RE: My Friends, you won't like this note but, please forgive what I have to do.

[Guest guest]

Dawn, though I understand your departure, please know that you will

be missed by many! Your good humor and cheerful notes will long be

remembered!

Keep in touch offline if you want and be sure to take care of

yourself!

Gentle Hugs

Donna

[Guest guest]

Dawn - I'm jotting this note off to you both via the digest and your private mail. I think perhaps that you may have underestimated your value to the group. I know that I am but one among the very many here who have come to care a great deal about you. While I can understand your need to address things more fully on the homefront, I hope that you will consider the idea of cutting back a bit on your involvement in the group rather than taking your bushy sheeptail and hightailing it out of here for good. I'd like to think that you also received some support here....that you "got" as much as you gave. I guess that is something that you will need to weigh out for yourself. I just hope that you can come up with a different plan that might be a compromise rather than an all-or-nothing. In any event, should you leave I will dearly miss you but understand. If you find that you can lessen your involvement to a level that works

for you then I will gratefully look forward to your posts however infrequent. My best to you, dear sheep and baaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Barbara

[Guest guest]

Please know I am not leaving you for I will carry each and every

single one of you in my heart for the rest of my life.