Everyone, I've received a note from Lis, Michael's friend:
Hello Rick,Lis here..i came to say hi and saw what you are doing for Mike..its quite emotional and i thought this was,just a game. But its more..I was reading all of these topics under Mikes play name and copied this as,it may help you...
(this portion copied, I believe, from a post of Michael's that Lis found)
Oh..some of the alias' you may know a bar of soap,a blade of grass,a homeless person,an old woman,bellybutton lint,a shopping cart,blues clues,a piece of lint(luv the lint thing),grape koolaid,a bag of skittles,some string,Vampire PRIEST, Vampire Monk,Vampire Padre( on the vamp kick),a no armed man,hot bacon grease...annnnnd thats all i can remember,sheeesh,maybe i do have a personality disorder.
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Thank you, Lis.
Reading those names spins me right back to countless moments when I'd enter a game or he would and I'd know without having to ask that a name that hilarious could only be him. I'd type "ms", or just "m" and he'd type back, "rw" or "r". And that would be that.
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