What you did for my Make-A-Wish child waaaaay back

[Peggy-Sierra]

Greetings! My name is Peggy and way back in – I think it was 2002 – I came to hear you play at one of the old theaters in Chicago (I introduced myself as “Sierra” since that was the name I used on message boards). I had with me a white teddy bear that one of the Make-A-Wish kids I worked with wanted to have signed, so I brought it along with me to the show. Your manager at the time came to see me when I arrived early. I wish I could recall her name – a lovely lady with long blond hair – Dawn maybe?). She brought me backstage/downstairs to meet all of you and to get the autograph. I was thrilled since you were, and still are, my all-time favorite band. Fran wasn’t in the room yet, so the rest of us hung out a while and chatted, waiting for Fran to join us. Dougie, you named the bear Scruffy. Scruffy was given back to me after the child had passed and I’ve had him ever since. Fran finally joined us, we all hung out a while longer with my annoying but talented brother taking photos. You also signed some CDs I brought with me for a couple of my Hollywood friends at the time (Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan). You probably don’t remember this, but I want you to know how happy you made that Make-A-Wish kid and what a wonderful memory that was for me. I wish I could post a picture here, but I don’t think I can, right? You were all SO kind and generous that night and, as usual (I’ve seen you multiple times) the show rocked! Your music was the background for my life for many years and I’m still listening. Please never stop making music for us.

[Fran]

Hey Peggy-Sierra. That’s a lovely story. Thanks for doing that for that kid. We are so lucky to have this short lease on life. Some are shorter than others. Lovely to have you back on the board.

On a technical note, Re. Pictures, I think you can post pictures but you need to do it in a code way. I asked an ai what to do. It seems that it is a little bit complicated but once you get used to it, it’s easy. Here is what it said

“Since the forum allows unrestricted HTML, you can embed an image using a standard HTML tag:

html< img src="https : / /your-image-url.com/image.jpg" alt="description of image ">

To get a URL for your image, you’d first need to host it somewhere publicly accessible, such as:

Imgur (imgur.com) — free, easy image hosting
Google Photos — share a public link
Flickr, Postimg, or similar — free image hosts

Then just paste the direct image URL into the src attribute. For example:

html< img src="https : //i.imgur.com /abc123.j pg" alt="my photo">

You can also control the size:

html< img src="https : //i. imgur.com /abc123. jpg" alt="my photo" width=" 500">

Just type or paste that directly into the message box and hit Submit.

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