To those of you following the Guest Book Saga of Mary, I am happy to announce that it has come to a happy conclusion. I emailed her the other day and she politely responded. I asked permission to reprint her response here in exchange for deleting all the Guest Book entries. See, folks, it just goes to show that people are basically good. We may not agree on some issues, but, I still like her. Here is her letter to me after I asked her to "just be Mary," and quit the little game we were playing.

"Fine, look.

In the spirit of Christmas, I am apologizing. I'm not really as
psychotic as
I might have come off. I honestly haven't been having an easy time
lately
(not that it's your concern or care), but I think I took my anger out
online
as opposed to taking it out offline at someone I actually know. I don't
know
if you've ever done that but it's good therapy at times, but other
times
whoever is in the path of the anger gets the brunt of it.

I'm not a stupid little girl, believe me, but I certainly think some of
the
things that fly out of my mouth come off the wrong way. Perhaps I will
revaluate my political beliefs after Bush's term in office is up? I
don't
think he's doing that bad of a job, considering what has happened since
September. I just don't like the guy. Something about him actually
makes me
ill.

That doesn't mean I dislike all Republicans, I mean....I did like his
father
when he was President. I just dislike this Bush. I don't know if that
makes
any sense? I just assume because he seemed to have such a "colorful"
past
that he was a lying sack of you-know-what.

I'll leave you alone. You can remove whatever was posted in the
guestbook and
know that I won't bother you again, unless it's something "age"
appropriate
and friendly. I might visit your site and read your blog from time to
time....I don't know.....I just thought I'd apologize because I really
feel
like a child for getting upset at you and mouthing off.

After all you are my elder *that's a joke*. Perhaps growing up.....is
something I should look into." END OF HER LETTER.

I was so happy to get this resolved. Thanks, Mary. Now, to uphold my part of the deal, I have to go do some deleting.