Forwarded to lace-chat at Dona's request. Avital ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul and Dona Bushong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:58 PM Subject: [lace] An apology to Hannah and Amanda Moad
> I want to write to the list and clear up all the information/misinformation > regarding Hannah and Amanda Moad's house. The details have been confirmed and > the Moad's did indeed lose their house and all the contents. > Now an explanation of how all of this began. Last week after reading Hannah's > note regarding her house, I kept having the nagging feeling that it all > sounded somewhat familiar. After mulling it over a couple of days, I went to > my lace supplies to find a note which has been hanging out in one of my bobbin > boxes for the last couple of years. I keep notes in there whenever I've > loaned bobbins out so I can recall who has what. Sure enough, there was a > note that Hannah had written to the list a couple of years ago about loaning > lacemaking supplies to a friend and the friends house burned down a couple > days later with the lace supplies inside. A plea was made for extra > lacemaking supplies and I offered to loan some bobbins to them as I didn't > really have many extra at the time. Perhaps they received an overwhelming > amount or life just got in the way but once the bobbins were sent, I never > heard another word. And that was okay but then fast forward to last week. A > second house burns down with all the lace supplies. In a town of less than > 1500 people to have the only two lacemakers there both lose their homes to > fire just seemed to contradict the odds. I then contacted Avital to express > my concern since the list was afire with gathering supplies for Hannah and > Amanda and I hated to see their generosity exploited. The generosity of this > list is amazing and I hope that will continue-but I hope that it will always > be tempered with a dose of reality, not all people are always honest, I've > learned. Avital and I decided that perhaps a bit checking was in order just > to confirm that everything was on the up and up. Both of us wrote to Hannah > and I did some research to see if I could find any information about the fire > via newspapers or contacts in Ash Grove. This took longer than it usually > would as it was the weekend and I live in an entirely different day from the > U.S. mainland. Before we had replies from Hannah or could make confirmation, > the list was made aware of my suspicions which was never mine nor Avital's > intention. > My motives in this have not been malicious. I was "burned" in the past by a > plea from a list member on another list. Her service dog needed emergency > surgery and she could not afford it. She asked the list to help her out and > provided a veterinarian's phone number. I called and it was answered as a vet > clinic. I inquired as to how much was needed and was told I was the only one > who had called so far. Knowing how valuable a service dog is to it's owner, I > offered to pay for the entire surgery. Later I found out it was a scam and my > credit card number was abused. Since then I've learned to check, check again > and even a third time. > I have written Hannah an apology for the pain this has caused her at this > difficult time. Again, it was never my intention to add to her misery or > publicly humiliate her-just to make sure that despite the coincidences, all > was on the up and up. > I hope now that the well known generosity of this list will kick back into > action to help Hannah and Amanda begin to pick up the pieces of their lives > again and allow them to continue their lacemaking. > As I'm not a member of lace-chat I trust that someone will forward this > explanation on to that list. > Dona > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
