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   Since this never circulated during the nostalgia hell earlier
today, figured I'd mention it.  This would be the earliest picture
of the club, fall '98, taken in Dey 113.  I can't put any names to
faces except for people most of you still know ('cept maybe Glenn;
glasses, upper right, he fucked up my Kendo Club), but it's inter-
esting to observe that at that point in time, I didn't know Justin,
Deandra, Jennifer, Lucy, or Deandra by name.  All I can tell you
about anyone else is that the big guy on the far left still has my
Virus Buster Serge subs.  As for folks you know: Ben was still sin-
gle; Deandra and Richard wouldn't be an item for a while; Jennifer
was the Flower Girl as opposed to the Great Tyrant; Erin was pres-
ident; Lucy, if she had any at all, probably owned only enough dou-
jinshi to fill a shoebox; and I still had a Ruri keychain hanging
from my jacket.
   Since then: half the people there have disappeared; Ben is
married; Jennifer has become the Great Tyrant; Lucy has enough
doujinshi to fill the vault of the Chemical Bank; Erin is at
Comiket and scoping You Higuri's assistant, to the intense envy
of the chronicler; and the Ruri keychain has been exchanged for a
little Motoko Aoyama zipper pull, or an Angelique Trois Ernst when
I'm in the appropriate mood.
   Ed, since some things never change, has not changed one bit.
   I wonder what happened to my "Nuke Me Slowly" shirt, now that I
see it again.  Haven't worn it in years.

DF "BAstard On Father's Day" S.