I want my one-member (myself only) Progressive Prohibitionist Religion to help promote the value for each human being of their keeping a personal file inside their home that cites each of the predictions about their own future that others had verbalized to them. In my own life, those predictions and future-oriented statements from others (approximate quotes below) have included:
I want my one-member (myself only) Progressive Prohibitionist Religion to help promote the value for each human being of their keeping a personal file inside their home that cites each of the predictions about their own future that others had verbalized to them. In my own life, those predictions and future-oriented statements from others (approximate quotes below) have included:
---"I (Peter Kizilos) recommend that when you retire, you move to Florida."
---"(As a friend of yours and newspaper reporter for the 'Dallas Morning News', I need to ask you, John McMillan, a question). What are your (former 'Daily Texan' coworker and personal friend John Kevin McMillan) goals for the next five-year period of your life?"
---"You (former Austin High classmate John K. McMillan of Snyder, Texas) are making a long-term transition from one great university to another. (That is how I, former Austin High classmate Heidi Wittenborn of Austin, have evaluated what is currently taking place in your life as a reporter for a newspaper in Snyder, Texas, in the year 1994.)"
---"(As your oldest biological brother in Austin, Texas, I need to ask you this very emphatic question on the telephone in 1991 during a phone conversation you are having with me from your apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas:) 'WHAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE FUTURE EXPLANATION THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS CONTINUING?'"
---"(As your oldest biological brother in Austin, Texas, Kent Neal McMillan, I need to volunteer to you during this phone call you made to me from your rental home in Cuero, Texas, that) Your circumstances in Texas call to mind the Prohibition on Cruel and Unusual Punishment of the Bill of the Rights of the U.S. Constitution. Sweden a superior record on human rights issues to that of the United States of America."
--"As a former work supervisor of yours at 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper and reporter for 'The Dallas Morning News' and current friend of yours, I (Victoria Loe) need to advise you in the year 1988 to) be prepared for tough questions from the news media here in Texas after a news event occurs in Austin that relates to you!"
---"(As your biological oldest brother in Austin, Kent McMillan, I can tell you in this phone call you made to me from south Texas that) If the United States has been compared to Nazi Germany, your tentative plan of moving from Texas to the U.S. state of Oregon won't do you any good."
---"(As your biological oldest brother in Austin, Kent McMillan, I can tell you (John McMillan) on the telephone today in 1991 during this call you made to me from your apartment in Sweetwater, Texas), that you will eventually succeed only after you have gone through lots of hardship and suffering over a multi-year period. At that future date, you will be willing to accept whichever goals you can achieve for yourself in that future scenario."
---"I (Wind River Crossing Apartments neighbor Kurt Verhulst in northwest Austin) recommend that you lower your standards in your pursuit of a social life."
----"I (Richard Goldsmith, a polite former work supervisor of yours at the 'El Campo Leader-News' newspaper in El Campo, Texas, and a married gentleman and current Texas Department of Transportation employee in Austin, can tell you (John McMillan) that you in this phone call you made to me around he turn of the century that you are free to pursue a social life in Austin for as many years as you decide, for all the good that it would do you. I (Richard Goldsmith) just know how Austin is."
----"(As a single man in Austin, Charlie Runnels, I can tell you on this day around the turn of the century that if you (John McMillan) were to visit Provincetown, Massachusetts, you would find the gay men there to be very hostile toward you."
---"I (Charles Hilty, a former journalism instructor of yours at Washington University in St. Louis, need to mention in our 1992 phone conversation in a call you made to me from Zapata, Texas, that I) would fully understand if you chose to move to a foreign country in the foreseeable future."
---"Ask me (Charles Hilty) the right question at some point in the future, and I will tell you the answer."
---"I (Charles Hilty, a self-identified friend) support continuation of this manipulative project in which you are currently being subjected in Big Spring, Texas, in the year 1989 or 1990."
---"My personal advice to you, as a friendly resident of El Campo, Texas, Mike Kolcek, is that you choose the path of least resistance in your present and future."
---"Happy New Year to a Future Pulitzer!" (the exact verbatim message that University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs Dean Elspeth Rostow wrote and mailed to me in the year 1983 or 1984 when I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota).
--"Our Take Back Hope anti-rape legal service group cannot file a lawsuit for you at present, since you are not yet age 65. But once you reach age 65, we can give you full consideration for filing a lawsuit on your behalf."
--"I (Ernie Motloch, a friendly work supervisor of yours in the year 2003 at Souper Salad Lakeline corporate-owned restaurant in far northwest Austin), know a private attorney in Austin who might be able to help you to increase your own privacy rights" (approximate quote).
---"I (Korean-American General Manager Yuhnee at IHOP 620 restaurant recommend that you (John McMillan, a waiter under my supervision at IHOP 620 restaurant in far northwest Austin not work with women or gay men. You cannot work with women or gay persons, because you make women and gay men VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!"
---"McMillan, if you get any fatter they will have to take you out and slaughter you! (exact quote). That is my emphatic opinion as your roll-check teacher and as a science teacher at O. Henry Junior High School in Austin, Texas, in the year 1969 or 1970, Mr. Tower."
---"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper, I can assure you that you (John McMillan of the Houston area) don't ever have to worry about anyone ever stalking you. No one who has ever met you wants to keep up with you."
---"As a friendly professional reference for you at The University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs, I, Dean Elspeth Rostow, recommend that you exercise a wholesome restraint (exact quote of that two-word term) in your everyday life as a reporter and Texan resident."
---"As a friendly former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan', Tres Watson, I and my wife, Margaret Watson, are completely sure that you don't have to ever worry about anyone trying to commit you to a psychiatric institution if you live in Austin."
---"I (a polite male staff member for U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., who had an African-American accent) recommend to you on the phone today in the year 2012 or 2013 or so that you continue your permanently celibate lifestyle on a long-term basis. You have mentioned to me that you are a criminal-law complainant in an alleged home-invasion-crimes and alleged sex-crimes case, and I agree with you that your continued celibacy in Austin will protect your own credibility as a criminal-law complainant. It also makes sense for you to lead a celibate lifestyle during this AIDS era."
---"I (Ernie Motloch, a friendly work supervisor of yours at Souper Salad Lakeline restaurant) would love to move to Colorado, if it weren't for the fact that many of my relatives are here in Texas. You might want to consider moving to Colorado yourself."
---"You (John McMillan of Denver City, Texas, have been hired in the year 1996 by the 'Houston Chronicle' daily newspaper to move to Houston and work there as a full-time bar-scene reporter for the 'Houston Chronicle'. We are informing you of this employment decision through a FAX we are sending to you at the 'Denver City Press' from our newsroom in Houston." After I called the "Houston Chronicle" about that surprise "you are hired" FAX I received at the Denver City Press, an editor at the "Houston Chronicle" stated to me that the FAX had NOT been sent to me by that newspaper.
---"Through this reply letter to your ad you placed in 'Editor and Publisher' magazine, we are offering you a reporting job at the Staten Island Advance in the New York City area in the year 1990, during a period in which you are residing at Big Spring, Texas."
---"As your roommate, John Douglas Martin, a former resident of Kansas and Virginia, I urge you in 2013 to move away from Texas as soon as possible. I (Mr. Martin) hate Texas, and I feel sure you will do much better in another U.S. state."
--"I, Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer and current Crisis Intervention Team officer James Turner, need to ask you in 2015 inside the bedroom of your current apartment, Apt. 325, at Wind
River Crossing, 11411 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin, whether you are (John McMillan) planning to move out of (Travis) County?"
---"If you move to Minnesota, you will find they have a lot of socialists (sic) there who will be friendly toward you. I (Tim Hewitt, curator of the Presidential Museum here in Odessa, Texas) dislike Texas and feel sure you will be much happier in a state like Minnesota or Oregon."
---"As Civil Probate Division Director for the Travis County Clerk's Office, I need to inform you (John McMillan) There appears to be an attempt by numerous persons to drive you away from the Austin area of Texas."
----"As an Anglo male fiction writer living in northwest Austin, I need to volunteer to you at this Christmas Season dinner in which you are an invited guest today that your beliefs and ideas are offensive to both liberals and conservatives here in Austin. You should move away from Austin to a city that is more compatible with you than Austin."
---"As a former professor of yours at The University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Canadian native Professor Don Gillmor, I recommend that you (John McMillan) just ignore the voices you are hearing in El Campo, Texas. If you ignore the voices, they will go away on their own."
---"As a personal friend of yours and business law attorney in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota, I can tell you that this thing (involving yourself, John McMillan of El Campo, Texas) is going to court! The issue will be privacy rights!"
---"As a female private attorney and roommate of a former schoolmate of yours from Austin High School, I am very sure that these manipulative circumstances in your own life all end in the United States. There is no scenario in which they would ever put you in a foreign nation."
---"I (Dr. Dana Wollney of Columbia, Maryland) am sure that these circumstances in your own life in Sweetwater, Texas, will result in your moving to Europe. The medical journals I've read say that it's mental illness you have, and that's why you will be moving to Europe."
---"I predict that you (John McMillan) may someday find employment as an aide to a member of the U.S. Congress." (approximate quote from a prediction contained in a birthday poem in my honor that Stephen F. Austin High School schoolmate McDonald Smith, Jr., wrote and read aloud at an Austin High Debate Club event at the Marimont Cafeteria along Barton Springs Road in central Austin).
---"I (Steve Burt) predict that John McMillan will become a banker and lend money to his former classmates here at Eanes Elementary School in Westlake Hills, Texas."
---"As a married woman here in northwest Austin, Veronica Schlueter, I think you could earn a trillion (sic) dollars from your hard work in restaurants here in Austin!"
---"I've (Julie McMillan Lechtenberger of Houston or Georgetown, Texas) have never denied that you are hearing actual, verifiable voices in Austin. However, that should not affect your earnings capacity. If you lose a job, you can always find a job at another employer."
----"When you (John McMillan) become rich and famous someday, I (Charles Hilty, an aide to Congressman Madigan of Illinois and a former journalism instructor of mine at Washington University in St. Louis) will handle bookkeeping for you and obscond lots of money from your finances for my own (Charles Hilty's) financial benefit."
