When I was nine or ten, I read Animorphs… a lot. I was active on the message boards and even tried to write my own story.1
One of the posters became an online friend of mine, AniJB.2 She hacked my email and played a joke on me along with another friend. But, aside from that, that’s all I remember.
A few years ago, I randomly thought of her, found her on facebook and reached out. She didn’t remember me at all, nor did she remember posting on those message boards. She was quite hostile, actually.
I shrugged, but it made me a bit sad that I had a fraction of a memory of a friendly acquaintanceship that had completely evaporated from her mind.
It’s not a real sorrow. We talked online for only a few months and I hadn’t thought about it in decades, but it still sticks in my mind. Maybe next post I’ll try to figure out why.
