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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have been reading with concerns about all this misinterpretation about who said what and whatever that is causing some disgruntlement amongst droolers. I, too, don't post too much, but I, too, do get a lot of useful information about our beloved bassets and the care and feeding of such "charges" in my life. I love reading about their accomplishments, their set-backs and their perspectives on life in general. When I am having a real bad day at work ( cardiology department at a VA hospital) and I read Brudder Elwood or Nigel and Llewis' antics or quips from Evil Annie as well as words of wisdom from Angela Basset of Wichita, I get a huge boost. Like so many of us, I cry with the notifications of journeys to the bridge since I have angels there waiting for me as well as many of us do. What I am getting at is, I am afraid that with this recent unsettlement going on, that we will lose members again and the Drool will become a thing of the past which means no more friends, yearly activities, calendars or annual howliday cards. I am a member of another web group, but the atmosphere is more information and very little laughter, and if someone posts in "Bassetese", some the others get "pissy" and then it stops and goes back to information only. What I am saying is let's keep the Drool in the spirit to which TBO and Nancy Gallagher envisioned years ago. O.K., I am off my soap-box.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Papyrus">Marie D Paul, PSA</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Papyrus">Cardiology Dept.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Papyrus">ex: 53653</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Papyrus">Loving slave to Stonewall and Samantha</FONT>
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