Who am I?
i've posted this elsewhere but since I seem to be spending a lot of my time here I'll say it again.
I'm Lauren, I live in Vienna, Maine, about an hour and 45 minutes or so north of Leslie (considering that I have a lot of back roads to travel before really starting to head south). I'm 58, I was divorced this morning after 14 years of marriage (
), have a college-age son and a big black-and-white cat living at home with me, and work for an educational non-profit. I was raised in Florida but have been in Maine since 1974, and spent part of that time training and owning standardbred race horses. It's been 23 years, though, since I've owned horses.
I started seeing the movie in February and saw it seven times in the theatre. I've only watched it all the way through on the DVD a couple of times because I'm just not ready for the sadness again just yet, but I've been reading fan fiction since April (including madlori, Someone New, and A Love Born From Steel) and have enjoyed it tremendously. I started out on Dave's board ("junior") and came here because of Leslie and her love of Ennis and Ellery, and just kind of hang around.
I'm an introvert who is striving to be more Jack (although I'm in love with Ennis) and have started making some positive changes in my life that I hope to follow through on and improve upon, all thanks to Jack and Ennis. We'll have to wait and see how it all turns out.