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Date Posted: 12:39:45 08/16/02 Fri
Author: No name
Subject: Four Years

You know, I first found this place a few days before I started my freshman year of high school...and now I'm at that same time, except it's now I'm to start my freshman year in college.
It's been four years. I'm not really here anymore...one of the ghosts, I would say. I visit every few months and read the board, venture into one of the chats when no is there...
It's been four years, and I became a ghost. But even though I ended up in places where the roleplaying is done in paragraphs, all the time, I'm glad this was the first place. It prepared me, I think. Because indeed there are places where the chatters have intelligence, and I was lucky enough to find one on the first try. That's why I'm a ghost, why I never completely left...
It's been four years, and I've grown no taller...but I've learned being short suits my 'ness'...even more important, I've discovered my 'ness'. 'Know thyself', ne? It's important.
It's been four years, and I've learned a language and a half. I'm going to learn more, too. I've learned I love them, and they'll probably the basis of my career when I 'grow up'.
(It's been four years, and I'm a legal adult...but I've learned I've been an adult the whole time, and that I'll stay a child forever.)
It's been four years, and I've discovered love...I've discovered my own version of love is drastically different than most, that for me it has more to do with friendship than passion...
It's been four years, and I've discovered that the Internet is more than what most think it is...it isn't just a place to talk. It isn't just a way to gather information. It's a world in itself, and I can be anyone in it. Hengenjizai, kaleidoscopic. Of many masks....only a small number realize this power. Most of them are in places like this.
It's been four years; I've created so many worlds in my mind that I've forgotten some...I'm sure I'll find them again later.
It's been four years...I've drunk a lot of tea. I'm not sure how much, I couldn't guess. But probably enough to have one big tea party for the entire population of my new dorm.
It's been four years, and I've become a ghost. I'll never be back the way I was. But as all ghosts (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) I'll linger around forever. Because this place is not forgotten, it was where it all began.

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