--- In kaycee-nicole@y..., "Rogers Cadenhead" <mail@p...> wrote:
> One of the more entertaing aspects of the Kaycee Nicole phenomenon
> has been the number of people who came forward afterward to declare
> how it was obviously a fake.

Well, it's very easy to be certain when you already know the truth!
Even -I- had some doubts, y'all. Sunday morning after I made my
accusations and did my research, the College Club sites had started to
pop out of the woodwork, and I was beginning to wonder if I hadn't
made a horrible mistake. There were new pictures, and all of a sudden,
there were some of the contemporary popcult references that had been
missing in the journals abounded in the College Club sites. And
family sites! And a mention in the New York Times! There was just SO
much of Kaycee, in SO many places, at SO many different times, I
couldn't imagine somebody making ALL of that up. I sat in dread
waiting for "proof" of Kaycee's existence to make it to my mailbox,
and I was ready to pay bigtime penance if I got it.

I think the people now claiming they never would have fallen for it
are just being smug. Maybe even a little insecure, and boasting that
they couldn't be taken in by something like this makes them feel
safer. It's magical thinking- if I believe I am invulnerable, I am. I
figure if that kind of denial is necessary for them to continue
enjoying the Internet, then so be it. Nobody who started out in the
beginning with this and got taken along on Debbie's wild trip should
feel bad or dumb. Parcelled out a bit at a time, with real life
correspondence in snail mail and on the phone, there's no -reason- to
believe that she's anything less than real.

Saundra