Secret identities and call girls

We humans are creatures of curiosity by nature. Oh we love a good mystery and I think those who feel they have some semblance of deductive prowess don't like the answers to mysteries given them all at once. It is like the mystery thriller that we read, whose pages are full of 'switchbacks', false trails and have enough clues so that an observant, reasonably intelligent reader can at least hazard a guess as to who did it and have a chance at being right.
Mysteries are everywhere and even the person behind a blog can be a mystery.
We all know that I'm mysterious, right? (Laughs!)
There have been a couple of English blogs that I not only liked to read but they were so famous or well-known that I read of them and of their authors on other blog-sites and also in on-line newspapers.
Belle de Jour was an interesting read for me because she had  a down-to-earth approach and a matter of fact presentation. I loved how she acquainted us her view of the events in her life as a call girl in one guise and also as an ordinary person living her everyday life as they unfolded. It wasn't the activities of her prostitution that attracted me to her blog, it was her ability to write a witty sentence and create a persuasive persona.
She was a blogger and the British Guardian newspaper voted her blog as 'blog of the year' in 2003. She blogged about her life as a London call girl and also published two books in a diary format along the same theme of her blog posts and she also contributed to a newspaper column and wrote a third book classed as fiction. The fame was a magnet for the shadier side of journalism and many of the journalists of the type that are quite often depicted as gutter-rats in movies, targeted her for the great expose because no one really knew the person behind such a well read blog!
Rumor control, office think tanks and associated gossip columnists went into over-drive trying to guess as to whom she could be and there were many educated guesses made with seemingly logical reasoning including males and figures from the journalistic world. Belle hid herself well behind a series of agents and only recently did she decide to reveal herself and that was because of some threats of being exposed by a dreadful ex-boyfriend of hers.
Belle de Jour  revealed herself to be a research scientist working in child health at a Bristol University hospital and as I said, we all love a mystery and yet we want desperately to know what lies behind such mysteries. Unfortunately once the mystery has been revealed it seems to lose a lot of its appeal and attraction. I liked not knowing, I liked the attempts to know and all of the speculation, I too wanted to know who she could possibly be and now that I do, I wish I didn't know!
Come back Belle!

I have enjoyed my own anonymity on the internet until I started to be active on message boards and then opening my own blog where little by little I reveal some components of the whole. But even now I never fully reveal everything about myself. Some people know quite a lot about me and some people know just a little and some build up pictures by connecting all the dots but when I write of my life I tend to have a line or two that I won't cross because like anyone else I have the right to privacy. I imagine that if someone was really determined enough to try to find out about me, not that I'm special or have celebrity status, then I guess there are enough clues in my writings for someone so determined to come and find me but if you do come then please bring flowers and a smile and not a shady journalist.
Or I could do what Belle de Jour did and reveal myself....
OK, I'll do it.
I am really Snow White!