---"As a foreign visitor to Big Spring from Belgium who is in town representing the 'Up With People' non-profit group, I (Bart Brusseleers of Belgium) predict that you (John McMillan of Big Spring, Texas) will be famous!"
---"I (Greg Freeman, a reporter for "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" daily newspaper) feel confident that you (John McMillan) could be successful as an editor of a medium-sized newspaper in a Midwestern state."
---"The most appropriate publication for you to submit freelance writing submissions to is 'Ladies' Home Journal' magazine. I (Greg Freeman of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch") believe you are a good match for that publication."
---"As a female relative of yours in Austin, I urge you NOT to sell your Greek stamps stamp album! Someday you might be glad you kept it."
---"As a former work supervisor of yours and current City official of the City of El Campo, I can tell you that unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you will always believe that you are being victimized by home-invasion crimes and personal-injury-crimes during your sleeping hours as you lie alone on your own bed inside your rental apartment unit in Austin."
---"As a former work supervisor of yours at a restaurant in Austin, I need to share with you my view that your home-invasion-crimes reports to Austin Police and your allegations about an illegal intruder in your bed area strike me as being a spiritual crisis you are currently having. My hope is that you will give consideration to Christianity in your resolution of this spiritual crisis."
----"I (Chris Barbee of El Campo) am writing this letter to your Travis County Government office to ask if you why there has not been any progress in investigating John's criminal-law complaints to Austin Police about being victimized by home-invasion-crimes and anal-rape-crimes during his sleeping hours as he lies alone on his own bed inside his locked apartment unit in Austin. I also need to inform your Travis County Government office in writing that I am very concerned that John Kevin McMillan might purchase a gun and might stalk someone. I believe that John McMillan might need to be put in a psychiatric institution.
---"It seems to me (a New Ulm, Minnesota-based male private attorney and personal friend of your "New Ulm Journal" daily newspaper employer's managing editor and work supervisor, Steve Fox), that you (John McMillan) have not lived very much. I recommend that you move to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and pursue some life experiences there. That should then help you in your pursuit of a fiction-writing career."
---"Unless you land a job somewhere else in the very near future, I (Baytown Sun sports editor Kelly Kirkpatrick) am very concerned that you will lose your current reporting job here as a sports reporter for the Baytown Sun and you will end up homeless here in Baytown. I would hate to see you ending up homeless. I will be happy to write you a very flattering letter of recommendation that should help you to land a job somewhere else."
---"If you move from Texas to the Midwestern region of the United States, I (personal friend and "Dallas Morning News" reporter Victoria Loe) believe that can help you (former 'Daily Texan' student newspaper coworker John McMillan in the news and editorial department of "The Daily Texan") to get the background noise pollution problem you've complained about to me to end a lot sooner than if you stayed in Texas."
---"As a female personal friend of yours here in Minneapolis, I am very sure that someday in your future you will regret having ever met Max Alberts of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota."
---"As a biological older brother of yours living in Austin, Texas, I feel sure that someday in your distant future you will regret having expressed an initial affinity for someone you have met."
---"As a Pampa, Texas-based private attorney whom you have consulted on this subject, I believe that the primary long-term future benefit of the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas these days appears to be to your own mental health."
---"As a resident of Austin who is familiar with your living conditions in Sweetwater, Texas, I sense that the primary long-term benefit to you from your being subjected to these manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas is educational in nature for you."
---"As a resident of Austin who is familiar with your living conditions in Texas, I suggest that maybe someday in your (John McMillan's) eventual future, you might want to return to Austin."
---"As a Hispanic female resident of Austin who knows about your living conditions in Zapata County, Texas, I urge you to stop keeping a personal journal. If any of the Hispanic residents of Zapata County were to ever see any of your personal journal entries, they might physically assault you."
---"You (John McMillan) may not have won a Nobel Peace Prize. However, I feel confident that you might win a FIGURATIVE peace prize instead."
---"You are at risk of eventually turning into a ward of the State of Texas. Your parents won't be around much longer to help you out, and I won't be able to help you out much. In your future, you may not be able to support yourself financially on your own."
----"If you (John McMillan of Texas) get AIDS someday in your future, don't blame me."
-----"As I (an older male relative) see it, your (John McMillan's) goal in Austin, Texas, should be to make the long-term transition from being a dislikeable eccentric to becoming a likeable eccentric."
----"There is no circumstance in which The Austin American-Statesman would ever offer you (John McMillan) a job."
----"I (Dallas Morning News reporter Victoria Loe) can state unequivocally that there is no chance whatsoever that The New York Times will ever offer you a job."
---"I (a Houston-based private attorney) don't know when the voices will end. But when they do end, you (John McMillan of Texas) will be heavily indebted to the gay community of Houston."
---"Your letter to me (Professor Elspeth Rostow of the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs) from the retirement community of Naples, Florida, reminds me that years from now, you may find yourself in a children's village."
---"I (Dean Elspeth Rostow of the UT-Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs) cannot speak for the faculty in regard to whether you will someday be offered a teaching position here in the field of Humanitarian Studies."
---"I (Bernie Kaughey, an Irish-American editor at 'The Patriot Ledger' daily newspaper in Quincy, Mass.) urge you (former 'Patriot Ledger' copy editor John McMillan) to move to the west coast of the United States. I (Bernie Kaughey) have heard that there are some newspapers on the west coast that might want to hire you."
---"As a biological brother of yours, I urge you to develop a dialogue with the Mormons. They oppose thought-control projects, which will work to your advantage if you develop a good rapport with Mormons."
---"I (Dr. Calvin McMillan) believe in One World. If you do move to a foreign country, I recommend that you limit your search to a foreign country where English is the primary language. Your English-language skills are first-rate, and you could make fuller use of that talent in an English-speaking country."
---"You may someday be a very successful satirical oped columnist for 'The Washington Post', you might be the next Art Buchwald!"
---"As a personal friend (former classmate Leo Katz) of yours now living in Chicago, I predict that someday you may emerge as a future Mike Royko!"
---"In my own opinion as a biological brother of yours, you are a potentially likeable person."
---"As a biological brother of yours, I sense that you have possible fiction-writing talent. Your crime reports to the Austin Police Department indicate to me that you might make a good fiction writer in your eventual future."
---"You (John McMillan) are very tactful, so you might want to someday pursue a career in diplomacy."
---"My (New York Times columnist Russell Baker's) advice to you is to write seriously, and see what happens. If you write seriously enough, the usual fools will think you are funny, and you are on your way to becoming a humor-writer."
---"I (Ellen Goodman, columnist for 'The Boston Globe') recommend that you keep writing and re-writing, and then you are on the road toward becoming a columnist."
---"The editors at 'The Miami Herald' were very impressed by your clips for 'The Daily Texan'. I have heard that if you continue to perform well as a reporter for the Miami Herald-owned "Broward Times' here in Tamarac, Florida, you will land a job at The Miami Herald' by December of this year (1979)."
---"Since you have a Master's Degree in Journalism, I (coworker Bennie Dinardo) recommend that you consider pursuing a teaching job here in Massachusetts. You might do better at that type of work than as a reporter for 'Worcester Magazine'.
---"As a female psychic here in New Ulm who is offering you a free psychic reading into your own future that was arranged by your personal friend Nancy Besse, Society Editor for 'The New Ulm Journal' staff where you pursue regional-beat reporting, I am very sure that you ill travel throughout the entire world in your future."
---"You (John Kevin McMillan) will hate me (a self-identified Italian citizen roommate of mine in Austin, Texas, who has asked me in writing to NEVER cite his own name to anyone, under any circumstances, with any circumstance to the contrary being an automatic basis for his "pursuing legal action" against me, he later warned me in writing) someday."
---"As an older brother of yours in Austin, I can tell you (John McMillan of Pampa, Texas) that one of the things I like the best about President Bill Clinton is that he recognizes the limits of what government can do. The ONLY way that you will ever get any attention from the federal government is if you write a strange letter to President Clinton and he asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation to interrogate you."
---"No matter where you (John McMillan, a former reporter at 'The New Ulm Journal' in New Ulm, Minnesota) are living at the time, I (your former work supervisor Steve Fox, former managing editor of The New Ulm Journal) will eventually hunt you down (sic)!"
---"As your mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan in Westlake Hills, Texas, talking with you during your period as a reporter in West Texas, I feel sure that you boys (no specific names cited) can work it out. I'm sure you can get the voices to end."
---"As your mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan in Westlake Hills talking with you on the phone today during your tenure as a full-time Cuero-beat reporter for 'The Victoria Advocate' daily newspaper, I need to mention that the voices may never end during your lifetime."
---"You (youngest brother John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) may find that the voices will become much sweeter in their style if you just pretend they are all personal friends of yours. You are not required to become actual friends of the voice committee members. However, if you proceed as if they were friends of yours, they will have a sweeter style toward you in the future."
--"As a biological oldest brother of yours in Austin, I can say that even if the background voices were to somehow end, you (John McMillan) may still find that the circumstances in your own living conditions are dishonest toward you."
--"As your personal friend Carol See in Columbia, Maryland, I believe that if you (John McMillan of Texas) were to develop a sexual relationship with another human being, that could put an end the voices you are hearing."
---"As the Filipino-American wife of a friendly MIT graduate student with the last name of Barnes who plays tennis with you (John McMillan) outdoors here in Cambridge, Mass., I need to volunteer to you that you can get the voices to end overnight."
---"I (Kent McMillan of Austin, Texas) predict that someday you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) may find yourself in a giant stadium where all around you are persons who are very friendly toward you."
---"If I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) ever win millions of dollars in the state lottery of Texas, I will give you (youngest brother John McMillan) either .1 percent or 1 percent of what I earn from that financial prize."
---"Over there is the Big Spring State Hospital. As your new managing editor and work supervisor, Steve Ray, at 'The Big Spring Herald' who is giving you a guided tour of Big Spring today, I feel very confident that you (John McMillan) will never end up at Big Spring State Hospital. That's a place only for the crazy types."
---"As a male psychiatrist assigned to John McMillan at Big Spring State Hospital, I have determined that John McMillan would be unsafe if he were released from this psychiatric hospital here in Big Spring. I have heard reports that local people here in Big Spring are very hostile toward John McMillan. I have approved an alternative in which John McMillan will be transferred to Austin State Hospital as a psychiatric patient there."
