You say "you were" in speaking to a single person.

But in strictly gramatical terms, "you" is a plural form.
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No Mudcat? I'd probably see the Internet as a useful, but essentially sterile and impersonal thing.

Or perhaps I'd have kept on searching around and found some site I've never come across that would change my mind. But I haven't found anything yet to come within reach of matching the Cat as an online community.

And I'd be a lot poorer when it came to songs, including a fair number of ones I wouldn't ever have written.