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1. I'm originally from western Maryland.
2. I was one of the youngest people in my grade at school, since I was a fall baby.
3. I would have been one of the oldest if my nursery school teachers could have persuaded my mom to hold me back another year.
4. They didn't think I was "socially adjusted" enough to go to kindergarten.
5. Mom refused to keep me back, as I was already reading on my own.
6. Mom was a first grade teacher before I was born.
7. She didn't want to teach me to read, though, since she thought that I might have trouble adjusting to another teacher's methods.
8. I taught myself anyway.
9. I had a wide assortment of "pretend friends" when I was little.
10. Most of them were named after Warner Bros. characters.
11. One of them was Jesus, though.
12. My first best friend is still my best friend.
13. I haven't spoken to her recently, though.
14. I really, really miss her.
15. I used to sneak over to her grandma's house after school to watch forbidden Scooby Doo cartoons.
16. My mom wouldn't let me participate in any school activities related to ghosts or Halloween.
17. I remember sitting in the corner of my kindergarten room, reading to myself and cuddling a big stuffed dog, while the class watched Halloween movies.
18. I always had to make turkeys instead of jack-o'lanterns.
19. She wouldn't let us watch The Simpsons either.
20. I got my ears pierced in the fifth grade.
21. The gun jammed and I had to sit for forty-five minutes with it hanging from my ear while they called the manager of the shop.
22. I have no other piercings.
23. Can't say I want any, either.
24. I got contact lenses in the tenth grade.
25. My main argument for them was that my band helmet kept knocking off my glasses.
26. I was a huge band geek.
27. I played the bass drum in the marching band.
28. I was a darn good drummer.
29. We were coached by a Navy man who made us do push-ups for mistakes.
30. Once he made us run laps around the field wearing our drums.
31. I was never so glad to be female and not have to worry about the bouncing drum...
32. Even though I played at countless football games, I didn't learn the rules until college.
33. My first boyfriend tried to teach me the rules, but he made such fun of me that I gave up trying to listen.
34. My dad refused to teach me to play golf because I was a girl.
35. Eric and I are happily sports-impaired.
36. We thought that the SuperBowl was last weekend.
37. My brother was disgusted at me for not going to sports events when I was in college.
38. My favorite sport to watch is tee-ball.
39. My favorite sport to play is basketball.
40. I'm not good at it.
41. My dad was my junior high basketball coach.
42. Our team name was "The Tretorns."
43. I lettered four times in high school: Band, Theater, Academic, and Track.
44. I kept stats to earn my track letter.
45. In college, I earned money as an Eat 'n Park hostess.
46. And as a computer lab attendant.
47. And as a twice-weekly plasma "donor."
48. And as a nude model for the art department.
49. My parents only knew about the first two, though they knew that I "occasionally" went to the plasma bank.
50. The modeling was only scary for the few moments before I took off my robe for the first time.
51. The teacher made some sketches, too; he gave them to me at the end of the class.
52. I don't know where those pictures went.
53. Eric's old roommate probably stole them.
54. I'm only half-kidding about that; he was a little pervert.
55. He dated my college roommate while I dated Eric.
56. My roommate and I didn't get along, but we voluntarily lived together for two years.
57. She thought I was a slob; I thought she was arrogant.
58. The first year we lived together, our third roommate tried to commit suicide.
59. I was practically the only one I knew who hadn't spent time in the local mental hospital.
60. I was tempted to check myself in, though.
61. I almost overdosed on Vivarin during my freshman year.
62. I never took it again.
63. I got married when I was twenty-one.
64. Eric and I paid for most of the wedding ourselves.
65. He helped me pick out my wedding dress.
66. He also did most of our wedding registry.
67. Our first apartment was lovely.
68. It was also income-qualified. We only were able to get in because Eric hadn't yet found a job.
69. Our apartment complex was in the "City Crime" column every week.
70. Our second apartment was a royal dump, with a gaping hole under the sink.
71. Our third apartment was nice, but small.
72. We're in our fourth home now.
73. I got on the Internet for the first time in 1994.
74. It was with an account on the university's VM machine.
75. Playing online games while scrolling by page was almost enough to make me give up on the medium entirely.
76. During the summers between college years, Eric and I used to meet on MUDs instead of using the telephone.
77. Our family's first computer was a Tandy.
78. My first computer of my own was an old Toshiba laptop.
79. I can't listen to Sarah Maclachlan without flashing back to pillar candles and MUDding late at night in my first college apartment.
80. My first roommate was hugely addicted to MUDs.
81. One night, when a strange man entered our dorm room while I was gone, she ran down the hall to the computer lab and logged onto a MUD to ask for help.
82. Her boyfriend asked me to watch her and keep her off the computer.
83. He ended up being a stalker and following her everywhere until she got a restraining order against him.
84. I flipped my car the week after Eric proposed to me.
85. That was the same day my mom found out she had melanoma.
86. That was the last time I drove a stick shift.
87. My most recent car accident was with a pre-fashion design student who ran a stop sign.
88. Her mom later tried to claim that I'd run it, too.
89. I've never been in a fight.
90. When it comes to fight or flight, I fly every time.
91. Mostly, I try to talk my way out of problems.
92. I'm allergic to animal dander.
93. My brother blames me for his never having had a dog.
94. The only pets I've ever had are hermit crabs and guinea pigs.
95. Crab is my favorite seafood.
96. The correct way to eat crab is out of a brown paper bag, covered with Old Bay, on your back porch at dusk.
97. Good crab soup is impossible to find around here.
98. When I was in junior high, I dissected a shark.
99. It had two little babies inside.
100. I cried.