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Z. SHARON GLANTZ

 

reality

a novel

Is the online world full of psychopaths, child molesters and other dynamic sickos? Of course not. We're here, aren't we?

The following is a true story of high tech business vision and sociopathic triangulated love squared -- all of which transformed into oxymorons. In other words, welcome to my midlife crisis.

ONLINE PARANORMALITY

I was working in a prominent law firm as a legal secretary to support my struggles as a writer. I was having some success writing and producing plays for corporations and government agencies on issues of sexual harassment, diversity, HIV/AIDS and other difficult topics (I write comedies). Justice Clarence Thomas' hearings contributed to what would be a busy few years of touring plays. I was also diagnosed with depression and struggled to feel joy or pleasure. Connecting to the Internet in spring of 1995 was a tremendous help.

I met Seraph23 in the chatroom for OMNI Magazine Online on America Online during that first summer online. He impressed me as a very smart cookie with a devilish sense of humor. The other chatters and the hosts also enjoyed his intelligent contributions to discussions on science, metaphysics and everything in between. This was one reason I fell in love with chat. The other might have something to do with my being a playwright and being very comfortable in a scripted environment.

January 1996, I started training to host my own chat for OMNI. This cohesive and unlikely group of people indirectly helped me through this difficult time in my life. Sadly, OMNI shut down its AOL forum in September, 1996. A group of us from OMNI moved to the competing forum on the paranormal, Parascope. Their chatroom, The Grassy Knoll, attracted a younger and lesser educated crowd who watched too much X Files and who could derive conspiracies out of just about any domestic or international event. Chats around Art Bell's radio show were ongoing and popular. Fortunately, there were enough intelligent hosts and chatters who valued discussions with greater depth.

INTRODUCING THREESOMES AND THREENESS

Somewhere around the time I moved my online community from OMNI to Parascope, I learned from Seraph23 that he and his wife, Saphyrre23, were breaking up with their "third," OMNI Raven, who had been my supervisor in OMNI. OMNI Raven served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force. The Air Force would have frowned on such a relationship to say the least. They would have done more than frowned has they known she was pregnant from her affair with a subordinate -- but that's another story.

I confess, I found the idea of a workable threesome interesting, given my own bisexual nature. All right, so I was more than interested -- I was jazzed. My fantasy life changed dramatically as I became Seraph23's confidant about the break-up listening to his many litanies of rage and grief. It was my kind of drama. I knew Seraph23's rants were shaded by strong emotion, and, therefore, thought I learned a lot about he and Saphyre23 in the process of listening.

Did I mention he was 14 years younger and had too young children? The youth accounted for many of his choices. When I asked about the children, his concern for their close relationship with OMNI Raven demonstrated a care that impressed me as that of a careful and protective father. OMNI Raven had been included into their family slowly but surely over their 3 years together.

3X, THE BUSINESS ENTITY

I met Charlemange online during the summer of 1997 in the Writer's Cafe on America Online. He claimed to manage a music studio in Nashville. We shared an interest in envisioning profitable uses for the Internet. We joined forces to outline a number of ideas we anticipated pursuing. I shared our outline of ideas with Seraph23.

At the time, Seraph23 was working with Warranty Gold, a virtual company that offered repair insurance to used-car buyers off of a few prominent car-related websites. The owner was FoundMoney, a Knollie who didn't come around any more. According to Seraph23, his boss had some sleazy but effective strategies that made a lot of money. Seraph23 wanted to pitch the idea of developing a "think tank," to develop Charlemange and my ideas, to FoundMoney. Soon after, for unknown reasons, Seraph23 was fired.

The stories he told about the reasons and the fallout sounded plausible enough, having to do with FoundMoney's greed and willingness to get rid of the designer of amodel for making money once the model was implemented and proven profitable. Seraph23 was frantic. A few months prior, Saphyrre23 had quit her job selling cars, so she could stay home and take care of their two children.

Seraph23 turned his focus to the ideas of Charlemange and me. The three of us decided to start our own company. For purposes of writing a business plan, I called the company 3X because there were three of us working on an unknown something. Through my law firm, I began preparing the paperwork necessary to establish a limited liability company. We anticipated meeting 3 months later, January 1997, at my house in Seattle.

