts.

----"The voices will go away immediately as soon as this phone conversation we are having at this time is over." --- Jason Seiken, then a full-time reporter for "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, in a 1987 or 1988 observation that that professional newspaper reporter chose to volunteer to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to the newsroom of "The Patriot Ledger" from an outdoor pay telephone along Bee Cave Road in the tiny suburb of Rollingwood, Texas, a municipality situated between Westlake Hills, Texas, and Austin, Texas.

----"The voices will continue for a long, long time." --- Jeremy Crockford, then a full-time reporter for "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1988 to the newsroom of that New England Press Association member newspaper's main office from my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

---"I (Mrs. Phyllis McMillan) don't think the voices are necessary!" --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my biological mother, in an emphatic and helpful comment that Mother kindly made to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to her in 1988 from a pay telephone at a two-story apartment complex situated along Nueces Street a few blocks west of The University of Texas at Austin. During that period of my residence at that apartment complex, I was informed that one of the other male tenants at that same apartment complex was a younger relative of the world-famous singer and musician Willie Nelson of the Austin area.

----"I (Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair) can't handle the voices! Get him out of here as soon as possible today!" --- Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, in a very loud and angry verbalized outburst from Dr. O'Hair that I could easily hear from the room of her American Atheist Press office building where she was employing me at that time as a proofreader. Minutes after Dr. O'Hair's emphatic outburst, I was asked to meet with Robyn Murray O'Hair, my immediate supervisor at American Atheist Press. In that very brief meeting, Robyn Murray O'Hair abruptly informed me that since I had been overheard earlier that day making a local phone call to the Travis County Lawyer Referral Service from my assigned proofreading desk area in that office building, and since I had been overheard stating to the Travis County Lawyer Referral Service that I needed a private attorney to help strengthen my own privacy rights at the workplace, this was proof of my own insubordination and grounds for immediate dismissal of me, Ms. Robyn Murray O'Hair sternly informed me in her office.

----"Judging by your own internal thought process, it's hard to identify your own intellect. Your internal thought process makes you come across as stupid, in fact. It's only when you put your thoughts into writing that anyone would see your own intelligence." --- my oldest biological brother, Kent Neal McMillan, in a surprising disclosure he made to me on the telephone in 1988 or 1987 during a local phone call I made to Kent's and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from a pay telephone in front of a convenience store along Guadalupe Street across the street from the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"Keep your thoughts away from me (Professor Lewis Gould)." -- Professor Lewis Gould, a Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin, during a local phone call I made in 1987 or 1988 to Professor Gould from my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

---"You can get the voices to end. Just ignore them, and they will go away." --- Professor Donald Gillmor, a Canadian-born professor of communications law at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1988 or 1989 either to Professor Gillmor's private home in St. Paul, Minnesota, or possibly to Professor Gillmor's academic office at Murphy Hall on the main campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, from my rental duplex apartment unit in El Campo, Texas. I made the phone call to Professor Gillmor during a 12-month period in which I was employed for 12 consecutive months as a full-time reporter for the "El Campo (TX) Leader-News" general-circulation newspaper in El Campo, Texas.

---"When the voices end is anyone's guess. But when they do end, you will have incurred a major obligation to the gay community of Houston, and I (private attorney Douglas Horde (sp?) of Houston) will expect you to have an extensive involvement with the gay community of Houston at that future point." ---Douglas Horde (sp? Hoarde?), a private attorney member of the State Bar of Texas, during a 1988 or 1989 phone call I made to Mr. Horde in Houston, Texas, from my duplex rental apartment unit in El Campo, Texas---El Campo having been a coastal-area city where I was reporting full-time in late 1988 and for nearly all of 1989 for the "El Campo Leader-News" general-circulation newspaper in Wharton County, Texas.

---"Even if you were to visit Great Britain, you would find that the voices you have complained to me about in this phone conversation we're having today would merely continue throughout your entire visit on the British Isles (approximate quote). So your traveling to Great Britain on an overseas trip would not do you any good." --- a male official of the British Consulate in Houston, Texas, during a 1990 or 1991 long-distance phone call I made to his British Government office in Houston, Texas, from my rental apartment unit in either Big Spring, Texas, or Sweetwater, Texas.

----"I (Carol See) am sure the people of Great Britain would be interested in listening to the voices, if you were to travel to England at some future point." --- Carol See, a longtime personal friend of mine, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to her and her husband's home in Columbia, Maryland, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"John, would you try to recall someone from your distant past who DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU? Would you please make every effort to stop having ANY MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT PERSON?" --- Sarah Goodfriend, a former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas, amd a former colleague of mine on the Austin High debate squad, during a 1990 or 1991 long-distance phone call I made to Sarah Goodfriend's private residence in another U.S. state from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"I (Kent Neal McMillan) find it noteworthy that the voices you are hearing these days seem to refer to the northern California city of San Francisco quite a bit. As you know, John, San Francisco, California, holds a very special significance for our family because that was the city where your mother and father got married inside a Swedenborgian church. So San Francisco as a motif for you may well call to mind the entire theme of your subconscious quest to yourself develop a mutual-consent relationship with a sexual romantic partner. This may explain why you yourself believe you are hearing lots of verbalized references to San Francisco on the part of the voices in the background there in Sweetwater, Texas." -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in an observation that Kent volunteered to me on the telephone in 1990 or 1991, during a long-distance phone call I had made to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"The voices seem to be expressing anger and irritation. I would recommend that you look upon the voice committee members as prospective friends of yourself, and try to stay on good terms with them as much as possible." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, during a 1990 or 1991 long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) have MY REASONS for wanting the voices to continue!" --- Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas, in a very surprising comment that my oldest biological brother volunteered to me during a long-distance phone call I had made in 1991 to Kent's and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"I'm sure that Kent (Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) would like to see the voices end as soon as possible." --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1991 to my mother's and father's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from a Ford automotive dealership in downtown Sweetwater, Texas, where a used Ford sedan of mine was being repaired at the time I made that long-distance phone call.

---"Even if the voices were to end at some point, you might still be subjected against your wishes to dishonest circumstances involving dishonest news and information services you might be subjected to in your own life." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest brother, during a 1990 or 1991 long-distance phone call I made to Kent's and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

--"The voices may continue for the rest of your life, John." --- Mrs. Phyllis Gardner McMillan, my biological mother and a native of Johnson County, Iowa (the county seat of which is Iowa City, Iowa), during a long-distance phone call I made in the summer of 1991 to Mother's and Father's home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from the rental home in Cuero, Texas, where I was myself residing alone and employed full-time as a Cuero bureau news reporter inside that rental home for the "Victoria (TX) Advocate" general circulation daily newspaper durring that time period.

---"You can get the voices to end with yourself continuing to lead a completely celibate lifestyle as a single gentleman." -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest brother, in a 1992 or 1993 long-distance phone call I made to Kent at his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from my "Pampa Daily News" newspaper workplace in Pampa, Texas. At the time of that phone call, I was employed full-time as an education-beat and regional-beat and general-assignment reporter as well as occasional crime-beat reporter for that daily newspaper in the Panhandle region of Texas. Kent's comment was an oral assurance to me on that particular issue during a multi-month and multi-year period in which I had myself been subjected against my wishes to lots of unpleasant anonymous rumors expressing defiance of my own legal and human right to myself lead a completely celibate lifestyle.

