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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I was born to arctic explorers, and spent my early years bundled in seal skins so tightly that I could only see the sky. Unable to understand my parents through their thick scarves, my first language was that of the stars. At the age of five, I learned for the first time of the world below the horizon and, upon discovering running, ran away. I spent the next decade working as a deckhand on a whaling vessel out of Newfoundland and learning to speak without twinkling. After years of unsettled life I made a home in Iceland and, with the help of some friends in the circus, I am finally realizing my dream of returning to the sky.