joined by coffee, bonded by words

[cris]

Summer of 1995, I had been exchanging email with this person that I met on alt.gothic, who turned out to attend university only a couple of towns away in Worcester. We arranged to meet at a cafe and one of her first questions to me was, "so, your handle: c'ris ... is that handle a Dragonriders of Pern reference

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[atalanta]

"bright, shining enthusiasm for what life had to offer"

that is a good description of her :)

[pyrric]

You guys are completely destroying my goth cred here.

[pyrric]

Also, thanks. :)

[pyrric]

Since I've moved away, I've harbored this terrible anxiety that I don't remain as important to the people I left behind as they are to me. It's easy to imagine that I've been forgotten, a little like a faded photograph, despite how vivid and present others are to me every day, despite how not a day goes by that I don't remember and smile and feel grateful.

So thank you, so much, for relieving me of that anxiety, and for writing such a beautiful tribute to our friendship. May every word ring as true in twenty years, and the twenty after that. You'll always know where to find me.