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1. Brett says:

   Wednesday April 2, 2008 at 10:06 am

   Plenty of people read this site. Dangerous loners, autistic kids, American Sign Language-fluent Bonobo chimps, Jesus (My Lord and Savior, Praise Jesus), Jesus’ uncle Louie (Louis Christ), the dis-enfranchised, the Illuminati, the enemies of metal, and myself. We all whine sometimes, don’t worry about it.
2. Val says:

   Sunday April 6, 2008 at 8:23 pm

   Hi, Justin–

   I’ve been reading you for awhile and emailed you once, I think, but I want to write here “officially” now to let you know that something you wrote here last year helped me a lot while I was sorting out some things. In one post last year–that you would probably call whiney and a bummer –you wrote, “I think it takes an element of unhappiness to find what really makes you happy.” When I first read that, I emailed the line–and a link to the blog-post–to myself, and I found myself thinking about it a lot last year. I was pretty down and miserable in 2006 and spent all of 2007 changing things and setting out to make a better and happier life for myself. And things are really good these days: A job I like better than the one I had before )although I too share your mega-student loan debt and all those concerns [The job I have now isn't ideal, but it's better], I moved to a new city and in with my boyfriend here last fall, and I generally just feel like I’m finding my way out of a dark pit. Your “Gripes and Nostalgia” post and that line from it from way-back just helped me sort out a bunch of those things.

   This is all sounding cornier than I’d like, so I’ll wrap it up, but thank you–belatedly, obviously–for writing out those old “whines.” I didn’t read them as whines at all, as you can see: I just read them as thought-sorting, and I’m grateful you shared them here. Best Wishes, Val
3. Justin says:

   Sunday April 6, 2008 at 8:33 pm

   Wow, thats a really nice comment from a complete stranger. Speak up a little more from now on and it might encourage me to write more.

   What city did you guys move to?
4. Val says:

   Monday April 7, 2008 at 4:07 am

   I’ll comment more often now, sure.

   We’re in Pittsburgh. Mike’s been here a few years, and I lived about an hour and a half away.