Allegra's World

So many pixels, so little time. smiley

For someone as easygoing as I am, it took me a long time to first put this page together. I didn't know what to say. More importantly, I was busy enjoying life, and I didn't want to wreck a good thing by analyzing it. Now I realize that getting to know myself helps others to know me better, and that this is a Good Thing.

So about me....I'm 17, and I grew up as "polar opposite" to my sister Queen, who was also 17 until she decided in 2000(?) to age to 23 and change her name to Deborah. When she was 17, we were not quite twins; we were more like two sides of the same emotional coin. (My side said "heads.") smiley

I started out as a fragment named Smug. At least, that's what I seemed like to Laura and some of the others. Always wanting to be more than just a pretty face smiley , I kept popping up constantly in Laura's life, determined to be seen as a person in my own right.

Not that I wanted to be taken seriously. Accepted, yes; serious, no. Life was too short, I believed, to waste time on seriousness and negativity.

Now I know that seriousness and negativity aren't necessarily the same thing. I've come to understand that seriousness has its place in a person's life, and that until I came to terms with that, I wasn't really living.

Negativity, on the other hand, has no place in my life. When I was modifying the title graphic for this page for the site's fifth anniversary celebration, I had to add darker tones to shadow each of the colors in the graphic. Before I moved the main graphic onto the shadow, I looked at the shadow graphic by itself. On a microcosmic level, it was as if someone had taken the color out of my world.

I need to live in technicolor. Or in graphics lingo, in True Color. I need people to color my world.

Two things that have helped me (and helped the others too) are taking care of the kids and being there for Laura. I know I'm needed by them. And when Deborah steps closer into our midst, I'll be there for her too. As I've always been.

Well, that's about it. If it feels safe for you, please check out....

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