Four Hundred

And so I've reached another milestone with The Little Blog That Could. 400 posts! I think that's a pretty good achievement, since this was a relaunch of a blog that failed spectacularly the first time around and had all kinds of things working against it when I started. But in my mind Stray Bullets has come out pretty darn good, and it holds up to close scrutiny much better than the Joyride ever did. The original "looking for Gwen Stacy" post was the one where I believe this blog turned itself around and really got going, and that was #200. That's half the blog ago now. As strong as the last couple months have been, I'm really only warming up, so I think the next 400 will be even better.

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And now for something different. In conversations with Dan, I've gotten a few updates on people I was curious about.

Lynne. She got remarried. Dan knows the guy, I guess, and doesn't really care for him. She was someone else I was interested in getting back in touch with. Now I'm not sure. Maybe I should let that one rest for now.

Terry. Apparently back in the Greenfield area.

Lois. Moved out of the old family home and is somewhere in Turners Falls.

Amanda. Got married (I knew that) and is on her third kid. I realize that time moved on in my absence, but that's still mind-blowing to me. I knew her when she was nine years old, after all. Oh, I guess the three kids aren't all with the same person, and she's become "quite a little cocktease". I know why that probably is, too, and it makes me very angry. Given that it was apparently happening back when I met her, and during the times when X and me used to spend weekends over there, and back when Amanda stuck to me like glue ... gives me a sick to my stomach feeling. That I couldn't have known it was going on makes it no better.

Jason (Lynne's other kid, not Markwell or Higgins). A pothead.

X. Whereabouts unknown.

Becky. Got married, moved to Florida, returned. Now works over at some clinic in Turners drawing blood. A bloodsucker? That's appropriate.

Shannon. He didn't know.

I wonder how I can track Shannon down.