---"You could probably get the voices to end sooner if you move to the Midwest region of the United States." --- Victoria Loe Hicks, a reporter and editor for "The Dallas Morning News" daily newspaper in Dallas, Texas, during a 1995 or January 1996 long-distance phone call I made to Victoria at her newsroom office in downtown Dallas from my private apatment unit in Baytown, Texas. I made that particular long-distance phone call to Victoria Loe Hicks either a matter of days before I resigned from my full-time sports-reporter position at "The Baytown Sun" daily newspaper or shortly after I resigned from that position of employment in Baytown, Texas, in order to myself pursue a full-time and reporting and editing job as Editor in Chief of the "Denver City (TX) Press" general-circulation newspaper in Denver City, Texas. That full-time position of employment for me in Denver City, Texas, began for me in early 1996.

---"Just a voice from the past," private attorney Ellen Thorne (married name Ellen Thorne Skrak) of New Mexico chose to succinctly conclude a long-distance phone call I had made to her private law office in Albuqerque, New Mexico, from a telephone I used in Denver City, Texas, I believe it was, in 1996.

----"The voices can end spontaneously at any time." --- Carol See, a longtime personal friend of mine, during a long-distance phone call I made to her and her kindly husband's home in Columbia, Maryland, from a pay telephone during or shortly before my relocation from Denver City, Texas, to Palestine, Texas, in either December 1996 or January 1997. In that same phone conversation, Carol See added: "If you develop a mutual-consent sexual relationship with any other adult human being, that might help to end the voices." Also in that phone conversation, I believe that Carol See also stated to me that "the voices can end only after you undergo a very thorough and very comprehensive medical examination of your own medical health."

---"Are you hearing voices, John?" --- A male detective for the Austin (Texas) Police Department (APD) during a polite sit-down meeting I had in 1997 with that APD detective and five or six other APD officers inside a meeting room as we all sat around a very large table in APD headquarters in downtown Austin. That detective, or possibly one of his colleagues also attending that meeting, then volunteered to me inside that APD meeting room: "I (the cited APD detective speaking to me in person during the tenure of the Anglo-identified APD Chief Stan Knee serving as the official head of that municipal police department) need to let you know at this time that you (John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas) are pressing criminal charges through this meeting you are having with us today at APD headquarters." I indicated to that APD officer that I was very aware of that implication from the meeting, and that I definitely wanted to myself press crime charges at that time in regard to alleged violations of my own privacy rights, including alleged violation of my legal right to myself enjoy full freedom from any and all alleged stalking, that allegedly comprised a flagrant violation of the state penal code of Texas. In the multi-decade period since that meeting in 1997, I would estimate that 15 different APD police officers on 20 or more separate occasions have on their own initiative each asked me in person whether I was "hearing voices." I have consistently replied, very accurately and very honestly, that I myself was NOT hearing ANY voices that the APD officer posing the question to me was not himself also hearing.

----"The anonymous rumors you are yourself being repeatedly subjected to against your wishes in Austin, Texas, about various cited individuals from your own past whom you have chosen to permanently exclude from your own life, SOUND MORBID!" --- private attorney Ellen Thorne (married name Ellen Thorne Skrak) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, during a long-distance phone call I made in the summer of 1997 to Ellen's law office in Albuquerque from a telephone I used near or at the Camino Real Apartments apartment complex where I was residing at the time. During that same summer of 1997, Ellen Thone (married name Ellen Thorne Skrak) wrote and mailed to me a signed legal letter on the official stationary of her law firm, stating that attorney Ellen Thorne Skrak advised me to contact the American Civil Liberties Union in Austin about alleged violations of my own Constitutional rights in Austin, Texas, Ellen Thorne Skrak indicated in that very kind and helpful follow-up signed legal letter to myself.

---"I (former "Daily Texan" student newspaper reporter Margaret Watson of Dallas, Texas) am appalled by the voices you are hearing in the Austin area that are incessantly and repeatedly verbalizing to you the verbatim statement, 'Why don't you just commit suicide?'. I (Margaret Watson) definitely agree with you that you SHOULD NOT yourself be subjected to sadistic and injurious background anonymous voices of that type! (approximate quote). -- Margaret Watson, a married woman, UT-Austin School of Communications alumnus, and former professional investigative newspaper reporter at the daily newspaper in Tyler, Texas, during a long-distance phone call I made on April 27, 1997, to the private residence in Dallas, Texas, of Margaret Watson and her kindly husband, professional photographer Tres Watson of Dallas, from my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas. I made that long-distance phone call to convey my implicit "birthday wish" in 1997 that the suicide-taunts from background anonymous voices that were being allegedly repeatedly inflicted on me hundreds or thousands of times per day by anonymous persons unbeknownst to me during that time period, would end as soon as possible. And immediately after I made that birthday-wish long-distance phone call to Margaret Watson on my birthday of April 27, 1997, from my parents' home in suburban Westlake Hills, Texas, I felt very relieved to notice that the verbalized death threats of that type to which I was being subjected against my wishes diminished significantly beginning on April 27, 1997, based on what I observed as an apartment tenant at the Marquis-managed Camino Real Apartments near UT-Austin and in my capacity as a gainfully employed single adult gentleman in Austin, Texas. I might add that my own devotion throughout my adult years to seeking to myself have the best possible medical health for myself and the best possible creatively vital medical lifespan for myself, has been and continues to be very strong---so much so that I have assigned very high priority for many years to my obtaining adequate health insurance for myself, whenever possible, and to my leading a healthful dietary lifestyle accompanied by plenty of exercise and pursuit of athletics by myself.

---"If you are in fact hearing actual background voices here in Austin, Texas, on a continuous and year-rond basis, that is all the factual evidence I (private attorney John F. Campbell) need that SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL YOU, JOHN!" --- private attorney John F. Campbell, a very distinguished early-1960s alumnus of The University of Texas Law School in Austin, Texas, during a one-to-one legal consultation meeting I had with Mr. Campbell in 1997 inside his Campbell and Morgan Law Office near UT-Austin. That meeting was paid for in full through my own dues-paying membership in a legal-aid service that a female Human Resources officer for a State Government of Texas state-agency employer of mine in 1997 had invited me in person to enroll in as an individual member of that legal-aid plan. The same Mr. Campbell wrote me a signed follow-up letter in 1997 or 1998 in which he urged me to refrain fron myself ever contacting the Austin Police Department or the Travis County District Attorney's Office with any criminal-law complaint of my own during that time period. Mr. Campbell emphasized in that signed follow-up letter on his official law-firm stationery that I should instead direct any and all criminal-law complaints of mine to private attorney John F. Campbell, and let Mr. Campbell then contact the Austin Police Department or the Travis County District Attorney's Office in Austin, Texas, and thereby assist me in filing criminal-law complaints through his private law firm with those two law-enforcement agencies, Mr. John F. Campbell emphasized to me in writing.

---"It seems to me (Meg Traver) that I (Meg Traver) am hearing faint voices in the background as a female tenant and neighbor of yours at the same apartment complex, View Point Apartments near UT-Austin, as yourself." --- Meg Traver, a self-identified college student in Austin, Texas, and former resident of suburban Rollingwood, Texas, near Austin, in a surprising 1997 or 1998 in-person disclosure that Meg Traver made to me as we stood outdoors chatting with each other in the parking lot of the View Point Apartments complex. View Point Apartments during taht time period housed numerous college students, including numerous UT-Austin students, as well as adult persons who were not attending college.

