In the 90s I had the screen name lebbor. I was on AOL. My favorite chatroom was philosophy. I don’t remember much except that people would say things like Pantera rox for no apparent reason.
It took me an unforgivingly long time to figure out what lol meant. I pictured chatters lolling their tongues out for some reason when funny things were said, and oddly, in my mind this made sense.
But there were rooms designated for different interests. I met a girl. Kira, named after the protag from Rand’s Anthem I believe.
She was groovy. Whip smart like Juno, only in her teens. Philosophical or goofy, she could do both and it seemed that doing both was an important statement. A way.
Writing can be a fingerprint of the soul. This is true on a forum or in a book. Hers was formidible and undeniably recognizable and felt like kin in the wiring. wonder what she’s up to these days…some 16 years later.
