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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Great Swell are the names of the first two keyboards on a church style organ, and I am an organist and pianist! Does not pay the bills, so I do other things. Sadly, being married to a same-sex spouse, I shall have to refrain from playing in most churches from now on. Their loss. And the beautiful music I made is mine.