I don't post my picture online, have in the past flaked out of planned meet-ups, post under multiple pseudonyms and email addresses throughout the web, decline to tell you my real name and address, and if you managed to find my unlisted phone numbers would discover that one was a New Mexico number and one was an Indianapolis number, neither of which are where I (claim to) live. I have deliberately avoided being visible on the web and am not, with the exception of my company. I am shy and have not met most of you and have never called any of you. Well, okay, except Steph, 'cause I needed directions to Graeters. Very important. I did meet some of you and some of you do know my name and company and where my house is. But I find lots of what we have under discussion here still falls under plausible deniability for me. There's also lots that remains inexplicable and problematic.Thank you for posting this, Liese. Good to remember that we are all only giving what we chose to here and online.
I hope we continue to communicate with each other and relate to each other regardless.We are all optimistic on that point, I think. I mean, I really hope we do, but the past couple of days have been ugly on a lot of sides.
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It's sad. There was definitely a poster named Gus. He posted. Many of us interacted. Now maybe the things he said about himself were true and maybe they weren't. Many people are focusing on this because they want something verifiable about his life and death. I - personally, very personally - don't give a damn about whether he lied about his life. But I do care about whether or not the person posting, that I had an online posting relationship with, is really dead or not. And finding that out? Requires finding things out. It's viciously circular.