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[eponine119]

Back in January, a friend told me that the charity Cancer Gets Lost had a project for the 20th anniversary of Lost this year where they were soliciting essays about what Lost had meant to fans. I ended up writing something, and submitted, and was accepted

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[haldoor]

This is fantastic! You have written it beautifully. I'm so glad we met through Lost. Many of my online friendships began through Lost too, so your story could be mine to some degree, and I'm sure many of our other friends would say the same. Lost was the best! ❤️

[zelda_zee]

Well, you made me cry. This is a beautiful homage to our fandom and to your particular experience of it. You did a wonderful job at capturing the many different reasons it was (is?) special. It is certainly a personal piece of writing, but that is why it works. I loved reading it.

[halfdutch]

Oh, this is lovely and beautifully written. You really captured what Lost - and Lost fandom - meant to so many of us. And it's a wonderful kind of serendipity that you, Z and I have plunged back into writing and fandom after so many years. Can it really be 20(!) years? It seems crazy and impossible.

These characters and the fics our community wrote about them mean the world to me. It's sometimes bittersweet to revisit since so many of the people who were part of fandom have long since moved on, but I will always deeply treasure Lost, LJ and wonderful writers like you.

A03 is not the same as LJ and I don't feel the same sense of community. But I did receive a glowing, enthusiastic response to a fic from someone I didn't know the other day and it made me so happy. The fic lives on, the characters live on (even the ones that died) and so does our friendship.

<3