Hi there,

I'm a brand-spanking-new member. Just found y'all today. Very excited to see them gappy grins!

Many moons ago -- 1995 -- I started a lil' website called Gap-Toothed (gap-toothed.com), and it grew into a diastematic's delight: interviews with Les Blank (director of Gap-Toothed Women) and Dale Hempel (founder of the International Diastema Club); a bona-fide USPS stamp protest (Vince Lombardi without a gap? Nuh-uh.); the G-List of 1000+ gap-toothed folks (famous and not); and a few other appropriately idiotic features made it what it was, back in the day when I had nothing better to do in my spare time. (Feel free to poke around at archive.org for the legacy/lunacy that is Gap-Toothed culture on the internet...)

I've since mothballed the site (took a wife, bred a gap-toothed kid, took an all-consuming job, yada yada), but found that people were still wanting a connection to others who had a gap. And who am I to stop them. So in late December I started a Yahoo group, which has grown to 16 members; we're adding 1-2 new people a week.

Well here I am today, staring at your grins and wondering where y'all have been all along. I'm glad to have found you and think we may need to do some merging here, if you're interested in that.

So, li'l show of hands: out of curiosity, how many of you are actually Dentally Endowed (in Diastematic fashion), versus wannabes? Inquiring minds pretend they wanna know.

And...just to make sure: is this an insider group, regionally focused on the Bay Area? (We wouldn't want to crash anyone's party.)

If not...would you mind if a gaggle of gappers joined up?

We promise not to bite. And if we do, we'll leave a wonderful little gap-toothed mark. Consider it a personal brand....

-- Noel (aka Diastematic)