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[ShazzieB]

14. Oh, okay.

So it sounds like you're saying we should all just give up, because it's already over, we've already lost everything, nothing good can possibly happen, ever again, etc.

If that's NOT what you intended to convey, then please feel free to clarify. That's exa ctlyvwhzt it sounded like to me.

And if that IS what you meant to convey or not, I refuse to accept it, because that way lies nothing but gloom, doom, and defeat. If I believed that, I wouldn't even be posting here. I would literally be researching painless methods of suicide and buying a bunch of life insurance so that my husband could have something to live on comfortably when I'm gone. Because I would really not see much point in sticking around any longer than I have to.

Don't worry, folks, I am NOT suicidal. I promise! The point I'm trying to make is that if I let myself start thinking as negatively as some of the posts here sound, I probably WOULD be suicidal before long -- and I am too damned ornery and scrappy to go there.