I'm trying to be more realistic about how often we're all posting, and since I managed to fill most threads with my posts, and now I hardly get time to post, it makes sense to make the threads go for a month instead of a week.
will be back later (hopefully!) for more comments/updates/babbling! 
Kerri.
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