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I was the one who put the comma in there. She had a period.
That's good. It just made me worried about her. I've just been reading her 2nd book to two of her sister's kids. I was the final proofreader for it before it left her hands and went to the publisher and I could SWEAR there are punctuation errors in that thing I never let pass, so my sensitivities had been heightened well before I went on MB last night to read the latest.
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I get LAZY with punctuation when it isn't "official".
Ordinarily, I wouldn't say anything to anybody (except Neak or Neaksis). It's an internet message board, for Pete's sake. Besides, I find language errors endlessly entertaining, the result of growing up in a household where there were always foreign students, learning their very first words of English. Our family still sometimes says "watimate" for "vomit", and that mistake entered our personal lexicon over 40 years ago. In my defense, I will say that I laugh at my own linguistic blunders with just as much amusement as I do at others' mistakes.
The reason that I pointed this one out is because it changed the meaning of the sentence, and turned a deft little arrow of sentiment and remembrance into a disputable opinion; Instead of possibly being touched by the hint that all was not lost, I worried that it would simply give him the opportunity to splutter, "I never said that!"...waywards being what they are.
OK, English teachers' daughter retiring from the lists. Keep up the good work.
I don't care if that email addy is out there...there is no real name attached to it anyhow and it just confirms that I am not a real person...merely an anonymous screenname on a message board.
Me,BW - 42; FWH-46 4 kids D-Day #s1 and 2~May 2006 D-Day #3~Feb.27, 2007 (we'd been in a FR) Plan B~ March 3 ~ April 6, 2007
In Recovery and things are improving every day. MB rocks.
I don't care if that email addy is out there...there is no real name attached to it anyhow and it just confirms that I am not a real person...merely an anonymous screenname on a message board.
HA! I can confirm a real person is on the other end of that computer.
FWIW, I vote to give him that little gem [ahem, ahem] in writing. WS's have such a short attention span that it'll be in one ear and out the other.
"Uhhhhh yeah, I remember she said something really nice to me. What was it? What, what, what?" (smiles dreamily) "YOU JERK! YOU'RE THINKING OF HER AGAIN, AREN'T YOU????" "Wha- what? Of course not. Only of you, Blopsie!" (to self: oh, crud)
So you see it's not a total waste of time to only say it, even though the exact words will be forgotten quickly, but much better to have a tangible object to moon over. That is moon in the old sense of the word.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. ~ English proverb
I don't care if that email addy is out there...there is no real name attached to it anyhow and it just confirms that I am not a real person...merely an anonymous screenname on a message board.
You are NOT a pygmy of my imagination...I've got pics!!!!!!!!!!! (and vice versa)
I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?
O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
I don't care if that email addy is out there...there is no real name attached to it anyhow and it just confirms that I am not a real person...merely an anonymous screenname on a message board.
HA! I can confirm a real person is on the other end of that computer.
WHAT?!?!?! I am for real?!?! I thought I was just a figment of my own imagination...
Sigh. Who woulda thought?
[Same goes to you Kimmy. ]
Me,BW - 42; FWH-46 4 kids D-Day #s1 and 2~May 2006 D-Day #3~Feb.27, 2007 (we'd been in a FR) Plan B~ March 3 ~ April 6, 2007
In Recovery and things are improving every day. MB rocks.
Okay, no fair you guys! (not intentionally trying to sound like a waynerd)
I wanna know who that long-ago poster is... I've been here awhile and I may know who it is too.
Sheesh, I hate cryptic postings.... :P
Widowed 11/10/12 after 35 years of marriage ********************* “In a sense now, I am homeless. For the home, the place of refuge, solitude, love-where my husband lived-no longer exists.” Joyce Carolyn Oates, A Widow's Story
Widowed 11/10/12 after 35 years of marriage ********************* “In a sense now, I am homeless. For the home, the place of refuge, solitude, love-where my husband lived-no longer exists.” Joyce Carolyn Oates, A Widow's Story
I figured that one out myownselfthankyouverymuch (for TL with love) 
