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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.

Nickname: I really was a girl scout, once.

Other bio bits: American (native Californian), lived in West Yorkshire for several years. Now living in the Durham area with a Northern Irish guy. Interesting to live with another expat of sorts! Starting my own business whilst finishing off my programme in law, with an emphasis in public law and social policy relating to child protection.

This is my second time living overseas - I lived in France for two years, in a little town not far from Orange & Avignon.