----"The anonymous rumors you are hearing throughout each day here in Austin, Texas, about cited persons from your own past whom you have rejected, suggest to me (Andrew Berzanskis) that the individuals verbalizing those rumors to you against your wishes are bored and have run out of things to talk about." --- Andrew Berzanskis, a college student enrolled at the time at The University of Texas at Austin, during a local phone call I made to Andrew in 1998 or 1999 from my View Point Apartments efficiency apartment unit about five blocks west of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Berzanskis is the son of a former helpful coworker of mine, Mrs. Cheryl Berzanskis, who herself wrote social news items and police news items as a staff member in the news and editorial department of "The Pampa (TX) Daily News" in Pampa, Texas.

----"I (Julie McMillan Lechtenberger of Houston, Texas) have never denied that you are hearing actual, verifiable, background voices on a continuous daily and year-round basis in Austin, Texas. But that should not affect your earnings capacity at all. If you lose a job because of the background voices at your workplace, you can find another job." -- Mrs. Julie McMillan Lechtenberger, my biological sister, during a 1999 long-distance phone call I made to Julie and her private attorney husband's home in Houston, Texas, from my rental apartment unit at View Point Apartments, an apartment complex situated about five blocks west of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Julie's husband specializes in intellectual property rights law, she also informed me during the 1990s.

---"The voices can end right here in Austin, Texas, with yourself alive and well at the time." -- John Broders, Story Assignments Editor and Assistant to the Editor in Chief at "Texas Monthly" magazine, in a 2000 or 2001 local phone call I made to John Broders during a work break of mine in which I used a state agency telephone in the lobby area of my state agency workplace at the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to contact the statedly friendly John Broders. I was employed full-time at that state agency of Texas during that period as a clerical employee, and I worked for that state agency and, immediately before that, as a full-time clerical employee for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Austin, Texas, for roughly one and one-half consecutive years in Austin, Texas.

----"Please, don't go on with your complaint to me (a Temple Beth Israel synagogue female adult staff member) today on the telephone about the unwanted voices you allege that you are being subjected to while on duty at your Burnet Temporary Employment Services agency temp-job where you are doing clerical work for Northwest Life insurance company inside that insurance company's office building situated along Highway 183 near Interstate Highway 35 in north Austin. I (the Temple Beth Israel staff member) am not interested in hearing any more about that (approximate quote)." -- a female staff member at Temple Beth Israel, a Reform Judaism religious congregation with their synagogue situated near The University of Texas at Austin, during a 2001 or 2002 local phone call I made to Temple Beth Israel of Austin, Texas, from inside the Northwest Life insurance office building in north Austin. I myself am not Jewish, nor am I a subscriber of Judaism, but I had assumed that my own civil and law-abiding lifelong-non-Christian legal status would elicit a kind affinity and helpfulness toward me from that Reform Judaism congregation.

----"It's NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to end the voices!" --- John Broders, Story Assignments Editor and Assistant to the Editor in Chief of "Texas Monthly" magazine, an Emmis media company-owned monthly magazine based in Austin, Texas, during a local phone call I made in the first decade of the 21st Century to John Broders at his magazine office from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

----"It is possible that you were yourself victimized in the 1980s by a federally-sponsored thought-control research project violating individuals' privacy rights that did in fact occur in the Boston area during the time period when you lived in Quincy, Mass. and elsewhere in the Boston area." --- Boston attorney David Grossack, in a surprising disclosure that the highly-rated attorney made to me on the telephone in the first decade of the 21st Century. Mr. Grossack offered me that disclosure during a long-distance phone call I had made to his law office from my rental apartment unit at the Westdale-managed Wind River Crossing Apartments in Austin, Texas. Mr. Grossack later politely informed me, through a polite E-mail reply letter he wrote and sent to me, that that particular attorney was not willing to file any legal complaint on my own behalf at that time.

----"It would be nice if the voices would end at some point. But in the meantime, it's wise to focus on holding onto your job at your workplace as your priority. That's the tangible and practical issue you face in your everyday life (approximate quote) in Austin." -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest brother, during a local phone call I made in the first decade of the 21st Century to my oldest brother at his cell phone number or his cited office phone number from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

---"The voices that you are hearing are just sick people in Austin who are harassing you." --- Dan Knezek, a computer-industry professional programmer and personal friend of mine as well as tennis partner of mine, in a helpful comment to me in about 2007 that Dan Knezek, a Michigan State University alumnus and very fine gentleman of Czechoslovakian ancestry, volunteereed to me as the two of us stood outdoors in front of the Serrano's Mexican restaurant situated along Anderson Lane in northwest Austin. Dan Knezek made that comment to me a matter of minutes after each of us had dined together and enjoyed a friendly conversation together inside that Mexican restaurant. Later that year, 2007 I believe it was, the very same kindly Dan Knezek wrote and sent me a very helpful E-mail letter from another U.S. state in which he stated to me in writing that Dan Knezek strongly supports my legal right to myself file a successful lawsuit in a court of law in Austin, Texas, against the alleged source or sources of the cited allegedly illegal verbal harassment of myself in Austin, Texas, and also against any other alleged source or sources of alleged illegal conduct victimizing myself in Austin, Texas, in any other context, Dan Knezek very kindly indicated in that personal E-mail letter to myself that he sent me from another U.S. state.

----"I (Lacy Ayoub) wonder what the source of the voices might be." --- Lacy Ayoub, a female assistant manager at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) Duval franchise restaurant situated near the intersection of Duval and Research Boulevard in northwest Austin, in an apparently concerned comment that Lacy kindly volunteered to me in approximately 2008 during a leisuretime visit of mine to her 24-hour-a-day chain restaurant. Lacy Ayoub was later promoted to General Manager of IHOP Duval restaurant. I myself had been a waiter at IHOP Duval restaurant for five consecutive years, from October 2002 through October 2007, with myself having given a full two weeks' notice at IHOP Duval after I accepted a job offer to me in late 2007 to myself join the waitstaff of Village Inn 620 chain restaurant in or near Cedar Park, Texas, in Williamson County, Texas. During my entire five-year tenure at IHOP Duval, I myself was never once subjected to any disciplinary write-up on any occasion by any member of the management team at IHOP Duval.

Why Not Two-Below Football in the NFL?

The all-too-frequent and all-too-brutal injuries inflicted on American professional football players demand a healthy alternative.

What if these very same athletes were playing "Two-Below Football" instead, with each "tackle" occurring at the very moment when a player on defense places two of his hands below the waistline of the offensive player holding the football?

This, to me, would make an ideal "Fantasy Football" game. It would be a joyous sporting event because it would offer fans an entire National Football League (NFL) game without ANYONE being injured or medically harmed at any point in that entire game!

For those who say it would make for a "boring" game, I have three responses.

Number One: How do you know for sure that that type of NFL football game would be dull to watch?

Number Two: When was the last time you watched an NFL Two-Below-Tackling Game?

Number Three: Aren't you overlooking the fact that these very talented American athletes could still score lots of touchdowns and field goals, even with the two-below-tackling format?

I, for one, would welcome an annual NFL-sponsored "two-below"-tackling football game that highlights the NFL players' talents WITHOUT the violence inflicted on them by helmet tackles and other appallingly injurious tackles.

