Dear NT "oldbies",

I do not speak for all the new MSW exodus group, just little old me. I can only imagine how hard it is to have your peaceful world shaken up and tossed around. I hope you know that we were a bunch of lost souls looking for a safe place to land. I think back to when I first met my husband's family. I came from a very small family and was thrust into a large and extendedCatholic family (he himselfis the youngest of 6 kids). Needless to say I was overwhelmed.

We MSW transfers traditionally take in new folks with a great big huge hug and lots of tender loving care. We are just so overjoyed to have found each other that I am afraid we forget others were here at NT before us.

Please know how much all of your community here at NT have made a difference to so many of us "newbies". We were cut off from one another rather abruptly. In many cases folks had only their family of cyber buddies to rely upon.

I assure you we will calm down in a while. We will all get to know each other and soon enough a stranger will never be able to tell the difference from an oldbie and a newbie - we will all just become one big happy family.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
jane