I think I told a while back that this area was going to be used for flames I got. Sadly, I got very few flames. However, today I found an interesting e-mail in my hotmail account. It was from one Minhao Zhan. The message you are about to see was copied and pasted directly from the e-mail

From: "Minhao Zhan" <little_miss_2cute4u@hotmail.com>
To: hikarofan@hotmail.com
CC: little_miss_2cute4u@hotmail.com
Subject: hey
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:26:36 NZST

you are CRAZY kari DO NOT belong to Joe, a shrine to TK and kari is fine but not joe and kari! i suggest you take your site
down and start a new one about something else, anything but the  site you own right now!

Hmm... I was expecting these. Thought up on the spot without a shred of proof to DISPROVE it. Instead. I'm crazy. In fact, I was hoping for these, because if noone sent any flames, I would have had nothing to make this section out of. Unfortunately, I forgot to save the message I responded with, so I can't show it up here.
Sept. 30th:

Well, I FINALLY got a response from Minhao. I hope she understands how much time I spent waiting for that e-mail, because then I'll get the next response pretty soon! Anyways, here's the e-mail

From: "Minhao Zhan" <little_miss_2cute4u@hotmail.com>
To: hikarofan@hotmail.com
CC: little_miss_2cute4u@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Thank you very much
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 14:21:40 NZST

I'm sorry Dustin! kari is younger than joe for about 4 years, in first season kari is only 8yrs old and joe is already 12 so
it wouldn't make sence and they got nothing in common and no one had the idea of joe and kari until u! my friend had told me
that u put my email on the site and you had to change passwords so i won't do anything to your site, well none of those
things will happen! and u are welcome, i still don't get why u thank me though and i am not angus, if u were saying that on
the site! did i flame u?

As I read the second sentence, I sighed. She seemed like such a bright girl, but she apparently didn't even bother to read my "Why" section to get material to use against me. Although I don't like repeating myself, apparently, the only way they'll read it is if I put it here. In these days, there are 48 year olds marrying 24 year olds! I know one of them! With that done, I decided to respond to her message, which I shall place here:

From: "Dustin Perrault" <hikarofan@hotmail.com>
To: little_miss_2cute4u@hotmail.com
Subject: Mayhap I should explain what I meant by "flame".
Date: Unknown (should have carbon-copied it...)

Maybe I should explain myself better... my version of a flame isn't really swears and such, but an attempt to disregard something while giving no real reasons as to why.

Here, again: is your original e-mail:

>>you are CRAZY kari DO NOT belong to Joe, a shrine to TK and kari is
>>fine but not joe and kari! i suggest you take your site down and
>>start a new one about something else, anything but the  site you
>>own right now!

As you can see in there, not really any reasons, and quite a lot of exclamation marks, to signify you're yelling at me. Now about the password change thing: it was actually the line "I suggest you take your site down and start a new one..." That got me worried. I had no idea what kind of person you were, so I decided that the best choice was to be safe.

Also, about the "Kari is younger than joe by about 4 years" argument. For my answer to that argument, please check the bottom of my "Why" page, which indicates my view on ages. As to what they have in common: What exactly does that mean? To me, that seems to be rather generic. I will, however, be putting this up on my site. I mean no ill will by doing this, in fact, I enjoy having some people with differing opinions than mine. I merely wish to keep my apparently loyal fans notified, as most of the people who visit my site are repeat visitors.

Also, your friend, Rebecca Gu, also e-mailed me. If you could, please try to keep this debate going on. I find this debate to be quite challenging and entertaining.

What I said about her friend was true. When I checked my mail today, I saw TWO messages. Considering that I rarely ever got ONE I was surprised. The following is her friend's e-mail.

From: Rebecca Gu <lilyangewomon@yahoo.com>
To: hikarofan@hotmail.com
Subject: Hi
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:56:38 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Who ever Owns that site:
This mail is just stating
reasons why Joe + Kari stinks. I think Joe is a bit
old for Kari? And in the Digimon series they hardly
make any contact at all. They don't appear to be VERY
nice to each other and Joe doesn't appear much in the
second season. Is it? Not sure here. This is only
talking like E-mail so not exactly a flame like my
friend Min Hao sent you. Min Hao and I are best
friends. ( She's quite upset about you putting that
E-mail of hers on the net.) Have a nice day!^_^
Rebecca

They say birds of a feather flock together. Before today, I never realized how true that really is. They even go and ignore the same areas of the site. I should, however, point out several things. Do I go and e-mail you stating why Takru + Hikari stinks? No, I don't, and do you know WHY I don't? Because I know that if I did, hundreds of people would flame me. Instead, I just appear every once and a while on Fanfiction.net saying "Die Takeru, die!", which is generally done humorously, rather than a direct attack at Takeru. Ahh... the joys of being a minority... Of course, here's the e-mail I sent.

From: "Dustin Perrault" <hikarofan@hotmail.com>
To: lilyangewoman@hotmail.com
CC: hikarofan@hotmail.com
Subject: Hey.
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:22:26 GMT

Welcome to my debate corner, aka: The Flame Section. I am sorry that you feel that way about Joe and Hikari. Let me ask you
something, though? Are you a Mimato fan? If you are, then this e-mail pretty much contradicts you. There's no evidence of
Mimato, and yet it has become popular, so how is this different?

For your age message, I was expecting to get that as a reason, so if you checked my "Why?" section, you would have noticed
that I mentioned that I knew a 48-year old who married a 24-year old. Do you think the 24-year old though the the 48-year
old was too old for her? I honestly doubt that.

Joe and Hikari don't appear to be very nice to eachother? Let me ask you: can you name one episode where Joe and Hikari had
a fight? Almost every other character has battled it out against eachother at one time or another.

Finally, for the fact that Joe doesn't appear much in season 2, Joe has a good reason for that. As of now, he happens to be
stuck with a huge workload from his attempts at being a doctor. Let me ask you something: Can you go through Grade 11 and
tell me that you can sneak out of your school, break into your old elementary school, go into some alternate universe, break
some big monolith, then get back to your school before the next class starts? I think not.

Don't take this to be a direct attack at you. I merely think of these as debates, and, as with all debates, they should be
placed for other people to see, not just the few involved. I do hope you respond to this, as one-sided debates are no fun.

I hope you have a nice day as well,
Dustin Perrault

That's everything for today! Until next time...