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[Celebrating Obama‘s victory with Ilene and Jeff]

"We are always editing ourselves," says my new found Philadelphia friend, Ilene. What I adore about Ilene is that she gets my mind searching and expanding. Her questions, ideas, and opinions make me think:

Where am I more real? As my private inner voice speaking publicly on my blog, or in the flesh, face-to-face? In writing or person-to-person. I wonder, do we ever really get to know anybody?

She says it is surreal and weird to be friends in the flesh with someone she reads about – the intimate, edited blog-side of me.

And I am grateful for the newly-found, in-the-flesh friendship, where I feel I can be real.

A year ago at Mining Nuggets: It never rains but it memes