On 31 Jan 1996, Trisha L. Sebastian wrote:

Forgive me for all the processed pig meat (sorry P-chan) but who are Allegra,
Virgo and the other 
people who are in some one's fan fic about the ML?  I read one part and I got
confused.  Is this
a sick, convoluted inside joke that made its way to the outside?

It's a sick convoluted inside joke, but it's from the inside of another 
mailing list that most of us learned about it.

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