Dear Leif

well said... though though grateful for Suzy's act and words of allyship, I was feeling quite down-hearted... a big thank you to you, as you have cheered me up! I am going to write all the comments down which so uplift me, in order to bask in the strength so bestowed. I'm not quite sure why 'Dierdre' came to mind as a name I used pseudonyms for the other two women too, without thinking too much about the names... I actually don't want to attribute anything in a smearing kind of way to Dierdre - in fact it touched me that she became tearful.. but what could have been an opening on which to embrace our shared humanity, became something I was getting shamed and rebuked for really.