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On May 3, 1:53 pm, "Val" wrote:
Are you still around? Didn't you, or do you still work at Swanson's?

Val

this is the last personal post that Gardengal sent me April 9th.
She's struggling to just get by right now as a lot of us are.........I
can only hope she won't mind me posting it here since your reply to
author was uncertain. If I have overstepped my boundaries or someone
elses, just consider it my way of trying to be helpful and move past
it.

Perhaps it would have more prudent to have just asked for a way to contact
me privately.

~Pam's email snipped with respect to her personal privacy~

"........chaos of the nursery that she'd worked at successfully for over 15
years (as I
remember) and either it's closing or her decision to leave."

That nursery opened in 1927, it's still sucessful and going strong. I have
no facts about any of her decisions.

" when I got word from her that due to the nursery closure..."

It isn't closed, I was there yesterday, it's less than 10 minutes from my
home.

"This last post was distressing for me simply because she
lives in the Pacific northwest......"

Why would the fact she lives in the Pacific Northwest distress you?

"I have her old snail mail address and I realize now
that I need to drop her a quick line ...."

Perhaps you should do that. You allude to being a good friend but you post a
private email and then use your convoluted conjectures and opinions as her
facts all in the spirit of helping her get over and on with it? How could
this be helping if you are not in communication with her and/or she's not
reading and basking in all your "help".

"I will let you know if I hear back from her....."

No need, I just contacted a former aquaintence of hers at 'the nursery that
didn't close' and have the information I was looking for.

I'm sure you are a very nice person Maddy, I've followed your posts for
years but TMI on this one. I realize the Maddy fan club will rise up on
their hind legs to defend you but a simple...."haven't heard from since
April" would have been sufficient. I personally would have been somewhat
distress if you'd aired on a newsgroup what I sent to you privately about
what appears to be a very difficult and personal matter. I realize you have
no problem publishing all the grimy details of your private life but not all
are like that. I'd think if Pam was she'd have told one and all in long,
rambling missives on the newsgroup instead of few 'trusted friends' in what
she thought was private communication.

Nuff said.
Val