MUTATING RELATIONSHIPS

For whatever reasons, both men decided that I, in addition to managing the company, should also be a romantic conquest, seducing me in the interim. Not that I fought it. Being the object of desire for two men was cool. I found it amusing, confusing, but figured that ultimately, it would all work itself out. However, when Charlemange didn't follow through with his part of the business plan or other tasks he agreed to perform, Seraph23 convinced me that we should exclude him from further participation in the company as a member. Online romance is one thing -- growing a business another. Charlemange was hurt and quietly removed himself both professionally and personally.

I suspect Seraph23 really wanted 3X to succeed but couldn't quite win over a tendency towards sabotaging his efforts and those of everyone else. He also hid his destructive tendencies well behind deceit and lies. I wish my desires hand't clouded my ability to better see this, but hindsight is 20/20. I honestly felt this would be my last opportunity to make my mark, having seen my fortieth birthday a few years before.

Seraph23 and I dove into the world of internet marketing with the expectation that our efforts would make money for our clients, unlike many burgeoning dot coms. We would model our efforts after Seraph23's successful strategies with Warranty Gold. I suggested looking into venture capital, a popular method of underwriting Internet visions at that time. Seraph23 insisted that finding venture capital would be a bad thing because we needed more than ideology, we needed a track record and besides, he wasn't much for sharing. Why should we enjoy an infusion of cash when I could invest the line of credit against my house and all of my credit? Why, indeed.

Being seduced by an intelligent man 14 years my junior, with the expectation that Saphyrre23 would join the party (pics of her were incredible), was truly a thrill. During his first two visits (the 23's lived in Massachusetts, until I paid for their move to Maine), Seraph23 and I not only hit it off physically and emotionally, we did some excellent business planning and development. We worked diligently at developing partnerships with service organizations and manufacturers of products geared towards the members of those service organizations. I used all of my local connections as well as the services of my law firm. Seraph23 and I spent a total of 3 months in person, a year online and on the phone working on the business play as well as cultivating a relationship.

OTHER THREENESS

The 23's engaged another "third" who was more local. When I found out months later, I was hurt, but figured it better to move on and focus on business. The truth was, Saphyrre23, with her little girl voice, bored me to tears. She wasn't so keen on me either. We had little in common and she had seemingly given up her creative life to walk two steps behind her husband. Besides, I wanted to believe myself unpossessive and without a jealous bone in my body. Only when Seraph23 started including this third in developing graphics for 3X did I react dramatically. Knowing how poorly I'd separated love and business in the inception of 3X, I wasn't about to let Seraph make the same mistake -- especially at my expense. He and Saphyre23 could screw whoever they wanted, but no one would screw their way into 3X. Curiously, soon after I expressed these sentiments, the 23's broke it off with their third. I later learned it had less to do with me and more to do with the fact that the two women were too close for Seraph23's comfort.

BAD INVESTMENTS

My commitment to 3X resulted in my supporting the 23's family for close to a year. This poor choice was partially due to the fact that Saphyrre23 was rather ill for an extended period of time and their supposed lack of funds to get her to a doctor. Another contributing factor was the lack of part-time employment opportunities Seraph23 claimed available in Portland, ME. I had quit my job in anticipation of the retainer from a client who dangled a future that never happened. I know, another bad choice. Unlike Seraph23, I worked part-time. He did try to set up a business with his brother the security guard, escorting strippers to private parties, but couldn't quite get it together.

THE GLARE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Seraph23 was something of an agoraphobic, who finds it terribly uncomfortable to leave his house. However, he was able to travel extensively when working for Warranty Gold and managed to make it to Seattle. During his 1-3 week stays at my house, I observed that leaving for meetings or other events made him very anxious and he'd take a long time to prepare. Fortunately, Saphyrre23 had put together and labeled clearly his daily "outfits."

He used his alleged hurt knee to avoid any type of exercise - even walking. I suspect he used the time during my daily dogwalks to scrutinize the contents of my computer, including email. At 26, his body was on the road to the flabbiness (despite the towelboy pic he'd send to women) that ran in his family. Not that I'm perfectly svelte myself.

I figured that the reason we were struggling to harness clients was due to the fact that what we were proposing seemed risky to most. The Internet hadn't proven itself (and never would) to be a good marketing investment. Under normal circumstances, with normal people involved, our efforts would have eventually paid off because many of our strategies were sound and are used today. Had we continued our efforts, I might have seen my investment pay off in a big way.