That is the type of "NFL At Its Best" pro-football game that I would be very proud to attend---a game in which I would not feel guilty of vicarious sadism from being in the stands that day.

At present, the vicarious sadism occurs when an NFL fan pays money to watch a game and ends up witnessing lots of athletically talented younger men being brutally injured on the playing field. It all feels a bit like something you would witness in an Ancient Roman Coliseum, complete with many of the NFL fans cheering vulgarly if a player from an opposing team gets injured on a play and is carried away on a stretcher.

If You Are Not Satisfied With the Teacher You Were Assigned to At Your School, You Have The Following Options:

---You might have the option of requesting a transfer to another instructor at the same school.

---You could make a list of ANY and ALL aspects of your teacher's performance in the classroom that you regard as admirable. That would remind you that your teacher may not be the worst teacher you have ever had.

---Ask yourself whether you actually dislike the subject matter of the class you agreed to take, and whether your evaluation of your instructor is adversely affected by your dislike of the subject of that course. If that is the case, conceivably ANY instructor teaching you that particular subject in a classroom would trigger the same dissatisfaction from you.

---Ask yourself whether you yourself are diligently doing all of your homework for the class. If you are not doing your assigned homework, possibly you resent the instructor for calling your attention to your own inadequate preparation for that academic course that you agreed in advance to register for.

----Ask yourself whether your teacher possibly reminds you of or resembles some relative of yours or former acquaintance or former coworker of yours whom you have had ocnflicts with or rejected from your own life.
If so, that unfavorable impression of yours about a cited relative or former acquaintance of yours might be interfering with your ability to fairly evaluate your teacher ---a trained educator who is interacting with you solely in a professional context as your assigned classroom instructor.

----You could ask the teacher you dislike to meet with you in the classroom for a few minutes after a class session. That one-to-one polite conversation with your instructor might help you to develop a better rapport with himself. And that improved rapport with your instructor, in turn, could help you to develop a more favorable overall outlook toward your teacher during future class sessions.

---You could ask your teacher or a staff member of your school to share with you a biographical profile of that instructor, such as from a resume or a school-sponsored pamphlet. That information might help you to better understand the career-related and personaL background of your instructor, and might help you to better appreciate the humanity of your instructor as an individual.

----You could attempt to discreetly find out about your instructor's favorite hobbies or pastimes. That information might also help you to better appreciate the humanity of your instructor, even if he strikes you as being rather aloof and severe inside the classroom. "So he actually bakes homemade bread during his leisuretime, which suggests to me that he isn't the ogre I thought he was," you may note to yourself.

---Ask yourself whether your evaluation of your instructor is influenced in any way by any possible unjustifiable prejudice or unjustifiable antipathy of your own. For instance, are you repulsed by the "Deep South" accent or by the New York Bronx Neighborhood accent?
If so, your own ability as a student to fully appreciate any instructor with a Deep South accent or New York Bronx Neighborhood accent could be undermined because of that irrational prejudice of yours. Briefly pretend your instructor were giving you the very same classroom presentation with an accent that you delight in listening to, such as a rich British accent or a refined Massachusetts-style aristocratic Bostonian accent. If his accent and locution were different, might you have been possibly delighted by the very same instructor that you have complained about?

---Is it possible you don't like the way your instructor dresses, and you are rating his classroom performance "unsatisfactory" partly because you personally believe that he would never appear in a photograph as a cover boy for "Gentleman's Quarterly" magazine or she would never appear in a photograph as a cover girl for "Glamour" magazine?

---You could jot down notes to yourself about what you specifically dislike the most about your teacher's job performance. You could then discuss that list with your parents inside your family home. Possibly your parents would offer you insights or empathetic comments that help you to be more understanding about your teacher's cited weaknesses as an instructor.

---You could ask one or both of your parents to schedule a parent-teacher meeting with that instructor. You could then ask your parents to discuss with your teacher concerns you yourself have had about that instructor's job performance. Your parents could then report back to you what the teacher had told them during that parent-teacher meeting.

---You could discuss your concerns about the teacher with other students in your class. Possibly those students might offer observations about the teacher that would be helpful to you in your outlook toward that instructor.

----You could attempt to read previous students' written evaluations of that same instructor from prior academic years or semesters. Many colleges and universities do keep on file those types of student-written evaluations of teachers inside a library of that campus. Those written evaluations by other students might offer you a fresh perspective on that instructor, which could enhance your ability to appreciate your instructor.

---You could attempt to identify schoolmates of yours who earned a good report card grade from that instructor during a prior semester or a recent prior schoolyear. Possibly those schoolmates of yours would offer you insights on how to develop a better rapport with the teacher whom you yourself dislike.

----You could attempt to identify which of the other students (if any) in your current class with that instructor, are actually themselves pleased with that instructor's teaching performance. You could then make a point of asking students who are happy with the teacher's performance what they like the most about that teacher's conduct in the classroom. That information could be helpful to you.

---Keep in mind that your relationship with your teacher is limited to the classroom. Unless you are a member of a student organization for which your teacher is a faculty adviser or sponsor, you are NOT required or expected to ever associate with your teacher away from the school campus. That information should help to reassure you about the limits of your teacher's involvement in your own life.

---You need to ask yourself whether your dissatisfaction with your teacher's style of teaching is partly influenced by your own perception that your teacher is physically repulsive to you. If so, possibly you can improve your morale as a student by noting the occasions each class session when your instructor is the LEAST physically repulsive to you. That information could boost your morale as a student in the class, such as if you imagine your instructor with a rare kindly smile on his face that he generally does not present to your class.

You might also keep in mind that if your teacher is physically repulsive to you, possibly that teacher sustained an injury, such as from a car accident, that partly accounts for their being significantly unpleasant to look at inside the classroom. Another possibility is that your teacher is significantly older than average, and you are repulsed by the wrinkles on their face or their baldness, for instance. If so, keep in mind that it is impressive that that educator is still alive at their age, when many educators never reach that age in order to then have the luxury of their being perceived by their students as very repulsive.

---You could schedule an appointment to speak with the immediate supervisor of your teacher. That supervisor, such as a department chairman, might offer you information about your teacher that will help you to better understand your teacher and what motivates that individual as the instructor in your class. For instance, the department chairman might volunteer to you that your teacher recently underwent medical surgery and is recovering from that surgery.

Noteworthy Observations or Comments that Various Individuals Have Offered Me in the Period Since May 1987

---"You are definitely not psychotic. You are not at any risk of ever being put in a psychiatric hospital here in the Boston area (approximate quote)." -- Helen Obermeyer, a Brandeis University alumnus who resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the period when she kindly offered me that helpful in-person observation in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1987.

-----"As an attorney member of the State Bar of Texas practicing the law here in Austin, I see no evidence that you (John Kevin McMillan) are mentally ill. In fact, I (private attorney John F. Campbell) recommend that you NOT associate with persons who fail to acknowledge that you are psychologically healthy" (approximate quote). --- private attorney and University of Texas at Austin Law School alumnus John F. Campbell of Campbell and Morgan Law Firm in Austin. Mr. Campbell's law office in 1997 was situated near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Campbell offered me that very helpful legal advice in person during a one-to-one legal consultation I had with him in 1997 for which that kindly attorney was paid either in full or in large part by the Texas Legal Protection Plan legal-aid service in which I myself have been an individual member ever since 1997. I was invited in person in 1997 to join that legal-aid service by a female Human Resources Department officer of a State Government of Texas agency (now known as the Texas Workforce Commission) where I was employed full-time in Austin, Texas, for a brief period in 1997.

