you may have made the "mistake" of buying from a puppy mill (like a lot of people have done without knowing the full truth) but the difference is that you learned from your "mistake" and did something really good out of it! so now out of the situation, you have your little max that you love sooo much, AND you have helped give many other puppies a happy little life that they deserve, AND you have helped make sure that this awful woman cannot breed and torture any more pups. the good you have done completely out weighs the little white lie you may have told in the start. you are a loving, honest coragous woman and it is many of us that should feel like we do not deserve YOUR friendship!