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 My parents got divorced during the Burning Crusade.
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 Did you know there were wands in World of Warcraft? I betcha didn't.
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--- #2 messages/1372 ---
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 Story of my life...
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 I am most often known as the person who left their life
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 Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
 
 a thread in 19 parts
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 have I ever told you that I am my mother's firstborn after 7 or 11 stillborns?
 she was 35 or 38
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 people think the lord of the rings is historical fantasy. HA! most people
 believed whatever the pope didn't want them to believe. They acted holy when
 the magic men came to be, and the rest of the time they just danced like a
 spark.
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 I must play world of warcraft and I must play it soon
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 @user-1010 
 
 kinda makes me wonder how those mature kids are doing now.
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◀═[BOOST] ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  maybe i should just work on my memoir...                                  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                                         similar                      chronological                       different─▶

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 my father was a leader and my mother was a teacher.
 
 I look up to them every day.
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 I am cursed to break unwritten rules and damned to forget the most arbitrary
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 @user-1573 
 
 whenever they wanted
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 The fall of man, in pursuit of those who give a damn
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 I'm fine, actually. I'm just a mage class, so I act a little odd sometimes.
 Comes with the territory.
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 @user-1692                                                                       │
 almost 20 years ago I was groomed in World of Warcraft.                          │
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 I was 11, or maybe 9, somewhere in there. i talkd lik this bcuz i typed lik      │
 that on my razr flip phone                                                       │
 it was... cool I guess. I read a lot so I knew how to spell things, and anyway   │
 this guy I met told me that I sounded more grown up when I capitalized my        │
 words. So I told him I was 14, because that sounded like a reasonably old        │
 enough level to be.                                                              │
 anyway, we talked for a long time. like, at least a few years. started out       │
 like "hey wanna run Scarlet Monastary" ended with "hey cutie, wanna sit on my    │
 lap?"                                                                            │
 then his house got flooded by a hurricane and I never heard from him again.      │
 When I was like, 17 or so he logged in and barely remembered me. It was...       │
 kinda sad tbh.                                                                   │
 anyway that's my story don't be dumb like me, I got lucky, thank god,            │
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 oh and this one time when I was 30 I almost got trafficked in minecraft :O       │
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 Ride the truck TO battle, not into it.
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 @user-789 
 
 families can also break when their sons are slain
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 my favorite enemy is one you never need to fight.
 
 "they would give us a king, and you're worried about broken windows?"
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 my father was a CEO and my girlfriend runs a preservation company dedicated to
 slaying death
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 A fire upon the deep
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 Honor is the virtue you return to.
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 @user-1218 
 
 Stuff like that made me want to become a lawyer.
 
 I didn't, because while I can memorize a D&D textbook I can't recall much
 about legal rulings unless it has something to do with swords.
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 @user-763 
 @user-883 
 
 me three, and I was 13 T.T
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 "*we've been spending most our lives living in our master's paradise*"
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 Geek prayer? Preach brothers and sisters >.>
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 @user-171 they were part of our narrative growing up. or they fill some need
 that was forever unfulfilled.
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 @user-562 
 
 I have that book on my bookshelf, haven't read it since high school.
 
 Maybe I should again.
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 oh, also, he definitely knew me. He's probably reading this.
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 may all your victories be pyrrhic
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 There is very little human left in me. I don't mind.
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 The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
 in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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 @user-1015 
 
 Meanwhile, this is me:
screenshot of a mastodon post by Ritz-Menardi@gabrilend@tech.lgbt  number of tabs open: fifteen thousand  number of tabs in regular use: five  average distance between tabs: fifteen
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