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I got my first e-mail

Posted August 31, 2001 5:11 PM.

I got my first e-mail today via friendsreunited.co.uk and already I'm wondering why on earth I put my name onto it. I'm seeing all these names that haven't even entered my head for over ten years and I'm thinking, "Why? Why did I ever think I'd be even vaguely interested in going back through all that crap again?" I can't really imagine that I want to be friends with those people, nor can I conceive of enough antipathy to exact bitter and bloodthirty revenge on most of them. Which makes me ask myself again why on earth I put my name onto the service in the first place. Spectral names from the past: "Canton Anguish", "Robert Barnes", "Rick Cullen", "Ed Gillespie", "Richard Dearsley" exhumed from my mental graveyard like zombies. I need advice.

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