In the late 90s AOL chat rooms were very popular so I kept making usernames with names that could be either a guy or girl like Chris, Pat, Drew, etc. Then I would go into a teenage chatroom and make some comment where all the guys would think I'm a girl (like OMG Tom Cruise was so awesome in his new movie!!) and then all the guys would be asking me for my pic and I would send them a pic of a sibil koloft guy (not my own pic) and when they complained I'd say well that's my pic and you asked for it. Another thing I would do was type "the first person to type 123 20 separate times gets my pic". Some of them would start typing 123 as fast as they could and not realizing that immediately afterwards I had typed "if you are gay type 123".
"My parents, brother, and I left Iran in 1980, shortly after the revolution. After a brief stay in Italy, we packed all our belongings once again and headed west to the exotic and the unknown: Vancouver. We had recently been accepted as landed immigrants, meaning Canada graciously opened its doors and we gratefully accepted; we arrived at Vancouver International Airport on my 10th birthday, three suitcases and one sewing machine in tow. After respectful but intense questioning at immigration, we were dropped off at a hotel on Robson Street, which was then still a couple years shy of becoming the fashionable tourist hub it is today. We were jetlagged, culture shocked, and hungry, so that first night, my father and brother courageously ventured out into the wild in search of provisions. I fell asleep before they returned. The next morning, I woke up at 5 a.m. and ravenously feasted on a cold Quarter Pounder with cheese and limp French fries that had been left by my beds...

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