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PRESS RELEASE

April 9, 1998

WebBound Magazine lists Active Worlds as number 1 Top Chat site Worldwide

The summer issue of WebBound listed Active Worlds as the number 1 Chat site in its top 10 Chat Sites category. In addition to this prestigious ranking WebBound featured an in-depth article on the beautiful Castles World built and maintained by Belladora. "We are very pleased at this latest ranking", said CFO JP McCormick "as it once again maintains Active Worlds as the worlds leading 3D multi-user Internet platform". The WebBound magazine website can be found at www.webbound.com.

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Castles was quoted by Webbound as the #1 Chat Castle on the Web

Bell,

Time plus pleasure and the grace of god granted me this golden opportunity to

write you, i received some of you great work from a friend i have enjoyed

every piece Bell i have this problem i have spent 5 years trying to make the

man in my life appreciate me Bell I'm a wonderful woman with so much to offer

why can't he see that i have bought every card hallmark has on love. i know

what i feel i just can't put it into words the way you do should i give up

when i read your work i can feel each moment the music just brings out all my

tears it seems only you know as if you know just where the pain is you know

just what to say in each piece Bell i may never find love i can give love but

it is returned in small amounts or not at all your music i dream i could be

with the man i love to share it with me if he could read your words and he

would know just how i feel you sum it up better than i do all i can do is cry

Bell thank you for your time may god bless you and keep you al the days of

your life keep writing know that a young lady lost in her dreams app your

wonderful work..

Bell,

What a beautiful soul you must have...I love your work, it really touches me..

I hope you continue to grow with your site, and continue to explore all of

what love has to offer...Im just an ole romantic cowboy, plum full of love

and life..

I love to read anything that has to do with love and the heart, because it

truly shows me that real love is still alive....May God bless and keep you

safe always.

................................Just a man that loves to love.....BO

Hi,

I was playing on the internet today when I ran across your webpage. I have visited a lot of sites over the past few months....searching for ways to tell my fiance that I love him more than life. I can HONESTLY say....your site.....is truly one of the best I have visited. You really offer words of encouragemnt, trust, hope, and love. Thank you for sharing your poetry and thoughts with the world....and me.

Jeanette

Bella, your page "Breathe" was sent to me by a friend. There are so many

beautiful, beautiful poems. I sit with my coffee, and just read and relax.

You have the gift to touch a strangers heart. Thank you for your beautiful

page...it will be with me always.

Dear Bella,

Thank you all of you wonderful pages, you'll never know how many times when I was down and my world upside down I've have visited your site and it has always given me the strength and hope to carry on.

I was born in Indiana, ( Warsaw ) in 1937. I now live in Colorado.

I have referred your pages to my family and friends when they were having a blue day and they have always come back w/ a Thank you it made my day.

Thank you again, Sherry

Your website is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Thank you so very much for being such a nice person and sharing the things you have written with us.

Thank You,

Don

BELLS CASTLE

When your feeling blue and nothing else seems to do.......

Just let it all out.

Bells castle can withstand the hardest of blows.

Drop all your heart felt tears on the castles soul,here they will become memorys

for all the world to know.

Castles is the living.....A place to call your home.

A place where love and kindness never seace to grow.

All your friends are at Bells castle, it is her world of love.

Out there on the internet for all the worldss unknown to love.

Everyone is welcome no av is turned away.

If your having trouble or just feel lost Bell will help you find your way.

All the people of castles are my family.

No not by faces, voices or blood, but by all being connected.....by one special place and one very special person.........BELLADORA

I could say much more, but you need to see for yourself .

Come see it tell all your friends.......Bells castles just down the way.

Please visit Bells castles her special worlds of love.

Im telling you its the truth it will surely make your day.

For BELL From DUSTBUNNY

WE LOVE YOU BELL!!!!!!!

Hi my name is Nina Im only 17 but the poems you write make me teary eyed.. you write so beautifully and i admire you..

keep up the good work!!

