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"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."

~Marcel Proust

Mate appreciation day

chef_hector is my best friend. We met nearly 4 years ago through the Sylum yahoo mailing list and we hit it off straight away. We started RPing Odysseus and Hector in the Sylum universe and we have since created an alternate Universe full of food porn, animals, coffee and exotic islands. 

With time our relationship has become deeper and deeper. He's been here in my difficult moments, when I was diagnosed and through the haze of those first few months in which I was still trying to find my way through illness. He taught me how to fight without passive aggressive bullshit and we have weathered a few storms. But each one has left us closer.

Life has changed us a lot since we met. We went through unemployment and jobs, relationships shattered and rebuilt. We have been there for each other and still are. We never get tired of talking to each other, we never get tired of each other's company.

We now RP Jon Stewart and Anderson Cooper too and we have a lot of fun with those characters. Maybe one day, now that Jake has finally been persuaded to join livejournal, we'll publish some of our RPs.

He's smart (more than he thinks) funny in his obsessions for men in leather skirts (or tight red shorts), a good cook, a great father to Lily and a good husband to Joey.

He's an all around good guy. He's living a mixed signals periods and can do with some love, so go to chef_hector and show him some love. He deserves it.