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" Well, my mother might be the Pinnacle of Positive Computing, but it didn&amp;#039;t rub off on me. This morning, as I went to check my world on Facebook, I was surprised to find that my world wasn&amp;#039;t there. What was there instead was a Facebook page set up specifically for students in a class I taught last year. In the profile picture I am wearing my Dad&amp;#039;s fedora. He kept it in a hatbox labeled &amp;quot;Ginger Fedora&amp;quot; which makes me laugh because it sounds like a stripper name. Now, please know that I think of these two Facebook pages as completely different people. There&amp;#039;s the affable teacher in the hat, and then there&amp;#039;s the real me: the eternally optimistic pessimist who has a wheel of fortune as her profile picture. And who has more than two friends, I&amp;#039;m just saying, that&amp;#039;s how many hat girl has. Two. And the bonnie repartee my Facebook friends and I amuse ourselves with? Gone, baby, gone. All that was left were a few measly facts and the breaking news that I&amp;#039;m a female. So I e-mailed my friend Lindsey. Am I gone? Am I in danger? Will I come back? Lins checked on her own computer and assured me that I was still there. Then I realized this is the question I have been asking Lindsey since the death of my mother. She lost her mother. She knows. I question her about this feeling or that pain or the length of an emotion. She always assures me that I am not in danger, I am not gone, I not only will come back, but I&amp;#039;m still here. Then we lift our glasses and laugh hard for a few hours. It is nice to be on the same page. D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com. Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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