Awww. Thanks.

I just wanted to say a final farewell to everyone I have encountered here. Some good and some bad, but I leave with nothing bad in my heart. The Sandbox was a big part of my life for a little while. I showed my son the Lost page and told him how I had a username and his Dad had a username and we would send a message to each other and that's how we met. There happened to be a person making annoying posts to flood that message board and he said "is that a trollface?" I have no idea how he know that, it must just be in his blood. I'm glad he is old enough to understand.

We often used the phrase "IRL" or "real life" here before. But this is real life on here. So many dynamic personalities, I remember leaving to go on break at work and laughing as I walked out the door, probably looking loopy because this place could be comedic gold. Typing on here reminds me of smoking, of MSN messenger, of MYSPACE with it's overloaded backgrounds. This is the last place I will ever be able to be a character.

I am Mom to the best big brother and the best little sister - they literally would not be here without the boards. Meeting someone on here was wonderful but also hard! We had to live together after only visiting each other. We didn't have the typical process of dating in the same location. We had to learn a lot about each other almost instantaneously and we hit a lot of road blocks. Sometimes it almost split us apart. But I always went back to the times we had to part after a visit and how I cried so hard, harder than I ever cried in my life. And of course this was a time when it wasn't the norm to meet someone on the internet, especially not being nerds on a movie website. I think it brought us strength so for that I am very thankful. We met for a reason. I met ALL of you for a reason. Some people I still talk to nearly everyday, some people know many personal things about me.

You are my very real friends and I thank you for being a part of this big, beautiful mess called life!!