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| Heart's Heaven Ballroom |
For many, Second Life is an escape from the daily stressors
of the real world and for others it is their opportunity to live as normal of a
life as they possibly can due to medical conditions, and terminal illness.
People connect and interact from the inside out and most of
the time leave their real life problems at the door, stepping into a virtual
world with freedom to explore their greatest imaginations.
Heart’s Heaven Ballroom is a testament to the strength
and courage of one woman who fought hard until the very end. Her Second Life
was a way to find happiness and share it with others when her health prevented
her from living life the way most of us take for granted.
Heartlite Jewel was a member of our Second Life community
who spent her time creating a romantic ballroom where visitors can come dance
and enjoy the atmosphere. When it was here time to depart this world, her wish
was for Heart’s Heaven to continue on. Her dear friend Lynn Washborne continues
her memory by carrying on Ms. Jewel’s dream.
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| Lynn Washborne |
Interview
with Lynn Washborne
Hi
Lynn, I would like to give my condolences for the loss of your friend. Can you
share with our readers who Heartlite Jewel was and how you met?
Lynn: Thank you. I met
Heartlite in Heart in the 2008. She was introduced to me by a Friend. He told
me she was someone that needed help with the sim. And threw my name to her. He
sent me a Landmark and that was when I started as a General Manager for heart.
To me Heartlite was a person that if she knew of someone that needed help she
would be the one to help. Or if someone needed just someone to talk to she
wanted to be the one to help.
When
was Heart’s Heaven Established? Where you a part of its beginnings?
Lynn: I think heart's Heaven
was Established in 2006 – 2007. I was not there to help her in the earlier
days. I came later, as a General Manager.
What was
Heartlite’s vision for Heart’s Heaven Ballroom when it was time for you to take
over?
Lynn: To Keep Hearts Heaven
open for people to come on down and enjoy and have a great time.
Having
an illness is not easy, but Ms.Jewel still worked very hard on Heart’s Heaven
Ballroom. Can you tell us about this venue and how you are keeping it going in
her memory?
Lynn: I've kept the name of
the ballroom. And we also put up an memorial so people can go up there and
visit.
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| Heartlite Jewel Memorial |
Have
you made any changes to the original venue?
Lynn: Yes, We did change the
music. We are allowing more kinds of music, from Jazz, rock, soft rock, pop.
Soon we are going to start having contests. We also changed up the venue, but
it's still open didn’t want to put walls up I liked the open look on the water
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| Ballroom |
What
type of events do you host?
Lynn: I don’t host. RL gets
the best of me. But there are times I do try to DJ, but i don’t have set times.
Are
you currently hiring?
Lynn: yes! We are Hiring. We
are looking for Host's and Dj's
In
keeping Heartlite Jewel’s memory alive, can you tell us what your hopes are and
how people can help keep this venue going strong?
Lynn: well we would like to
see more people coming to the ballroom, that was Hearts big thing always trying
to get people into the ballroom. It will always be free to everyone to come
hang out, dance and meet new people. We are open to any suggestions to as what
you (Readers) would like to see in a venue.
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