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       These files are from the text e-zine Another Day and 
       Night Alliance (ANADA), which I stumbled onto while 
       wandering around textfiles.com. ANADA the e-zine ran from 
       2000-2004. I authored four text files for ANADA:
       
 (TXT) #409: "What Were You Asking?" (2001)
 (TXT) #430: "Restless" (2001)
 (TXT) #510: "Untitled" (2002)
 (TXT) #524: "Checking out" (2003)
       
       The original issues of ANADA are, surprisingly, all still 
       online: 
       
 (HTM) ANADA
       
       I wasn't nearly as active or involved as many of the 
       other authors. I didn't create ANADA. I saw enough in 
       what the other authors had to say, that I found a voice 
       that I didn't know I had and surprisingly found a few 
       listeners. I'm not sure I ever even completed my bio 
       enough for Gloomchen to post it, although I remember 
       participating in the anada.net forums.
       
       ANADA, and the text scene, predates social media. All of it. 
       Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress, 
       Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Android, the iPhone, emoji-- all of 
       these came later. ASCII knows nothing, adds nothing, subtracts 
       nothing. ASCII is words, thoughts, descriptions, meaning, 
       explanation. 
       
       A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many 
       picures do you scroll by every day without giving them a 
       second (or even first) thought?