User:Unfree

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My name is Marshall Price (unique in Miami, Florida), and "d021317c" was the username assigned to me by SEFLIN, which once afforded free dial-up Internet access. 021317 reminds me of "Oh, to unfree one's heaven!", a curious mnemonic. "Unfree" means "to set free".

I just changed my username. I didn't know I could, and forget how to do it, but now I'm "Unfree", rather than "D021317c". It might make life a bit easier for somebody.

Incidentally, I ought to mention that my father was a celebrity in his day, and so was my mother's father; that I was born in 1946; that I went to a marvelous school in Princeton, New Jersey, called the Columbus Boychoir School; that I tuned pianos for a living most of my life, but usually held other jobs, too; that in college I studied mathematics, then city planning, then chemistry, and then voice (not to mention many electives); that I've sung in various choirs most of my life (including some great ones); that I've never liked soloing, but never experienced stage-fright; that I may or may not be crazy, depending on my mood and whom you ask; and that I sleep in an upper bunk, but have no lower bunk. I used to fantasize about living in a huge mansion near the sea, with a library, music conservatory, workshops, laboratories, well-equipped kitchen, guest quarters, gardens, and so on, but now I have all that, and more -- all in one tiny room! And it's in a semi-tropical paradise where the living is easy. Who could ask for anything more?

Oh, and I have a bike I can use any time I want, neighbors who let me use their laundry room, an aloe plant in my garden, and the occasional friendly lizard for a house guest, and something I never even fantasized about: my very own computer, with unlimited entertainment, advanced communications -- for free, amazing research powers, and.... Well, you know all that; it's millennium three. And all my friends are real characters -- the greatest!

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		For your efforts to improve the quality and readability of a wide range of Wikipedia articles, I award you this Copyeditor's Barnstar Jonovision (talk) 21:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Wow! Isn't that something! See Jonovision's talk page for the effect it had on me. Unfree (talk) 08:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)