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FourWinds
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Re: How Did It Happen To You?
Aug 20, 2003, 09:08
One of my earliest memories is of climbing all over the stones at Stonehenge when I was a liitl'un. My parents used to take me places, the 'big' places, through my childhood, but only when passing them. There was no major effort to see them, it was just a case of visiting the ones guidebooks told us to - just like so many folks do today.

When I reached my late teens and found out about certain ... erm ... plants that like dark damp places ... cough ... I found that stone circles were a great place to go and have some privacy. Being ever so slightly obsessive about my 'fads' I started going to as many as I could. Not for the reasons I do today, but simply 'because I could'.

Then there was a 12 year gap - a stone free wilderness - when I was a reluctant greedhead. It's amazing how obsessions can shift focus when you're one of those kinds of people :-)

After moving to Ireland I simply had to visit Newgrange. Well, you do don't you!? And I was devastated by the commercialisation of it. Also the fact that it and Poulnabrone seemed to be the only image of Neolithic Ireland that anyone had.

Hence megalithomania.com was born to try and bring the rest into the conciousness of the people.

Now my obsessive streak is back on track ... just in case you hadn't noticed :-)
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