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12.5.16 12:00

#tbt I figured out this was coming a week or two ago, but I still hadn't figured out what I was gonna say about it 'til today. I always wanted to share it again because so many of you wonderful, lovely people weren't yet FB friends when I originally brain dumped this a year ago and I do want all of you to know about me and this thing I went through that's partially defined me without me having to retell it over and over - and I also know it's not the sort of thing you can just casually bring up in conversation, or to satisfy idle curiosity or whatever. (Those of you who DID - I promise you I did not mind.) So, look, here it is again - please read it. Add to the "Like" total when you're done. :) You can even read the comments. I did! I've received a lot of help from a lot of you over the past year, and especially the last few months, and as usual I can't properly convey my gratitude to all of you for letting me ... you know ... just be around a lot more. I continue to work on being less shy without the "help" of alcohol but getting nudged by the more extroverted amongst you, or even just the more "less introverted than me" amongst you, has been an enormous boost to me. I hope I've managed to occasionally reflect some of that energy back to you. I'll open up the house a lot more soon, too. I know you want to play with all the toys and rifle through the 12" singles. Originally I wanted to be better about sharing important/emotional stuff here, and I still admire so many of you who are able to do that here and make it look super easy, even when it isn't - especially when it isn't. I still strive to be more like you guys that way, but I think recently I've pivoted to just try to have more real life conversations without using Facebook at all...or at least keep it in Messenger instead of out here. Several of you (sparing names because I don't want to embarrass you OR me OR more likely I'd forget somebody and feel terrible later wow what a long parenthetical)... several of you have been really receptive and even encouraging about that and again, I can't thank you enough or properly repay you. I can keep giving you terrible presents from Dollar Tree, though. Or sometimes I can shut up and listen...I like that, too. Still not joining Tinder, though. This is ALSO something I've learned from many of you. I love you all. (That's an "I" count of thirty-two. BINGO)

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