As I developed content and sought out potential clients, Seraph23 cultivated those clients and was to sell them on our various strategies. However, I found out too late that Seraph23 had used intimidation to sell when he wasn't lying about his credentials or generally losing control. I now suspect his education about the real world largely came from television.

ENTER GRAD101

During much of this time, we continued to hang out the Grassy Knoll. I noticed Seraph23's flirtations with many others, and sometimes he'd even tell me about them during our daily telephone calls. Initially, he was all over Grad101, but went through a period of avoiding her. Just as Seraph23 claimed to have a Ph.D. in archeology, Grad101 claimed to have a doctorate in astrophysics. She worked in a lab all day, keeping her computer online, and was therefore in the Grassy Knoll most of the day and into the evening. She appeared to be very intelligent, although not particularly interesting.

I was surprised when Grad101 drove the 100 mile round trip from Petaluma, CA to meet me for dinner while I was visiting family in San Francisco. She seemed nice enough and told me how much she enjoyed the writing process. I invited her to co-host a chat I led for writers, anticipating that she would handle the amateurs and wannabes for whom I had little patience. I chose all the topics, did the mailers, and largely ran the chats.

THE THEORY

Although 3X had cultivated a non-profit organization interested in partnering with product and service providers, it wasn't until October of 1997 that we landed a client for whom we could finally fully implement our main marketing strategy. This strategy involved offering free content to websites in exchange for the opportunity to also promote specific products or services. 3X would receive commissions, based upon the amount of revenue generated and a stipend for performing the work on the backend.

Did I mention the focus was death? 3X partnered with an organization that helped those dealing with grief by selling viatical insurance (a way of selling a living person's life insurance policy for cash to pay for healthcare and other expenses of dying) and selling coffins at reduced prices. I wrote the content, researched appropriate websites and sent out the initial proposal letters. Seraph23, who claimed to be a master at closing deals, was to follow these up with telephone calls. The viatical insurance provider was a friend of Seraph23 -- someone he met during one of his few time of employment, in this case, operating a hot dog stand.

Curiously, at the same time closing phone calls were required, Seraph23 announced that he had come up with a brilliant theory in physics, confirmed by Grad101, and would be unavailable to do the work required. I suggested that Saphyrre23, the car salesman, do the work and they both agreed. As far as I know, this never happened. Seraph23 was too busy with his theory to focus on the work required of 3X, but did expect me to put together a press conference in San Francisco for the following January to announce this theory.

Seraph23 claimed he wanted 3X to benefit from this remarkable discovery by handling the multitude of deals that would follow. Grad101 agreed to underwrite the use of a prominent location, the rest - well, I assumed I'd somehow have to be responsible. By this time, I had run out of credit. Seraph23 encouraged me to cash out my retirement benefits. As gullible as I was, even I had my limits. He tried to convince me that this "theory" would bring us the income we needed, including paying me back for monies I loaned him and his family.

I tried to talk to Grad101 about it, but she wouldn't talk to me. She also quit co-hosting the writers chat. Finally, a few months before the press conference was supposed to happen, Grad101 broke the agreement she had with Seraph23 to avoid talking to me. She asked me if Seraph23's predictions for their theory made sense. I vaguely understood their theory and had yet to see its value. I even talkied to scientific types and received shrugs at best. Seraph23 had received only lukewarm responses from those he deemed trustworthy enough to read their paper on the theory. Because most of these people were part of the online community we shared, I also heard their feedback.

Grad101 quietly informed me that due to the fact that winter break was only a few weeks away, peer review would likely not occur in time for the press conference. I advised Seraph23 I would not pursue a press conference until peer review was completed. Seraph23 had Grad101 use every contact she supposedly had to push the review process. However, despite her best efforts, she finally admitted to him that it simply wasn't going to happen.

THE VEIL IS LIFTED

The tightly woven lies, cons and fraudulent actions on the part of Seraph23, with the assistance of Saphyre23, began to unravel. I started comparing notes with Grad101 and other victims of the 23's behavior. This included the third I previously thought intruding upon 3X. The results were far more astounding than any of us could predict. Due to the shame of being taken so badly, I avoid talking extensively about details. Additionally, the details could adversely effect those I care about. Unlike most of Seraph23's victims, my shame revolved around the bad business and financial choices I had made. My dreams of threeness were still there, but I'd long given upon on the 23's.

