I had a circle of a few close friends from college and a much larger circle of friendly acquaintances from work and elsewhere. I taught high school US government to seniors, and life was....okay, I guess.

I found this site in February 2000 and not much really changed, other than I wasn't emailing my best friend as much or talking with him on the phone. Of course, that was because at the same time he started to date and later marry this wonderful woman named Jamie.

So I started to post here a bit later, once I bought a PC in October 2000. Didn't post much, because I was involved in a relationship at the time that ended in early December. After that, I found myself with some free time around Christmas break and I started to post.

Thought the place was okay and then just before Christmas, this fellow new poster and I started to tease each other. Her name (and SN) was Alana. We quickly developed quite the friendship and it was largely from talking with her that I made the final decision (one that had been at the back of my mind for some months after Kerry's funeral) that I would leave Tennessee and move to Florida.

So that's the one direct way wotmania has had an influence on my life. In other ways, I've managed to learn how to express myself better and combined with working in a new area, my voice and accent have changed remarkably over the past two years. I feel much more confident when speaking to others.

Do I have any regrets? A few, but not many. This place, while it bores me from time to time, is a decent forum where to share and talk about ideas and people.


Dylanfanatic

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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