---"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Minnesota Daily' student newspaper and personal friend of yours in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota, I (Peter Kizilos) need to warn you about Howard Goldberg of 'The New York Times'. I (Peter Kizilos) myself never met the bastard (sic). However, if you (John McMillan) ever attempt to oppose Howard Goldberg in any way, that will destroy you (John McMillan)."
---"You (John McMillan of Texas) are free to make phone calls to me whenever you like and as often as you like. But if you write me a letter of any type and mail it to me here in Big Spring, I (Aubrey Weaver) could kill!"
---"As a personal friend of yours and 'Austin American-Statesman' reporter, I (Lee Kelly) need to warn you that if you get a reputation of complaining about your own living conditions here in Texas, no metro newspaper anywhere will be willing to offer you a reporting job."
---"I (University of Minnesota Journalism School Professor and newspaper owner John Lavine of Wisconsin) do not know of any newspaper anywhere that might be willing to offer you a job."
---"As a friendly neighbor of yours in northwest Austin, John Schlueter, I need to warn you (John McMillan) that if you continue submitting crime reports to the Austin Police Department, they might eventually arrest you."
---"I (John Schlueter of Austin) urge you to move away from Austin as soon as possible."
---"I (Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul area) offer this thought for you. Wait until you (John McMillan) turn age 30! After you turn 30, everything will change dramatically for you!"
---"I (Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul) am sure you (John McMillan of Minneapolis) can do very well in your career life. However, in your personal life you cannot make any progress unless you are completely passive."
---"As a male senior clergyman for a Protestant church here in Bay City, Texas, I need to warn you that unless you (John McMillan) develop a deep personal relationship with another human being, your entire life will be a complete failure."
---"As a brother of yours in the Austin area, I need to mention to you that all of the seemingly promising initial acquaintanceships you (John McMillan) are developing here in Texas during this time period are doomed from the start."
---"All of the persons you are meeting in Sweetwater are actually just role-players and models for you. There are no actual real-life personal relationships developing for you here in the Sweetwater area."
---"Great Britain would be the more logical choice than Sweden as your eventual country of residence. However, you have made contacts here in Texas, so I (Professor Elspeth Rostow) urge you to remain here in Texas."
---"As your oldest brother, I can tell you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) that someday you will be pleased to learn that some of the beliefs and goals of yours will actually be reflected in the world you actually get to directly observe in your everyday life."
---"As a friendly Jewish former classmate of yours at Austin High and as a female private attorney here in Austin, Lynne Rubinett, I recommend to you (John McMillan) on the telephone from my family's home in Austin today that you stay away from Massachusetts and stay away from one total cited Jewish male person in Massachusetts whom I am referring to in this conversation by his first and last name."
---"I, attorney Sherlyn Wiggs who is speaking with you (John McMillan) today inside my law office in downtown Austin, have identified one male adult person you have known in your childhood who may have criminal intent toward you. His statement to his state agency employer's HR department here in Austin that he opposed their initial tentative decision to offer you a full-time job at that same State of Texas workplace he was himself working at because you yourself are 'paranoid', since you consulted an attorney, State Bar of Texas member John F. Campbell of Campbell & Morgan Law Firm here in Austin, in regard to privacy rights concerns of yours, indicates to me, attorney Sherlyn Wiggs, that the cited male state agency employee may have criminal intent toward you."
---"I, Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer and Crisis Intervention Team Unit officer James Turner, can tell you (John McMillan) that this could all turn around overnight and promptly result in an out-of-court settlement."
----"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I need to inform you that you (youngest son John McMillan) can take responsibility for your actions!"
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I can tell you many people believe that you are expected by others to have an involvement in your future with the gay community here in central Texas."
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I can tell you that you are too smart to let the background verbal harassment of you in Texas force you to ever visit San Francisco, California, or to ever lead a gay-centered lifestyle."
----"As a friend of yours in Temple, Texas, Ernie Motloch, I can assure you (John McMillan) that if you don't directly contact gay persons, they will not be contacting you."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan) signed an agreement requiring you (John McMillan) to live with a biological woman, since it's obvious that you have not enjoyed any of the gay persons you have ever met."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) may need a sworn affidavit from you in the very near future during this period in which you are employed at a newspaper in south Texas."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin) in the last several days have changed my mind about my wanting a sworn affidavit from you."
---"If you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) send me a signed power of attorney form, I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin) will put an end to the persecution of you that is occurring here in Texas."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can say that the Bay Area of Northern California would be an ideal climate (sic) for you (John McMillan)."
----"You (John McMillan) are too gentle to live with a man. I (Jann Snell, later Jann Snell Schwab of Colorado) think you should live with a woman instead."
---"Even if you (brother John McMillan) were to visit San Francisco, California, I (brother Michael Kim McMillan) can tell you during my visit here in El Campo in 1988 in which I've dined with you a seafood restaurant, that it would be a very solitary experience for you. Wherever you go, you are just you."
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis McMillan, I can tell you that the intent of the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas was to help you to incorporate your European heritage into your own identity and everyday lifestyle. The intent was not to have you actually move to Europe or become a citizen of a European country."
---"As your mother, Phyllis McMillan, who is dining with you today inside La Madeleine restaurant along Lamar Boulevard in central Austin, I urge you (John McMillan) to NOT write to Queen Elizabeth II ever again. Your letters to Queen Elizabeth have been very emotionally stressful for her and demanded an excessive amount of her time."
---"As the father of Ellen Thorne, Dr. Lansing Thorne of Austin, Texas, I urge you on the telephone today in the year 1997 to refrain from ever again contacting my daughter, Ellen, at her law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or at her and her husband's home. The phone calls and letters you have made or sent to Ellen have been very stressful and inflicted emotional duress on her and her husband. I also urge you to not contact my niece Nancy Thorne (Nancy Thorne Foster) ever again, since Nancy and her husband have also suffered a lot from receiving any communications from you."
---"As a personal friend of yours in California and married gentleman, Mike Kolcek, I recommend that you (John McMillan) move to California. The people of California will be more tolerant toward you than the people of Texas have been."
---"As a friendly cousin of yours and married woman in California, Kathy Gardner, it seems to me that the people of Texas do not want you to have any type of sex life. If you more to California, you are more likely to have that option there."
---"As a former full-time employer of yours in Austin whom you applied to after your mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, advised you to apply for a job as a proofreader at the American Atheist publishing house in north Austin, I, Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, am very sure that you will need many more years of psychiatric care! Your psychiatric problems are very extensive!"
---"The phone call you were overheard making to the Travis County Lawyer Referral Service from your assigned workdesk here at the American Atheist Publishing house in north Austin, a phone call in which you were exploring whether to sue the American Atheist Association for yourself being victimized by noise pollution involving verbal harassment of you at this workplace for you, was completely unacceptable! As your immediate supervisor, Ms.
Robin Murray O'Hair, I am hereby dismissing you from your job duties here."
---"My Chinese-citizen wife and I (Dr. Michael Kim McMillan) won't be willing to accommodate you by letting you live with us here in California."
---"Your personal letters to me, former 'Broward Times' coworker Clint Williams of North Carolina, were so full of intense adoration toward me me that I could use those letters to blackmail (sic) you."
---"I (former college roommate Roland Klose) recommend that you pursue a spree of sexual promiscuity while living at the Sloane House YMCA in New York City, New York. A gay male friend of mine in Alaska pursued sexual promiscuity and told me that he found it to be very liberating for him."
---"I (Roland Klose) don't know why no one ever approaches you and expresses any personal interest in you in your off-duty time in Kermit, Texas..... My (Roland Klose's) gay male writer friend in Alaska leads what many would call a very hedonistic lifestyle in which he pursues lots of alcohol and drugs, but I (Roland Klose) consider him to be a perfectly fine person."
--"I (Mr. Chris Dale of Minneapolis) urge you to spend each of your weekends of your days as a reporter at the 'El Campo Leader-News" by yourself driving your car into gay bars of Houston and picking up a variety of new acquaintances you meet in the bars and having sex with each of them. You could get AIDS from doing that, but life itself is just a gamble---and it's a gamble worth taking."
---"I (Mr. Chris Dale of Minneapolis) don't want a relationship with you myself, but someone else might decide to pursue you."
---"Don't contact them! They will contact you! That is my advice to you in the year 1986 as your biological mother in Westlake Hils, Phyllis McMillan."
---"As a male ordained clergyman for the First Unitarian Church of Quincy, Mass., I recommend that you give Eric Schwarz of the 'Patriot Ledger' staff a phone call and ask him for a one-to-one-meeting in order to resolve the apparent conflict you may be having with him."
---"As a personal friend and former social studies teacher of yours at Austin High, Bernie Owen, I can tell you that you yourself (John McMillan of Austin) have a widespread reputation for being a person of prejudice. However, the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights fully protects your legal right to directly guide yourself in your own life based on your own prejudices."
---"As your biological oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, I need to warn you that if you ever at any time in your future date anyone age 17 to 20 here in Austin, their father might come after you with a shotgun! Even though it is legal in Texas for you date anyone age 17 or older in a mutual-consent situation, they do not have full legal rights until age 21, and in the meantime their father might seek to harm you."
---"In this late 1990s newspaper column for 'The Austin American-Statesman' daily newspaper, I, John Kelso, am nominating John McMillan of Austin as a candidate for U.S. President. Since no one interacts with John McMillan in his own social life, John may well be the only option left as a potential candidate for President who has no controversy or scandal in his own life." (approximate quote from his published newspaper column).
---"As a University of Minnesota Math Department employee and fiction writer, Max Alberts, I urge you to return to Minnesota from Massachusetts! The people of Minnesota are much more mellow (sic) toward you than the people of Massachusetts are!"
---"I (Meg Traver of Austin, Texas) recommend that you apply to join the Mensa Society here in Austin. You have lots of intellect to you and you might enjoy associating with Mensa Society members on a regular basis."
---"As a former friendly acquaintance of yours in Minneapolis, Paul Lee, I am calling you today at your apartment unit on Beacon Hill in Boston, Mass., to urge you to attend a job interview I'll arrange for you for a teaching position at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota."
---"As a professional reference for you, University of Minnesota Journalism Professor John Lavine, I urge you to be prepared to move out of Boston at a moment's notice!"
