THE ROAD TO
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Background Info)
I graduated from high school in
2000, and as a kind of graduation present my mother agreed to take me to the
Gathering in
Then I got a letter from MIT,
where I was going to be a freshman in September. It turned out they have a summer program for
incoming freshman, where you can live on campus and take pass/fail elective
credit classes that are similar to the real courses you’ll take your first
term, by way of preparation for real college life. I’d be able to get used to living on campus,
meet new friends, and get a head start on college classwork. And it was free. But you weren’t allowed to skip classes, and
you weren’t allowed to leave for vacations.
I, naturally, wanted to go to the
Gathering, but being the sensible person I was I knew I *should* go to
school. So I made a sort of bargain with
God; I told Him I’d apply for the program, and if I got in I would take it as a
sign that that was what He wanted me to do.
(This seemed like a very logical plan of action at the time.) So when I got in, I grumbled a lot and I went
and I missed the Gathering.
Since then, every year I’ve
intended to go and never quite been able to pull it off. Last year I started to design a pair of
wings, only to run out of time to build them before the Gathering in NYC. I was just about ready to write it off as a
lost cause when one day I received an email from tvshowsondvd.com, mentioning
that Disney was going to send a camera crew to the Gathering this year in
Montreal. They were actually taking note
of the fans of the show, and I had a chance to be counted as one of them.
So I considered. My wings were still in pieces in my
basement. I’d just come back from a week
in
But… Disney was paying attention!
So I emailed my trusty sidekick,
Annie. “Hey…. Do you maybe want to go to
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