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Originally Posted by orthodoc

May I suggest that, rather than reading archived posts, you forge ahead and contribute to this community from your own perspective?

I respectfully disagree, but only with the word "rather" I think.
She communicated so well and with such force of personality when she was writing, that her posts here are a treasure trove. Yeah, there are plenty of post-its and bus tickets and even things she would have wanted burned, but it's still all her.

Originally Posted by glatt

I think as you read through her posts, you should keep in mind that she wasn't writing them with you as the intended reader. She was writing them to other people.

Also, reading individual posts by her will lose much of the context of those posts, you need to read through a whole thread and see what she said to get the full context. And to make things more difficult, conversations often are carried over from thread to thread with no obvious link. It's obvious at the time, but going back, you won't see it.

So keep all that in mind as you proceed.

But welcome!

I second this wholeheartedly.
Especially the reading around the topic thing. Sometimes I go back to individual posts and have to work out why and who, and I've been here for over a decade. You'd need Cliffs Notes (dunno if that translates) to get the whole thing, and even then some of it is just of it's time or just plain craziness. Specially because you know, it was your Mum. And she was friends with some other crazies. Like me.

But it's worth at least dipping into.
Just remember that you probably wouldn't want your Mum, or your girlfriend or even your best mate to read everything you've ever written...