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There are other changes as well.

Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:

We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.

It's time to move on and move forward.

PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.

But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.

So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!

If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.

So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!

Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!

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Old 07-18-2002, 11:50 AM   #1
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Thinking I was getting another star for hitting 300. Nope, not until 500. Guess I have to keep talking. I have got to find something else to get excited about...
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Old 07-18-2002, 11:53 AM   #2
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If you respond to each of the 100 active postings right now, you will be at 400. [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img] Do the same tomorrow and you will have your star. Just kidding.

It will happen before you know it.
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I'm sure it'll happen pretty quickly.. It's just too much fun to talk with the people here, *I* can't stay away from the boards.. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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What I wanna know is, when did getting stars become my life's mission? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
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Old 07-18-2002, 02:45 PM   #5
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What I wanna know is, when did getting stars become my life's mission? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">[img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Me too!
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What I wanna know is, when did getting stars become my life's mission? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Ain't that the truth for most of us! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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Ya know, I was all excited when I hit 1000 thinking that in another 500, I would get another star! HAH! I have to post another 1000! [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img] Then I just saw that Steve is almost at 5000! Where was I when all this happened? Im sure that you will be there in no time! Here is to another 200 to go! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 07-23-2002, 10:31 AM   #8
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Well, at least, we're easy to please. Maybe we could ask for stars for Christmas.
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Since the stars have been added I've watched my number of posts go way up. It's like I now have a goal now of reaching the next star but once I get there, there is always the next star. It never ends. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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