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    marye
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    Since the original topic now has hundreds of introductions and is getting a bit hard to navigate, this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one. The original is here, should you wish to catch up on the who's who since this opened up in May. If you haven't introduced yourself yet, please do! And if you already have, but have something new to tell us about you and your life, speak up! (A bit of housekeeping business so we don't have to repost everything we posted before--izzie and I are the moderators here, and for our more extensive intros see the original topic.) Thanks and welcome!

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  • Bardon
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    Hi!
    Hello family/friends, I do consider myself to be a deadhead. I've been listening to the dead ever since I could safely say 4-5 years old. I am currently 18 years of age, and my love only grows stronger for them. When I can recount my youngest memories of being a child, like first learning how to tie my shoes, or learning how to swim. Or, even just being around the people I loved as a child. The Grateful Dead was always playing, and I believed they are the reason why I am today. I am a person who just wants to share love, and happiness to the people around me. And, if I can do that in my days work. My day is complete. The man that introduced me to The Dead when I was a child, I do not speak much with anymore, he seemed to grow away from my close family. And, what I would do now since I haven't seen him in so long. And, just to give him the biggest hug, and looking at him. And saying, I thank you for showing me the music that changed my life. And, it has and always will....Wellp, I could keep rambling on, and on for an introduction. But, I hope to get too know you all more, and ill be around posting some comments. Peace and love
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    Hi im new here
    Hi everyone,The name is jay and im from the washington dc area. Im 22 years old im libertarian, and i am a huge fanatic of music. I listen to all kinds of music but my favorite genres are 60s rock/psychedelic rock, jam bands, 90s hiphop, grunge rock and 90s rock in general, and jazz (especially miles davis, dave brubeck, john coltrane). I work for a company that makes flight simulators for the government and its ok but i have to tend to tone myself down at work because im brutally honest and say whats on my mind and some people may think my views may be radical so i tend to wear chaps at work and be productive yet when im home i jam with my bluegrass band, shoot shotguns at targets (yes im a gun owner but no i dont hunt, weird huh?), and love just having a good time just as long as everyone respects keepin the noise down for my neighbors. I am a psychonaut and occasionally use psychedelics but only once or twice a year and with serious spiritual responsible intent. I love people and i love expressing my freedom of speech by protesting and being a activist for many causes (i do live in dc afterall!). Today is my first day on the board and i look forward to coming on here often. Peace and love!
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    Hello again all ... :D
    Hi, thank you for the warm welcomes ... I have been a deadhead most of my life. I grew up around my deadhead uncles. I've been to 3 shows in Orlando. As you all probably know the dead didn;t like coming to florida. At the time I was in a 'different world'. But I always have enjoyed the dead. I went on and experienced different types of music to see what it was all about. Next thing you know ... Here comes my knight in shiny tye die armor. Sweeps me off my feet. And re-interduced the dead to me. Its nice to be back ... Even though I've been a back seat dead.net member for over a year. lol ... I hope to get to know you all ... oh wait I already do ... lol ... j/k ... Sorry I like to joke around a lot so don't take me too seriously except when it comes to gardening & my love for the Dead. I was glad to hear when the hubbyman (aka Stuman) suggested to Ms Marye about the Mother Earth forum. I'll be there soon. I have read alot of the post .. Great Forum ... Thank you Ms Marye :D I'll see you all around in the different forums.
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    A poem for the Dead "Family", please read!
