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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 269185" data-attributes="member: 13221">Thank you so much for saying that! I’m glad you enjoy reading my posts. Sometimes they’re typed after a long day of work when I’m half asleep so I appreciate what you said. So how did I find Dallas? Well, my grandparents were huge fans of the show and I lived with them because my mom was very sick when I was little. She was there too but very limited as to what she could do with me cause she needed a lot of care. So my grandparents were my foster parents in a way. They loved Dallas and one night in late 1983 I sat down and started watching with them. And I was hooked. Bobby and Pam were already divorced and seeing Jenna and Mark, Peter was chasing Sue Ellen and I just fell in love with the show at 8 years old. Things were slow on the ball field out on the front lawn so I had some time. But I think what took me from fan to Superfan was Swan Song about a year and a half later. My mother wasn’t the biggest Dallas fan. She watched but not religiously. But that night she sat on the couch with me and watched Swan Song with me and she didn’t move. She even cried a couple of times. And that was a very special night for me because like I said she was very sick, and her parents were always around to help take care of her and raise me. But that night they went to a party and I was left alone with my mom, which was a rarity for us. It’s one of the few times we were alone when I was growing up and it felt very special. I didn’t see her as sick. I saw her as my mother and she’s spending time with me despite feeling like crap all the time. So that night was what made me a Dallas fan forever. It wasn’t just the show. It was the fact that my mom was alone with me with no one else around for once. I don’t really have a lot of time off, other than Sunday. I work for FedEx so they keep me busy. 23 years there and I’m still waiting for a slow day. My hobbies would be mostly sports, watching them and playing them as often as I can. I still play baseball but now on someone else’s field. Before the pandemic I would go to the movies a lot. I mean a lot!! I practically lived there. I love Netflix and on demand but to me there’s still something special about a big premiere on a Friday night. There’s nothing like it.</blockquote>

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