Net Name: Kerelsen

Real Name: Bernadette Crumb

Email address: [email protected]

Web Page address (?): http://www.angelfire.com/pa/kerelsensplace

IM address (?): DylanaA

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From: Mansfield, PA

Occupation: Wife, Mom and practicing fantasy/SF writer (if I practice enough I might come up with something good enough to publish!), Navy Reservist

Age: 37 years old

Height: 5'4"

Hair (color and length): Brown, can almost sit on it (I could sit on it before the last trim)

Eyes: Brown

Marital Status: married

Fav Books (other than SW): Katherine Kurtz' Deryni novels and David Eddings' Belgariad/Mallorean

Fav movies (other than SW): Dave, The Princess Bride, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Fantasia, Gone with the Wind

Fav TV shows: Robin of Sherwood (on video only now), Bill Nye the Science Guy, PBS Great Performances, Baking with Julia and This Old House

Fav kinds of music: Classical, Celtic, Jazz (vocals), Baroque, Medieval/Rennaisance, Golden Oldies Rock, American Popular Standards and Country.

When did you first become a SW fan?: At age 15 when my Mom piled the whole family in the car on a Thursday night in June 1977 and we saw STAR WARS. (On the drive home my Mom and I were positive that Han would get the girl, while my sisters said Luke would. :))

First time to see ANH: June 1977, Showcase Cinemas, Tri-County, Cincinnati, OH

First time to see ESB: 12:01am Opening Day, May 1980 in the Springfield Mall, Centerville, OH--with Wright State University SF/F Club--we dressed up as ANH characters. :)

First time to see ROTJ: 4:00pm showing Opening Day, Tysons Corner, VA--also in costume in a theatre that held 2000 people with the largest screen in the area at that time--really made 70mm look great!

Total No. of times to see all the films: I quit counting after I hit 87 for ANH in various movie theatres. Never bothered to count the rest, particularly after they came out on tape.

Fav SW movie: TESB--best character development, most suspensful plot and Leia and Han kissed in it!

Fav SW book: Dark Force Rising (the section about Leia on the Nohgri homeworld was my favorite part)

Other hobbies and obsessions: Reading, Writing, Baking, Sewing, Making Costumes (SW, General SF, Fantasy and Medieval/Rennaisance), Reading Email and Newsgroups

Anything else you want to add: I've roleplayed Princess Leia since I was 15, either on my own or as part of SF clubs and at conventions. Leia was my role model when I was a teenager, and even today when things go a bit crazy in my life, I think "what would Leia do". I love writing SW fanfic and might just get up the nerve to post it to the list someday.