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elcome to another exciting New Year ahead with AVENUE! There is an air of optimism in the air with the start of each new year and I hope this carries you through the months ahead filled with inspiration for an even fuller Second Life速 filled with joyful and exhilarating experiences and achievements. My deepest wish is that you will find or forge a new journey for yourself and go beyond what you regard as limits and realize your fullest potential. Looking back over the past year and even from the first time I came into SL, I realized how much SL has impacted my real life. I found true love here moved to the United States last year so we could be together. Inspired by the amazing work created here at AVENUE Magazine with my team and countless contributors and designers, I decided to further my studies and am now pursuing a degree in Digital Arts Design here. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined pursuing a degree in my 40s which would be the springboard to a new future career and enhance my work here in SL. Returning back to school has been an indescribably amazing experience... challenging my self-fathomed limits, assimilating new skills and experiences, and watching myself grow and evolve. And I owe this all in great part to being in SL. So I guess what I am trying to say, is our future, our journey has a destiny of its own. One never knows where it may lead. But I promise you that it will be an adventure that can only be fulfilled by you tuning in to your passions, desires and dreams. May you move forward in 2011 with knowing that anything is possible and nothing is impossible. Carpe diem.