Steffi, you should have seen a table of us at the hotel where the PAN forum was held, sitting well into one evening, together in a relatively quiet place instead of following the "Let's all go to the coolest place" crowd (though they looked so happy and young). There were a few of us who knew each other from the MGH forum and two or three (?) who were attening a PAN event for the first time--in other words, no clique, no barriers, just agreement on mutual support and lively discussion on politics and science. We all have something to rise above, and somehow we do, because we have to or want to, and because life goes on.

Your kind words must be my bread on the waters. I'll pass them on as quickly as I may.

Jaye