*hugs* They are all bastards. Every single one of them. ... It's not easy to deal with the kind of emotional abuse that those of us who were bullied dealt with every day. My mother's response to my being bullied was "Oh come now, they just like you and don't know how to express it", and the counsellors told me I was being overly emotional. I still have to fight that feeling of "what's the catch" every day, thanks to those jerks, and I'm always so sorry to see a bright light like yours dimmed because of it.

From what I saw and Botcon and what I've come to know on-line, you are a great person. I'm just sorry that I didn't get time to get to know you better over the weekend. Next time we really have to arrange time to all got to dinner or something. We need to get all of us together *grin*