For Dan
Dan Sandifer, who passed away on July fifteenth of this year, is the reason Lamplight Drivel exists. It's true. In early 2007 I had gotten back in touch with my old friend on the Classmates site. It had been nearly twenty years since I'd last seen him, during his weekend leave from the Navy, three years after we had graduated from high school. It was a gas to communicate with him again, a guy I knew since kindergarten. He alerted me to his blog, one mainly devoted to his progress on his lifelong quest, to find his birth parents. As an addendum, Dan did finally reunite with his birth mother in 2020. He asked if I had a blog. It never occurred to me to start one. What was so interesting about me? I always considered blogs to be highly personal, like online diaries. I was coming out of a dark period during graduate school at that time. Admittedly now with enough time to actually compose some thoughts in c...
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