Intro

Good afternoon, dear reader (if there is a reader). My name is....well, I have a legal name, but I feel very disconnected from it. I prefer to go by Lilli Marlene. It gives me both annonymity and glamour, I suppose. My grandmother's house, where I spent a large chunk of my childhood, was a time warp into 1944. AMC movies on the television, big band on the stereo. It was a beautiful place, and thus, I grew up to be more comfortable in the forties than the present.
I am 30 years old, and have never technically been married, thus earning me the title of Old Maid. I wear it proudly. I never wanted marriage or children. I believe in the old Nietzsche quote: "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
That's all for today. Tomorrow I will, likely, return. I realise no one actually cares what I have to say (giving me a delicious freedom to say as I please), but this is something to do with the long, hot afternoons....