Love always

Nina

I don't know if you remember me or not but you dedicated your page Heaven's Gift to my husband and myself some time ago. I just wanted to let you know that he passed away the end of January and once again I wanted to thank you for your gift to us. It made the world of difference to him knowing that there are people out there that care and are of a giving heart. Thank you once again.

Sandi

Comments: i would like to thank you for thoughts and portery that has help alot in a time when my wife and i were going thru some prolems . they gave stringht to go on. after 30yrs of marriage we thought it was coming apart but reading you proms and remebering that love is the thing that holds us all together we refound love that we needed to go on , agaiin thank you, for you are a very specal person please forgive my spelling leroy&mary

Comments: I came here with a little help from a very good friend, while having a hard time. My husband is out to sea, just on his way home, and my stress has caught up to me, so I needed something to relax me, and to think of wonderful thoughts. I am thinking them now more everyday, more after each poem I read, I share them with my husband, when we talk, he loves them. We have one very deep closeness, other than our love for each other, and that is for writing, what is in our hearts, and reading other one's work. I just want to tell you how much your poems have helped my husband and I get back this feeling Of such deep and strong Love that we thought that the miles were taking away. We both feel, the emotion while reading the poems, and sometime for sometime after. I just Want to say THANK YOU. Your site, is the best I have seen. GOOD LUCK, and GOD BLESS. Thank You, Mrs. Stewart

Comments: THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF LOVE I HAVE EVER READ. THE SOUL CAN NOT CONTAIN THE TEARS THAT ARE STREAMING FROM HER FACE. YOU HAVE TOUCHED SUCH A CHORD IN MY HEART. I HAVE MET SOMEONE AND THESE WORDS SPEAK FOR ME. MY HEART IS EMBRACED WITHIN THE LINES OF WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN. YOU HAVE PUT PEN TO PAPER AND MADE IT FLESH.YOUR WORK IS TRULY A GIFT . THANK YOU..............SOUL

Comments: Bell, My boyfriend and I meet on your pages a year and a half ago. we live togather now was just here thinking of old times and wanted to thank you for your awsome creativity your works are wonder and I bet highly know around the world Im proud of you . and I just wanted to thank you for being so wonderful and doing so much to make the net a wonderful place. Your one of a kind Lady :-) we love ya

Comments: Bell, I first saw your link about a year ago. I was impressed then and continue to be today. During the holiday season it is especially hard for me, I gave up a life in Colorado to move to Florida to be close to family--even today the short distance seems very great. Although I have much to be thankful for this time of year brings many feelings to me. Your art, poetry and music help lift my spirits and for this I thank you very much. Alan

Comments: A friend sent it to me in IM. I send them to my husband who is out of town the military. I can't send him objects, but loveto send him things to show him how much I love him. thank you so much and please don't ever stop pouring your heart and soul onto paper. YOu touch more people than you could ever have imagined.Thank you again --- Chrisine

Comments: words can't describe how awesome your worlds are. full of life, passion, understanding, tenderness...I could go on and on. Thank you, Bell...for making the true world brighter and more loving with your poetic words of love and romance, and your talent with art.

Comments: you have some really great stuff.....if u have something knew..please send it to me..or if u think u have something interesting....i love poems and things like that..i am also 15 years old..feel free to send me anything!!!

Comments: I thank you for such an insirational picture and words You have a great talent. This reminded me of a similar sunset I saw leaving Saigon Harbour on May 25 1975 the day the boys came home from Vietnam I am disabled with Osteoarthritis and now I a legally blind due to exposue to anthrax as a medic during the recent Gulf war and with special software from the Canadian National Institute for the blind i saw your url picture and on a weekend of thanksgiving i give thanks everyday for the day of a new life and I made your poem and sunset my wallpaper for my windows 98. Thankyou for this special inspiration and the gifts God have given you. May God Bless you and your loved ones this thanksgiving day Kenneth

