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ALSO - what rock gaming gods do I need to sacrifice to in order to romance Bruno the hottie? Please tell, it's for a friend. >.>

I've been meaning to write this post for awhile now. At least a couple of months, I'd say - I downloaded RockRobin around the new year for free, and then came back to purchase it not long after because I wanted to support your efforts. The amount of thought and care that has gone into this game is more than evident, both in its unique premise and the sheer variety of content you have all added to it. This of course doesn't even begin to touch on the spectacular writing and characters that you've created, ones that seem so vivid and lifelike it's as if they were real people.

Perhaps, that is because I could almost swear you have written a game about my life. Not the exact events, of course, but the gist of it. Although I'm officially an Old now, a lot of Robin's life and experiences were achingly familiar to me. A youth spent in and around musicians and artists and bands all trying to 'make it'. A bevy of bad decisions and occasionally, just when I needed it, the absolute right ones. I even had my Sterling - and while Robin went a different path, I got a pretty amazing kiddo out of the deal that I wouldn't trade for the world.

After I finished all three story routes, I went out into my garage and dug out boxes of pictures, old albums, and envelopes stuffed full of concert ticket stubs. I played music I hadn't listened to in a decade, and cried and thought about people I hadn't seen in a lifetime...friends moved on, friends lost entirely, men that had come and gone. That sounds sad, and wretched, but I promise you it wasn't. It was wonderful.

I've never played a game that I've returned to so many times, that has touched something in me like that. So, consider this my humble thanks for giving me that dusty afternoon in my garage, and for reminding me that even though we move on and the world changes around us...sometimes changes us...there's always value in remembering where you've been.

P.S. I sincerely hope that the epilogues are still forthcoming...I desperately need Robin to end up with her Emmitt the way I eventually did. She deserves that happy ending too.

P.P.S. If there's every any volunteer work or editing or anything I could do to help out, besides donating further, let me know.

P.P.P.S. Collin is maybe my favorite otome route ever. In the history of...all the embarrassing hours I've spent playing dating sims. ;)