Posted AT 10:31 PM EDT on 28/07/06
Living it up in a parallel world
Each night, with her daughters tucked into their beds in their three-bedroom suburban Burnaby, B.C., home, Airdrie Miller takes off for her second life. While her two girls are sound asleep, the 37-year-old math teacher “lets it rip.”
As in rip the night away — in cyberspace, as Anna Mandelbrot, her on-screen character, or “avatar,” in the virtual-reality world called Second Life.
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