Pooh looked on admiringly.
"I'm just saying 'A Very Happy Anniversary,'" said Owl carelessly.
"It's a nice long one," said Pooh, very much impressed by it.
"Well, actually, of course, I'm saying 'A Very Happy Anniversary with love from CR.' Naturally it takes a good deal of characters to say a long thing like that."
"Oh, I see," said Pooh.

It's almost too much to believe. We're a year old! How time does fly! A few of you have been here for the whole year, many of you for most of it, and some of you have just joined us recently. But it's all of you that make the ZEP such a great place.

Being our first Birthday, it's only fitting that we celebrate properly.

"A party for me?" thought Pooh to himself. "How grand!" And he began to wonder if all the other animals would know that it was a special ZEP Party, and if CR had told them about The Invaluable Shanna and The Hair of Glenda and all the wonderful posts he had read and written, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had forgotten about it, and nobody quite knew what the pary was for; and the more he thought like this, the more he realized we needed a special web page!

So we have one! Make sure to check out all the features, especially the contest! I hope you all have enjoyed the way the list has evolved over the past year. As for me, I've made a lot of great new friends, and just had a wonderful time in general hanging out with a bunch of Pooh fans, 'cause they definitely are the coolest people! I hope we continue to grow and get to know each other even better during the next year. I can't wait to see where we are a year from now.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's worth waking up for?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder who's going to post something exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

Roger B. Penn Jr - poohbear@rogweb.com

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