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Note how cleverly I have made all of you walk past my previous friends to
get here. I knew damn well that you Internet junkies would be the first to get here,
but when I did poetry readings the thing that annoyed me the most was when people would
show up, read their own poetry.... and just walk out before they heard everyone else.
By placing all the internet pals at the end of it, you people had to walk through all
of my regular folks! Hee hee hee. I am clever by a horse's tail.
Woo hoo! Linda — we don't have a better picture of her alone — is one
of our dearest online pals and a Southern spitfire. She has terrified managers at
lousy bars, forced reservations at the Silvermine Tavern, and generally gotten her way her
entire life. And we like that. Linda, a.k.a. Boo, is one of the
founding members of the Dark Gals Of The Sith, an online group devoted to the worship of
the Dark Side of the force and the enslavery of men, and enjoys really goofy online
roleplaying. She also likes doing SCA stuff and knows karate well enough to whip yer
butt but good, so watch out! |
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Ralph is Linda's husband and spent the night avoiding the camera... and
this is what you get when you only get one picture, Ralph, so next time smile,
all right? Ralph is another man-mountain, a huge ex-military guy, but for all of
that he's one of the sweetest men I know. He's fun to talk to, always has a good
story, and like all great Southern storytellers about half of what he says is complete
bullsh!t.... but you're not quite sure which half is the sh!t. Had I been
thinking I would have evened out the 3/2 discrepancy in bridesmaids to groomsmen by asking
him to be in my wedding party... which is one of the few great regrets of my wedding in
that I didn't. You're one of the good ones, Ralph. Never forget that.
Oh, and he'll also tell you he hates Star Wars. That's one of those halves I was
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Gabe, another member of the DGOTS, is my psychic sister because we think
so much alike. She's also one of Gini's best friends (so is Linda), and lives in
Chicago. We weren't sure if she was going to come out, but thank God she did —
she's fun to be with, one of the nicest huggers I know, and even if we didn't get to take
her to a showing of The Phantom Menace I was still happy to have her there! |
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Shezan, a.k.a. Anne-Elisabeth, is French. This is all you really
need to know about her, as she is so stereotypically French it isn't even funny — she
has exquisite taste, is opinionated on all matters from arts to fine cuisine, is a
wondrously sexual creature and is the editor of a startup fashion magazine. She's
also the one who started our online romance by accidentally letting slip a secret she
shouldn't have, so we literally could not have had the wedding without her. She also
brought us a bottle of fine French champagne for our wedding night at the Silvermine
Tavern, and even I — a patent-pending beer snob — liked that champagne.
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We have one notable absence from these pages, and that is our friend Basya. But
a) she is hesitant to give her real name online and b) we don't have a picture of her
here, so until I hear from her and get a picture I will keep the details scarce. But
we were real glad to have her there. Go to the next page for the family portraits. |
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