---"As a former editor of 'The Minnesota Daily' student newspaper and as a current reporter for the "Minneapolis Tribune', I (Mr. Chris Ison) recommend in the year 1997, during this phone call you to my and my wife's home in Minneapolis from your apartment in Palestine, Texas, that you NOT return to Massachusetts ever again. As for Minnesota, no one here ever talks about you anymore. You have been completely forgotten by the people who met you in this state."
--"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper and as a current reporter for the 'Fort Lauderdale News-Sentinel', Karen Rosen, I can tell you that Fort Lauderdale is a good place for having transitory relationships."
--"As a male resident of Naples, Florida, I recommend that you (John McMillan) as newcomer and reporter for the 'Fort Meyers News-Press' Naples Bureau here make a point of getting to know a widow here. If you are lucky, she might remember you in her last will and testament. I have had friends of mine who have benefited that way here in Naples."
---"You need to hire an attorney and file a lawsuit against the business whose teenage driver, an Italian-American fellow, crashed into your Vega automobile after their company van drove through a red light here in the Fort Lauderdale area. That financial settlement could earn you lots of money!"
---"Sue the bastards! (exact quote) I, McDonald Smith, Jr. of Austin, offer that emphatic advice to you, personal friend and former Austin High debate squad co-member John McMillan."
---"As a personal friend of yours and tennis partner of yours here in Austin, Dan Knezek, I urge you to file a lawsuit relating to violations of your own privacy rights here in Austin!"
---"You, and I, (Columbia University law-school student or alumnus Mark H.B. Williamson of New York City or Minneapolis) have a great future!"
---"You need to be persistent in order to get progress in your life! The squeaky wheel gets the grease! (exact quote on that second sentence). That is my advice to you as your primary work supervisor, Steve Fox, at the 'New Ulm Journal' here in New Ulm, Minnesota."
---"You are developing quite a reputation in Eastern Europe for your fiction-writing talents! That is my observation as a reporter based in either Finland or Russia and as a former coworker of yours at the 'New Ulm Journal', reporter Mark Porubcansky."
---"I (Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman) look upon you (John McMillan of El Campo, Texas, as a source of brainwave messages. All brainwaves from you are gratefully accepted! (near-exact quote in that second sentence only, with the first sentence having been implied from the context.)
---"You (John McMillan of Snyder, Texas) have a significant amount of financial wealth that is currently being kept at a bank account you do not have access to. That wealth of yours is cumulative financial wealth you have earned ever since your childhood. Coincidentally, I, your oldest brother Kent McMillan of Austin, am making this first-ever disclosure to you on the telephone in 1994 after you consulted two attorneys recently---a private attorney in Snyder and Gordon Shapiro, a banking-law attorney in Dallas whom you had admired the debating style of during championship cross-examination debates of his and his partner, Cindy Clay, during your high school days as a standard-division debater in which you would attend debate rounds of Gordon Shapiro on numerous occasions."
---"I, your older brother Dr. Michael Kim McMillan of California, can state to you in writing today that I am sure that you (younger brother John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas) will always be financially poor."
---"If you were a character in a television series, I (brother Michael McMillan) would find a way to terminate your role in that series."
---"As a personal friend of yours and former Comparative Literature instructor of yours at Washington University in St. Louis, Lynne Layton, I can tell you that you in 1979 that you have the talent to become a great writer! No shit!"
---"The near-fatal automobile accident that inflicted a brain contusion on you in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1979 has ruined your health ever since then. Even though no surgery was needed by neurological surgeon Dr. Norman Flatten, I (Kent McMillan of Austin) feel sure that the medical repercussions to you from that motor-vehicle collision you had with a teenage Italian-American driver of a company van has ruined you for the rest of your life."
---"I, Ear, Nose, and Throat Medical Specialist Dr. David Tobey of Austin, Texas, hereby state this signed legal statement on your (John McMillan's) behalf that you can use, that you have incurred 100 percent disability from noise pollution-related permanent hearing loss you sustained here in Austin over a multi-year period that you yourself did not cause and you yourself are not responsible for.....You are at risk of going deaf at some future date here in Austin."
---"I (Mr. Chris Barbee of El Campo, Texas,) recommend that you not to contact an attorney and seek assistance from them. You would just be throwing your own money away if you do that."
---"I (biological sister Julie McMillan of Texas) can state with certainty during this 1991 or 1990 phone conversation we are having that you have no need for any attorney. You (already) know (what the issue is, and it does NOT require any action for you by any attorney)".
---"I (attorney John F. Campbell of Campbell & Morgan Law Firm in Austin) will represent you (John McMillan of Austin) in any and all communications you seek to have with the Travis County Sheriff or the Travis County District Attorney. I will coordinate everything with them from my general-practice law law office here in downtown Austin."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can tell you in this 1992 phone conversation we are having that you have a golden opportunity in Pampa, Texas, to pretend that you yourself are a prosecuting attorney. Although you are NOT a prosecuting attorney, of course, you can at least keep notes about what you regard as illegal activities victimizing you in Pampa. You can vicariously experience what it is like to be a District Attorney, even though you yourself are not one, of course. You are of course a reporter for the 'Pampa Daily News' daily newspaper in the Panhandle of Texas."
---"I (Arnold Wong of Minneapolis) urge you to keep the name, address, and phone number of Greg Rutchik of the St. Paul area of Minnesota. Even though you personally rejected him, you may want to contact Greg Rutchik again if your circumstances turn hostile toward you after you move to Massachusetts."
---"As your mother, Phyllis McMillan, who is speaking to you in person today inside my home in Westlake Hills, Texas, I can tell you that YOU WILL BE LOVED BY MANY PEOPLE, AND YOU WILL BE HATED BY MANY PEOPLE!"
---"I (oldest brother Kent McMillan of Austin) recommend that you not play tennis with high school students and you not roller skate during periods when children are also roller-skating (a composite quote from two different phone conversations I had with Kent). If you as an adult tennis player ever play tennis with high school students, people in Texas will think you are strange."
---"I (congressional aide to Republican Congressman Madigan of Illinois) Charles Hilty, a mentor for you) recommend that you apply for a reporting job at the 'North Adams Transcript' in western Massachusetts. The 'North Adams Transcript' has a first-rate reputation, and I know an editor there. I would be glad to offer you a favorable professional reference there."
---"I, Kate McVey, editor of the 'Zapata County News', and my husband, publisher Bob McVey, will be requiring you as our new reporter here to visit Mexico for a reporting assignment in the very near future."
---"I, Kate McVey editor of the 'Zapata County News', have decided (a day or two later) not to require you to visit Mexico for a reporting assignment on behalf of our general-circulation newspaper."
--"Relax, you've got it made! (That is my inscribed message to you in your yearbook as an English teacher of yours at O. Henry Junior High School, Mrs. Lucille Miller of Austin.)"
---"As a psychologist for you here in Courtland, Minnesota, Maureen McConville, I predict in the year 1980 that you will someday develop a sexual love relationship with a gentleman who was previously married to a biological woman."
---"I, Aubrey Weaver of Big Spring, am willing to volunteer to you today in 1989 that you might someday meet a bisexual man who is capable of developing a monogamous relationship with you."
--"As a member of the First United Methodist Church of Big Spring who met you there after a church service, I, Aubrey Weaver of Big Spring, can tell you that the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas are designed to make you (John McMillan of Big Spring) anti-sexual (sic)."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can state in this phone conversation that It would be nice if the voices would eventually end."
---"Even if you were to visit Great Britain, you would find that the problem of your hearing voices in the background would continue for you there. As a staff member for the Houston consulate of the British Embassy whom you have called by telephone in 1990 or 1989 from your apartment unit in Big Spring, Texas, that is my evaluation of what you would encounter during a trip to England that you might pursue."
---"I (Carol See of Columbia, Maryland) am sure that the people of Great Britain would be interested in hearing the voices if you (personal friend John McMillan of Texas) were to visit Great Britain."
---"I predict that you will come into contact with lots of money in your future. That is one or the reasons why I (hairstylist Michael Kapphahn of Minneapolis, Minnesota, feel confident about lending you some money today."
---"I, Virginia DeCourcey, (last name Kelly?), a female classmate of yours at the University of Minnesota Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications, predict during this lunch meeting we are having in 1984 inside a restaurant near our campus that you will be enduring a lot of hardship and adversity in your future before you finally achieve some success for yourself."
---"I, your housemate Ben Perry of Worcester, Mass., predict that you will be the type of person who is better known for being WRITTEN ABOUT than for actually being a writer yourself....I recommend that you not keep up with Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul, since he obviously is NOT a good friend of yours."
---"Happy New Year to a Future Pulitzer!" (the exact verbatim message that University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs Dean Elspeth Rostow wrote and mailed to me in the year 1983 or 1984 when I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota).
--"Our Take Back Hope anti-rape legal service group cannot file a lawsuit for you at present, since you are not yet age 65. But once you reach age 65, we can give you full consideration for filing a lawsuit on your behalf."
--"I (Ernie Motloch, a friendly work supervisor of yours in the year 2003 at Souper Salad Lakeline corporate-owned restaurant in far northwest Austin), know a private attorney in Austin who might be able to help you to increase your own privacy rights" (approximate quote).
---"I (Korean-American General Manager Yuhnee at IHOP 620 restaurant recommend that you (John McMillan, a waiter under my supervision at IHOP 620 restaurant in far northwest Austin not work with women or gay men. You cannot work with women or gay persons, because you make women and gay men VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!"
---"McMillan, if you get any fatter they will have to take you out and slaughter you! (exact quote). That is my emphatic opinion as your roll-check teacher and as a science teacher at O. Henry Junior High School in Austin, Texas, in the year 1969 or 1970, Mr. Tower."
---"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper, I can assure you that you (John McMillan of the Houston area) don't ever to worry about anyone ever stalking you. No one who has ever met you wants to keep up with you."
---"As a friendly professional reference for you at The University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs, I, Dean Elspeth Rostow, recommend that you exercise a wholesome restraint (exact quote of that two-word term) in your everyday life as a reporter and Texan resident."
---"As a friendly former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan', Tres Watson, I and my wife, Margaret Watson, are completely sure that you don't have to ever worry about anyone trying to commit you to a psychiatric institution if you live in Austin."
