Here's the story: Back in college, I was a social recluse and Internet junkie. I sat in my dorm room and chatted online with strangers on IRC every night. On the evening of my otherwise lame 21st birthday in 1997, I found myself chatting with a girl who claimed to be Claire Danes. After some persuading, I asked if we could talk on the phone, because I wanted to know if it was really her. So she called. As we talked, I got the idea to flip the switch on my analog answering machine to record the conversation. If this really was Claire Danes, I thought it would be pretty cool to get it on tape. Of course, it was only one of those 15 minute mini-cassettes, so that's as much of the conversation as I got. As I remember it, the whole conversation lasted about 30 minutes. Claire discussed her first time drinking, her ex, her celebrity friends, her upcoming movie ("U-Turn"), and her computer dumbness. I discussed how poor I am, how I don't watch TV, how I don't go to the movies (as a film major, no less), and how I don't travel. I'm going to come right out and say that I was a pretty big loser back in the day, so be nice. The whole time I was chatting, I wondered if it was really her. I didn't know her voice, and I wasn't familiar with her work. Back in 1997, the web wasn't what it was now. It was sometimes tricky to find information and verify facts. But I did the best I could, furiously querying IMDB as we talked, fact-checking every bit of information she revealed. Everything ...
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