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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 4005529" data-attributes="member: 9053">Fellow EN Worlders!A brief moment of silence, if you please, for my Thursday Night gaming group. We endured for over ten years together, and we've seen a lot of good times. Sadly, the commitments of parenting and school finally brought the group down.In the time I have been with my dear friends from this group, we have played three editions of D&D, Alternity, Hero, Star Wars, and even had a brief stint with Spirit of the Century.Five of the members have gotten married, two of whom were fellow gamers.I have had the pleasure of meeting and dating my very own gamer girl (hi Lisa!)There have been four children born to the members of the group.Four homes have been purchased, and innumerable strains have come to backs by the moving of gaming supplies from one to another.Members of the group have gone through school, graduation, jobs, getting fired, getting hired again, battling cancer, finding love and finding a career.Monte Python, Ghostbusters, Firefly and many other popular gamer nerd culture references have been made into the tens of thousands.I will miss all of my friends from this group, and perhaps we will be lucky enough to see each other for periodic board game and movie nights as children grow up. I count myself lucky to be involved in the lives of many of the children who are destined to either become gamer nerds themselves or to excel at athletics merely to spite their parents.If I may add one request, it is to those of you who still have a monster gaming group to play with, allow me to paraphrase Excalibur and suggest that you think about it the next time you get together in the basement to play:Look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, 'I was there that night, with friends and a game!' For it is the doom of men that they forget.Thanks for the opportunity to share this. My group on Thursday (Monday, of late) was more than a group of gamers, they were friends, and people like that come into your life only once in a very great while.Cheers!--Steve</blockquote>

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