I just saw this thread.
Ok, I'm a guy. I'm old but not THAT OLD. ( @ moon spawn ... Not from a religious Christian family and likely way to ancient to be in your age group

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Lemme see.. I was born and raised in Michigan. While there I spent about 20 years working with juveniles who were incarcerated in residential treatment for reasons ranging from petty theft to murder... My last job there was working at a state institution that closed down ( as almost all of Michigan did)

So I decided to go to law school. Passed the LSAT and was accepted to and graduated from Michigan State with my J.D. Worked with the prosecutor for my internship. Then before I took the bar my wife wanted to leave the cold so we packed our bags and loaded up my two little ones and moved to Ida-Hell. (Hence Darth Tater.,, get it)?
So we are in Ida-Hell ( she essentially picked if out of the blue and we knew nobody here when we arrived) now and I hate it. I worked for the parole Commission for three years and listened to the inmates lie ( you could always tell they lied. If their mouths were open they were lying... Old joke)

So I would go into the prisons when the wife beaters, rapists, and murderers were eligible for parole and I would make sure most of the scummy bastards ( the majority of inmates) didn't get out after I presented my reports to the Commissioners.
So then We got some bad news and I'm on medical retirement. But everything happens for a reason ( I like to think).
That is why I don't like gritty fantasy. I like to keep things light because I was exposed to too much sadness in the real world. I like to keep my fantasy stuff in the make believe world.
I sometimes offend people inadvertently because I speak my mind and run my mouth and I'm not thinking about feelings when I say stuff. So you know I'm real. I'm pretty passionate and sincere about stuff although I'm wrong a lot more than I like to be.
I have a self deprecating sense of humor and I get along best with people who can laugh at themselves.
Now that I'm retired I have lots of time to read and B.S.on my sports forum and hopefully I can stick around here for a while.
I'm truly amazed at how smart and knowledgable most of you obviously are so I'm doing my best to not sound glaringly ignorant in my posts. I have neither the skill, imagination, or desire to write a book. Well, maybe the imagination and I also have the time but definitely not the skill and not one ounce of desire. But I think it's super cool

And equally interesting that so many of you do so I may have lots of questions to bug you with.
So that is me. Pretty boring. I wish I could have something cool to share but it is what it is.
I am so blessed to have A wife and kids that are so wonderful and whom I love dearly and in the long run nothing else really matters.