Angelina

[tinhuvielartanis]

helenangel noticed I signed my letter to B with "Angelina" and she asked me about it. Here's the deal. Read this with the voice of Sophia Petrillo in your mind.

Picture it....Duncan...1999. A young woman has just undergone some difficult transformations and decides she wants to redefine herself. At the same time, she's becoming increasingly more active online as she hunts for fellow Shriekback fans in the hopes of bringing all fans together under a single banner of solidarity. When she first started making contact with folks, she decided to begin the process of changing her identity from "Tracy" to "Angelina," her middle name. It was her hope to eventually get everyone to call her by her middle name as a sign that she was no longer the girl she'd been prior to 1998.

The year 2000 hits and she reaches out to an individual running a website that links to Phil's Shriekback Index Pages and she signs her note "Angelina." She gets a letter back from Barry Andrews, who comes to know her primarily as "Angelina" then, later, as "Tracy Angelina" when it's obvious that the young woman's attempt to shed "Tracy" was all in vain.

So....that's why I signed the letter "Angelina."

The end and hallelujah.