Subj : Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
To   : paulie420
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 10:46 am

  Re: Re: MRO's Vulgarity Stats
  By: paulie420 to Digital Man on Sun May 26 2024 09:16 am

 >  DM> I suspect we've heard of the last of The Millionaire. :-(
 >
 > I know. :/ As the years go by more and more handles get retired.

Others have already weighed in here, but I just want to express my sadness and certainty that The Millionaire is probably no longer with us.

I got casually back into BBS'ing here at Vertrauen a year or two ago, and The Millionaire was reaching out to me directly (which I suspect he did often). He shared that he had been in an assisted-living or nursing facility, and his health had taken a dramatic turn for the worse with no sense that he would improve. If anything, he expressed a profound sense of loneliness and abandonment from his own family.

I suspect that for people who were already adults and working professionals in the 1970s and 1980s when BBS'ing as a hobby took off, they are now in their 80s and 90s, if not older, and we'll continue to see the same sort of trickle of long goodbyes.
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