A mere few months before the theory became the center of Seraph23's life, I had visited he, Saphyre23 and their children in Maine. Saphyre was sweet, subservient and somewhat dull. Their oldest son was terrific, but their daughter gave me the creeps. She was a beautiful little thing would could manipulate others better than most adults. Seraph23 was obviously the master of the house and very protective of his privacy and importance. It took me until much later to figure out why I felt so incredibly sad while I was there.

I also noted that Seraph23 spent a great deal of time online well into the night, sleeping until noon the next day. I now know he was busy seducing more and more victims. Seraph23 clued Saphyrre23 in on some of his online adventures, but not all. He devastated the lives of the many women online, and when traveling, offline. He had broken up at least one marriage, courted a woman with cancer only until she was in remission, and convinced more than one intelligent woman that other women were stalking him. These were women who wouldn't take no for an answer, women who were largely insane. I was his prime example. Grad101 admitted that her motivation for meeting me in real life the year before in San Francisco had been to see for herself if I was as crazy as Seraph23 claimed.

So what about he and Grad101? According to Grad101, for many months, they had a rather perverse relationship. Grad101 had complained to him that she was forced to manage everyone and everything in her life, including her husband and son, and welcomed an opportunity to be submissive, a scenario I later witnessed to be true. Grad101 and Seraph23 agreed upon their roles. Seraph23 told her what she could and could not do both online and offline. Some of his demands were absurd and silly, but that was the nature of their relationship. Grad101 only put a halt to her relationship with Seraph23 when her husband discovered some of the emails and IM's and demanded she end it. This accounts for the online estrangement between Seraph23 and Grad101 I had noticed. However, all of that changed when Seraph23 approached her with his physics theory.

MATA HARI

For most, this would be story enough of love, business and betrayal. Evidentially for me, it wasn't. I really thought I'd gotten the message, but was I ever wrong. At the end of 1997 I sent a series of promissory notes to the 23's to sign, regarding the monies I had personally loaned to them. They were ignored and finally denied. Seraph23 claimed there were all business expenses and not his problem. Big surprise. In truth, because we were a virtual company, our expenses were very low -- maybe 10% of what I put forth. Most money went to moving he and his family to Maine, as well as their general sustenance.

The 23's ultimately declared bankruptcy, including me as an alleged creditor, and I was left with no way to reclaim the funds. In addition, Seraph23 claimed that the research and emailing I had done that would likely have resulted in income for 3X, was merely a favor I was doing on his personal behalf. I made sure his insurance buddy knew I would cause to be emailed concerns over copyright infringement to all of those websites I initially emailed because I had written the content on his behalf as a member of 3X. Soon after, this avenue of potential revenue was closed for everyone involved. I'm thankful this part of 3X never got off the ground given Seraph23's obvious plan to run off with the revenues and lie about it to me.

Grad101 assured me and her husband that she was playing Mata Hari when she continued talking to Seraph23, because based on the work she had done, she now had an investment in the success of the theory. I didn't have enough knowledge to comment on the quality of the theory. I later learned that the theory was not original, and has attracted many fringe scientists to the extent that they meet yearly to discuss it. It can only remain theoretical because there are too many unknown variables to make it scientifically useful. Their paper can be seen at: http://www.lanl.gov/html/astro-ph/0001123.

STILL MORE THREENESS

During the months that followed, I was vulnerable and generally, in pretty bad shape. Grad101 not only gave me her shoulder to cry upon, she convinced me that she and her husband had talked about a threesome and liked the idea. She invited me into joining she and her husband - possibly for the long term. Her husband, a pharmaceutical technician, and I hit it off online and by phone. They had a 13 year old son. Suffice it to say, not having had children and hearing my biological clock tick way, I liked the idea of co-opting someone else's.

My desire to explore threeness had not diminished. As screwed up as I was, I was determined to avoid making another stupid mistake. However, I figured spending a weekend with them couldn't hurt.

After Seraph23 disappeared from my life but before the weekend I spent with Grad101 and her family (between November 1997 and March 1998), I suggested that she and I collaborate on a project that focused on helping girls learn math. I figured I could write a play and she could design a short workshop or even a curriculum around it. I told her that with my experience in educational theater and her credentials, we shouldn't have a problem finding grant money. She even agreed to present it to the wealthy organization for whom she worked. I wrote up a proposal. I was surprised when I saw the copy she submitted to her boss did not include a "Ph.D." at the end of her name.

