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The End?
The End?
Honestly, I don't really know what to say here. You guys have become a lot to me over the many years I have spent on the CB. I know, I know, August is a terrible month in CB history. Five or so left? This year in general... but there comes a time in life where people must part. Whether that is friends graduating and moving away to different states, or one CBer leaving because she offered the best she could to her online friends. That is me. I received the help I wanted, and I hope I offered advice and support along the way. We have all grown together in my most recent time here, and I've come to learn you all very well. A family, nothing less. Now... I feel I have come to the point in my life where the CB is just so disconnected from my own life. It's a fantasy, and a great one, but as of now, I got a very important reality to live in. No matter how much that reality drives you crazy, or makes your day. Is this farewell forever? No. I will still be on here occasionally, but nothing like back in June and July. This month, many of you have noticed, I have begun to fade away again. I wanted to continue to let the "fading process" go, but with a proper goodbye.
So... goodbye. I'll be here from time to time, probably on the weekends. Maybe more as summer comes around again. But for now, I got so much to attend to. School, family, friends, my future career, everything. I guess that just comes with age, no? Let me say this: I will never forget you all. Never. You have left too big of an impact upon my life. And will I still be around? Of course. I'll end this with a single word I mean honestly: Always.
Always.
submitted by Ashlee G., age 15, The Future
(August 31, 2016 - 10:29 pm)
(August 31, 2016 - 10:29 pm)
Please... No. This can't be happening. I was so excited that you would get to stay and now. Just... No. I might as well leave, too. There's nothing, nothing at all for me to stay for.
(September 1, 2016 - 11:53 am)
Hey, Daisy, it's okay. It's just, everything seems so gone on the CB in general. You got to take place as the glue! If you leave, then... Then everyone else does. And I won't be truly gone. This thread was more of a way to say I'm going to be really busy, kinda fading off in the distant. So then you can't go and leave either, okay? No worries! xD
(September 1, 2016 - 11:02 pm)
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(September 1, 2016 - 6:56 pm)
Good luck and godspeed! :) And keep in touch, if barely, and we'll see you in 2019.
I'll be scarce myself but will try to check in sometimes on weekends/holidays/vacations. If you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here to listen - just yell really loud :P
(September 1, 2016 - 7:29 pm)
Thank you, Oregano, so much! Both for the advice and support you have offered me to this point in the CB. If it wasn't for that, I don't think I'd even be here, online, at all. And indeed, I'll keep in touch and try to make it on the weekends and such. I'll get my voice ready to do some yelling, in case you are around. xD
Thank you so much, again!
(September 1, 2016 - 11:12 pm)
You're welcome, of course! Hugs and take care. :)
(September 2, 2016 - 5:33 pm)
No!
Ashlee, you can't die...
(September 1, 2016 - 7:31 pm)
Hey, S.E. it's okay! I'm not truly dying... I mean, kind of, I suppose. Like I said to Daisy, this thread was really just announcing that I won't be on nearly as much, and I will sort of just be fading away. I'll be on during the weekends and holidays if I can, but that's about it. Just after losing so much of what the CB represents (as in, with so many leaving) and the lack of lasting threads, I feel more disconnected. Along with school, family, and everything, it just takes away so much of my CB time. But again, it isn't full-time gone. I'll still be around. Thanks for everything, S.E!
(September 1, 2016 - 11:22 pm)
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(September 2, 2016 - 3:46 pm)
I'm sorry your leaving. You've been such a wonderful, encoraging, fabulous, friendly person. I know I can always turn to you for advice, and you always have a kind thing to say when I'm feeling sad. I'm glad to know someone as nice and simply amazing as you, and I hope you come back! Though I'm glad you will always, always be around. I'll miss you, Ashlee. Fare-thee-well.
@Daisy- Please please please don't you leave, too! I'd miss you so much!
(September 1, 2016 - 7:56 pm)
Thank you so much, Cockleburr! Indeed, I will always be around, in one way or another. Fare-thee-well, as well.
(September 2, 2016 - 1:06 pm)
No! NO NO NO! Please! Ash. I'm going to miss you so much! So many people are leaving the CB. You have been a wonderful friend, writer, and contributor to the CB. Goodbye Ash.
(September 1, 2016 - 8:50 pm)
Thank you so much, Mirax! You are an amazing CBer as well. I'll be around on the weekends sometimes, so goodbye for now. And again, thank you.
(September 2, 2016 - 1:04 pm)
Ashlee, not again!
I guess I need to write another poem.
After all this time?
"Always," said Snape, and Ashlee
Will always be near
At least, I hope you will. We may not know each other that well, but you are one of my favorite CBers.
Farewell, and see you soon.
(September 2, 2016 - 7:58 am)
Another awesome poem, OtR... I'll miss that from you, not to mention your friendly, nice personality. Thank you, OtR. Farewell as well, I'll be around occasionally on the weekends. So... see you soon, I suppose.
(September 2, 2016 - 1:03 pm)