From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
    wrote   
      
   >I think I would much rather celebrate Gillian Anderson's birthday, than   
   > Dana Scully's! ;-)   
      
   That's not a very sci-fi fan-like thing to say!   
      
   ^P>   
      
   FWIW, though Gillian is a wonderful and beautiful person and well worth all   
   the love she gets, it was always *Scully*, the character, who really owned   
   my heart. Partly because of the difference in personalities, but also   
   because I -- and almost all other fans -- can't honestly say we really   
   *know* Gillian, any more than we do any other famous person. We can know a   
   lot of facts about her life, and general aspects of her personality, but we   
   can't really *know* her. (And that's a good thing -- she deserves some   
   privacy.)   
      
   Virtually everything about Scully's life, on the other hand -- even the most   
   private and personal moments -- is right there on the screen for me to study   
   and memorise. I feel that I can honestly say I genuinely *know* her, even if   
   she doesn't 'really exist'. Hell, for a while during puberty, I almost had   
   myself really convinced that I was having a transdimensional love affair   
   with her across the void between our universes.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
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   drugs, and you come back with tomato sauce.' --Dr Gregory House   
      
   [looking at a child's stuffed toy] 'Okay, elephants are not purple. This is   
   WRONG.' --Dr Temperance Brennan   
      
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