[drache]

mine wasn't much of an awakening - it just happened
when I first moved to NYC when I was 20, I lived in a dorm and knew nobody
so I took to hanging out at the local pet shop in my free time
when they got in garters, I took a couple home and one of them became pretty tame
then I had a period of moving around a great deal and being generally unstable, so I didn't have anything but a cat for many years
when Mikhaila became old enough to keep bugging me about a dog, I began inundating her with pics of beautiful snakes and lizards and we found Scott's web-site and, well you know . . .