"Polite Guest, thankyou also for your comments and hopefully I have gone some way to show that I have the guts (and the balls) to apologise."
Come over here, and have a big hug and a kiss! ((xx))
That has to be the most wonderful apology I have ever seen, and I think you've gained far more friends from it than you have lost. In fact, I'd say you've reclaimed *every* friend, and not lost one. Well done you! xx
There is always a silver lining and I think this has displayed, perhaps more than anything, why the folk world should be celebrated, because it's a world that cares, which contains many people of humility and honour, who have guts and courage.