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If my memory doesn't fool me, I joined Gaia in March 2003, bearing the name "Alcarcalimo".
Back when Joker was making the streets unsafe, I decided to join the GPD.
Shortly after, I created Gaia's S.W.A.T. force.
Working closely together with the GPD, or so I tried to make myself believe, S.W.A.T. and I witnessed the late stages of Joker's grip on Gaia's citizens, had a slight quarrel with the Yakuza and did some other things which might or might not be remembered.
Alcarcalimo was soon joined by another account of mine: Maki.
Maki initially started to provide a story for S.W.A.T. and the GPD to work on together, having stolen the princess' crownjewels.
The GPD's chief and I were running around in that thread, searching for her, yet the story died and the GPD's boss left, apparently returning some time later.
About a month after I joined, I noticed more and more spammers and weird people appearing and the amount of users rised enormously.
Hotmail decided not to send me any more E-mails coming from this forum, so I sat in the dark, not having saved my favorite threads to my IE-favorites.
Many idiots came, but many well-spoken gaians came as well. As the users rised, so did the errors.
Initially, I didn't see many errors and the site looked mighty interesting from the beginning, yet I started to get annoyed when certain things weren't going the way they should've gone.
Having been around Arwen for a long time, I saw her grow to be one of Gaia's more influential people.
I'm kinda proud of her and of having known her before.
Maki went for a short period, then I decided to 'bring her back to life', as it were... finally deciding to throw Alcarcalimo in the dustbin instead.
The forums have grown considerably over the year and many nonsense can be found, while one or two threads tend to stick out to me on a common day.
Unfortunately, it now seems as though gold-fever has struck amongst Gaia's residents.
Were the prices nice and low, the items well made and not directly pointing to anything in particular, now I seem to notice clothing which look mysteriously like a certain pop-star... a certain B. Spears.
I've donated since July, because PayPal decided to only give me the money then, so I missed only the halo (The only thing yet missing to complete my Angelic set..), yet I think the 3 donation items per user rule was better than the one there is at the moment, although it is true I take advantage of that new rule.
Gaia has grown. Both in size as in errors and I've seen both young (under 13) and old (over 30) post with eagerness.
God knows I've made mistakes while being a resident here, my most shameful one having been the fact that I sold nearly all donation items I owned, one of which I seem to have lost 99000 gold on, according to the G.E.N., and the fact that it still bothers me shows I'm not unaffected by the Goldfever either.
I can only say one thing to Gaia and it's crew: Keep the torch burning and I'll stick around!
More recently, I've found myself a family and a new home here, seeing as how I found out I was transsexual and cried over Cigarette's situation, then gripping myself together as I saw the sheer amount of users who live with her each day she remains on this earth.
I, for one, cannot believe she will die and hope she outlives Gaia's existence, although I hope Gaia won't die before me.
I hope I haven't bored anyone with my rambling, yet I know I haven't said everything I could say yet.
Trusty Gaian for at least another year, I salute thee, Gaia, and wish thee a long and prosperous life!
Maki
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