---"I would never call you 'paranoid' based on your reactions to these manipulative circumstances in your own life that you have experienced here in Texas" (approximate quote). --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in a 1990 or 1991 observation that he volunteered to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's home in south Austin from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"None of the professional journalists who have called me (Roland Klose) and posed questions to me about you (John Kevin McMillan) have expressed any concern to me about your mental health." --- Roland Klose, a professional newspaper reporter and former college roommate of mine, in a disclosure he chose to make during a 1994 phone conversation I had with Roland Klose. Roland Klose volunteered the comment after I asked him on the telephone whether he had heard anyone express any concerns to him about my own mental health during that time period, since I had heard rumors along those lines, I believe I indicated in that long-distance phone conversation. I was surprised by Roland Klose's response on the telephone, partly because it revealed that some news media company had actually made an inquiry about me of some type in a phone call that that media company made to Roland Klose, rather than to myself. Roland Klose never made any statement to me at any time in my entire life that indicated that he somehow "represented" me or "employed" me in any way. I had made that particular 1994 phone call to Roland Klose's private residence in Tennessee from my rental apartment unit in Kermit, Texas, a West Texas town where I was employed full-time as a general-assignment reporter for the "Winkler County News" general-circulation newspaper in Kermit.

----"You (John Kevin McMillan) are still alive. Do you have any evidence that your (cited relative) seeks to harm you?" -- Roland Klose, a self-identified professional newspaper reporter and former college roommate of mine, in a very surprising comment he made to me on the telephone in 1991 from Cuero, Texas. Roland Klose made that comment to me during a long-distance phone call I had made to his and his wife's home in Tennessee from a telephone in Cuero, where I had begun duties as a full-time reporter for the "Victoria (TX) Advocate" general-circulation daily newspaper serving the entire Victoria area of Texas. (It is remotely possible, though, that I actually made this particular long-distance phone call in 1992 to Roland Klose of Tennessee from a telephone in Zapata, Texas, during my period of residence and employment in Zapata as a full-time reporter for the "Zapata County News" general-circulation newspaper.) I had not made any comment to Roland Klose during that phone call in which I mentioned to him that I myself suspected that a cited relative of mine might actually seek to harm my medical health or might actually seek to damage my own creatively vital natural medical longevity in any way.

---"You are being persecuted (exact quote) here in Texas!", Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, stated to me on his own volition in 1991 during a long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's home in Austin from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"When this is all over, I will tell you what I (Kent Neal McMillan) think of the persons who have subjected you to these manipulative circumstances and extensively-manipulated living conditions (approximate quote)." -- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in an in-person comment that Kent volunteered to me on his own volition in 1988 with a critical-sounding voice and unsmiling expression on his face during a visit I made during my leisuretime to his and his wife's home that they owned in south Austin.

---"You seem to have this attitude of 'entitlement' in which you maintain that you should somehow be financially compensated for alleged violations of your own privacy rights that you claim are somehow occurring. That attitude of yours is out of touch with reality, since there is no legal issue of any type that's applicable to your own living conditions in any way. No one has violated your privacy rights, John....Your entire situation appears to be outside of the scope of government to address any such cited issue. If you consult a private attorney about alleged violations of your privacy rights, you are just throwing your own money away. The attorney cannot pursue any actions that would be helpful to you in any way" (approximate quote).--- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother and an Austin-area married gentleman, in repeated advice Kent offered me on the telephone in the late 1980s as well as in the 1990s and also in the 21st Century.

---"You will feel a lot better when this is all over." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in a surprising comment he volunteered to me during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from a rental apartment in Sweetwater, Texas, where I resided and worked as a full-time newspaper reporter for the "Sweetwater Reporter" daily newspaper.

----"The manipulative circumstances in your life these days should be calling your attention to your own separateness from all other human beings." --- Kent Neal McMillan, in a 1986 comment that my oldest biological brother volunteered to me in person in the back yard of his and his wife's home in south Austin.

----"We hope that you decide to stay in Texas." -- Kent Neal McMillan, in a comment that he repeatedly made to me on his own voliton toward the conclusion of 10 or more of the long-distance phone calls I made in the early and mid-1990s to his and his wife's home in Austin from a series of small towns in West Texas where I was residing and holding general-circulation-newspaper reporting jobs. In each of those phone calls, I frequently complained to Kent that my own living conditions in Texas during that particular period were hostile and severe toward me.

----"You are not responsible for 'that other stuff'."-- Dr. Dana Wollney, a medical physician and the husband of my kind personal friend Carol See, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1993 or 1994 to that married couple's home in Columbia, Maryland from the rental apartment unit where I was living in Pampa, Texas.

----"The primary reason why you never make any personal friends from among any of your coworkers in your restaurant jobs in Austin is that none of your coworkers have a career background in journalism. For that reason, you don't have much in common with any of your coworkers." --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in an observation Kent offered me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his and his wife home in Austin, Texas, in the first decade of the 21st Century. I made that phone call during my leisuretime from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

---'WHAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE LIVING CONDITIONS YOU ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING?'" --- Kent Neal McMillan, my oldest biological brother, in a panicky-sounding and very emphatic voice in which Kent very abruptly posed that question to me with emphasis during a 1991 long-distance phone call I had made at my expense to his and his wife's home in Austin, Texas, from the rental apartment unit in which I was residing in Sweetwater, Texas.

----"I recommend that you not file any complaints of any type during this period." --- John Schlueter, a personal friend of mine, neighbor of mine, and a local realtor and business owner as well as high-ranking staff member at an ABC-affiliate television station in northwest Austin, in emphatic 2011 or 2012 advice that that kindly married gentleman volunteered to me on the telephone. John Schluter offered me that emphatic advice after I repeatedly informed him that I was very sure that I was being victimized by personal injury crimes. as well as by anal-rape crimes during my sleep, that were allegedly being inflicted on me by alleged illegal intruders inside the bolt-locked top-floor, vaulted-ceiling, one-bedroom apartment unit that I rented in northwest Austin.

---"They are trying to get you to move out of the Austin area and pursue a job in journalism." --- John Schlueter, a personal friend of mine and KVUE Television Station employee, in a 2012 or 2011 observation that he volunteered to me on the telephone in Austin, Texas. I failed to ask John Schlueter to whom he referred when he began that appartently candid observation to me with the pronoun "they."

The Best Compliments or Words of Praise that I Have Ever Received in My Own Life

Among the very finest compliments or words of praise that other human beings have verbalized to me in my own life are the following:

---"Your father (Dr. Calvin McMillan) and I think the world of you!"--Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, during a long-distance phone call I made in 1990 or 1991 to my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, from a pay telephone inside a Pizza Inn chain restaurant in Big Spring, Texas (or possibly instead in Sweetwater, Texas).

---"You are the greatest person I have ever known!" -- Sean Reilly, a former coworker of mine at IHOP Duval restaurant, in a very kind and inspirational comment he volunteered to me during a visit of his in 2003 or so inside that franchise restaurant of the International House of Pancakes in Austin, Texas.

---"...I am very proud to call you a member of our family!" -- Aunt Allegra Dane in a 2012 comment that Aunt Allegra volunteered to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made that year to her and her husband's dairy-farm house near Iowa City im Johnson County, Iowa. Several months later in 2012, the kindly and benevolent and devout United Methodist Church member Aunt Allegra passed away.