    I am the one the bus got its new set of tires for in 88 and the reason the orange got cooked. Bobby and Mountain girl please pay attention to my poem and I hope you read and like it. Thank You Bobby for staying so healthy and clean to keep the strongest hand on the torch all these years. What a great trip it was.... Two 357 magnums, barely able to stand, the astrologer saw him from far away and when the young boy came to the crossroads she knocked over tables to bear witness to the crowd of many the glory of the golden light only she could see and the look in her scared eyes was that she knew he had finally found his people and that meant the end was in sight. Sage filled the air as the skirted rainbow warrior walked across the lawn and the Jew dropped a bag of gold on the ground as he said his goodbyes. When the young boy jumped the fence, a bear walked out of the woods with a yellow flower behind his ear and without a word spoken, the lady laid on me his rose and that's when it truly all began....for everyone. The deer all fled in despair after the dust settled the morning after and the girl from the mountain knew she had been right all along and the orange sky reminded her of why her family had came so prepared. When she finally heard from the boy again, twenty years had went by but they boy had never left the hill. As he sat on the final hump on the hill, the girl from the mountain asked him, "you now understand they gave you everything you ever wanted, you know everything is right on time, and you are relaxed knowing you'll still get pushed back out one more time, so why is it you are crying so hard my dear? "I already cry for the future little ones. I came back out this year and I can't get any of these kids to appreciate my stories so if it always takes me this long to remember who I am, how will I get the little ones down under to appreciate what it was like to have high times on the green grass, a blessing from God even for the short time it was? Oh well, I'm ready anyway so let's get this peace started once and for all......bye everyone..." they're never gonna miss us.... I love you all...stay high, keep movin, give everything away....
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    Yes Fanny
    what Marye said , Make yourself at home ! We`r glad to have you !!
  • marye
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    welcome Fanny
    this isn't exactly like being at a show, but there are good folks here. Make yourself at home!
  • fanny83
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    hello
    i stumbled onto this sight looking for an old friend....lost count of number of shows..tried looking at the lists and i can't even remeber all of the venues..all i know is that there is no other place or feeling of this earth like being at a show...it is really not something i can describe with words..sadly, i have not found anything to replace that feeling..it is the music and the experience i remember..not the numbers or the venues...the music will never leave my soul..neither will the friends i made along the journey
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    hey birdsong
    glad you landed here and found a happy home!
  • Birdsong1969NJ
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    Today marks one year as a member of Dead.net
    I usually live in the Vineyard, and posted there as well, but I just want to say that you to all that contribute to this site as it is constantly improving and evolving. Thank you Rhino for making this happen. A big thanks to Marye our peaceful curator who basically lets the members run the site with a little tug on the reigns from time to time. Thanks to all I have connected with here. The biggest thanks goes to the Grateful Dead who helped me map my path, expand my reality, and basically rock the fuck out! Love to all- geoff "Say you'll come back when you can Whenever your airplane happens to land Maybe I'll be back here too It all depends on what's with you."
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    Upstate South Carolina - needs to meet fellow pranksters
    boarded the bus sometime in '87 after listening to aoxomoxoa missed the '88 shows in atlanta, no money atlanta '89 first show, after that, 'no money' was never a good enough excuse to miss a show santa clara fall '89 to fall '95, saw as much as i possibly could back to home town spartanburg, sc damn... "nothing lasts" been too long now the cobwebs are collecting in the brain greensboro '09! yes! finally my people! So here I am... Borderline desperate for find some locals who share the same path as myself. If you are in my area, let me know! If you know how I can connect to the local scene, let me know! I work as an audio/video professional at a local college. I'm a geek into computers, Dungeons & Dragons, amateur rocketry (ok, I was into amateur rocketry before 9/11, I'm pretty much regulated out of a hobby now.) I play guitar on and off.
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Since the original topic now has hundreds of introductions and is getting a bit hard to navigate, this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one. The original is here, should you wish to catch up on the who's who since this opened up in May. If you haven't introduced yourself yet, please do! And if you already have, but have something new to tell us about you and your life, speak up! (A bit of housekeeping business so we don't have to repost everything we posted before--izzie and I are the moderators here, and for our more extensive intros see the original topic.) Thanks and welcome!
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...Matt Wallack hereSoon to be entering into the forty-something crowd, I live my life securely in the placate of my family which includes my wife of 12 years Lori, my daughter Madison and our dog Bijou. My hair began to turn gray around the time my daughter started school and over the past four years I’ve learned to live with the fact that I’m no longer the state championship cross country runner I was in high school. We make our home resting on the Tug Hill Plateau in upstate New York at the foothills of the serene Adirondack Mountains…truly a treasure to behold is my place on the map. I am fortunate to be blessed with a remarkable collection of friends who together I have been a part of for over 25 years. My true passion is music, both my own and, more importantly, that which inspires me. I "discovered" the Grateful Dead & The Allman Brothers Band in 1989 and became fully immersed. Though I was never fortunate enough to attend a Grateful Dead show, I have been a big fan for appx. 15 years and have enjoyed catching glimpses of their live prowess from attending a few PL&F shows. Incredible site you have here! Looking forward to hanging around for a while.
