Dear lost_star:

When I wrote to you the last post I did not think that you were inclined to try to save him, that you were inclined to do what I suggested in the last paragraph: “If you, lost_star, insisted on saving him…”

I can see now that it can easily be read … as if carrying perhaps an aggressive tone, as if I believed you were about to go about saving him. But the spirit with which I wrote the above was that of entertaining the thought, not at all believing that your state of mind included such inclination.

Your thinking has been clear for as long as I remember, at this point. You still have my WOW!

* unrelated: your contribution on another thread was very helpful and I wanted to let you know I appreciate it. In that thread you led to me correcting my use of the verb “reject” which led to much improvement in my understanding.

anita