---"I (a polite male staff member for U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., who had an African-American accent) recommend to you on the phone today in the year 2012 or 2013 or so that you continue your permanently celibate lifestyle on a long-term basis. You have mentioned to me that you are a criminal-law complainant in an alleged home-invasion-crimes and alleged sex-crimes case, and I agree with you that your continued celibacy in Austin will protect your own credibility as a criminal-law complainant. It also makes sense for you to lead a celibate lifestyle during this AIDS era."
---"I (Ernie Motloch, a friendly work supervisor of yours at Souper Salad Lakeline restaurant) would love to move to Colorado, if it weren't for the fact that many of my relatives are here in Texas. You might want to consider moving to Colorado yourself."
---"You (John McMillan of Denver City, Texas, have been hired in the year 1996 by the 'Houston Chronicle' daily newspaper to move to Houston and work there as a full-time bar-scene reporter for the 'Houston Chronicle'. We are informing you of this employment decision through a FAX we are sending to you at the 'Denver City Press' from our newsroom in Houston." After I called the "Houston Chronicle" about that surprise "you are hired" FAX I received at the Denver City Press, an editor at the "Houston Chronicle" stated to me that the FAX had NOT been sent to me by that newspaper.
---"Through this reply letter to your ad you placed in 'Editor and Publisher' magazine, we are offering you a reporting job at the Staten Island Advance in the New York City area in the year 1990, during a period in which you are residing at Big Spring, Texas."
---"As your roommate, John Douglas Martin, a former resident of Kansas and Virginia, I urge you in 2013 to move away from Texas as soon as possible. I (Mr. Martin) hate Texas, and I feel sure you will do much better in another U.S. state."
--"I, Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer and current Crisis Intervention Team officer James Turner, need to ask you in 2015 inside the bedroom of your current apartment, Apt. 325, at Wind
River Crossing, 11411 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin, whether you are (John McMillan) planning to move out of (Travis) County?"
---"If you move to Minnesota, you will find they have a lot of socialists (sic) there who will be friendly toward you. I (Tim Hewitt, curator of the Presidential Museum here in Odessa, Texas) dislike Texas and feel sure you will be much happier in a state like Minnesota or Oregon."
---"As Civil Probate Division Director for the Travis County Clerk's Office, I need to inform you (John McMillan) There appears to be an attempt by numerous persons to drive you away from the Austin area of Texas."
----"As an Anglo male fiction writer living in northwest Austin, I need to volunteer to you at this Christmas Season dinner in which you are an invited guest today that your beliefs and ideas are offensive to both liberals and conservatives here in Austin. You should move away from Austin to a city that is more compatible with you than Austin."
---"As a former professor of yours at The University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Canadian native Professor Don Gillmor, I recommend that you (John McMillan) just ignore the voices you are hearing in El Campo, Texas. If you ignore the voices, they will go away on their own."
---"As a personal friend of yours and business law attorney in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota, I can tell you that this thing (involving yourself, John McMillan of El Campo, Texas) is going to court! The issue will be privacy rights!"
---"As a female private attorney and roommate of a former schoolmate of yours from Austin High School, I am very sure that these manipulative circumstances in your own life all end in the United States. There is no scenario in which they would ever put you in a foreign nation."
---"I (Dr. Dana Wollney of Columbia, Maryland) am sure that these circumstances in your own life in Sweetwater, Texas, will result in your moving to Europe. The medical journals I've read say that it's mental illness you have, and that's why you will be moving to Europe."
---"I predict that you (John McMillan) may someday find employment as an aide to a member of the U.S. Congress." (approximate quote from a prediction contained in a birthday poem in my honor that Stephen F. Austin High School schoolmate McDonald Smith, Jr., wrote and read aloud at an Austin High Debate Club event at the Marimont Cafeteria along Barton Springs Road in central Austin).
---"I (Steve Burt) predict that John McMillan will
become a banker and lend money to his former classmates here at Eanes Elementary School in Westlake Hills, Texas."
---"As a married woman here in northwest Austin, Veronica Schlueter, I think you could earn a trillion (sic) dollars from your hard work in restaurants here in Austin!"
---"I've (Julie McMillan Lechtenberger of Houston or Georgetown, Texas) have never denied that you are hearing actual, verifiable voices in Austin. However, that should not affect your earnings capacity. If you lose a job, you can always find a job at another employer."
----"When you (John McMillan) become rich and famous someday, I (Charles Hilty, an aide to Congressman Madigan of Illinois and a former journalism instructor of mine at Washington University in St. Louis) will handle bookkeeping for you and obscond lots of money from your finances for my own (Charles Hilty's) financial benefit."
---"As a foreign visitor to Big Spring from Belgium who is in town representing the 'Up With People' non-profit group, I (Bart Brusseleers of Belgium) predict that you (John McMillan of Big Spring, Texas) will be famous!"
---"I (Greg Freeman, a reporter for "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" daily newspaper) feel confident that you (John McMillan) could be successful as an editor of a medium-sized newspaper in a Midwestern state."
---"The most appropriate publication for you to submit freelance writing submissions to is 'Ladies' Home Journal' magazine. I (Greg Freeman of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch") believe you are a good match for that publication."
---"As a female relative of yours in Austin, I urge you NOT to sell your Greek stamps stamp album! Someday you might be glad you kept it."
---"As a former work supervisor of yours and current City official of the City of El Campo, I can tell you that unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you will always believe that you are being victimized by home-invasion crimes and personal-injury-crimes during your sleeping hours as you lie alone on your own bed inside your rental apartment unit in Austin."
---"As a former work supervisor of yours at a restaurant in Austin, I need to share with you my view that your home-invasion-crimes reports to Austin Police and your allegations about an illegal intruder in your bed area strike me as being a spiritual crisis you are currently having. My hope is that you will give consideration to Christianity in your resolution of this spiritual crisis."
----"I (Chris Barbee of El Campo) am writing this letter to your Travis County Government office to ask if you why there has not been any progress in investigating John's criminal-law complaints to Austin Police about being victimized by home-invasion-crimes and anal-rape-crimes during his sleeping hours as he lies alone on his own bed inside his locked apartment unit in Austin. I also need to inform your Travis County Government office in writing that I am very concerned that John Kevin McMillan might purchase a gun and might stalk someone. I believe that John McMillan might need to be put in a psychiatric institution.
---"It seems to me (a New Ulm, Minnesota-based male private attorney and personal friend of your "New Ulm Journal" daily newspaper employer's managing editor and work supervisor, Steve Fox), that you (John McMillan) have not lived very much. I recommend that you move to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and pursue some life experiences there. That should then help you in your pursuit of a fiction-writing career."
---"Unless you land a job somewhere else in the very near future, I (Baytown Sun sports editor Kelly Kirkpatrick) am very concerned that you will lose your current reporting job here as a sports reporter for the Baytown Sun and you will end up homeless here in Baytown. I would hate to see you ending up homeless. I will be happy to write you a very flattering letter of recommendation that should help you to land a job somewhere else."
---"If you move from Texas to the Midwestern region of the United States, I (personal friend and "Dallas Morning News" reporter Victoria Loe) believe that can help you (former 'Daily Texan' student newspaper coworker John McMillan in the news and editorial department of "The Daily Texan") to get the background noise pollution problem you've complained about to me to end a lot sooner than if you stayed in Texas."
---"As a female personal friend of yours here in Minneapolis, I am very sure that someday in your future you will regret having ever met Max Alberts of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota."
---"As a biological older brother of yours living in Austin, Texas, I feel sure that someday in your distant future you will regret having expressed an initial affinity for someone you have met."
---"As a Pampa, Texas-based private attorney whom you have consulted on this subject, I believe that the primary long-term future benefit of the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas these days appears to be to your own mental health."
---"As a resident of Austin who is familiar with your living conditions in Sweetwater, Texas, I sense that the primary long-term benefit to you from your being subjected to these manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas is educational in nature for you."
---"As a resident of Austin who is familiar with your living conditions in Texas, I suggest that maybe someday in your (John McMillan's) eventual future, you might want to return to Austin."
---"As a Hispanic female resident of Austin who knows about your living conditions in Zapata County, Texas, I urge you to stop keeping a personal journal. If any of the Hispanic residents of Zapata County were to ever see any of your personal journal entries, they might physically assault you."
---"You (John McMillan) may not have won a Nobel Peace Prize. However, I feel confident that you might win a FIGURATIVE peace prize instead."
---"You are at risk of eventually turning into a ward of the State of Texas. Your parents won't be around much longer to help you out, and I won't be able to help you out much. In your future, you may not be able to support yourself financially on your own."
----"If you (John McMillan of Texas) get AIDS someday in your future, don't blame me."
-----"As I (an older male relative) see it, your (John McMillan's) goal in Austin, Texas, should be to make the long-term transition from being a dislikeable eccentric to becoming a likeable eccentric."
----"There is no circumstance in which The Austin American-Statesman would ever offer you (John McMillan) a job."
----"I (Dallas Morning News reporter Victoria Loe) can state unequivocally that there is no chance whatsoever that The New York Times will ever offer you a job."
---"I (a Houston-based private attorney) don't know when the voices will end. But when they do end, you (John McMillan of Texas) will be heavily indebted to the gay community of Houston."
---"Your letter to me (Professor Elspeth Rostow of the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs) from the retirement community of Naples, Florida, reminds me that years from now, you may find yourself in a children's village."
---"I (Dean Elspeth Rostow of the UT-Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs) cannot speak for the faculty in regard to whether you will someday be offered a teaching position here in the field of Humanitarian Studies."
---"I (Bernie Kaughey, an Irish-American editor at 'The Patriot Ledger' daily newspaper in Quincy, Mass.) urge you (former 'Patriot Ledger' copy editor John McMillan) to move to the west coast of the United States. I (Bernie Kaughey) have heard that there are some newspapers on the west coast that might want to hire you."
---"As a biological brother of yours, I urge you to develop a dialogue with the Mormons. They oppose thought-control projects, which will work to your advantage if you develop a good rapport with Mormons."
---"I (Dr. Calvin McMillan) believe in One World. If you do move to a foreign country, I recommend that you limit your search to a foreign country where English is the primary language. Your English-language skills are first-rate, and you could make fuller use of that talent in an English-speaking country."
---"You may someday be a very successful satirical oped columnist for 'The Washington Post', you might be the next Art Buchwald!"
