kat, Our story is a bit complicated--involving the Internet & a public journal site. I'm suspect technology is a mixed blessing, as far as romance goes. The 1st stage of the break-up took place over AIM & things just went downhill from there. I put my $.02-worth in as comment on the journal site, since the girl was publicly bad-mouthing my boy in a very inaccurate way. She freaked; he reconsidered. Then, my ex-husband (The one who cost me $50,000.) suddenly becoming the "good" parent by not offering advice, but facilitating the 2 of them getting together. The good news is that I *think* my son is still on speaking terms w/ me. Gee, Brett, we could afford the one elephant, but 2 w/ all that 24-carat gold is just beyond our means, I'm afraid (Although it's clear she's well-worth it!). As I recall, the girls expressed some disinclination to be sold, didn't they? ;) Hope to see you this summer (Clam Festival weekend?).

love,

bbc