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...that keeps me coming back day after day?
I was having lunch with katharina today and I realized the last time I'd met Hatrackers in person was three years ago.
Three years!
I've been posting on this forum since I was sixteen. Now being 21, that means I've been here for more than a fifth of my life. More significant, I think, is that I have been a Hatracker half of my high school life, my entire college career and now on to the beginning of my adult life. That's a lot of changes!
Hatrack's changed a lot too, it seems. Watching old posters fade, others change names, and new ones flock is really an interesting study. I think Hatrack's gotten younger since I started (though maybe I've just gotten older!) because I remember being one of only two or three other high school-age kids in the beginning.
So, anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all of you for putting up with me for so long . I've been in and out in the weeks and months and years since I first found Scott's site, so thanks for talking to me even when I haven't spoken up in awhile. I've changed a lot since the beginning, so thanks for putting up with my evolving maturity (or lack thereof ). Thanks for helping out with personal problems; it's really nice to have a relatively objective take on things that I was way too close to.
All in all, (((Hatrack)))
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Unfortunatly, that also means I won't meet any of you for several years, unless I already know you. Then Posts: 1164 | Registered: Feb 2006
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Kasie, I don't think in your case that enjoying your company here can possibly qualify as "putting up with". You've always been a vibrant part of Hatrack. You're part of what makes me come back again and again, even though now in my retired life I'm almost never at the computer anymore. Posts: 5948 | Registered: Jun 2001
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Yeah, me too. I logged on for the first time at the very start of 2001, just barely fifteen. Strange as it is to say, I think Hatrack may be the most constant and familiar community I've ever been a member of.
I like this place.
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Wow, I feel simultaneously very new and very old.
But I love this community for all it's taught me. There aren't many places I can go to learn how so many different kinds of people feel about so many different subjects, while still feeling like a community of people who care about each other. Church is too homogenous; my town is too big; my neighborhood is too busy for us to really talk and know one another. But here, there are so many diverse opinions that still fit. Posts: 1522 | Registered: Nov 2005
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Kasie, I know exactly what you're saying. Except it's been about a year since I've met any 'Rackers. Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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It's weird to me, from the other direction, looking at people like Pix and Eddie and Human and Kasie and going, "Geez, they're adults now."
It's rather disorienting. I mean, some of you are now as old as I was when I started here. Which isn't saying that much, but still....
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quote:Originally posted by Javert: Hey, Captain America is the reason I'm here. I mean Steve Rogers...I mean....oooops.
I was never good at that secret identity thing!
That's alright. In one of the numerous comic books based on my life, I reveal myself to the public anyway.
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I don't know either. I had kicked the habit totally, then one of my friends wanted me to come back so I did. I'm coming up on 10 years, I think. I think my first post may have been in 1996. It changes all the time, Hatrack does, and yet there must be something that stays the same, and keeps me interested. I am not sure what that is, but it might be the people.
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