Wally: Tell your good friend the Birthday Fairy that I thank him/her profusely for the recent birthday wishes. And as far as the timing is concerned: all is forgiven. Yes, my birthday is indeed August 26 (we decline to state publicly the year of my birth), but Sept. 25 will mark the fifth anniversary of my uninterrupted subscription to the JMDL. Your announcement arrived just in time for that! And thanks as well for your concern about my well-being. However, I do not live in the NYC area. Although my thoughts, like those of most if not all of the other listers, have visited there often in the past 12 days, I'm safe and sound in my adopted hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. So I very much appreciate the good wishes of Wally and all who have written. I also couldn't help thinking that some folks may not be terribly happy with me when they read things I am contemplating writing to the list (warning: political content!) in the next week or so. And yet it's a tribute to the sheer continuity of this community that, although I realize that people do change, there are those out there who'd be able to take a pretty good stab of articulating what those thoughts may be before I even have the chance to do so. It's also a tribute to the list that I'm willing to lay odds that those who disagree with me will do so respectfully, and in a way that promotes further dialogue and understanding on these hard, hard issues. What can I say? This is the best darn cyber-cafe there ever was. August 30, 1996-August 30, 2001, and counting: happy birthday to us. Take care, all of you, Mary P. from Madison, WI, USA. -----Original Message----- From: Wally Kairuz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:44 AM To: Pitassi, Mary; jmdl Subject: njc pitassi mary pitassi hasn't replied and she lives in the ny area. now i'm getting worried. mary, if you are there, please say hi. if anybody is in touch with mary, let me know. wally