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Marye made a funny...welcome matt..... heheanyway,you'll like it here Matt....welcome!!
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Sorry everyone i never formally introduced myself. I have been on DeadNet for some time, maybe about a year or so, before this new site. Anyway since i am in some heated conversations about current politics etc i figure i should give a breif introduction of myself. Here we go ( i have just posted this in my personal etc etc) Was born on Thanksgiving November 25th 1975 and started seeing the Dead as young as 2 years old. (Mostly upstate NY shows etc. Really started understanding the Dead when I was about 17 years old and started taking off on tour and at this point starting my venture on the golden road. I was seeing a lot of Phish at the time as well and spent about 10 solid on GD and Phish tours (combined of course), which the end of my road came in late 2000 when I had to make an important decision whether to live or die pretty much. The road can really take a toll on ones bones, so I decided to go to University and did so and long story short used both the knowledge I learned on the road, living in the woods in Colorado, and Uni and somehow ended up being able to say "So Far So Good." The GD is my core and I have left the music, but always to return, and now I am back in my GD phase with a vengeance!!! I am married and have a very beautiful Chinese wife and a very beautiful daughter here in Shanghai, China. I spend most of my time traveling the world for business, being a father, working, and I find time to get pissed drunk on a Friday night and find myself begging the D.J. to play some GD. I am a very persuasive person so I usually get my way on this one!! Cheers everyone and I look forward to talking to you and possibly meeting you. I have been to about 50 GD shows (Jerry passed when I was 19) and about 270+ (cant really remmber, could be about 320 whatever) Phish shows until I left the scene in late 2000. I am into the Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, anything African or Middle Eastern, and find myself back into Zeppelin, early Moody Blues, Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Anything with percussions (Thai tribal) etc.
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It sounds like you've had quite a ride. I've found myself tipsy & begging the ol' DJ for some Dead as well:-) You can probably guess which 3 songs were played Thank You & Leave it ON PEACE
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Please tell me more about you and your family. How many children do you have? The only way to live forever is to have children and to leave a positive mark on there minds and give them experiences that they can pass down to your grandchildren. So on so forth.
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and keep on enjoying the ride!Peace, Gigi
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Any chance it was St. Stephen/Eleven/Lovelight?oh, well... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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your statement is a stab in the heart of those unable to have children, lost a child or those who choose not to because of environmental reasons such as overpopulation. . Please be more sensitive. The only way? I belive that we also live on in our works and deeds and how they impact the world around us and the future. The karma that we have created on many levels. I am happy that you find joy in your child, but not everyone has that. please no superiority to others because of your good fortune. People lose a child and then have to endure statements like this. That is doubly hard. thanks If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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but typed the last one too fast without recheckingbelieve it or not If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Sorry about that but it was a general statement and please do not take it personally. This could also apply to adoption or being a positive role model for someone else. Please do not take any offense to my "live forever comment." This is just something that i came up with during my quest to find out what happens after we die. Since after I die I will be unable to think I am trying to think now so that I can cover my ass when I am dead. Another way to live forever is to build a library or other monuments. My point is that you live on in someone’s memory and as long as you keep the memory from one generation to the next, then you can live as long as that memory is remembered. The only way to do this is to leave a positive memory behind. Does this make any sense? Am I rambling on now, sorry you caught me off guard and I feel bad. Anyway peace
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hey, I'm Daniel mata. i'm 18 years old and I've been a fan of grateful dead for about 2 months. my favorite album is built to last, it was released a few days after i was born lol and on my favorite holiday. my second favorite album is American beauty, i like almost every track on that one. i'm a very relaxed person, sort of like i'm naturally stoned, I've just been a go with the flow person my whole life.
