@onceuponatime, One of the earliest steemit adopters, joined a community project that I started here in Chile. When he came to see our land and evaluate the project, he introduced me to steemit. I joined, met the few people that were here in the beginning, and loved the concept so much that I decided to stick around and invest for the long-haul. It has been a fantastic year and I'm very much looking forward to the next.