Dear Community:

I just got a wave of thankfulness for all the great relationships I’ve been able to build over the last year. Although many of you I’ve not yet met IRL (that’s how all the cool kids say it), I know we will meet someday and I’ve enjoyed every moment of getting to know you all. Technology is so great when I can feel such a deep connection and such a sense of community and respect for someone I have not actually had the chance to meet.

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely have met IRL a lot of the people I consider part of my community and what a cool thing that is. It’s strange in a way the first time you meet someone you’ve only conversed with inside the twitterverse. But it’s a good strange, It’s a familiar and friendly kind of strange. It’s like catching up with a friend that you haven’t seen for years but know all the recent things in each others lives. It’s weird but great! I’m so excited that I have gotten to know so many people in my own town that I probably would not have met any other way.

So many great things have come out of being socially active. I have made business connections, landed jobs, made friends and been introduced into a world I have fallen in love with.

So thank you friends for being such a wonderful part of my experiences thus far!

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