User talk:Marinabreeze

 Hi Marinabreeze, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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 Good luck, and have fun. --Hoary 07:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, the stuff above is indeed just boilerplate. But this isn't.

Thank you for your welcome question in the AAVE talk page. Unfortunately that article attracts more than its share of underinformed, silly and even repellent comments; I do hope that you keep it on your watchlist and contribute to it. But I must sadly add that spending a disproportionate time on this article may be depressing: please leaven your experience here with edits to articles of little interest to curmudgeonly newspaper columnists. My own interest is the history of photography but please choose whatever, like, floats your boat. -- Hoary 07:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)