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Im Really glad to be here, It brought back a lot of memories from the future dead and past times. Thank you. Thanks.
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I've been on here for a little over a week now and there are many areas to investigate/read, and FINALLY am getting around to saying hello to all and introduce myself. Some of you (users, mods, family) I've already been in touch with and thanks for the kindness. I'm Tom, Portland Oregon resident and fan of the GD since 1974 but didn't purchase my bus pass until 1979. Am I that old? Geeez! ; ) Anyway, I'm really glad that there is a site like this where all of us fellow Brothers & Sisters can communicate, share, gather, reminisce, etc. Not to mention moving onward in our lives with the inspiration and learnings and all those other unspoken things that the Grateful Dead gave us. And the beauty is, at least for me, it wasn't like they purposely did what they did. Call it coincidence, call it part of the big cosmic plan. That to me is the beauty of the whole GD experience, knowing, but at the same time, not knowing. Hunter and Garcia summed it up just right with the Crazy Fingers ending lyric about reaching for the gold ring down inside, never can reach it, just slips away, but I try. The Grateful Dead were a tool, a signpost, a mystical mind boggling fun loving mind blowing friendship making message machine. I hope one day that I grasp that ring. And all of you are there at some point too. One big happy family of people who have a little bit of that "other" that not everybody in our great big world is lucky enough to get a taste of. I share my art here and my words, and look forward to making new friends and re-acquainting with old one's through this site. Thanks to those who take the time to make it a fine place to be in cyberspace. Tom Mittemeyer ( The AllTomMitt Drawing Machine)
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I just joined y'all this morning having been referred here by my online pal, Angel of Mercy... waves to Angel... I have been a deadhead for a tad over 30 years having seen my first concert in the early 70s. I have seen them at Winterland, Henry J. Kaiser, Golden Gate Park, the Panhandle, Grass Valley, Monterey, Donner, Kezar, Oakland Collieseum, Berkeley and a couple other places around here I don't recall. I became a fan the first time I saw them and I have to say, that I sure miss seeing them and my "family". There was/is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert. Phish came close... but, they're just not the same... I bought my first spiral tie dyed T-shirt at a show in Berkeley in 1983 and now have enough to wear a different one every day for a month... laffs... and wear them I do. Obtw, I usually post on political/adversarial forums where I debate various topics with whom I refer to as methane breathers, so it will be fun and refreshing to post on a forum of like minded individuals.
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bakalot, danielmata,TheStripey1 and Tom Mittemeyer So glad you made it, enjoy the site....we do!!!!!!!!! Peace, Gigi
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couldn't figure out who you were refering to marye, but now i see. and yes ,yes welcome to the show that never ends. oh,nice art work tom. peace2all tc
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Oh yes, after reading a few posts, I recall a couple more venues where I saw the Dead that I hadn't earlier... silly me... CalExpo and Shoreline...
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I have a question about the artwork in the Fan Photo section of everyone's accounts. Are those each individuals' own creations or ones that have gathered throughout their lifetimes? And... how do I upload a pic for my avatar? as I decided not to use the snarling fierce eyed tiger I use on those other sites I mentioned, thinking that a more mellower one would be in order here...
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ok, thanks to GiGi, I got the avatar in and I've been uploading some of my artwork and I have a question about that. Will they appear, when they are approved, in my account or somewhere else?
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Fancy meeting you here, you Big Ol' Cat! This is actually my first post in the forum, although I've put up comments here and there in other places around these parts. (You may notice I haven't selected an avatar as yet...of course, by the time you read this, I may have put one up and it will have become retroactive.) You've seen a whole bunch more shows than I have--you lucky stiff!--because I'm a Midwesterner and they simply play more locally on the Left Coast than they do in Ohio. I miss Jerry Garcia to this day... Be cool and keep rockin'!
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Heyyyyyyy mannnn, whaaaaasup?? Nice place this, filled with very groooovy folks, extremely talented, mellow, wonderful and caring... epitomizin' the dead experience... dang I miss the shows... the ride there seeing all the cars with dead stickers on them converging on where ever it was... the parking lot... the crowd... the crafts... and of course... the music... all of it... Jerry was sure right when he sang "I know you, rider"... yep... sure do, Jerry, sure do...
