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name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Ohio Kim Hatton Cincinnati, OH fionaapple83@yahoo.com 16 Fiona Apple has influenced me in many many ways. Since I've started listening to her music not only have i grown as a person, but she's also made me realize that having a vegetarian diet is more healthy for you and animals as well. I saw her in concert when she came to Cincinnati on November 18th of 1997. When I saw her I was blow away with so much energy and so much truth confined in one human being. When I saw her in concert, as tacky as it sounds it really did change my life. I look at the world in a different perspective now, and she influenced me to not be afraid to write down my thoughts, and not to be afraid of the world. Fiona's past is a lot like my own. A lot of how she talks and how she is as a person is so much like myself it is almost scary. My room's walls are covered in Fiona Apple Posters. I have 17 Fiona Apple cds now (yes only one album out I know.) Fiona has helped me realize things that I may have never realized if it were not for her. I always thought that I was just kind of a shy individual, but now I realize that no, I'm Not shy. I just really don't like talking to people that I don't have anything to say to.
	I feel like she is always going to be there for me, like the older sister that I never had. I collect Fiona Apple items, and I love talking to other fans. I also run a mailing list for Fiona Apple fans to discuss openly about anything. This List is called "This Mind This Body And This Voice", and by not being restricted to Fiona-only topics allows Fiona fans to realize how much they have in common with other Fiona apple fans, and better understand themselves and others. If anyone would ever like to email me and talk to me about Fiona apple, or anything else, then feel free. I would love to meet other fans, and especially people from my area!
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Mallory....AKA AppleOfFionasEye OH Spiderlegs33@hotmail.com 15 I love Fiona so much, and its not just her and her music, its everything about her. Fiona has let me discover how to be myself and to do what pleases me not others. She also motivated me to be a vegetarian. I have never met Fiona, but Im praying that I get to meet her someday. I collect pictures and poster and anything else I can get my hands on about her. Also, Ive searched everywhere for the Apple Dress that she has, but I have had no luck. But about a month ago at a Thrift Store, I discovered one, its not exactly like hers but I still love it and wear it all the time. Im looking for people in my area to chat with about her, so Email me if you are!
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	sheena OH tear@sprain.com 17 i love fiona apple's music. i can really relate to her lyrics and find solace and comfort in them because i was raped also... and her music always gets me thru the hard times... i'm forever grateful and will love her music forever. thank you.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Victoria Fairborn, OH 20 I do not own a huge collection of Fiona memorabilia, nor is my room a shrine to her covered with her images, I find that idolizing people too much is unhealthy. I own only one tape of Fiona Apple's music, it is the "Tidal" album. However, I think her music is some of the most beautiful and inspiring I have ever heard. In her songs I can hear my pent up emotions and experiences sung in eloquently put lyrics and soothing melodies. I am simply very admiring of Fiona's poetic ability and her gorgeous singing voice.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Carrie OH FaeryMoonQuake@netcenter.net 19 Fiona is a brave and truthful soul, unafraid and yet so afraid. She inspires me with her honesty and her unwillingness to back down from what she knows is right.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Liz Akron, OH telex217@yahoo.com 20 I bought Tidal right after I heard "Sleep to dream." I really feel the things that Fiona writes. It's obvious that her words are coming from her heart and that means something today. I really admire her individuality and creativity. That infamous speech at the MTV music awards showed her guts and I love that she endorses something so simple and overlooked as "go with yourself." To sum it up, I listen to her music, read her words, and it makes me happy.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Sonny Urbana, OH Sonny_Furter@hotmail.com 17 Meeting Fiona: I suppose you could say I met her... in a sense. It was not as personal nor as lengthy as one would hope it would be, but I was there, she was there, and I've got an autograph to remember it by. Oh, what a wonderful feeling that was. If only all those other people weren't there screaming and shoving me around. Interesting collections: Well, I have no interesting collection. I've got Fiona's two albums and that's about it. I'm planning on obtaining some live recordings in the near future. But since I'm off to art school next year, I'm not too sure how that's going to work out yet. But all I really need are those two cds and my memories of the wonderful show I saw. What Fiona means to me: I'll have to pass on this one. Because it's not so much what Fiona means to you, but more what you mean to yourself. I don't believe you can hold one higher in your life than yourself. It's just that sometimes someone may come along who will help you to realize this. Realize that what really matters is who you are, and no one can take that away. So for some, Fiona may be your savior upon high, descending to you to grace your life with pleasure and wisdom. For me, she's a great musician, an amazing singer, and a wonderful person who I can only hope to be fortunate enough to get to know more in the future.