<With apologies to Anne Rice>

     "You don't want simple answers do you? I think I want to tell the
real story."

     "Yes."

     "I was a young man then, younger than you are now. There was a
tragedy... It was sheer boredom. It consumed me... We were living in
Hawaii then. This had a great deal to do with it, really, my becoming a
Dragon Ball fanatic.
     "I channel surfed all the time and was home as much as possible. I
lived like a man who was bored out of his mind, but had no idea how to
end it myself.
     "And then it happened... It might have been anything. My invitation
was open to anyone. But it was DragonBall that answered my call."

     "You mean... It ended your boredom?"

     "Yes...
     "Time came that I began to wonder if there was another of my kind.
I searched the World Wide Web for another of my kind, but found nothing.
The search took a lifetime. It was then that it came to me: 
     "What do the Damned really have to say to the Damned?"

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Note: this heartfelt angst was the result of the great outpourings of
C&C following the posting of "Goten's Burden."