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your pix should now be up in Fan Photos.
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yes, they are, thanks...
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...because, other than some great music, you never knew exactly what was going to happen. You might meet a friend you hadn't seen in years or find the best tie-dye you ever saw in your life. And the parking lot party was always in session...
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Maritime Hall in SF... I saw many a dead-esque show there... two of my favorites were the Reggae does the Dead shows... ooooooowheeee, do I love reggae music... saw Zero play there many times too... y'all hip to Zero?
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Hi i'm Vault a UK Deadhead, Just popping in to say hi to all the faithful and great job here on the new dead.net site, It's a fitting tribute and a great website. Thanks
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Grate to meet you, I'm from NJ USA... I think you will like it here!! :) Have a grate day! Peace, Gigi
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Hi Everyone...My name is Tom :) I found God, or the dead back in 93. I was fortunate enough to see the dead a few times before their departure. I am really into my family and my music. I enjoy getting out to see someone at least once a month. My four kids and my wife are why I function. I t gets stressful day to day life having four kids four and under. Managing a career a familt etc...I am seeking the light on a daily basis~ God knows the dead make it a clearer at times :)
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Hello all,Amazing site! I'm stoked to be here. I started listening to the Dead back in 1979 when I heard Box of Rain. It sounded nothing like other music I was listening to at the time (REO Speedwagon, Dan Fogelberg, Foghat, Yes, Elton John), so it really grabbed my ear. There was something organic there which transported me to the great outdoors. So I bought American Beauty and must admit, I didn't like the whole album at the time (I do now!) I really only dug Friend of the Devil and Box of Rain. But, as they say, the Dead are an acquired taste and I slowly but surely came to love it all. For a long time I only liked Jerry tunes and thought Bobby's were rather lame (I don't think that anymore!). I didn't start going to shows until the mid-eighties. My favorite Dead at the moment is 69-77. Like many of you I am a Dark Star freak. Love it when they open a show with it, and we get right out into space.
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Hey everyone. My name is Marty and I'm a huge Grateful Dead fan! Hope to see you all around the message boards soon.
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Hello, friends and darlings! I used to be one of your moderators here, but my day job is extremely demanding, and my personal life is somewhat overwhelming. I am, for those concerned, alive and well. I drink too much, smoke too many after hours cigarettes, and haven't been to the beach hardly at all lately. But I'm okay. I will be around more often in the days and weeks to come. smooches all around, izzie
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Welcome back. Glad you are still around and doing well. Thanks for your recommendation on the Waybacks.Did see them with Hot Buttered Rum and will see them again next month at 10,000 Lakes Festival. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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I hope I'm posting this right. I love to dance and eat brownies. I live by the beach in Orange County. California..Anyone going to shows in LA/SD area.
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I was wondering where you went....glad to see you again!
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Wonderful to see your voice again! pk
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Great to see you! Thanks for checking in!!!
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I am inviting you all to check out my Dead show Shakedown Stream on mvyradio.com. It debuts every week on Tuesday at 5pm @mvyradio.com. But, you can listen to the archived shows and podcast it too. Itz awesome !!!!!
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Geeze. Where do I even start? Was there ever a FixSeen command line installed?
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no, from that standpoint, things are much as you remember. Discussion continues behind the scenes but for the moment, no fixseen.
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I *can* report that the chat room, after much sturm und drang, seems to be working pretty well, so that might be one way to catch up.
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My name is Dommee from Clearwater FL...Well, I'm a woman with simple pleasures, simple dreams in life. I delight in eating popcorn while watching a movie, listening to good music, dining out with my family, reminiscing good old days with friends, walking along the beach ... watching the sunset. I'm a sentimental person because I tend to keep things others may consider junk like scraps of papers, chocolate wrappers... - anything that defines a special moment in my life. I abhor people who lie and pretend to be someone they're not. I loathe people who like playing games...spare me, please. I am an honest soul. I believe that what goes around comes around. ________ :- )
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I'm an az dead head, cant wait to meet you all!