---"All brainwaves from you are gratefully accepted!" -- Ellen Goodman, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and Harvard University (Radliff College) alumnus, in a signed reply letter to me on official "Boston Globe" daily newspaper stationery that she wrote and mailed to me in late 1988 or January 1989 during a 12-month time period in which I resided in El Campo, Texas, and worked full-time for the "El Campo Leader-News" general-circulation semi-weekly newspaper, with Mr. Richard Goldsmith my immediate supervisor in the newsroom of that award-winning Texas Press Association member newspaper that was owned during that period by Fred Barbee and his son, Chris, in El Campo.

---"You always were a very loving person!" --- Michael Crothers, a self-identified fiction writer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a 1984 or 1985 long-distance phone call I made to his mother's home in south Minneapolis from a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, where I was myself residing during that time period.

---"You (John Kevin McMillan) should take pride in your own emotional and aesthetic transsexualism (or law-abiding form of heterophilia), in which you as a morally and aesthetically straight and law-abiding single adult Anglo gentleman identify with and feel deeper emotional affinity toward a higher percentage of all law-abiding heterosexual gentlemen and all law-abiding heterosexual ladies than the other cited subpopulations(approximate quote). Your emotional and aesthetic transsexualism permeates your writing, and is a very natural and healthy affinity for you in the complete absence of your ever being expected or required at any time to undergo any sex-change operation per se (approximate quote, with some elaboration for the sake of clarification) during your own lifetime." --- Michael Crothers, a self-identified fiction writer and English as a Second Language Instructor, during a long-distance phone call I made to that kindly older gentleman in 1990 or 1991 from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas. I was employed at that time as a full-time reporter for "The Sweetwater (TX) Reporter" daily newspaper in West Texas. Mr. Crothers added in that same 1990 or 1991 phone call that if I myself were to ever at any time move to Minneapolis, Minnesota, from Sweetwater, Texas, Michael Crothers would welcome the opportunity to himself meet me in person inside a restaurant in Minneapolis for a friendly conversation in that heavily populous Minnesotan city, he volunteered in that leisuretime phone call I made to him at his kindly Mother's home she owned in southeast Minneapolis.

----"I have never once questioned your honesty in all of my dealings with you. You are by far the most thoughtful, considerate, and socially cautious person I have met in Austin, and I'm glad to know you." --- Andy Hogue, a politically conservative personal friend of mine and former neighbor of mine with a very impressive professional journalism background, in a January 4, 2012, E-mail reply note that Andy very kindly wrote and sent to me.

---"You, and I, have a great future....Someday a book anthologizing your various pithy observations will get published, with a title such as 'The Wit and Wisdom of John (Kevin) McMillan'" (approximate quote).--- Mark Williamson, then a law school student at Columbia University in New York City, New York, in a signed 1984 letter that Mark Williamson kindly and generously wrote and sent to me at my rental apartment unit address of that time period in Worcester, Massachusetts.

---"You are warm and funny and intelligent." --- Mark H.B. Williamson, a University of Minnesota alumnus, who apparently wrote that very kind evaluation of me in a signed 1984 letter he wrote to me during a period when he was enrolled as a law-school student at Columbia University in New York City, New York.

---"You are more intellectually vital and philosophically deeper than 99 percent of the people out there! (approximate quote)" --- Bob Percy, a personal friend of mine in the Worcester area of Massachusetts during a time period of late 1984 in which I had been or was employed full-time as a reporter for the "Worcester County News" general-circulation weekly magazine.

---"You would make a very fine story-assignments editor for a medium-size midwestern daily newspaper!" -- Greg Freeman, a former schoolmate of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, and later a columnist for the "St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch" daily newspaper, in a very kind oral observation that Greg Freeman volunteered to me on the telephone in a long-distance phone call I made in the first decade of the 21st Century to his "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" newspaper office from my private apartment unit in Austin, Texas.

---"The public-policy-minded brainstorming letters you have written and shared with government officials and the 'Austin American-Statesman' have made a big contribution to the city of Austin. That contribution by yourself is especially remarkable since you are doing this on your own, in connection with your new (Progressive Prohibitionist Religion) religion in which you are the only member" (approximate quote). --- Arnold Garcia, Editor of the Editorial Page, "The Austin American-Statesman," in a 1997 or 1998 comment that Mr. Garcia very kindly volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to his newspaper office from my efficiency rental apartment unit at View Point Aparrtments. View Point Apartments are situated among fraternity houses along Leon Street, aboout five blocks west of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You have a very fine reputation for intellectual brilliance... (approximate quote)"---Dr. Calvin McMillan, my biological father and a Professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, in a December 1990 statement that Father very kindly made to me outdoors at the Austin municipal airport he had driven me to that day. He drove me to the airport so I ould take a plane flight back to West Texas in order to myself resume my full-time reporting duties as an education-beat and general-assignment-beat reporter and columnist for the "Sweetwater Reporter" general-circulation daily newspaper in Sweetwater, Texas.

---"You are TOO conscientious, Kevin!" -- Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, in an oral statement that my biological mother made to me several times during my early childhood inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that comment having conveyed what I myself regard as a nice implied compliment from my beloved biological mother.

---"You exemplify the great resourcefulness that Texans are noted for!" (approximate quote)-- Texas Governor Ann Richards, in a nice reply letter to me on official State of Texas stationery that Governor Richards signed and mailed to me from the Governor's Office in Austin, Texas, during a period of the early 1990s when I was employed as a full-time reporter for a daily newspaper in West Texas.

---"You remind me of the Roman Empire!" --- Valerio Caldesi Valeri, an Italian citizen and instructor in the Classics Department at The University of Texas at Austin, in a 2000 compliment he offered me on his own volition as I drove that Classics scholar to an Italian-style gelatti eatery in Austin, Texas.

---"You have always been a perfect gentleman in your conduct toward me as my roommate." -- Valerio Caldesi Caleri, an Italian citizen and UT-Austin Classics Department instructor, in an unsolicited 2000 comment that Valerio made to me several times over the ocurse of the approximately 8-month period in which we roomed together inside an efficiency apartment unit at View Point Apartments, an apartment complex situated about five blocks west of the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"We at the 'Austin American-Statesman' admire your brain!" -- Pancho Gomez, a polite assistant to Editorial Page Editor Arnold Garcia, during a phone call several years ago I myself had made to the newsroom of "Austin American-Statesman" daily newspaper in Austin, Texas, relating to a letter to the editor I had submitted to that Cox Newspapers-owned daily newspaper in Austin.

---"I appreciate your many fine contributions to the State of Texas!" (approximate quote)--State of Texas Comptroller Carol Keeton Rylander Strayhorn, in an official signed reply letter from State Comptroller Strayhorn that she wrote and mailed to me during her tenure as State Comptroller from her state agency headquarters in Austin, Texas.

---"You are the most thoughtful (exact word she used) person I have ever known!" (approximate quote)-- Victoria Loe, in a Christmas Season greeting card message she very kindly wrote and mailed to me via the U.S. Postal Service in 1993 or 1994, during a period in which I resided in Pampa, Texas, and I worked full-time as a reporter for "The Pampa Daily News" general-circulattion daily newspaper serving that entire city and nearby towns as well.

