Hi.
Dean (Robin Drake/the bearded fellow) recently reminded me of this place. I had seemingly forgotten it, and you may have forgotten me. I'm really not sure. I do know that, for months, LotC was place of peace and serenity for me. The members here are some of the best people I've met on the entire Internet. I'm not sure how many of them are remaining, but I do remember thatpyrodude, shiftnative, the aforementioned Robin Drake, and GemmyLou. While I know for sure there are others, these people and those not mentioned are extremely nice and helpful people. I want to thank them for what they did, both purposefully and on accident, because it helped me through a lot of stuff.
This doesn't contain a lot of detail, but I'll put the sad stuff in a spoiler tag here:
Anyway, despite all of that stuff, I've managed to keep my life in fairly good shape. Pretty much everything I could control has gone well. I still have a couple of friends who I can count on if I need them. School is going well, and I'm attending the Honors College of my local university on a $50,000 scholarship this fall. I'm very much looking forward to the future because there is nothing of the past that I want to remember. I've said all of that to say this: thank you to the members of this community because, if not for you guys, I might not be where I am now. For months, you guys were my best friends, and while it may seem like a terrible, sad story that I'm telling for sympathy, I'm not. I just want to say, "thank you" from the bottom of my heart.
Hope all is well,
Briamoth (Travis)