Posted by Greg on October 17, 2000, at 7:27:22
In reply to Re: A little clarification please...., posted by Mark H. on October 16, 2000, at 23:23:24
Mark,
There is never a need to apologize for stating your opinion. I respect you taking a stand for what you believe in. Any offense I may have felt last night is gone. I believe that we have much more common ground than you might think and I consider you to be a friend. I don't think you wasted your time, you said what you felt needed to be said and so did I. Expressing feelings is never a waste of time. I don't know about you, but I've spent too much of my life doing that lately bottling mine up.
So now, I let this thing go and move on. There are other things going on in both our lives, I'm sure, that are more deserving of our energies.
Have a peaceful day,
Greg> Dear Greg,
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> Thank you for your thoughtful response. I took a chance addressing you in the way I would a close friend after starting half-a-dozen responses to your request for clarification without finding a more tactful way to state my opinions and observations. Obviously, since you're offended, I misfired, and I wound up wasting a couple of hours of my time -- and yours -- hoping you would hear whatever validity there may have been in my letter, despite the awkward form it was in. Aaack! I apologize and hope we find whatever common ground is there between us sometime in the future.
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> Thank you for the compliments and for your openness to continued dialog.
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> With respect,
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> Mark H.
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