---"You are unbelievably straight for an intellectual!" -- Andrew McGavren, a University of Texas at Austin alumnus and former UT-Austin English Department major and former Prather Dormitory neighbor of mine at UT-Austin, during a 1988 in-person conversation I had with Andrew McGavren and his kindly German-born wife, Mrs. Henrike McGavren, inside that married couple's home in east Austin.

---"Among the IHOP (International House of Pancakes) managers in the Austin area, you are legendary for your honesty!" --- Diane, a female Assistant Manager at IHOP Duval restaurant in Austin, Texas, in a very nice comment she volunteered to me in the waitstation area of IHOP Duval Restaurant one workshift for me as a waiter inside that franchise restaurant in the first decade of the 21st Century.

----"You are very honest. You are definitely that!" --- Eduardo Arreguin, a kindly neighbor of mine at my current apartment complex in northwest Austin and a coworker of mine at two respective chain restaurants where each of us were or are employed as a waiter in the early 21st Century.

---"You are as honest as the day is long!" --- Bill Leach, a former high-school schoolmate of mine and former colleague of mine on the Stephen F. Austin High School debate squad of Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas, in a comment that Bill kindly volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I made to him at his business office at Longhorn Meat Company in east Austin from my apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in the first decade of the 21st Century. That praise from Bill was especially gratifying parrtly because Bill Leach was also a private attorney member of the State Bar of Texas.

---"You are one of my all-time favorite people!" -- Dr. Douglas Weiner, then a Russian Studies instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., during a one-to-one Holiday Season dinnertime meal I had with Dr. Weiner inside a restaurant in central Boston.

---"Happy New Year to a future Pulitzer!" -- Elspeth Rostow, a professor of public-policy studies and chief administrator at The University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs, in a Holiday Season postcard that Professor Rostow wrote and mailed to me in 1983 or 1984 at my rental apartment address near the campus of The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

---"You remind me of Cary Grant (the Hollywood actor with a British background), except you walk faster!" --- Professor Lewis Gould of The University of Texas at Austin History Department, in a 1978 or 1979 unsolicited observation he made to me on the telephone during my period as a reporter for "The Daily Texan" student newspaper on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"Your writing style reminds me of Mark Twain." --- Wade Zwiener, a University of Minnesota undergraduate student and reporter at the "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper, in a kind comment he volunteered to me in 1983 as Wade very generously offered me editing assistance for a humor column of mine I was writing at that time inside my efficiency top-floor rental apartment unit near the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

----"Your writing style reminds me of Virginia Woolfe." -- Michael Crothers, a University of Minnesota student and writer, in a 1983 or 1984 comment he volunteered to me in Minneapolis.

----"The moral purity of your lifestyle here in Pampa, Texas, reminds me of a heroic and virtuous chaste fictional character from a Victorian Era novel of 19th Century Great Britain!" ---a female brunette adult resident of the Pampa area of Texas, who herself somehow had heard about me and introduced herself to me that day as I stood outdoors in Pampa, Texas, a city where I was employed full-time as a reporter for "The Pampa Daily News" daily newspaper.

---"You have excellent telephone manners, and you are consistently very polite and friendly when you answer the telephone on behalf of 'The New Ulm Journal' in our newspaper's news and editorial department here in New Ulm, Minnesota (approximate quote)/" --- Steve Fox, my managing editor and head work supervisor at that general-circulation daily newspaper, in a spring of 1980 evaluation of me that Steve Fox volunteered to me one workshift of mine in the newsroom of that regional newspaper.

----"I and members of my family think very highly of you!" --- Ernie Motloch, a very kind and very gentlemanly former work supervisor of mine at Souper Salad Lakeline restaurant near Lakeline Mall in northwest Austin, in an inspirational 2013 oral statement that Ernie, a longtime personal friend of mine, made to me on the telephone from the Temple area of Texas.

---"You have the potential to become a great writer---no shit (sic)!" -- Lynne Layton, a former Comparative Literature instructor of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, in a summer of 1979 signed personal letter that Lynne Layton very kindly wrote and mailed to me at my home mailing address in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during a multi-month period in which I was employed full-time as a suburban-beat news and feature reporter for the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" general-circulation newspaper based in suburban Tamarac, Florida.

---"You could become the next Art Buchwald (a famous satirical oped columnist for 'The Washington Post')!" --- Sarah Goodfriend, in a late 1970s signed personal letter that former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School wrote and sent to me from another U.S. state.

---"You have a sense of humor a mile wide!" -- Richard Newberger (sp?), a graduating high school senior in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in a signed personal reply letter he wrote and mailed to me in 1975 after each of us had been notified by administrators at Washington University in St. Louis that Richard Newberger and I had been pre-assigned by those administrators to room together inside a dormitory at Washington University in the fall semester of 1975.

---"Personally, I think you're a scream!" -- Matt Shands, in a 1982 or 1981 comment he volunteered to me between laughs outside of the apartment complex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I was residing in a rental apartment unit at the time.

----"You definitely are smart enough to work and write for 'The New York Times'." -- Charles Hilty, a journalism instructor of mine and then-night-editor for the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch," in a very kind 1975 or 1976 in-person statement to me Mr. Hilty made after class in the college classroom where he taught a journalism course I was enrolled in at the time.

----"You are one of the gentlest people I have ever met!" -- Max Alberts, a self-identified Minneapolis writer and University of Minnesota Math Department staff member, in a 1983 or 1984 observation he volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone conversation I had with him in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

----"You were definitely the nicest and friendliest person I ever became acquainted with in the entire Austin area during my multi-year period of living in Austin (approximate quote)." -- Dan Knezek, in a personal E-mail letter that that former tennis partner of mine in Austin, Texas, very kindly wrote and sent to me from the new U.S. state Dan had moved to immediately after moving away from Austin in the first decade of the 21st Century.

----"You are one of the warmest and nicest persons I have ever become acquainted with! (approximate quote)." -- Mark Johnson, a University of Minnesota undergraduate student and "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper reporter from Duluth, in a Holiday Season 1983 or 1984 greeting card that Mark Johnson wrote and mailed to me in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

---"You have an other-worldly intensity to you that suggests you are a visitor on Earth, and you came here from another planet in outer space!" --- Christen Pistulka, a University of Minnesota college student and coworker of mine at the "Minnesota Daily" student newspaper in Minneapolis, in a 1983 or 1982 comment Ms. Pistulka volunteered to me on the telephone during a local phone call I had made to her private residence from the fraternity house near the University of Minnesota campus where I was residing at that time.

----"You are very rare, and you should be very proud of that!" --- Aurelio Contreras, a former coworker of mine at a 24-hour-a-day franchise chain restaurant in Williamson County, Texas, in a January of 2014 comment that Aurelio very kindly volunteered to me in person during a brief conversation I had with Aurelio in Williamson County, Texas.

---"I would like to work for you someday, since I believe you would make a very honorable and kind and generous employer for me (approximate quote)" --- Aurelio Contreras, then a coworker of mine at a 24-hour-a-day franchise chain restaurant in Williamson County, Texas, in a thoughtful unsolicited comment that Aurelio, a self-identified immigrant from Mexico, very kindly veralized to me inside our restaurant chain workplace.