---"As a personal friend (former classmate Leo Katz) of yours now living in Chicago, I predict that someday you may emerge as a future Mike Royko!"
---"In my own opinion as a biological brother of yours, you are a potentially likeable person."
---"As a biological brother of yours, I sense that you have possible fiction-writing talent. Your crime reports to the Austin Police Department indicate to me that you might make a good fiction writer in your eventual future."
---"You (John McMillan) are very tactful, so you might want to someday pursue a career in diplomacy."
---"My (New York Times columnist Russell Baker's) advice to you is to write seriously, and see what happens. If you write seriously enough, the usual fools will think you are funny, and you are on your way to becoming a humor-writer."
---"I (Ellen Goodman, columnist for 'The Boston Globe') recommend that you keep writing and re-writing, and then you are on the road toward becoming a columnist."
---"The editors at 'The Miami Herald' were very impressed by your clips for 'The Daily Texan'. I have heard that if you continue to perform well as a reporter for the Miami Herald-owned "Broward Times' here in Tamarac, Florida, you will land a job at The Miami Herald' by December of this year (1979)."
---"Since you have a Master's Degree in Journalism, I (coworker Bennie Dinardo) recommend that you consider pursuing a teaching job here in Massachusetts. You might do better at that type of work than as a reporter for 'Worcester Magazine'.
---"As a female psychic here in New Ulm who is offering you a free psychic reading into your own future that was arranged by your personal friend Nancy Besse, Society Editor for 'The New Ulm Journal' staff where you pursue regional-beat reporting, I am very sure that you ill travel throughout the entire world in your future."
---"You (John Kevin McMillan) will hate me (a self-identified Italian citizen roommate of mine in Austin, Texas, who has asked me in writing to NEVER cite his own name to anyone, under any circumstances, with any circumstance to the contrary being an automatic basis for his "pursuing legal action" against me, he later warned me in writing) someday."
---"As an older brother of yours in Austin, I can tell you (John McMillan of Pampa, Texas) that one of the things I like the best about President Bill Clinton is that he recognizes the limits of what government can do. The ONLY way that you will ever get any attention from the federal government is if you write a strange letter to President Clinton and he asks the Federal Bureau of Investigation to interrogate you."
---"No matter where you (John McMillan, a former reporter at 'The New Ulm Journal' in New Ulm, Minnesota) are living at the time, I (your former work supervisor Steve Fox, former managing editor of The New Ulm Journal) will eventually hunt you down (sic)!"
---"As your mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan in Westlake Hills, Texas, talking with you during your period as a reporter in West Texas, I feel sure that you boys (no specific names cited) can work it out. I'm sure you can get the voices to end."
---"As your mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan in Westlake Hills talking with you on the phone today during your tenure as a full-time Cuero-beat reporter for 'The Victoria Advocate' daily newspaper, I need to mention that the voices may never end during your lifetime."
---"You (youngest brother John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) may find that the voices will become much sweeter in their style if you just pretend they are all personal friends of yours. You are not required to become actual friends of the voice committee members. However, if you proceed as if they were friends of yours, they will have a sweeter style toward you in the future."
--"As a biological oldest brother of yours in Austin, I can say that even if the background voices were to somehow end, you (John McMillan) may still find that the circumstances in your own living conditions are dishonest toward you."
--"As your personal friend Carol See in Columbia, Maryland, I believe that if you (John McMillan of Texas) were to develop a sexual relationship with another human being, that could put an end the voices you are hearing."
---"As the Filipino-American wife of a friendly MIT graduate student with the last name of Barnes who plays tennis with you (John McMillan) outdoors here in Cambridge, Mass., I need to volunteer to you that you can get the voices to end overnight."
---"I (Kent McMillan of Austin, Texas) predict that someday you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) may find yourself in a giant stadium where all around you are persons who are very friendly toward you."
---"If I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) ever win millions of dollars in the state lottery of Texas, I will give you (youngest brother John McMillan) either .1 percent or 1 percent of what I earn from that financial prize."
---"Over there is the Big Spring State Hospital. As your new managing editor and work supervisor, Steve Ray, at 'The Big Spring Herald' who is giving you a guided tour of Big Spring today, I feel very confident that you (John McMillan) will never end up at Big Spring State Hospital. That's a place only for the crazy types."
---"As a male psychiatrist assigned to John McMillan at Big Spring State Hospital, I have determined that John McMillan would be unsafe if he were released from this psychiatric hospital here in Big Spring. I have heard reports that local people here in Big Spring are very hostile toward John McMillan. I have approved an alternative in which John McMillan will be transferred to Austin State Hospital as a psychiatric patient there."
---"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Minnesota Daily' student newspaper and personal friend of yours in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota, I (Peter Kizilos) need to warn you about Howard Goldberg of 'The New York Times'. I (Peter Kizilos) myself never met the bastard (sic). However, if you (John McMillan) ever attempt to oppose Howard Goldberg in any way, that will destroy you (John McMillan)."
---"You (John McMillan of Texas) are free to make phone calls to me whenever you like and as often as you like. But if you write me a letter of any type and mail it to me here in Big Spring, I (Aubrey Weaver) could kill!"
---"As a personal friend of yours and 'Austin American-Statesman' reporter, I (Lee Kelly) need to warn you that if you get a reputation of complaining about your own living conditions here in Texas, no metro newspaper anywhere will be willing to offer you a reporting job."
---"I (University of Minnesota Journalism School Professor and newspaper owner John Lavine of Wisconsin) do not know of any newspaper anywhere that might be willing to offer you a job."
---"As a friendly neighbor of yours in northwest Austin, John Schlueter, I need to warn you (John McMillan) that if you continue submitting crime reports to the Austin Police Department, they might eventually arrest you."
---"I (John Schlueter of Austin) urge you to move away from Austin as soon as possible."
---"I (Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul area) offer this thought for you. Wait until you (John McMillan) turn age 30! After you turn 30, everything will change dramatically for you!"
---"I (Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul) am sure you (John McMillan of Minneapolis) can do very well in your career life. However, in your personal life you cannot make any progress unless you are completely passive."
---"As a male senior clergyman for a Protestant church here in Bay City, Texas, I need to warn you that unless you (John McMillan) develop a deep personal relationship with another human being, your entire life will be a complete failure."
---"As a brother of yours in the Austin area, I need to mention to you that all of the seemingly promising initial acquaintanceships you (John McMillan) are developing here in Texas during this time period are doomed from the start."
---"All of the persons you are meeting in Sweetwater are actually just role-players and models for you. There are no actual real-life personal relationships developing for you here in the Sweetwater area."
---"Great Britain would be the more logical choice than Sweden as your eventual country of residence. However, you have made contacts here in Texas, so I (Professor Elspeth Rostow) urge you to remain here in Texas."
---"As your oldest brother, I can tell you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) that someday you will be pleased to learn that some of the beliefs and goals of yours will actually be reflected in the world you actually get to directly observe in your everyday life."
---"As a friendly Jewish former classmate of yours at Austin High and as a female private attorney here in Austin, Lynne Rubinett, I recommend to you (John McMillan) on the telephone from my family's home in Austin today that you stay away from Massachusetts and stay away from one total cited Jewish male person in Massachusetts whom I am referring to in this conversation by his first and last name."
---"I, attorney Sherlyn Wiggs who is speaking with you (John McMillan) today inside my law office in downtown Austin, have identified one male adult person you have known in your childhood who may have criminal intent toward you. His statement to his state agency employer's HR department here in Austin that he opposed their initial tentative decision to offer you a full-time job at that same State of Texas workplace he was himself working at because you yourself are 'paranoid', since you consulted an attorney, State Bar of Texas member John F. Campbell of Campbell & Morgan Law Firm here in Austin, in regard to privacy rights concerns of yours, indicates to me, attorney Sherlyn Wiggs, that the cited male state agency employee may have criminal intent toward you."
---"I, Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer and Crisis Intervention Team Unit officer James Turner, can tell you (John McMillan) that this could all turn around overnight and promptly result in an out-of-court settlement."
----"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I need to inform you that you (youngest son John McMillan) can take responsibility for your actions!"
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I can tell you many people believe that you are expected by others to have an involvement in your future with the gay community here in central Texas."
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan, I can tell you that you are too smart to let the background verbal harassment of you in Texas force you to ever visit San Francisco, California, or to ever lead a gay-centered lifestyle."
----"As a friend of yours in Temple, Texas, Ernie Motloch, I can assure you (John McMillan) that if you don't directly contact gay persons, they will not be contacting you."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan) signed an agreement requiring you (John McMillan) to live with a biological woman, since it's obvious that you have not enjoyed any of the gay persons you have ever met."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) may need a sworn affidavit from you in the very near future during this period in which you are employed at a newspaper in south Texas."
---"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin) in the last several days have changed my mind about my wanting a sworn affidavit from you."
---"If you (John McMillan of Sweetwater, Texas) send me a signed power of attorney form, I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin) will put an end to the persecution of you that is occurring here in Texas."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can say that the Bay Area of Northern California would be an ideal climate (sic) for you (John McMillan)."
----"You (John McMillan) are too gentle to live with a man. I (Jann Snell, later Jann Snell Schwab of Colorado) think you should live with a woman instead."
---"Even if you (brother John McMillan) were to visit San Francisco, California, I (brother Michael Kim McMillan) can tell you during my visit here in El Campo in 1988 in which I've dined with you a seafood restaurant, that it would be a very solitary experience for you. Wherever you go, you are just you."
---"As your biological mother, Phyllis McMillan, I can tell you that the intent of the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas was to help you to incorporate your European heritage into your own identity and everyday lifestyle. The intent was not to have you actually move to Europe or become a citizen of a European country."
---"As your mother, Phyllis McMillan, who is dining with you today inside La Madeleine restaurant along Lamar Boulevard in central Austin, I urge you (John McMillan) to NOT write to Queen Elizabeth II ever again. Your letters to Queen Elizabeth have been very emotionally stressful for her and demanded an excessive amount of her time."
---"As the father of Ellen Thorne, Dr. Lansing Thorne of Austin, Texas, I urge you on the telephone today in the year 1997 to refrain from ever again contacting my daughter, Ellen, at her law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or at her and her husband's home. The phone calls and letters you have made or sent to Ellen have been very stressful and inflicted emotional duress on her and her husband. I also urge you to not contact my niece Nancy Thorne (Nancy Thorne Foster) ever again, since Nancy and her husband have also suffered a lot from receiving any communications from you."