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	maia OH maia_own@yahoo.com 15 there are not even enough words in the world to describe the intensity and joy of what fiona has meant to me in my life. some kind of supernatural flow has risen from her and she was made to inspire and to express herself the way no one else ever had before. i love fiona. and ive never met her. but my one goal in life is to one day hug her and tell "thank you for you". this one thing is true. fiona has wings eternally.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Barb Cardinale OH Dazzle84@abzoom.net 16 I sat here, staring at this blank, white box of nontext for about 20 minutes, thinking of all of the words that I would want to say about Fiona Apple. She is a beautiful, talented, vegan girl that I just can't get enough of. To just know that I am somehow, from distant off, breathing her air, gives me such a sense of assurance. I love her.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	alexis OH 16 without fiona.. god.. i NEVER would have gotten over my first love. ever. i know that some of you are laughing because i'm only 16.. but think back.. you remember how intense that first one is. it's the "do-or-die" love. mine just happened to die. i had loved "tidal" and was eagerly awaiting "when the pawn," but i had no idea that it would be the CD that would change my life. every single song on the album can reflect my mood on any given day. it's just.. amazing how 10 simple songs can have such an impact. i was fortunate enough to see fiona in march and it was definitely one of the best nights of my life. she was incredible and i cried almost the entire time out of sheer awe and joy. she is my guardian angel and i can't wait to see what she will grace me with next.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Kristin OH dick.58@osu.edu 19 I remember when I first listened to Fiona. I had just been through a rough break up and her music struck a cord in me that no other artist has been able to do to this day. Fiona is so strong and shows that through the strength of her music. Nobody can match the type of music she's making because it's so special and different. Because of her I have gained the strength to show my true colors and not be afraid of what other people will think of me. I've started playing the piano and learning how to play guitar. I saw her be able to express herself through music in a much more eloquent way, because sometimes in real life it's hard to be able to find the words. Because I feel like I can't say what I want to say to people in a day to day setting, I've gotten more into poetry and music. She seems sensitive and sometimes confused on how to communicate that to people and I'm the same way. A lot of the time I find myself hurting in situations when other people normally wouldn't. She's given me a sense that who I am is special, even if I'm sad a lot. She's given me the strength to know I'm sensitive and that there's nothing wrong with that. She absolutely has the voice of an angel and the gift to be able to write such beautiful songs and lyrics. I look up to her so much and even if she hears that a lot, she still needs to hear and know that. She's impacted my life in a way where when you put her cd on, it seems like she's only talking to you about the pain she's been in. She definitely is reviving jazz and the blues (no matter if MTV calls her pop, cuz that's a load of BS if I ever heard it!!!!!!). Anyways, to Fiona, you're wonderful and keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. One day I hope to meet you and tell you these things in person. You truly are an angel whether or not you believe it. Keep pouring your heart out because that is what truly sets you apart from anyone else and makes you beautiful.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	steven shockley Cincinnati, OH (yes the place with the riots) kerouacsbum@excite.com 17 fiona apple is not so much to me, her words her music don't speak to me, they are me. i'm sure a lot of angst filled teens looking for an outlet have turned to this site to say that, or did in the vain attempt to meet the beautiful artist in person. i wanted to tell her if she ever gets around to reading any of this stuff in her spare bits of free time, that she has written half her songs about the same experience that i've endured, and has done so with an exquisite sense of "poem". loving those that you have every reason to hate, not eating to save your soul or whatever is left of it, trying to be the perfect being that you long to be so much while falling over yourself, dying on the inside more than you could possibly hold; that's me. sometimes when it hurts to exist, to just live, i think that she may be another person that would realize that it is in this moment that we become that perfection. trudging through the shit that is left until the tomorrow that always seems to be either a little bit darker. i write with the hope that it keeps getting brighter (for the both of us) , and with that hope in poetry, and hope to make the poetry of life as beautiful as it can be when i leave it.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Barbara Cardinale OH Dazzle84@abzoom.net 17 I sat here, Staring at this blank, White box of nontext for about 20 minutes, Thinking of all of the words that I would want to say about Fiona Apple. She is a beautiful, Talented, Vegan girl that I just can't get enough of. To just know that I am somehow, From distant off, Breathing her air, Gives me such a sense of assurance. I love her.
name: location: e-mail: age: connect:	Michelle Franklin Furnace, OH mydesideratum@excite.com 1 score minus 2 Well, I don't have the talent of putting emotions into words that Fiona possesses, but, basically she's a teacher to me. Her lyrics and onstage rants are part of my personal bible. As far as meeting her goes, I saw her while signing autographs on her way back to her bus in Cincinnati. She reached for my Tidal cd and signed and I told her I loved her and asked how she was feeling (during her show she was noticeably ill). She looked at me and flashed a genuine smile, hopefully from appreciation from my genuine interest and care. I'll never forget that moment in time and I would be forever grateful for reoccurrences in that moment. And in my future, I'm naming my child Fiona. :)