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Love letter to soc.bi

I'd just like to add...there's a thread over there (that way, see it?) talking about Role Models ... and mention made of them over in another thread not long ago...

I've had folx here at soc.bi as my role models ever since I got here five years ago. Granted, some have been "here's something I *don't* want to be" role models, but more of them have been people -- probably some of you reading this now -- who posted something along the way that caught my eye, made me think, made me cry, made me laugh, sometimes helped me change, usually for the better.

You-all had an exceptionally profound effect on my life during college. There was a point in my life at which I looked around me and realized that everyone I had to whom I felt close came from here, or indirectly through someone here. While my boundaries have expanded (in which the plethora of neat people in my life was not an insignificant factor), there's still plenty of people I've met through soc.bi who I can't help but consider role models, both that I've met irl after encountering here (hey aynjel, cowgirl, points, lilpix, donn! *smoochwiggle*), that I've met through people I've met here (too numerous to mention, though my favorite chewtoy bears special notice & *censoredsmooches*, met through someone I met through someone I met through someone I met here), not to mention people whose faces I've never seen, but whose words have touched me.

This is a fabulous and wonderful thing we're doing, here. We're being heard. There's people "like us" out there, in all sorts of places. The same newsgroup that was a haven for me as a terrified college freshman is like coming home for me now. This group has changed a lot in the past five years. I've changed a lot in the past five years. Both seem to be very positive things to me.

With all the labels to which I answer, all the subjects that interest me, it's kind of surprising that this is the only newsgroup I truly call home, nowadays.

Then again, maybe it's not surprising. This newgroups is, for me, what my most valued friends are -- interesting, sometimes challenging, friendly, sometimes even nurturing (on usenet? egads!).

Thanks, soc.bi, for being here. Thanks, Berkeley, for giving me my very first access to usenet. Thank you, my role models, for the illumination you've shared along this path...