Sincerely, thank you all for your words of comfort. I do need space and time right now. Somehow discussing eunuch issues and even more so politics is so far removed from how I can currently feel. All that said, a huge thank you for such warming, nice words. They mean alot and I will hold on to them.

When my path is clearer and my outlook outward looking again, then I will be happy to enter into discussions again. Meanwhile, I am here and I am hanging on in there - honest!

Happy Birthday. Hope it was a good one. Wish you many many more good ones to come.

Sac_Mec

I can empathsize with you as I lost my german shepherd of ten years just a few days ago. There are times I like my pets better than my relatives.

Have a happy belated birthday and may you live to be as old as River and I, whose combined ages is almost two centuries.

P.S. River is far older than me