If you are here today, odds are it is because of reading this.如果你今天在这里，几率是因为读这一点。

Revisiting the Garden of Remembrance 重温纪念花园

A few years back, I wrote that some of the events from the Ultima Online days were going to get seized up by the playerbase and turned into some of the formative myths of cyberspace.几年前，我写的一些事件从网络创世纪天要得到处理由playerbase ，变成了一些神话形成的网络空间。 I never expected that one of the things that people would seize on most fervently was A Story About a Tree. In the end, sadly, it has turned out that like most myths, it has a kernel of truth circles by layers of fiction and wishes.我从来没有预料的事情之一就是人们会抓住最热切的讲述树。最后，不幸的是，它已经证明，最喜欢神话，它有一个核心的真理界的层次的小说，并希望。

A few weeks ago, I started trading emails with Tracy Spaight , a documentary filmmaker who was researching Karyn’s story.几个星期前，我开始交易的电子邮件特雷西Spaight ，一个纪录片导演是谁研究卡伊恩的故事。 He came to the conclusion that it was a hoax, and you can read about his investigations in his article for Salon.com. .他得出的结论是，这是一个骗局，你可以读到他的调查， 在他的文章， Salon.com 。 。

How do I feel about this?我如何感想呢？ To be honest, very much like I felt at the time that the events in A Story About a Tree took place.坦率地说，非常像我觉得当时的事件讲述发生树。 Stages of disbelief, anger, and sorrow, the all-too-familiar pop-psych litany.阶段难以置信，愤怒和悲痛，都太熟悉的弹出式心理一长串。

Right now, as I write this, members of the LegendMUD community are going through the same stages, a few weeks behind me, as they learn for the first time of this deception.现在，我写这篇文章，成员LegendMUD社会正在经历同样的阶段，几个星期我的后面，因为他们了解首次这一欺骗。

Here’s the thing, though: we come back to myths not because they are true, but because they are True.这里的东西，但：我们回来的神话不是因为他们是真正的，而是因为他们是真正的。 So I am going to state this as bluntly as I can: I am not ashamed about having been taken in. Frankly, it’s not the first time, and I am sure it won’t be the last.因此，我将状态直言，这是我所能：我不感到羞耻约已采取英寸坦率地说，这不是第一次了，而且我相信它不会是最后一次。 But I would much rather be willing to approach other people online without endless layers of hardened cynicism, than to have to live a life online always skeptical of others’ intentions.但我宁愿愿意其他人的做法没有无休止的在线硬化层冷嘲热讽，而不是有生活在线总是怀疑别人的意图。

To me, the heart of the story still stands: that the bonds we form with others online are real.在我看来，核心的故事却依然存在：那是我们的债券与其他形式的在线是真实的。 Realer, it seems, than the people themselves, sometimes. Realer ，似乎比自己的人民，有时。 The crux of the matter is that real or not, Karyn is lost to us. And to me, that fact will always be deserving of a Garden of Remembrance.问题的症结是不是真的，卡伊恩丢失给我们。而且对我来说，这个事实将永远是值得的纪念花园。