Comments: COULD YOU SEND ME SOMEMORE LINKS OF YOUR WONDERFUL POEMS ? I DONT KNOW HOW TOO GET MORE AND I SEND THEM TOO MY HUSBAND WICH IS STATIONED IN THE ARMY RIGHT NOW AND ITS HELPING ARE RELATIONSHIP STAY ALIVE EITHER THOUGH WERE SO FAR APART !! PLEASE HELP !! I LOST EVERYTHING IN MY COM AND WOULD LOVE SOME MORE OF YOUR INSPIRERING POEMS !! THANKYOU

Comments: I really need comfort pages like these. My dad died a few months ago and am now taking care of an ill mother. I need the spirituality of calm and peacefulness. It is wonderful to have sites like this. Thank You. Take Care and May God Bless.

Comments: Hello there Bell. I was up tonight fighting with my boy friend and I was sent your web page through a friend. I couldn't explain my feeling to my boyfriend until I came across your web site. I printed out a few of your poems and I'm planning on giving them to him in the morning. You really have a way with words. At least I know now that I am not crazy, someone out there knows how I feel. Thank You

Comments: Ray sent this to me.....and I am thankful that he did. This is the first time since Don died that I could allow my tears to flow without feeling guilty. It is evident that you have special talents to be able to help people open up their hearts and minds to come to a place of serenity, peacefulness, and happiness. You have a gift and have the ability to speak your mind. I firmly believe that God puts people in our paths for a reason....there are no 'real' chance meetings. When Don was so ill, each time he got sicker from the diabetes, or fell, or had to have surgery, etc. it would give my heart such a twist because I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do about the illness. When he passed away so quickly, I told friends I have such a calmness about me that I did not understand. Well, thanks to you, I do now. It's not only a calmness within me because I know he's not longer hurting but also a peacefulness within me that knows he, too, is at peace. You can't imagine the tears that have flowed since reading your heart-felt words and listening to the music. Part of it is because of grief because yes, I do miss him. But a larger part was because I KNOW how at peace he is and it okay for me to get on with my life...such as it may be. It is nice to see a man can speak from his heart---there are so many men and women who don't even understand what that means. You can't imagine the peaceful feeling I now have and am very thankful for. I am thankful you have such a unique gift and can share it.....Should we meet one day, I would hope you'd know and understand what you've done for me without even knowing me. "Thank you" is not enough but I do hope you understand what I mean. Take care of yourself. Anna

Comments: Belladora, You are TRULY GIFTED!! Thanks to "the Postman" & his newsletter "The Postman's Corner" I found your page Entwined as One. I am so glad he added your link in his newsletter! I have been really moved by the poems that YOU have written! It might take awhile to get through them all but it will be WELL WORTH IT! I just wanted to say to you that your poetry INSPIRES as well as your pages. Not to depress you or anything----i just had to tell you EXACTLY how much it does mean & inspire----I have a terminal illness few know about & everything about your site moved me to the point where I forgot the pain while I have been here!! Thank you just for being YOU!

Comments: Your poetry with the music moves me to no end. I am in the Autumn of my life and now; I look through the eyes of others at my colorful past and I am awed by the wonder of all that I have seen and done. Your poetry helps me to see that past and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Comments: Wow! I really relate to "Free From the Storm"! I didn't want the divorce. My husband is the one who left and filed for it. But when it was all over with, it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I didn't realize how much I had been kept under thumb and treated as if I were less than dirt. While it still hurts, I sleep so much better now than I did while we were married. After 17 years, I finally feel like I'm allowed to me.

Comments: These poems are the embodiment of the ever eternal soul, and they have brought much into my mere existence. I would like to thank you for this enlightening and enchanting experience, for sharing the passions of the heart, the magical embrace of love realized. If only there were more of these people, the world could look and truly see, they could touch and be able to feel, they could know, and by knowing understand. Thank you

Hi,

I just wanted to drop you a note to tell you that I think your pages are wonderful. I enjoy them very much and I send them to all my friends and they enjoy as well. I hope you continue to add new pieces to Castles.

Thank you for sharing your poetry!

