What's REALLY Going ON Volume 1, Issue #5 | Page 5

FEATURED FAN ART Liss Silverwing My name is Felicia, but everyone calls me Liss, after a dear friend of mine started calling me so. I fell in love with the name Liss, and so I have adopted it . I am from Romania, and have been a Michael Jackson fan for almost 23 years, ever since the first concert that Michael had in Bucharest 1992, for me that was the beginning of an incredible journey. I was very young and I remember being flooded with all the sudden changes of life back then. It was very different for us and echoes of the revolution and the tremendous change that happened in my country were not yet over in 1992. All of a sudden from the faded and gray world of communism, adults and children alike were flooded in color and sound. For months the press was hyper excited with Michael's concert and I remember the songs and the videos and how everyone on the street was singing and imitating him. It was nice but I wasn't really aware of his amazing presence, until that night when I saw him. No I was not there. I saw the concert on an old black and white TV. That was all it took for me to see the magic. It took me 2 months more or less, to decide if I was worthy enough to be a fan of Michael Jackson. Yes may sound funny to you but back then being a fan of MJ was quite a big thing for me. I had to see if I was up for the challenge. Somehow I knew it will be a rocky road ahead and that Michael would need my full love and loyalty. That was exactly what I felt it. Over the years it wasn't easy to be