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The soaking branches drip

And all night through

The dropping will not stop

In the avenue.

Goodbye my angel.

Teenly has died of complications resulting from leukemia.

She lived in a residence for persons with special needs, where I was her neighbor and her music teacher. Her user name "Teenly" means "Tiny". She was small in stature, but great in spirit. She lived a terribly difficult life with courage and dignity, and somehow she always found joy in the midst of the pain. I am proud to have known her.

She had the finest mind I have ever encountered; logical things like playing chess and artistic things like drawing and writing poems she could do wonderfully well, and her musical gifts were beyond compare: but when she wrote "I take gymnastics and karate and swimming and skating and dancing", she was wishing on a star. Her broken little body could do none of those things.

She had been making occasional IP edits on Wikipedia for a couple of years before creating her own account. I was one of several residents who secretly opened accounts of their own, meaning to keep watch over her. She was not too proud to ask an adult for assistance with her early edits as "Teenly", but before long, as with everything she did, she was finding her own way with very little help.

I do not believe she recognized "Fenneck" as someone she knew in real life, or she would not have told him she was eight years old, which she pretended to be on Wikipedia. In reality, at the time of her passing she was just a few days older than six and a half.

My sincere thanks to BWilkins, Error -128, Jerome Kohl, Eptalon, Nelson Nanataktuk, AlbertHerring, and any other Wikipedian who treated her with kindness and respect.

Fenneck

Archive of Teenly's Talk Page

Teenly's Talk Page as it was at the time of her death

Welcome

Hello, Teenly! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Are We There Yet

Anyone have an episode list for Are We There Yet?

It would be useful to have information such as:

Episode # - Stars - Place Visited BMW(drive) 12:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding that ... I won't be able to do a copy/paste, but I will work on a table to make it work. I never knew about that resource! BMW(drive) 13:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great - thanks for continuing to add to this article, I haven't had much time to work on it myself! -t BMW c- 20:17, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome

Teenly, just a short note to thank you for your message. I've responded here. Error -128 (talk) 02:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to worry

Hello Teenly. You really don't need to apologize. We all make mistakes, and you fixed yours. I thought you might want to know that your user page is garbled on my computer. It's probably because I use the Modern skin, because when I switched to Monobook it looked great. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 20:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look over at Simple English. Tharnton was not blocked for making honest mistakes. If you just keep plugging away making good edits liked you have been doing all along, you will have nothing to be nervous about. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 21:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather just go to the Welcome Templates page and read the Welcome Messages there if I'm feeling unwelcome. I will take your suggestion and check out Simple English to see if I can be useful there. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 14:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your very first article! Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 14:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jan Blockx

Excellent work. That was on my to-do list a while back, but I never got around to it. I'm glad to see someone else knows about him.

Would you believe I have a recording of something of his lying around here? I was just looking at it the other day, in fact. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not very old? I wouldn't have guessed - you write very well. Much better than many of the people I work with, and they're...well, let's just say they're older than I. :-) The only think I changed was the category sequence - I added "Belgian composers". Other than that, you did fine.

The Blockx I have is the "Flemish Fair" sequence from Milenka, actually - it's on a disc of Romantic symphonic music from Antwerp that I picked up secondhand. Interesting stuff. I actually first read about him in a little book my father gave me, way back when, about opera. Strange little encyclopedia; it has a lot of people I wouldn't have expected in it.

And yes! My signature is from Gioconda - it's the first act, when Barnaba is musing about what he wants to tell the Council when he sees it next. One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite operas.

Keep up the good work! --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Best Wishes

I hope you will soon be feeling better and brightening up Wikipedia again. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 12:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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