Hello from Taiwan

Hello everyone! Long-time lurker here. I had tried to sign up back in 2005, but I never received a confirmation email so I went back to lurking. I figured that someone had already taken this name, when it reality the email was probably sent to my junk mail folder by accident.
I settled on this username because of something that happened to me a long time ago. One day, I was feeling particularly lonely and dissatisfied with the state of our world. I went into a prayer state but did not pray to God - I simply closed my eyes, concentrated, and thought of a message. The gist of it was "If there is life out there besides us, please let me know." An unknown period of time passed and I didn't feel anything. So I forgot about it. The next morning, while at work, a word popped into my head - "fomalhaut". That's it. No warm fuzzy feelings, no beautiful vision - just that word. Yet it was crystal clear. At the time, I had just graduated high school and was a stock boy at a supermarket.
I met my b/f while at university in America - he is Taiwanese. Immigration laws being what they are and attitudes toward gay unions being what they are, we decided it would be much easier for me to stay in Taiwan than for him to stay in America. So here I am - a redneck in Taiwan

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Welcome, fomalhaut!


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Welcome to ATS, fomalhaut.

Welcome fomalhaut

Welcome! I am new too. Have a great time.

Glad to have you aboard. A big ATS welcome, now that you've stopped lurking. And I look forward to your comments from that corner of the world. We need more people in place to tell us how things are being viewed in other countries.

Here's a link to some good info, though you may already know a lot of this:

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Again, welcome to ATS!!!

Thanks for the warm welcomes. I think the most interesting thing coming up here is the presidential election. I think everyone here wants warmer relations with China, for the economy's sake.