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I am proud to be part of a particular small web community.
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For their privacy, I will not say which, nor how to find it,
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but I do want to take this space to say
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it is the sweetest, most supportive online space I have ever encountered,
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anywhere, in any period of this digital era,
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for as long as I have been alive to partake in it.
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The community in question is cherubic in character
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in a manner most remarkable for the internet:
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profoundly caring, almost completely free of hate or toxicity,
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and sincere in every encouragement and reassurance it provides.
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Without the stalwart companionship of its members,
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I cannot even begin to imagine where I would be. Probably dead.
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Certainly not spearheading a one-person game development studio
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in the thick of developing a 3D slope-runner platformer
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with all-original assets.
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While my relationship with any one such member is not all that strong,
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I consider their collective a closer friend
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than almost anyone I have ever known in real life,
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after none but my late mother, my uncle,
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and the taekwondo master who instructed me
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through my childhood and teenage years.
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I owe every single member, each by virtue of their membership,
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immense gratitude, from the bottom of my heart.
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