snowweisz
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Ana, Sarah and Kaela are going to meet, for the first time ever, at Disney.
This is because Ana, Sarah and Kaela have never met. It seems ridiculous, frankly. Because we've been friends for a long time, we know each other so well and have been through so much together. But truly, we have never met. Online friendship is curious like that. You can get to know people so well and intimately.
There is a part of you that opens up so naturally to others through the internet when the proper circumstances are presented. We're very lucky in that sense because we have managed to create spaces for us to know each other and have cultivated that friendship and that intimacy in ways in which the miles between us were never an issue.
These girls… they're my best friends.
And I don't know, maybe a lot of people here will get what we mean, but in every way possible and necessary we've been together, shared our triumphs and disappointments and that's been more significant than some of the physically close friendships we've had.
So yeah, as difficult to believe as it may seem Ana, Sarah and Kaela don't know each other. They are going to meet for the first time at Disney.
I'm Ana.
I'm the default writer for this report just because Kaela passed on the task to me not so subtly. And also because I've been writing a variety of work since I was 12. I've always been a creative kid, I was in choir, in dancing, I loved to write and paint so naturally… when I left high school, I went to art school. I studied to be a designer and had a blast in school. But I came out of school into a world economic crisis and before going into tl;dr territory let's just say I went off to look for different options and different things to do and ended in my current job. I'm an anti money laundering subject matter expert, I work for a big global company and I don't have a lot of time for a lot of the creative things I love. But I still do some of it, I got into fashion design and I love to sew clothes and accessories. Some of them will make their way through this report.
Sarah and I met back in 2009. It was a different time for all of us, we were much younger, much more careless and - minus a few encounters with reality for me - we had a fabulous summer that included a whole lot of Lost, a Booze Cruise and the introduction to the competition that would lead us to Kaela.
Sarah is one of my best friends in the whole world. I think sometimes people throw that term around too easily, but it's seriously true for me and Sarah. I feel like I can tell her anything, she's seen me at my absolute worst and I love when I get to share my bests with her. I can't imagine my life without Sarah and some people may find that odd because we're so far away but she is truly one of the most important parts of my life. She may be physically far, but in all these years, Sarah has always, always been just a click or a text away. I love her. With all my heart. She's my constant.
Later in 2009, Sarah and I got sucked into a kind of online competition for fans of JJ Abrams fandoms. Being avid Lost and Alias fans, we joined right away and got sucked into the fun, competitive vibe pretty soon. We were good at it, it sparked our competitive genes and it was a great way to meet new people who liked the same things you did.
Later on, it occurred to us that it would be such a hit to have one for Disney. In early 2010, Sarah and I opened Disneyverse.
Enter Kaela.
Kaela came over and joined Team Pixar right from the start. She was hilarious, enthusiastic, had a lot to offer and a competitive gene as vicious as ours. We've told her this but, right from the start, Sarah and I found her pretty fabulous and fun to be around. She and I bonded over dancing and we started to talk a bit more. Kaela was really young back then to be honest, so it took her a while to really get into our circle. But we clicked right from the beginning.
During the subsequent years, we have been through a lot. Graduations, new jobs, new boyfriends and new breakups (old boyfriends and new breakups as well come to think of it), bosses, education, disappointments, new opportunities, other friends who turned out to be not as real, puppies, sex, and even a couple of health scares. We've been together through everything.
And it seems trivial sometimes that some of your best friends are so far away, but it's not in the least.
We're living proof of it.
To be continued....
This is because Ana, Sarah and Kaela have never met. It seems ridiculous, frankly. Because we've been friends for a long time, we know each other so well and have been through so much together. But truly, we have never met. Online friendship is curious like that. You can get to know people so well and intimately.
There is a part of you that opens up so naturally to others through the internet when the proper circumstances are presented. We're very lucky in that sense because we have managed to create spaces for us to know each other and have cultivated that friendship and that intimacy in ways in which the miles between us were never an issue.
These girls… they're my best friends.
And I don't know, maybe a lot of people here will get what we mean, but in every way possible and necessary we've been together, shared our triumphs and disappointments and that's been more significant than some of the physically close friendships we've had.
So yeah, as difficult to believe as it may seem Ana, Sarah and Kaela don't know each other. They are going to meet for the first time at Disney.
I'm Ana.
I'm the default writer for this report just because Kaela passed on the task to me not so subtly. And also because I've been writing a variety of work since I was 12. I've always been a creative kid, I was in choir, in dancing, I loved to write and paint so naturally… when I left high school, I went to art school. I studied to be a designer and had a blast in school. But I came out of school into a world economic crisis and before going into tl;dr territory let's just say I went off to look for different options and different things to do and ended in my current job. I'm an anti money laundering subject matter expert, I work for a big global company and I don't have a lot of time for a lot of the creative things I love. But I still do some of it, I got into fashion design and I love to sew clothes and accessories. Some of them will make their way through this report.
Sarah and I met back in 2009. It was a different time for all of us, we were much younger, much more careless and - minus a few encounters with reality for me - we had a fabulous summer that included a whole lot of Lost, a Booze Cruise and the introduction to the competition that would lead us to Kaela.
Sarah is one of my best friends in the whole world. I think sometimes people throw that term around too easily, but it's seriously true for me and Sarah. I feel like I can tell her anything, she's seen me at my absolute worst and I love when I get to share my bests with her. I can't imagine my life without Sarah and some people may find that odd because we're so far away but she is truly one of the most important parts of my life. She may be physically far, but in all these years, Sarah has always, always been just a click or a text away. I love her. With all my heart. She's my constant.
Later in 2009, Sarah and I got sucked into a kind of online competition for fans of JJ Abrams fandoms. Being avid Lost and Alias fans, we joined right away and got sucked into the fun, competitive vibe pretty soon. We were good at it, it sparked our competitive genes and it was a great way to meet new people who liked the same things you did.
Later on, it occurred to us that it would be such a hit to have one for Disney. In early 2010, Sarah and I opened Disneyverse.
Enter Kaela.
Kaela came over and joined Team Pixar right from the start. She was hilarious, enthusiastic, had a lot to offer and a competitive gene as vicious as ours. We've told her this but, right from the start, Sarah and I found her pretty fabulous and fun to be around. She and I bonded over dancing and we started to talk a bit more. Kaela was really young back then to be honest, so it took her a while to really get into our circle. But we clicked right from the beginning.
During the subsequent years, we have been through a lot. Graduations, new jobs, new boyfriends and new breakups (old boyfriends and new breakups as well come to think of it), bosses, education, disappointments, new opportunities, other friends who turned out to be not as real, puppies, sex, and even a couple of health scares. We've been together through everything.
And it seems trivial sometimes that some of your best friends are so far away, but it's not in the least.
We're living proof of it.
To be continued....
