Shay Astraea:  

CLASS OF 1984
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Beloit, OH

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Well I am shocked to see i joined this, looked here for years to see who is who and whats new and finally broke down and bought a year membership to see if its worth the purchase to see how everyone's doing? I have a Facebook and had well several during my life and living and transition form male to female! Iv'e connected a few times with a few lady's i went to school with who remembered me some and when i said i was Herb Clark, well you can imagine the surprise,m and that was when i did female illusion and entertainment! I remember i connected for a short time With Anita (Brown) not remembering her married name and her guessing me! it was amazing she figured me out then. Well the years and life's changed even more i am finally me and loving life, i started in life as a gay male all through school with my life hiding being a women, back then no matter how much Boy George, or Cyndi Lauper, and life i knew i'd never be accepted so i moved to Florida graduation year skipped the commencement and had them mail me my Diploma! I then learned life and craziness, party central and for a young gay mail it was disastrous! Drugs, Booze wild times, i am grateful to be alive, and i will share, i did some male escorting then...we lol back in amazement in life who we was and who we were and now where life's lead us to present sometimes with the most astonished thoughts and amazement we made it out alive. I continued life moved back to the city of Alliance, why am i one who no matter how many times i moves away i end up back here? LOL My mother developed health problems so i returned home, over the next few years she got worse she died in 1993 which tore me a part but i am blessed She never lived long enough to see what was coming in my life and the changes that were about to take place! Once Mom passed i was free from hiding hurting, i begun to get back into entertainment, illusion, becoming me my father was alive but...Expand for more
i pretty much never had his acceptance in life so i basically told him go F*** himself it was my life, well you can imagine it finalized my life , we seen one another at a wedding or funeral and or some family function where we kept our distance with daggers. My father had a idea who i was obviously all the late night molesting visits when i was a child no one knew gave it away! I never told mom how he treated me ..see when you have a military father for one and one who did construction, he was a manly man never wanted a f**got son or qu**r etc, well hell life goes on,! ok so enough personal on that.. i lived life entertaining, and begun escorting as a female illusionist, and whalla it made me decide why hid, why not be the women i am and finally live life no more two lives, day-lite Herb and nightlife ..well back then i was Destiny, "god" did';nt that scream escort in a name..lol but it worked i hid my real identity. anyhoo, i did this and begun hormones, not i will shorten this long book to present, iv'e been on female hormones for well over 4 1/2 Years, some feminizing done, name change, gender maker change full women living full time, fully passable, and life is completely a helluva lot better, i could not wish for anything. At present i am single getting out of a relationship with a wonderful man, but was Long Distance, and well we know it strains a relationship. so here i am folk, every class has a surprise and possibly i am it..or there may be more excitement someone else has..LOL, but non the less You may then known me as Herb Clark, but respectfully now i am all women and allow me to introduce me to you I am Shay Riley Astraea, a 48 yo Transgender Activist, Photographer, and educator! I have No children, Never Married, Live with my bestie Male Gay friend of many years here in Good Ole Alliance..For Now.. i am contemplating a move soon to better be of use for the Transgender Community at large.
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