I spent an hour reading about people when I should have been helping my mother clean....I just love reading about people's lives! Thanks for sharing, everyone!
I guess I'm obligated now to share a bit about myself as well. I'm Jackie, and I'm 17 years old and I live in a suburb of New York City. It isn't a bad place to live, since I'm a 45 minute train ride from Manhattan and there is loads to do in the area. Since I'm 17, I'm a (soon-to-be) senior in high school, which means that I'll be taking lots of AP classes next year and applying to many, many colleges and universities. I'm a huge nerd (I'm captain of my school's debate team...I'm the supreme nerd), and I'd like to go into publishing or editing when I get older. I'm highly active in certain political activities and civil liberties causes. I love my friends, and we're all very close. In my (limited) free time (too much schoolwork to have lots of it) I enjoy hanging out with my friends, going to the mall, driving around aimlessly, spending time with my brother and sister, going to the beach (another perk to where I live), and traveling. I plan on living in London one day, as I fell in love with the city when I visited with my family last spring.
Wow. I said I would talk about myself, and I certainly did. Sorry!