29 in '98 ? - same era here, how time flies !

C & B, Oit's, 'back in the day', I think I do remember you as Tina in the posts....
that was back when the internet was 'new' and it was a revelation, and a shock, to find out others also had the same 'thing' for balloons... depending on which search engine was used, and if you came across something related it was equivalent to a lottery win, heh.
As I recall one of the first discussion sites was in a dark recess on mIRC, then gradually we got an actual 'forum', that went through several changes.
To my surprise I too won one of the story contents and was sent a similar package to yours.
My entry was a mix of fiction and non-fiction, but thankfully I've since been able to experience pretty much all of what I wrote about, hehe.
Thanks for re-posting Tracy, brought back some great memories! ... mousey