Petaluma had been flooded by the Russian River the week before. Grad101's son decided to continue staying in the motel while we went back to a moist but waterfree house. During that weekend, I was able to see Grad101's lab. She claimed the University of Northern California (it actually had a website, was accredited, but still struggled along) was farming her out, as a way of generating more funds. This wealthy organization, supposedly in partnership with the university, had headquarters in Idaho and two labs in the area. One was in a junior high school with lots of equipment and opportunities for kids. The other had its own facility, was absolutely gorgeous, and included even more equipment. I helped Grad101 with a birthday party held at the fancy facility - she claimed the organization needed extra money, as did she.

While visiting with she and her husband that weekend, a series of red flags went up:

 

When I congratulated her on finding out that Seraph23's claim to having a Ph.D. in archeology was false, she said she didn't believe that credentials were all that important. Having grown up with academics, I disagreed, and told she and her husband.

Her husband woke us up in the middle of the night, having found a series of email that showed how Grad101 had tried to get Seraph23 a job with the wealthy organization. She claimed it was a scam to keep him interested in keeping her involved with the theory.

I told her she needed to tell him about my visit. She said she would, but only at the right time.

Her husband brought home a vary large box of drugs he had stolen from his workplace. They included large amounts of valium, vicodin and the anti-depressants I'd been taking, among other drugs. Evidently, Grad101 had been hooked on valium and vicodin since her first break-up with Seraph23. Online she claimed it was due to flashbacks to her work in the Peace Corp in Africa.

Grad101 and her husband were about to lose their house due to the nonpayment of their mortgage.

Fortunately, their son seemed to be in pretty good shape at the time. He and I got along famously. Upon my return home, I reflected on a somewhat enjoyable weekend, but lost hope that anything permanent would result. I did insist Grad101 tell Seraph23 about me if we were to share a future. Yes, I wanted a little revenge, but more than that, I was concerned about how her relationship with Seraph23 would effect legal action for fraud that I was contemplating taking against the 23's. She refused to tell him anything. In a telephone call, her husband asked me what degree I assumed Grad101 had earned. I told him she said she got a M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Northern California. He said no, she had attended community college while he attended the University of Chicago, but she had never earned any degree whatsoever. I also working on our proposal.

Within a month, Grad101 was fired from her job and took on a new job taking tickets at the local movie theater. Her husband said she was a big hit with the adolescent boys who liked to hang out with her. Soon after, within a month of my visit, I stopped talking to both Grad101 and her husband because I had had enough high drama and lies.

I heard that a few months after that, Grad101 moved to Maine to be with Seraph23. I assumed that somewhere along the line, she and her husband divorced. A year later, Saphyre23 divorced Seraph23.

COMMUNITY ALIENATION

A few months after visiting Grad101 and her husband, I posted my letter regarding the bankruptcy of the 23's on my website and directed select Knollies there to read it. For the next few months, I made every effort to assure Seraph23 and Grad101 did not appear anywhere near the Grassy Knoll. I was able to present enough truth to discredit them both personally and professionally. I wasn't always successful at being cool and collected about them, especially if they attended a chat or posted on the message boards. With the support of a few select folks, I managed to make less of a fool of myself than Seraph23 and Grad101. Despite their claims that I was psychotic, their efforts resulted in alienating themselves from the community. I resisted being aggressive with the specific information I knew, largely because of the shame that accompanied this knowledge.

Within a year, those that couldn't see Seraph23 for what he was, came around - with a few exceptions. Outlandsh truly believed she was the love of Seraph23's life and that neither of them could find happiness in the marriages they maintained. Unbeleever continued to be Seraph23's best friend, in spite of or because of his infatuation with Saphyrre23, both online and offline.

A few months ago, as HDTRLVR, Seraph23 returned to the Knoll. He couldn't get a rise out of me or discredit me. I made it abundantly clear I knew who he was and for whatever reason, he never returned, although he continues to be a predator under this screenname on AOL .

DESPARATION BREEDS MORE THIEVING

In 2001, I received an email from the director of a planetarium in New England. He had done a search on the Net on a part-time employee of theirs who was asked to leave. A few emails and a telephone conversation revealed that Grad101 and Seraph23 had taken their act on the road - locally.