----"You are the very finest person of this entire group of 'Daily Texan' staff members attending this graduation party tonight!" -- Michael Stephens, a former news editor at "The Daily Texan" student newspaper affiliated with Texas Student Publications on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, in a kind comment that "Daily Texan" news and editorial department staff member Michael Stephens volunteered to me in the late spring of 1979 on the property of a private rental home in Austin where one of the "Daily Texan" staff members resided at that time.

----"You are better than everybody else!" --- John Schlueter, in an unsolicited word of praise for me that that personal friend of mine, neighbor of mine, local business owner, married gentleman and father, and KVUE Television Station production department manager in northwest Austin very generously offered me in person from inside his motor vehicle during a brief visit John Schlueter made in about 2010 to the parking lot of Wind River Crossing Apartment complex near Building 3 (the multi-unit building where I myself have resided in a top-floor vaulted-ceiling one-bedroom apartment unit ever since January 2002).

----"I greatly admire your investigative reporting for 'The Daily Texan' that is exposing major scandals implicating several administrators at The University of Texas at Austin! Keep up the good work!" (approximate quote)--- Mike Laur, a very talented photographer for "The Daily Texan", in an unsolicited word of praise for me that he very generously offered me in 1978 after Mike Laur approached me one day in 1978 on his own initiative as I dined alone, or possibly with coworker Margaret Watson of "The Daily Texan" news and editorial department staff, in the outdoor patio section of the "Les Amis" cafe (a restaurant operating at that time that was situated about one block from the main campus of The University of Texas at Austin).

---"The investigative series of articles you wrote for 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper that exposed major administrative corruption by Oswald Roels, the Belgian-born director of the University of Texas-owned Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, has triggered lots of ecstatic celebration here at Port Aransas after his resignation as director! We support-staff employees of the institute here in Port Aransas are very grateful to you and your father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, for the kind interest in our institute and support for the 'little people' here in Port Aransas that you have both expressed through that investigative series that had major impact here!" (approximate quote) --- a signed letter to me in 1978 from a female secretary employed at that University of Texas System Administration-affiliated research institute in Port Aransas.

---"That oped column of yours that was recently published in 'The Daily Texan' campus newspaper at UT-Austin did a fine job of cleverly ridiculing a male teaching assistant (TA) in the Government Department at UT-Austin! That oped column was very funny, and prompted me to laugh quite a bit at the ridiculous absurdity of that TA's teaching style!" ---- my oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan, in verbal praise he kindly volunteered to me in 1977 inside the dining room of our parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas.

----"The news articles you wrote for 'The Daily Texan' that presented a critical vantage point toward the UT-Austin Administration were very well done! Your writing for 'The Texan' was cutting but not crushing, and I just wanted to give you a phone call today to express my appreciation for your fine work!" --- Mrs. Mike Pankewicz, a former New Yorker and personal friend of my mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, both of whom were longtime members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, in a very unexpected local phone call to me from Mrs. Pankiewicz that I received in 1978 or 1979 inside my rental apartment unit along Rio Grande Street near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You have the perfect temperament for a newspaper journalist: You are skeptical without being cynical." --- Celia Dugger, a former schoolmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School of Austin (TX) Independent School District, in a December of 1978 or December of 1979 comment that Celia very kindly volunteered to me during a one-to-one meeting I had with Cel;ia in which I showed her newspaper articles I had written as we sat across from each other at a dining table inside the "Les Amis" cafe near the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

---"You were never ugly to me, which makes it easy for me to continue providing you with favorable professional references on your behalf" (approximate quote)." ----Mr. Chris Barbee, then managing editor and an owner of "The El Campo (TX) Leader-News" general-circulation newspaper in El Campo, Texas, that primarily serves residents of the western section of Wharton County, Texas, in a telephone call I made to Chris Barbee in the first decade of the 21st Century from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

----"It's hard to dislike you, since you are so friendly to everyone (approximate quote)!" -- Mr. Chris Barbee, during a summer of 1997 phone call I made during my leisuretime to my former newspaper-industry employer from an apartment complex where I resided at that time near The University of Texas at Austin.

---"It's good that you yourself have chosen to lead a completely celibate lifestyle throughout this period and under these circumstances (approximate quote)." --- Mr. Chris Barbee, a kindly personal friend of mine, former employer of mine in El Campo, Texas, and a married gentleman and father residing in El Campo, Texas, during a long-distance early 21st Century phone call I made to Chris and his wife's (Carol Barbee's) home in El Campo, Texas, from my one-bedroom, top-floor, vaulted-ceiling apartment unit in Austin, Texas, at the Westdale-managed Wind River Crossing Apartments complex in northwest Austin. I have resided in that very same bolt-locked apartment unit in a completely celibate manner throughout all of my conscious or waking hours ever since January 2002, with myself ALWAYS sleeping ALONE on my own bed, and I made it very emphatically clear from the very start to each of the two total respective male adult roommates I have ever roomed with in my apartment unit--- this from mid-April 2011 through May 31, 2011, in the case of a self-identified "citizen of Indonesia" who stated his employer at the time as the British-owned "Pearson Educational Testing Services" in north Austin, and, more recently, from April 27, 2013, to the present (February 13, 2014, currently being the present) in regard to an older self-identified Anglo man and self-identified American citizen. who roomed with me during that period----that I myself (John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas) DO NOT agree to have any physical contact of any type or ANY sexual contact of any type with EITHER of those two respective roommates. Each of those two respective adult male roommates stated to me from the very start and at all times while rooming with me that he would fully honor that very clear and unambiguous "no contact" policy of mine at all times.

---"I will feel a lot better about Florida from knowing that you are there." --- Professor David Perry of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government, in a 1979 telephone call I made to his UT-Austin campus office from my "Daily Texan" student newspaper workplace, with myself informing Professor Perry in that phone call that I had accepted a reporting-job offer in 1979 over the telephone from the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" of Tamarac, Florida.

----"The 'Miami Herald' editors were very impressed by your writing for 'The Daily Texan', and I have heard that they plan to promote you to a reporting job at the Neighbors section of 'the Herald' by December of this year (1979), if you do well here as a reporter for 'The Broward Times'."--- Clint Williams, a departing reporter for the "Miami Herald"-owned "Broward Times" newspaper in Tamarac, Florida, during an in-person conversation that Clint Williams had with me in or near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, within a few days after I arrived by airplane in mid-1979 at Fort Lauderdale's international airport in order to myself relocate to Florida from Austin, Texas. Clint Williams had been assigned by editor in chief Donald Crull of "The Broward Times" to help train me into the Coral Springs (FL.) beat and Lauderdale (FL) beat that he himself had held as a full-time reporter for that suburban newspaper in western Broward County, Florida.

---"My teenage son Brandon has told me that you were a big inspiration to him when you got together with him several times in 1996 as his unofficial Big Brother here in Denver City (Texas). Brandon has done very well in his academic pursuits at Denver City High School in West Texas, and I partly give you credit for Brandon's great success here as a student." --- Nancy Campbell, the single-parent mother of Brandon Campbell, in an early 21st Century long-distance phone call I made to Mrs. Campbell's home in Denver City, Texas, from my rental apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin.

----"I would trust you with my own children." --- Cheryl McVey (sp?), an immediate supervisor of mine in my full-time clerical support-staff job at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, during a meeting with me in 1995 inside Ms. McVey's office on the eastern campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Ms. McVey made the reference to her children on her own intiative during that brief one-to-one meeting I had with her inside her office; and in fact, I myself had not made any comment about children in any of my own comments to her.