Hi Xenia! 👋 I’m Valerie. Welcome! It’s great to meet you. :)

Hi LadyAutumn! 👋 I am enjoying Lemmy very much, thanks to folks like you! Yes, being able to work with such courageous young people has been incredibly inspiring. It’s one of the primary reasons I’ve continued to be an educator despite so many recent challenges. “The Kids Are Alright” as my father’s favorite rock band, The Who, once sang. Thank you so much for your kind words, I’m honestly surprised sometimes by how much more joyful my life has become since accepting myself as I am. Thanks again for your warm welcome, I’m sure I’ll love it here! 😁👍

A pleasure to meet you as well! Thank you, I’m sure I will.

Thank you! Yes, my mom says the same thing. I was pretty good at faking happy before but now that I know what it actually feels like I can’t imagine going back.

Oh man, you just brought back a memories for me of playing this game on our Super NES (when it was still labelled Final Fantasy III in the U.S. market) with my brother. We took turns and after beating the story the first time, (what a shock World of Ruin was for us the first time) we went back and ground ALL the characters to level 99, used the Espers and items to get them every spell, got all Gau’s Rages on the Veldt. (I don’t think we completed Strago’s Lores but I had kind of fallen off by that point, my brother may have.) Geez, core memory restored of bonding with my little brother, ozoned, so thanks!