Steve - Thank you for your warm welcome!   ....Your notion of "strange" I wonder about!

Bobert - only waterchild in summer. Too cold now... Brrrr! I'd be icegirl and too stiff-natured to hang out with you lot! ...although your friendly welcomes might melt that frost!

C-flat & Amos; Thank you for excellent advice!

McGrath - "what's to lose" - good point!

I was nobody noticeable - few if any would remember lackluster Eluned. Anyway, she was a different person; life-changes galore since then!

Mudcat seems, if anything, warmer and more welcoming to the newcomer. Sometimes folks seemed just a bit self-involved back then. Then again, ones opinion of others might reflect ones self.

Amos; As many as want to!

WinterC