I would pay good money to read hopeful prose like that. It sooths the cockles of my heart...

For a moment I thought I was reading Dickens and a version of his Great Expectations...Lol...Lol...

You truly have articulated the feeling of many who have suffered through the Chinese torture inflicted upon our psche by the NNNS of this board...

One can only take so much, and then one begins to ask is this all worth it and necessery, especially NOW that things look as good as they have ever been...

Please send me an e-mail at Gilgamash@comcast.net

I would like to communicate with you further about this matter off the record...

Gil...