(That's what made YearlyKos so special, and I was really sorry that you could not make it: the ability to finally meet real, close friends for the first time after all these months of corresponding on websites or by email, to put a face on familiar personalities, and that very unexpected feeling of familiarity - intimacy, almost, sometimes - with apparent strangers.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes