1. if anyone has found any posting by me to be insulting, i apologize. i have never intended to offend anyone. i stated the facts about the quotations just as someone here might state a fact about a yorkie. i was not judging and do not see that in my post.
2. i stated i have learned a lot on this thread, and also by the fact that it was moved to off-topic. it seems that some assume this to be a negative. it wasn't and isn't.
3. i do not capitalize by choice. e.e. cummings didn't either.
4. i can't recall all of the other remarks sent in my direction and honestly, am disheartened by this last bit of activity.
5. i am more convinced than ever that the woman i spoke of earlier deserves an apology because at this point, i feel sufficiently beaten down and i neither started this thread nor argued with anyone. further, i have a pretty thick skin.
6. i'm going to bed, and will think and pray as to whether or not this is a thread i need to revisit again, or even a forum i need to be part of. i believe in building, not tearing down. i believe kindness is always the best route to take. i believe no one knows so much they can't stand to learn more. these are the ideas i have shared here and ones i do my best to practice in life. the notion that such beliefs have garnered so much defensiveness and resentment saddens me and, to be honest, makes me long for the lurking days.
goodnight.
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