Hey everybody, apologies for ignoring you here. I am on my way to Lancaster, Pennsylvania from New York City. I just was doing some podcast episodes and visiting some friends there and now I'm headed to Pennsylvania because the person I'm named after, her name is Danielle too, lives in Lancaster and I've never actually met her before. We've been friends for 22 years now, but only online.
I met her way back in the day when AOL chat rooms were a thing and then we switched to Instant Messenger when that was a thing and then 10 years later to Facebook and she's been my friend for a long time. She's one of the people who was instrumental in me figuring out that I'm transgender. Basically I thought she was an amazing example of a role model of what a woman is and we had a conversation about that once and she told me that I should look up the word transgender, and I did.
It took me longer than that to figure it out really. That's another story, but that was kind of the beginning of it. We've been friends since I was 13, and I'm finally getting to meet her, and I'm thrilled. We video chatted before a few times and stuff, but this will be our first time meeting in person, so we're going to this diner that she likes and it's going to be a lot of fun.
But I wanted to make a video just because I want to remember this moment. I think this is an important day in my life and I wanted to share it with all of you. And again, I'm sorry I'm not looking at you, I'm driving to Pennsylvania at the moment. But, thank you. It means a lot to me that all of you have been with me on this journey the last couple of years as I've come out and as I've started dressing femme and I've changed my name and I've changed my legal gender.
It means a lot to have the support that I have in all of you and I appreciate it and I just want to say that. I'm not sure that I would have gotten this far or felt this good about it or been able to be authentic to the degree that I have if it weren't for you and I'm grateful. So thank you. So I'm actually going to end this video just because I'm driving, but I really appreciate all of you and this is a big day for me to meet my namesake.
So take care everybody, I hope you're having a great night, and I'll see you next time. Bye.