I really lurve @Val123, and would like to share a story about how I came to know her here on fluther. I think you’d agree that @Val123 stood out immediately when she first burst upon the scene here. It was apparent she was good natured and a lot of fun and just a little bit (or perhaps more), crazy. She seemed a “people person”, personable, approachable and a jelly anyone would love to count as a friend. But I had a problem with her when I first saw her , and I refrained from sending her one my “welcome to fluther” PMs I so enjoy dropping on someone new who catches my eye.
The thing is, she shares the name of my ex-wife, and her first couple of posts read to me exactly as if they had been written by my ex. And, @Val123‘s fluther bio was completely blank for at least several days after her joining, further adding intrigue to an imagination that was already convinced that she was indeed my ex. And, that would be the fun, wild and crazy ex with whom I had remained close friends with after an amicable divorce but who, in time, would inexplicably betray me. So I avoided her.
But then there was a question here on fluther, regarding what in particular we liked about fluther and I posted that the PM system was dear to me and that I cherished the hundreds of PMs I had traded with many a jelly here. And then another jelly posted that my PMs were very nice, or something like that, and then@Val123, (along with a couple others) , posted (or sent me a PM) noting that they had never received a PM of mine and felt slighted.
So naturally, I would head to @Val123s profile to send her a PM, that I figured I would carefully craft. But I didn’t need to. Her bio, now complete was evidence that she was not my ex, altho, it further illustrated just how fun and crazy she really is. I shared that story with @Val123 and we both had a good laugh. And here, 10,000 lurves later, she is just as fun and still a little bit crazy as she was back then. And that is why I lurve @Val123 and consider her a fine fluther friend.
Congratulations @Val123! See ya…...Gary/wtf