---"As a personal friend of yours in California and married gentleman, Mike Kolcek, I recommend that you (John McMillan) move to California. The people of California will be more tolerant toward you than the people of Texas have been."
---"As a friendly cousin of yours and married woman in California, Kathy Gardner, it seems to me that the people of Texas do not want you to have any type of sex life. If you more to California, you are more likely to have that option there."
---"As a former full-time employer of yours in Austin whom you applied to after your mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan, advised you to apply for a job as a proofreader at the American Atheist publishing house in north Austin, I, Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, am very sure that you will need many additional years of psychiatric treatment before you are finally cured of your mental illness! Your psychiatric problems are very extensive!"
---"The phone call today in the year 1988 that you were overheard making to the Travis County Lawyer Referral Service from your assigned workdesk here at the American Atheist Publishing house in north Austin, a phone call in which you were apparently exploring whether to sue the American Atheist Association for yourself being victimized by noise pollution involving verbal harassment of you at this workplace for you, was completely unacceptable! As your immediate supervisor, Ms. Murray, I am hereby dismissing you from your job duties here."
---"My Chinese-citizen wife and I (Dr. Michael Kim McMillan) won't be willing to accommodate you by letting you live with us here in California."
---"Your personal letters to me, former 'Broward Times' coworker Clint Williams of North Carolina, were so full of intense adoration toward me me that I could use those letters to blackmail (sic) you."
---"I (former college roommate Roland Klose) recommend that you pursue a spree of sexual promiscuity while living at the Sloane House YMCA in New York City, New York. A gay male friend of mine in Alaska pursued sexual promiscuity and told me that he found it to be very liberating for himself."
---"I (Roland Klose) don't know why no one ever approaches you and expresses any personal interest in you in your off-duty time in Kermit, Texas..... My (Roland Klose's) gay male writer friend in Alaska leads what many would call a very hedonistic lifestyle in which he pursues lots of alcohol and drugs, but I (Roland Klose) consider him to be a perfectly fine person."
--"I (Mr. Chris Dale of Minneapolis) urge you to spend each of your weekend of your career at the 'El Campo Leader-News" driving into gay bars of Houston and picking up a variety of new acquaintances you meet in the bars and having sex with each of them. You could get AIDS from doing that, but life itself is just a gamble."
---"I (Mr. Chris Dale of Minneapolis) don't want a relationship with you myself, but someone else might decide to pursue you."
---"Don't contact them! They will contact you! That is my advice to you in the year 1986 as your biological mother in Westlake Hils, Phyllis McMillan."
---"As a male ordained clergyman for the First Unitarian Church of Quincy, Mass., I recommend that you give Eric Schwarz of the 'Patriot Ledger' staff a phone call and ask him for a one-to-one-meeting in order to resolve the apparent conflict you may be having with him."
---"As a personal friend and former social studies teacher of yours at Austin High, Bernie Owen, I can tell you that you yourself (John McMillan of Austin) have a widespread reputation for being a person of prejudice. However, the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights fully protects your legal right to directly guide yourself in your own life based on your own prejudices."
---"As your biological oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, I need to warn you that if you ever at any time in your future date anyone age 17 to 20 here in Austin, their father might come after you with a shotgun! Even though it is legal in Texas for you date anyone age 17 or older in a mutual-consent situation, they do not have full legal rights until age 21, and in the meantime their father might seek to harm you."
---"In this late 1990s newspaper column for 'The Austin American-Statesman' daily newspaper, I, John Kelso, am nominating John McMillan of Austin as a candidate for U.S. President. Since no one interacts with John McMillan in his own social life, John may well be the only option left as a potential candidate for President who has no controversy or scandal in his own life." (approximate quote from his published newspaper column).
---"As a University of Minnesota Math Department employee and fiction writer, Max Alberts, I urge you to return to Minnesota from Massachusetts! The people of Minnesota are much more mellow (sic) toward you than the people of Massachusetts are!"
---"As a former friendly acquaintance of yours in Minneapolis, Paul Lee, I am calling you today at your apartment unit on Beacon Hill in Boston, Mass., to urge you to attend a job interview I'll arrange for you for a teaching position at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota."
---"As a professional reference for you, University of Minnesota Journalism Professor John Lavine, I urge you to be prepared to move out of Boston at a moment's notice!"
---"As a former editor of 'The Minnesota Daily' student newspaper and as a current reporter for the "Minneapolis Tribune', I (Mr. Chris Ison) recommend in the year 1997, during this phone call you to my and my wife's home in Minneapolis from your apartment in Palestine, Texas, that you NOT return to Massachusetts ever again. As for Minnesota, no one here ever talks about you anymore. You have been completely forgotten by the people who met you in this state."
--"As a former coworker of yours at 'The Daily Texan' student newspaper and as a current reporter for the 'Fort Lauderdale News-Sentinel', Karen Rosen, I can tell you that Fort Lauderdale is a good place for having transitory relationships."
--"As a male resident of Naples, Florida, I recommend that you (John McMillan) as newcomer and reporter for the 'Fort Meyers News-Press' Naples Bureau here make a point of getting to know a widow here. If you are lucky, she might remember you in her last will and testament. I have had friends of mine who have benefited that way here in Naples."
---"You need to hire an attorney and file a lawsuit against the business whose teenage driver, an Italian-American fellow, crashed into your Vega automobile after their company van drove through a red light here in the Fort Lauderdale area. That financial settlement could earn you lots of money!"
---"Sue the bastards! (exact quote) I, McDonald Smith, Jr. of Austin, offer that emphatic advice to you, personal friend and former Austin High debate squad co-member John McMillan."
---"As a personal friend of yours and tennis partner of yours here in Austin, Dan Knezek, I urge you to file a lawsuit relating to violations of your own privacy rights here in Austin!"
---"You, and I, (Columbia University law-school student or alumnus Mark H.B. Williamson) have a great future!"
---"You need to be persistent in order to get progress in your life! The squeaky wheel gets the grease! (exact quote on that second sentence). That is my advice to you as your primary work supervisor, Steve Fox, at the 'New Ulm Journal' here in New Ulm, Minnesota."
---"You are developing quite a reputation in Eastern Europe for your fiction-writing talents! That is my observation as a reporter based in either Finland or Russia and as a former coworker of yours at the 'New Ulm Journal', reporter Mark Porubcansky."
---"I (Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman) look upon you (John McMillan of El Campo, Texas, as a source of brainwave messages. All brainwaves from you are gratefully accepted! (near-exact quote in that second sentence only, with the first sentence having been implied from the context.)
---"You (John McMillan of Snyder, Texas) have a significant amount of financial wealth that is currently being kept at a bank account you do not have access to. That wealth of yours is cumulative financial wealth you have earned ever since your childhood. Coincidentally, I, your oldest brother Kent McMillan of Austin, am making this first-ever disclosure to you on the telephone in 1994 after you consulted two attorneys recently---a private attorney in Snyder and Gordon Shapiro, a banking-law attorney in Dallas whom you had admired the debating style of during championship cross-examination debates of his and his partner, Cindy Clay, during your high school days as a standard-division debater in which you would attend debate rounds of Gordon Shapiro on numerous occasions."
---"I, your older brother Dr. Michael Kim McMillan of California, can state to you in writing today that I am sure that you (younger brother John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas) will always be financially poor."
---"If you were a character in a television series, I (brother Michael McMillan) would find a way to terminate your role in that series."
---"As a personal friend of yours and former Comparative Literature instructor of yours at Washington University in St. Louis, Lynne Layton, I can tell you that you in 1979 that you have the talent to become a great writer! No shit!"
---"The near-fatal automobile accident that inflicted a brain contusion on you in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1979 has ruined your health ever since then. Even though no surgery was needed by neurological surgeon Dr. Norman Flatten, I (Kent McMillan of Austin) feel sure that the medical repercussions to you from that motor-vehicle collision you had with a teenage Italian-American driver of a company van has ruined you for the rest of your life."
---"I, Ear, Nose, and Throat Medical Specialist Dr. David Tobey of Austin, Texas, hereby state this signed legal statement on your (John McMillan's) behalf that you can use, that you have incurred 100 percent disability from noise pollution-related permanent hearing loss you sustained here in Austin over a multi-year period that you yourself did not cause and you yourself are not responsible for.....You are at risk of going deaf at some future date here in Austin."
---"I (Mr. Chris Barbee of El Campo, Texas,) recommend that you not to contact an attorney and seek assistance from them. You would just be throwing your own money away if you do that."
---"I (biological sister Julie McMillan of Texas) can state with certainty during this 1991 or 1990 phone conversation we are having that you have no need for any attorney. You (already) know (what the issue is, and it does NOT require any action for you by any attorney)".
---"I (attorney John F. Campbell of Campbell & Morgan Law Firm in Austin) will represent you (John McMillan of Austin) in any and all communications you seek to have with the Travis County Sheriff or the Travis County District Attorney. I will coordinate everything with them from my general-practice law law office here in downtown Austin."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can tell you in this 1992 phone conversation we are having that you have a golden opportunity in Pampa, Texas, to pretend that you yourself are a prosecuting attorney. Although you are NOT a prosecuting attorney, of course, you can at least keep notes about what you regard as illegal activities victimizing you in Pampa. You can vicariously experience what it is like to be a District Attorney, even though you yourself are not one, of course. You are of course a reporter for the 'Pampa Daily News' daily newspaper in the Panhandle of Texas."
---"I (Arnold Wong of Minneapolis) urge you to keep the name, address, and phone number of Greg Rutchik of the St. Paul area of Minnesota. Even though you personally rejected him, you may want to contact Greg Rutchik again if your circumstances turn hostile toward you after you move to Massachusetts."
---"As your mother, Phyllis McMillan, who is speaking to you in person today inside my home in Westlake Hills, Texas, I can tell you that YOU WILL BE LOVED BY MANY PEOPLE, AND YOU WILL BE HATED BY MANY PEOPLE!"
---"I (oldest brother Kent McMillan of Austin) recommend that you not play tennis with high school students and you not roller skate during periods when children are also roller-skating (a composite quote from two different phone conversations I had with Kent). If you as an adult tennis player ever play tennis with high school students, people in Texas will think you are strange."
