Season's Greetings and well wishes.
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This year has been one of huge change for me.
Some of it good, some not so good. A lot of it involved relationships: some
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I've just discovered (thanks to one of my customers) that a person by the name of Kalryk Silverfall is copying my Elegant Victorian Shoppes that I've had on the market since the spring of '08. He owns a sim called VALHALLA Clubs & Games Estates and rents out these stores to unknowing merchants. He's got nearly a dozen copies of my stores all around his sim textured in different ways.
My friend Oriolus has kindly uploaded some photos with some of the correspondence that we had via notecard. Click HERE to view his site.
Here is just one of the photos that Oriolus put up... I plan on uploading more of my own soon.
Here are some more photos, click to enlarge.
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