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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've used this nickname online for well-nigh a decade. It came from translating my first name into katakana (Kurisuchina), then taking out the "su" when there was a character limit on some other forum. I often shorten it to Kuri.

I have been told that Kuri means both "angry" in Estonian and "girl" in Hindi. I hope to learn more meanings to this word so that I can compose an entire sentence just out of Kuri.