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The Real Me


Aurelia

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I've noticed that people are very protective of their real identities around here. Very few use their real names or even post a photo of their real selves in their profile page. This is a virtual community so it's normal, I guess. But human curiosity is also natural so I imagine that after a while we all end up wondering what our virtual friends are really like in real life, what they look like and so on... Or is it just me??

 

I'm not revealing my true identity just yet but I thought I would at least give you a little glimpse of the "real me". Or at least of what I used to look like 20-odd years ago, hehe...

 

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This photo was taken on Christmas eve in 198?? - I'm the one with the startled look on the left, sitting next to my cousin (with a cast on her arm, poor thing). I think one of us must have been given a make-up set for Christmas and we were obviously testing it already. :D

 

Should anyone else have the "guts" to post their pic here, please feel free. :)

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Cute !

 

Guilty as hell, girl. Your cousin knows she'll get off scot free because she has a cast (poor thing !)

 

Formosus

 

[Edit] PS what does that motto of yours exactly mean ? Are you drinking in secret or what ? Or have I got that completely wrong ? My Latin is very poor you see.

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It's Nephele ... pre-Goth! Wasn't she cute?

 

I have never been pre-Goth! I frightened those deer, I'll have you know!

 

Nice pic of you, Jeremy. But I already told you that the first time I saw that pic. Give us a your baby pic now!

 

-- Nephele

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[Edit] PS what does that motto of yours exactly mean ? Are you drinking in secret or what ? Or have I got that completely wrong ? My Latin is very poor you see.

 

You mean my signature? It translates roughly as "is that a scroll under your toga or are you just happy to see me?". ;)

 

I think it's based on something Mae West once said to a police officer: "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?". Gotta love Mae West... ;)

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Awww....!

 

Here's one of me as a little kid, harassing Bambi at the Catskill Game Farm.

 

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-- Nephele

 

Haha, very nice! I had a thing for Bambies too when I was a kid. ;)

 

EDIT: Ursus, I second what Nephele said. Give us a kiddie pic. This way we can create a UNRV baby photo album. Wouldn't that be cute?

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LOL! Looks like she ate my lipstick as well... ;)

 

What? I thought that was hamster gore! ;)

 

-- Nephele

P.S. Aurelia, lets keep bugging Ursus until he gives up his baby/kiddie pic.

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LOL! Looks like she ate my lipstick as well... :)

 

What? I thought that was hamster gore! ;)

 

-- Nephele

P.S. Aurelia, lets keep bugging Ursus until he gives up his baby/kiddie pic.

 

Knowing you, I should have known what you meant, hehe. It does look like blood, come to think of it. Must have been so traumatised that I blocked it out of my memory. ;) My naughty cousin - she was a handful that one!

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I'm afraid I don't have a scanner, and thus I can't upload a kiddie pic.

 

Hmm... Can you take a pic of an old pic, and then download that from your camera? :D

 

-- Nephele

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EDIT: Ursus, I second what Nephele said. Give us a kiddie pic. This way we can create a UNRV baby photo album. Wouldn't that be cute?

 

Aha! I thought I'd remembered a thread somewhere on the UNRV board where a bunch of us had started posting our kiddie pics. And so I found it (postings from May-September of 2007): Summer of Love, 40th Anniversary.

 

The kiddie pics seem to have vanished over time, but we had kiddie pics posted by Northern Neil, The Augusta, Docoflove, and myself, and promises of kiddie pics from GPM and Moonlapse.

 

-- Nephele

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Aha! I thought I'd remembered a thread somewhere on the UNRV board where a bunch of us had started posting our kiddie pics. And so I found it (postings from May-September of 2007): Summer of Love, 40th Anniversary.

 

The kiddie pics seem to have vanished over time, but we had kiddie pics posted by Northern Neil, The Augusta, Docoflove, and myself, and promises of kiddie pics from GPM and Moonlapse.

 

-- Nephele

 

Pity indeed that the pics are gone! I would have loved to see them.

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Okay, for a limited time only, I will share a pic of myself. But, as Docoflove can tell you (when she visited me in NYC) I hate, hate, HATE pictures of myself. So I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I'm making here.

 

This pic was taken on the deck of Crabby Jerry's in Greenport, Long Island, where I was enjoying a crab salad. It's one of my favorite pics because of the giant osprey sculpture captured in the background (upper left of photo).

 

That's "Morning Call" by Roberto Julio Bessin. He created the sculpture as a memorial after the World Trade Center disaster, and it's made of the steel recovered from Ground Zero.

 

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Regardless of how much sunlight to which I may be exposed, I remain gothly pale.

 

-- Nephele

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Hey, great to see you Neph! You look great!

 

Ok, I'll also make a concession but, like you, I hate pictures of myself so I need to be careful. :D Let me see what I can dig up. Keep watching this space.

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Hey, great to see you Neph! You look great!

 

Ditto to that!

 

Ok, I'll also make a concession but, like you, I hate pictures of myself so I need to be careful. :D Let me see what I can dig up. Keep watching this space.

I am...anything come up yet?

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Boy, that was painful. I've finally come up with some pics I thought were reasonable. And since they'll only be here temporarily as well, I thought I'd give you more than one... :D These were taken in northern Mozambique last year.

 

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