I have a reply in the thread LabRat mentioned.

But, seeing Pam's post:

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I do remember getting Dawning 3 on the fanfic list, and trying to read it -- but I hadn't read D 1 or 2, so I had absolutely no clue what was going on
The first fic I read was in the form of a letter, so it wasn't that difficult to understand. But I only got the original meaning of what fanfic is three or four fanfics later smile

AnnaBtG.

What we've got here is failure to communicate...