Happy Anniversary to me! As some of you already know, today is my

[niyad]

official 20th DU anniversary, having read here for some time before actually joining. My late friend Betty was a DU member first, and we shared the Top 10 conservative idiots list each week, racing to see who got to it, and giggling and chortling to each other as we went through the list.

Gradually, I ventured forth into the wider community of DU, and found a community of kindred minds and spirits. DU becme my home, my family, as we lived through, shared, mourned, anguished, screamed, cried, laughed, and celebrated, the horrors, the triumphs, the joys, tears, big events, small ones, victories, losses, at every level. When the news in this world is dark and depressing, there are animal videos and music. When anything of import happens, within five seconds, someone here has it covered. Those of my friends in the physical world who are not quite the political news junkies that we are, have long since known just to text or call me, because they know that I will immediately check DU for confimation or denial.

So, my dear DU Sisters and Brothers, thank you all for the amazing and wonderful gift andd blessing that you all are. Here is to the next 20!!!