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The mean people had won - I stopped signing on to and posting on AB. It had happened several times before - and once before - when a mean person said all of my recipes were the kind to make people have a heart attack - when I had posted a recipe I had seen being made by a lady chef on our Food Network on TV for Cheeseburger Soup. I responded by telling them that I had not personally tried the recipe and that I wasn�t recommending it be served in massive quantities or on a daily basis. I decided it just wasn�t worth taking the abuse - and many times lack of any response at all - for my tiny effort to help some of the people who had questions on AB. This time was just the �last straw� for me. I gave up. I didn�t sign on AB for days. Now being an old lady - it is very difficult to surprise me. I have lived too long and seen and done too much.
One day, missing the interesting questions on AB, I decided to just READ the questions, even though I still NEVER intended to post again. There, I got one of the biggest surprises of my life!!! Several people had Posted on my parting apology to one of the mean people - cameo, shaneystar2, In A Pickle, warpig1 and spk - not only that, but they were all very supportive and so very kind in saying they wanted me to come back!!! That was a big enough shock - but there was more to come. Athley posted a question entitled �BBWCHATT� asking me to come back - and there were responses from warpig1, janetsflower, sophieb and jennyp asking me to come back also. Then Warpig1 came up with a unique approach to lure me back - asking me for my favorite �Taco Soup� recipe - which also had responses from shaneystar2 and Athley!!!