---"I (congressional aide to Republican Congressman Madigan of Illinois) Charles Hilty, a mentor for you) recommend that you apply for a reporting job at the 'North Adams Transcript' in western Massachusetts. The 'North Adams Transcript' has a first-rate reputation, and I know an editor there. I would be glad to offer you a favorable professional reference there."
---"I, Kate McVey, editor of the 'Zapata County News', and my husband, publisher Bob McVey, will be requiring you as our new reporter here to visit Mexico for a reporting assignment in the very near future."
---"I, Kate McVey editor of the 'Zapata County News', have decided (a day or two later) not to require you to visit Mexico for a reporting assignment on behalf of our general-circulation newspaper."
---"As a psychologist for you here in Courtland, Minnesota, Maureen McConville, I predict in the year 1980 that you will someday develop a sexual love relationship with a gentleman who was previously married to a biological woman."
---"I, Aubrey Weaver of Big Spring, am willing to volunteer to you today in 1989 that you might someday meet a bisexual man who is capable of developing a monogamous relationship with you."
--"As a member of the First United Methodist Church of Big Spring who met you there after a church service, I, Aubrey Weaver of Big Spring, can tell you that the manipulative circumstances in your own life in Texas are designed to make you (John McMillan of Big Spring) anti-sexual (sic)."
---"As your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, I can state in this phone conversation that It would be nice if the voices would eventually end."
---"I predict that you will come into contact with lots of money in your future. That is one or the reasons why I (hairstylist Michael Kapphahn of Minneapolis, Minnesota, feel confident about lending you some money today."
---"I, Virginia DeCourcey, (last name Kelly?), a female classmate of yours at the University of Minnesota Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications, predict during this lunch meeting we are having in 1984 inside a restaurant near our campus that you will be enduring a lot of hardship and adversity in your future before you finally achieve some success for yourself."
---"I, your housemate Ben Perry of Worcester, Mass., predict that you will be the type of person who is better known for being WRITTEN ABOUT than for actually being a writer yourself....I recommend that you not keep up with Max Alberts of Minneapolis-St. Paul, since he obviously is NOT a good friend of yours."
----"I, (co-tenant Calvin Lee Jones in this apartment unit in northwest Austin in 2019) warn you that if you file a complaint against me with the Austin Police Department that leads to an investigation, I have lots of relatives who will retaliate against you with lots of rage toward you (approximate quote).
---"I (Dan Hitt, a roommate at Washington University in St. Louis) warn you today in the year 1976 that because of your permanent and in-person rejection of me today inside this dorm room, you will be suffering from many hears of adversity and unfavorable living conditions for yourself" (approximate quote).
---"I (Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer and Crisis Intervention Team member James Turner) predict in the year 2012 (or 2013) that regardless of whether you move to another U.S. state, you will continue to perceive yourself as being victimized by the alleged home-invasion-crimes and alleged personal injury crimes and alleged sex crimes that you have complained about to APD. The problem will not go away for you."
----"I, (co-tenant Calvin Lee Jones in this apartment in northwest Austin in 2019 can state to you with certainty that) After you (John McMillan) move out of here today, you will be dead (sic) next week."
----"I (waiter coworker Aurelio Contreras at Denny's Lakeline franchise-owned restaurant in far northwest Austin) would like to work for you (waiter coworker John McMillan) someday. You would be an honest and kind employer."
----"I (Julie McMillan of Texas) warn you in this early 1980s long-distance phone conversation with you during your period of residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that your recent statement to Mother and Father during a visit you made to the Austin area about your cited sexual identity (a statement in which you did not refer to having any actual sex life or any actual sex partner or any actual romantic partner) , will be accompanied by many years of adverse living conditions for you."
----"I (Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, Texas) recommend in the year 1988 that you develop a habit of not consuming any drinking alcohol in bars. Instead, I (oldest brother Kent) think you should purchase alcohol at a liquor store and drink it only inside your apartment unit."
----"We (Kent and Sara McMillan of Austin, a stated hope that he verbalized using that same exact phrasing on numerous occasions on the telephone over a multi-decade period) hope that you decide to stay in Texas."
----"I, Michael Crothers of Minneapolis, believe that you would have a lot more of a social life if you were to move to the Minneapolis area of Minnesota."
---"I (first-rate dermatologist Dr. Amy Mason) agree with you in the year 2021 that you would be much safer if you were to move later this year to Salt Lake City, Utah, from Austin, Texas."
---"I (the university professor mother of a male adult Italian-citizen roommate of mine in
Austin, herself speaking to me in person in the year 2000 as she, her Italian-banker husband, her son and I dined together inside a Macaroni Grill restaurant in northwest Austin) would like to invite you to visit Italy. We would welcome you there."
---"I, Sarah Goodfriend of Austin, Texas (or North Carolina or Washington, D.C.), can say with confidence in this 1990 long-distance phone conversation we're having that all of your friends can be heterosexual! Just keep on going the way you have been going, and you will find that it turns out that way for you!"
---"I (Dr. Susan Reynolds Herrington of St. Louis, Missouri) recommend in this late 1990s long-distance phone conversation we're having that you see a psychiatrist and stay in Texas."
---"As a personal friend and former work supervisor of yours in Minnesota, I, Janet Rosenbloom, can assure you in this 1992 long-distance phone conversation we're having that no one is forcing you (John McMillan of south Texas) to move to California!"
---"I, Janet Rosenbloom of New Ulm, Minnesota, can also say with certainty that the voices you are hearing all all false prophets!"
---"I, John Broders, Story Assignment Editor at 'Texas Monthly' magazine here in Austin, can assure you that 99 percent of the rumors you hear are false!"
---"I, John Broders, can also say with certain that if you had remained in Austin, Texas, during this early 1990s period of your life in which you are a reporter in Pampa, Texas, that alternative scenario for you in Austin have been very grim for you."
---"You appear to be staying just ahead of the law as you move away from Zapata, Texas, in the year 1992! That is how I, John Broders, see it from my vantage point at Texas Monthly!"
---"You are very safe here in Austin! As a Super Doctor surgeon here in Austin, I, Dr. Mark Lindsey, recommend that you stay here."
----"I, Dr. John Politz, a Super Doctor surgeon, can tell you in the year 2021, that you might want to consider staying here in Austin. The doctors know you here."
---"I, Dr. John Politz, a Super Doctor surgeon here in Austin, can assure you that Salt Lake City has fine medical care system, if you decide to relocate to Salt Lake City, Utah. The University of Utah Hospital is first-rate.
---"I (oldest brother Kent Neal McMillan of Austin) recommend in the year 2013 (?) that you proceed on the assumption that there is no intruder inside your apartment unit at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin."
---"Speaking to you on the telephone around the turn of the century, I, oldest brother Kent Neal McMillan of Austin, cannot understand why someone as resourceful as you (John McMillan) are would be so uncreative in your evaluation of what is happening to you during your sleeping hours inside your locked apartment unit. You should strive for a more creative response to your circumstances."
---"I, 'Daily Texan' student newspaper coworker Jann Snell, feel strongly in the year 1979 that you (John McMillan) are the sort of person nothing bad will ever happen to."
---"In this Christmas Season tribute to Austin High debate squad co-member John McMillan, I am announcing to our debate squad members at this social event inside McDonald Smith Jr.'s family home in Tarrytown that someday in the future John and his wife will be poverty-stricken and will be asking the government for food stamps and welfare benefits. That is all in keeping with our resolution this year in debate: Be it resolved that the U.S. Government offer a minimum annual income for everyone in the USA."
---"I (a Hispanic female attorney in northwest Austin who is meeting with you today in 2012 or 2013 (?) through the Texas Legal Protection Plan in which you are a dues-paying individual member) recommend that you (John McMillan) not talk with any member of the Austin Police Department Crisis Intervention Unit. That is a complete waste of your time. They are NOT crime investigators, so they will not help you with your criminal-law complaints."
---"I, private attorney Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez of Austin, Texas,, can tell you on the telephone today (2015?), during this legal consultation you are having with me today through the Texas Legal Protection Plan, that there may be a criminal-law (sic) implication from the continuous voices you are hearing in Austin."
---"I, an Outback Steakhouse male coworker from California, can tell you today inside our restaurant workplace that many people in Austin have targeted you as the perfect victim (exact two-word term). They see you as stupid and naive, and they see that as an invitation for themselves to commit a personal-injury crime that victimizes you. I myself realize that you (coworker John McMillan) are not stupid, but many people in Austin see you that way."
---"You (John McMillan) are a marked (sic) employee at each of your workplaces here in Austin. (That is my written observation in the late 1990s as your current personal attorney, John F. Campbell of Campbell & Morgan Law Firm in downtown Austin."
---"I, personal friend Richard Jalowy of El Campo, Texas, can tell you in this turn-of-the-century
e-mail letter I am writing to you as I (Richard Jalowy) prepare to visit San Antonio (sic), that the voices you (John McMillan) are hearing should end in the very near future."
----"I, Kent McMillan of Austin, can tell you on the phone in the year 1988 and in more recent years that I object to your outlook that you in your foreseeable future you should be entitled to financial compensation to yourself for being subjected to alleged violations of you own privacy rights. Your attitude of entitlement (sic) is offensive to me (Kent McMillan)."
--"I, Mrs. Phyllis Delores Gardner McMillan of Westlake Hills, Texas, can tell you in this 1986 or 1987 long-distance phone call you made to me from Quincy, Mass., that the financial compensation you (John McMillan) will get for allegedly pervasive violations of your privacy rights will be whatever Howard Goldberg (sic) decides to pay you. It is strictly up to Howard Goldberg."
---"I, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan of Westlake Hills, Texas, can tell you emphatically in this 1990 or 1991 phone call you made to me from your apartment unit in Swetwater, Texas, that I (Phyllis McMillan) WOULD NOT GIVE TWO BITS FOR HOWARD GOLDBERG (exact cited name)!"
---"I, Richard Jalowy of El Campo, Texas, sense in this turn-of-the-century e-mail letter to you that no matter where you (John McMillan of Austin) move to or where you reside, your oldest brother, Kent McMillan of Austin, will be allegedly interfering or meddling in your own living conditions."
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