Welcome to the forum rerussell3!
Always wanted to meet Pete at a Con, but the ones he goes to are much to far away to justify the cost.
Well if I were to pick favorites, I would go with
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Anyway,
a lot of new people signed up recently, so I will have to keep this short (and amazingly identical). There used to be Pesterers to pester you for poetry, but who knows if that will happen. Even though you may not be pestered, if you do post an original poem--usually haiku but any (clean) type is accepted--written by you, you may also receive a gift in return. The "gift" may be useless or fatal, but it's a surprise. Lastly, the pestering is the tradition here, not the poetry.
Now go forth and mingle!