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<DIV>Welcome Josh!</DIV>
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<DIV>You can be Brannen--just pick a surname (though it's likely that Brannen the Brewer is already taken someplace in the SCA!! <IMG src="http://mail.yimg.com/a/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif">). I'm Theresa, and there are LOADS of Therese, Teresa, etc. around.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope to meet you on Friday!</DIV>
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<DIV>Lady Theresa of Cahir</DIV>
<DIV>Theresa Crean</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Brannen <brannen@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ponte-alto@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, June 5, 2011 2:00:31 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Ponte Alto] Introduction and Thanks<BR></FONT><BR><FONT size=2><FONT face=garamond,serif>Good morning Ponte Alto,</FONT></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=garamond,serif>I met a few of you this weekend, and I hope to meet more of you in the coming months. My name is Josh, a resident of Lorton, and I've been encountering the SCA and SCA folks in my life for years. I just finally got to a place where I decided to come out myself.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: small" face=garamond,serif>To the Baron and Baroness, the Deputy Chatelaine and the others I met this weekend - thank you for your welcoming words and kind acts. They were truly appreciated. I'm looking forward to meeting more of you on Friday. Until then.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: small" face=garamond,serif></FONT><FONT size=+0><FONT class=Apple-style-span face="garamond, serif">Josh (SCA name TBD since there's apparently already a Brannen who's a brewer in the locality...)<BR clear=all></FONT></FONT><BR>-- <BR>The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.<BR>-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>