Seeing as of how this is officially a @neilhimself fan account now, you may have wondered where my allcap frenzy over #Sandman has been. I have a short answer. But you’re getting the long one. At the age of 25, I was in NY on a soap opera, drinking myself to blackout and starving myself to faintness in an effort to feel loved by the Pretty People. My friend, Eric, knew the me before.