Irene, I'm sorry to bring this up at 4am, but you are truly an idiot. Against my better sense (initially I had planned to sleep), I opted to read all these emails, and clearly you have not read any of the messages that Mike and I have sent to one another over the past lord knows how many years. Mike is one of my best friends, in fact, one of the most amazing people I've ever met, and one of the few people that has been there for me through everything (except on Wednesday and Saturday nights, with due reason, but I rarely hold that against him). After one trip on my part to Memphis, two trips on his part to Toronto, and one meeting of ours in San Francisco, countless e mails and hours of dull yet utterly enriching conversation, I feel free to joke with him about pretty much everything, which, trust me, he takes the liberty to joke with me about. I've had the honour to meet part of Mike's family, and people who are dear to him, and I've cherished every monent. Mike is one of the most important people in my life. And you, you are a god damn fool. Good riddance. Erin Toronto > I also dislike when people give "Over the Hill" birthday cards, but try to > find one that doesn't have some variation of that. It all speaks to how > normal it is to insult someone and call it "love". But that's the way > humans are, they'll fight tooth and nail to be jerks. Not you > specifically, everybody is that way. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html