Grad101 and Seraph23 continues to lie about her credentials, both now Ph.D. physicists. Grad101 applied to be the planetarium's staff astrophysicist but there was no position for her, so her credentials were not checked. She was hired as a part-time projectionist and worked at the planetarium for 1-1/2 years. However, she also managed to put together speaking gigs for she and Seraph23. She also held some kind of classes for kids. She was reported to have answered the phone as "staff astronomer." And then there was the money that went missing.

Grad101 was caught when a science foundation to whom she had written a grant called to verify her employment. Upon finding out she was not employed by the planetarium, the foundation asked the director to sign off on the grant. Instead, the good director did some investigating and to his horror, discovered all kinds of things about Grad101, not the least of which that she had been using her job at the planetarium as a way of gaining credibility as an astrophysicist. Before she left, Grad101 asked one of the students to steal some letterhead. The planetarium did not pursue anything legal around the missing funds for all kinds of reasons.

Not long after she left the planetarium, one of the students at the planetarium who worked in a high school, saw that Grad101 had been substituting and was being considered for a permanent teaching position. This student reported it to the administration, who then contacted the planetarium's director. He and the legal counsel at a nearby university worked to assure that Grad101 did not teach on any level in any classroom as far as their authority could reach.

SPECULATIONS

It is difficult to imagine Grad101 being shrewd enough or even smart enough to pursue fraudulent activities on her own. Given her obsession with Seraph23 and their previous relationship of his dominance, it is easier to assume that Seraph23 helped Grad101 strategize her actions.

The wife of an employee at the planetarium contacted me. Grad101 had befriended, telling her of concerns that her husband was having an affair and embezzling money from the planetarium. These proved to be projections, but caused a great deal of trauma in her household. Needless to say, she is very angry.

Seraph23's name is identical to that of the state representative from Augusta for the state of Maine. It is likely he has found this useful, especially since they share the same intense blue eyes and are approximately the same age.

The probability of Saphyrre23 recovering from her marriage and shrugging off her skills at being sneaky and manipulative are slim. Chances are she is required to share custody of her children with Seraph23. Their children may or may not come out of their childhood healthy enough to live normal lives. From what I observed, their daughter is just like dad.

Grad101's son, is likely to be another casualty.

Given Seraph23's nature, it is likely he cut off Grad101 and blames her for the downfall of his theory. He has a habit of resorting to cowardly behavior. Last I saw, he claimed to be in property management. Chances are, he is working as a security guard for his brother. I do know he spends much of his days as HDTRLVR on AOL.

SERAPH IS ALIVE AND WELL ON THE NET

Rumors are that Seraph23 nka Seraph parades as a risk management assessment specialist who offers faulty legal advice in the hopes of getting involved with Courtney Love. His knowledge of the legal process is severely lacking and he's done little more than make a fool of himself. Not that that stops him from using the little knowledge he has to intimidate others. I remember his "have your lawyer contact me" reiterations in email received after he was outted.

In reality, he sells insurance, despite his claims. He's probably a phone solicitor, given his agoraphobic tendencies, and seeking to do the same old thing online that worked for him 10 years ago before he was fired from his job. Whatever he's doing, it's likely not the same thing he did last year or the year before, given how good he is at sabotaging whatever he starts.

Grad101 is now over 40 years of age with limited career prospects. I suspect she has found another abuser to take care of her, although she and Seraph are still buddies.

AIMING TO BE SHAME-FREE

People like the 23's and Grad101 are not typical. Most people, when hard-pressed, may not always make the best decisions, but ultimately learn at least deterrence as a result of mistakes. Seraph23 and Grad101 (hard to tell about Saphyrre23) do not make mistakes -- at least in their own minds. They lack the ability for self-reflection, except in a grandiose form. They feel justified in not only blaming others for their own inadequacies, but punishing them for it. In other words, they are bullying cowards. Sadly, they seem to maintain less conscience as they grow older, and cause greater damage in the lives of others.

As a theater artist, I have always been attracted to vibrant and strong personalities. This has worked both for and against me. As a writer, I am still dazzled by those online who can use the written word to project these same traits. I believe that for the most part, people are the same online as they are offline. I've also learned that these traits can compensate for serious lacks in character and integrity. Therefore, while I enjoy engaging with these types of personalities online, I leave them online as well. The few exceptions have been wonderful, but I've finally learned how to be more careful and discriminating.

Thank you for participating in my aim to be shamefree. Feel free to email directly at zsharon@thesanitypatrol.com, to present your story or contribute to the online seduction survey.

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