Hello From Pennsylvania

Yeah, I know, this place has been a ghost town for quite a while. I guess it used to be popular back when, but I guess the site went down and most of the site has been lost apparently. Welcome from Corning NY a little north of the central Pennsy border.

I actually knew Karen back when. Most of the things I know are from Karen herself and not really from documentaries or books.

I like your nickname karensheart as I knew Karen had arrhythmia (irregular heart beat) which was why she used to exercise all of the time and check her pulse. Anorexia was a different story and actually for Karen's last four months at least (maybe longer) Karen had stayed steady at roughly 108 pounds. Karen's hospital stays in 1975 and 1977 were because of her arrhythmia and Karen was against being kept alive by a machine. As Karen would put it, "If God had wanted me to be kept alive by a pacemaker, I would have been born with a pacemaker."

I always knew Karen to be a sweetheart too, but she was a tomboy with a really rough exterior.  And Karen knew I meant it when I would say, "I like tomboys and mud pies" and Karen would even say it with me at the same time sometimes when we talked to others.  Karen knew I wasn't much for girly girls that worried about just looking pretty and such.  Karen and I both enjoyed jokes and pranks and seeing people being happy.  But then Karen and I took a turn for the better when we started finding each other and realizing that we could be serious about things and still have fun too.  Karen and I started having more fun helping others with solving problems and helping people be happy that way instead of just pranks and jokes and such.