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Date Posted: 20:49:02 06/08/04 Tue
Author: Sage
Author Host/IP: alb-69-200-14-65.nycap.rr.com / 69.200.14.65
Subject: A special thank you

Sometimes the help we need comes from unexpected places. I owe a debt of gratitude to someone many of you remember well; someone who is probably unaware of exactly what her brief email did for me. I may even owe her an apology for the email I sent her that took me over an hour to write and probably took her about as long to read.

Yes, I have been feeling pretty down. The reasons are obvious. I have a cousin who calls me religiously every weekend and I've needed that call. She gets me laughing even as her son is deployed to Iraq. Others here with their own problems have come through for me with emails and phone calls and IMs (and a special thanks to Bar who has continued to post here faithfully) and I feel ashamed that I have been wallowing in my depression.

Sure - I am entitled, but when you begin to bore yourself, you know it is time to try to get back to some sort of normalcy. I know that I will have many emotional up & down days ahead of me - probably for the rest of my life because I will never forget being loved and more importantly, loving.

Sunshine, thank you for what amounted to a "Sage, it's time to get off your butt!" That's not what your intention was, but that's what it did. And I needed that. I may get hung up a little from time to time, but this is a start.

All of you can feel free to give me a kick in the behind from time to time if you feel I need it. (of course, the last time I did obsessive-compulsive solitaire, a "friend" decided he was going to introduce me to the guy who I would eventually end up marrying), so be gentle with me, please.

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