Fuzzy,

If it was a long post sometimes people skip over long posts. I know a lot about that, if you read mine, most of my posts are a novel. I've found that on this site there seems to be much more patience in reading my long posts than on other places on the internet. On many boards I am used to being ignored, but I realize it is just because my posts are long.

I prefer long posts because they tell a better story sometimes, give better details, give a better sense of personality. In other places I seem to be in the minority, but here it seems to be easier. On the other hand that gives me less "excuses" to turn to when a particular post gets unnoticed.

That's only one of many possibilities. If it is a very busy board, maybe they just don't have the time to get to "know" people the way we do here.

Fuzzy no matter what reason or motivation is behind your lack of response elsewhere, we here DO care about you and we care because we DO know you. We care about you as the caring person we have come to know on these boards, not because we feel obligated to reply or anything. We love you here.

I hope on not over the line here, but if anyone should be "punished all their life" it would be your stepmother for saying something like that to ANYONE, let alone some as caring and loveable as you. That's just a horrible thing to say. Don't look for things that seem to give value to her words. They are a bunch of nonsense obviously given without thought. Words like that should have as little weight as a moth, carried by the wind, to be burned and forgotten after flying too close to the sun.

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