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cmr107:
I've only met Celeste (YaadPyar) and Andrew (littledarlin), who both live here in the Chicago area. They are both wonderful, and I had a great time. I would LOVE to go to one of those big get-togethers!

belbbmfan:
i almost met louisev and mainwriter this summer in london  :(

but i met Jude, Pipedream, Penthesilea and her friend Kirsten, saucycobblers, mikaela, becky and her mum and of course Jura86 in london this month. I was wonderful. it just feels like you've know these people for a really long time!

but those numbers ain't what i'd hoped for neither. But i'll definitely get my numbers up next year in Alberta!!! yeeehaaaw  :)

Mikaela:
One month ago I'd met exactly two Brokies; Meryl and Two_mules.

But the last two weekends saw me joining first the EURO Brokie weekend in London, then the NYC Bruncheroo with additional meet-ups in the days following that. Now I can safely say I'm in the 21-40 Brokies met category.

And I can truthfully say that every Brokie I've met has been a distinctly wonderful person!  :) These meetings have been another way in which BBM the story and film has very much enriched my life.

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: Mikaela on September 29, 2006, 09:57:49 am ---These meetings have been another way in which BBM the story and film has very much enriched my life.

--- End quote ---

Ditto! It's unbelievable, what a movie (story) can trigger. Sometimes when I step back to think about the whole phenomenon called Brokeback Mountain, I still feel amazed and hardly can believe it. Hardly can believe what it has done to me, to my life.
And to think it is just the same for so many other people, that's... wow!

Two weeks ago, I had never met any Brokie in RL, except for my friend and fellow Brokie from the same village. But never someone I knew from the internet. But two weeks ago, I was in London and met belbbmfan, Mikaela, Jude, Anke, Becky, Becky's mom, James and saucycobblers.
And I too felt like I had known those people for a long time.

I guess Brokie meetings are as addictive as this forum, because I had thought the London gathering would be a one shot thing. It was a crazy idea to attend it, born directly after our fourth viewing of BBM in theatre on our way home. We thought: let's do something crazy, something we would normally never do.
But now I want to go to another Brokie meeting. One shot thing - as if!  ;D
I'll never be able to make it to the other side of the big pond, so I hope there'll be more gatherings in Europe.

MaineWriter:
From our first little get-together in June, when I met David and Lisa, then Louise in London in August and the big NE Bash last weekend...all of the Brokies I have met have been fabulous people. It is a privilege and honor to call you all friends.

Leslie

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