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Today's story comes from a listener who heard the show and wants to tell his own story because he thinks it's important

for you to hear it, a story about an online community that back in his teens was a refuge

until it wasn't.

Les Jarden Savage is what was called a message board.

Michael's in his mid-40s, has floppy, bleached blonde hair, and today he's wearing a blue

googly-eyed Cookie Monster T-shirt.

To put it into more modern parlance, it was kind of like Reddit, only very self-contained.

You know what he's talking about, I'm sure.

But back in the early 1990s,

message boards were just beginning to take off.

They were incredibly primitive by today's standards,

but for a teenage Michael,

they offered a whole new world of opportunity.

I was never the popular kid in school.

In fact, like, I tended to be ostracized more often than not.

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