Kelly

Comments: Hi I'm Julie and I'm an addict, I saw the Ohio web page on a flyer at a meeting, so when I went home I got on the net. I've found a lot of interesting things at this sight and it has been great. I have been clean almost a year, On november 30, 1998 it will be a year. It's been a lot of hard work but sure has been worth it. Grateful recovering addict, Julie from Ohio

Comments: Dear Belle; Just surfed in to see something beautiful! I love your site and visit it often. Please don't ever close it - it is my favorite hide-away!! I write poetry myself and always appreciate the works of other writers. Thanks again for 'being there' to visit with. Happy Holidays from a loyal fan. Leann

Comments: I simply adore all of your picture and poems. Not ever being one to read or take an interest in poetry, your site has really inspired me. Your work has touched me and the lovers and friends I hold dear. Thank you for opening up my eyes to the true beauty of this world. The words, the meanings and the feelings I could not express before. Now I can feel it.

Comments: I have only read 2 od ur poems. I really enjoyed the "Dreams". It made me feel tingely inside for some strange reason or another. I'll Probally be here for a couple of hours reading ur stuff. It's great!! Thanks again Heather

Comments: Your Work Has always been an inspiration Bell. So Much so that it has got me going again. Thanks for showing me that there is nothing Better than the Joy of creating happiness for others. Bob L

Comments: I lost my bookmark of your sight, and went nuts trying to find you again so this time I've saved it I'm 71 years old, and lost my wife last April 14th, and find many of your pomes remind me of the women I spent 41 years with I would like your Newsletter And thanks for bringing my wife back now & then in your pomes Chris

Comments: I met the man of my dreams at 45 through AOL... He lives in Colorado...we have met and are very much in Love...He's coming to see me again for New Years....Our plans are to be together...I wanted to let you know, I have sent many of your poems to him and he is always so amazed as they describe the two of us so perfectly....Thank you so much for being a part of my new Love and My new Life...Love and Light to you Belladora.... :)

Comments: God bless you with his Love, Grace, and Mercy throughout the comming days. This is a wonderful page. I love the sensitivity to His Majesty! Please feel free to send to me anything that you are inspired by God to share with His children. Again, Thank you. And Merry Xmas to you and yours, Happy Holidays.

Comments: There are no words that describe what JJ feels......you managed to make a writer feel worth.......Godspeed!! U have given new Life sooooo very many times and u know I love ya gal.......I admire all you do!!!!!...U moi's friend are an angel.......u will reap you rewards as he has planned!...Thank you for being moi's friend!!!!!!! God bless you and everything you do!!!!!!!!!

Comments: Loved your message and the beautiful red rose. It really inspired me. Things in my life haven't been too good lately and your page really made me think.Thank you so very much.

Hi Bell:

Great to hear from you.

Very exciting about your work. Keep at it, and turn the heat up.

I would be very happy for you to use my CD during your readings. Do you have "Land of Enchantment"? If not give me your address and I will send you one. You may find it is better for the readings, as it is all my own compositions, inspired by my life in New Mexico.

Ciao.

Michael Chapdelaine

Just wanted to say how beautiful your web page is. I'm now preparing to take

one of the hardest steps in my life and retire from the US Army after starting

my service almost 30 years ago, and after having served both during Vietnam

and Desert Storm. I have often been called the "gruff old sarge" the one they

often said showed the other side of todays modern army. I've always been the

hard one, one never to show emotion, even when I was handed my own father's

burial flag from the army that both he and I so believed in and served. As I

now leave to find a new life with a new lady who has shown me these pages I

have truly found emotion and for the first time in my life I have tears in my

eyes. Even when on the battlefield with my friends dieing all around me I

never shed a tear, but your pages have changed all that. If they can do this

to me, then there is hope for peace and understanding in this world. Never

change what you are doing. It is so special and if only the leaders of the

world could experience what you are giving. You are truly a beautiful and

wonderful loving person. Thanks for making me a human again.

"That Gruff Old Sarge"