Friends ask me, “Have you written about it yet? Well, it’s coming upon three years, and I’m writing about it now for the first time. It’s taken this long for me to absorb it, I suppose, to make sure it was really true and not a big fat, “Sorry, there’s been a mistake.” I had gotten my hopes up about 20 years ago when the Internet was becoming mainstream, but that endeavor left me not quite empty handed but forlorn nonetheless. I vowed, for my own peace of mind, not to take it up again. And I did...