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Hello everyone in my wonderful OLF family,

First I would like to thank everyone for unselfishly offering aide, assistance, input, and lots of great laughs.

However, there has been an issue/incident on this forum that has caused me to reflect whole-heartedly at my involvement here. My decision therefore is to leave the forum.

I will miss you all and I had a BLAST in the short time I was here. I wanted this "ride" to last a lifetime! I learned allot and am well on my way to keeping my start date of October 1st thanks to each and every one of you.

Will I still build guitars? You can bet big money that I will! I will just have to wing it the old-fashioned way and use trial and error. I know sometimes I will have good judement, and other times I will have poor judgement. That's part of life and learning.

Lance, my guy paid for a 1-year or was it 2-year (?) membership for me. I am sure the $ will be put to very good use. It is that one floating around in your no-response file. He hates paperwork

I am not one to walk away without saying "adieu" to the best forum in the universe!!!

I am and will always be,
Jeanne

Jeanne38941.7872453704

Jeanne, i'm deeply saddened to see you say goodbye, i'm sure you have your reasons but please let me insist you stay, i hope you were not offended by any of my posts and that the boys behaved, in the short amount of time you have been with us, i'm sure i'm not the only one to say that you brought sunshine in every thread you participated in, please stay my friend, we need you here!

YF Serge

        

Jeanne, if there is anything at all that i could say to make you change your mind, please stay girl, you are a very positive person and your personnality shines bright, if it was an incident involving another OLF'er, please, i mean please reconsider, there are too many good folks here to let one bother you if it were the case, you are a good person, again Jeanne, we need ya here!

Serge

Jeanne
Why???????? There has to be a way you can stay. Please reconsider.

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Jeanne,

Because you've been such a friendly and positive person, I'm sure that any offense must have been inadvertent. Misunderstandings have happened here in the past and were able to be reconciled. Let's keep talking, and see if we can work it out.

If the problem occured by PM or e-mail, please discuss it with Lance. He has shown a great deal of wisdom in these things.

I too am saddened by this news. I sure hope nobody offended you personally, or some of your big brothers here will have words with whoever it was...
But if you really feel strongly that whatever this is cannot be resolved, we will understand.
I would ask that you at least share what it was with Lance and the offending parties if you haven't already. I'm one of those folks who sometimes says things in ways that I don't mean, and I find myself apologising for my foolish words. The last thing I would ever want to do is hurt another, and if I offend someone, I would hope that they would say something and give me a chance to "make it right" if possible.
If one person was offended, perhaps others were as well.

Your kind and insightfull words will be missed, as well as your gracious personality.

Best wishes to you and yours...

Don Williams

p.s.... my wife is a 2nd grade teacher...she will be sorry you're gone too!
Don Williams38941.8498958333

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Jeanne, please don't go...this forum is one big family and we can and have had differences of opinion and sometimes poorly chosen words... I urge you to go via PM to the person who offended you and talk it thru before you decide to leave! This is THE best forum on the WWW! Lance has worked hard to make it so and I'm sure he will help in any way he can!

Peace,
Larry

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Jeanne, This is very sad news. I like the others urge you to reconsider and also to work on working out what ever has happened in your short time here. If it was something within the past 24-48 hours, I'm sure that it can be resolved as our host is not always online.

Please do not leave, I had high hopes that you would rival Serge for most positive and encouraging posts here at the OLF.

We would hate to not see your first guitar and help you along the way.

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Please reconsider. If someone upset you , you are letting them win. We need people here that are willing to help others.
   I hope you choose to stay .
john hall
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we all have bad days

I took some time to reread some of your posts and you strike me as such a nice person. I would hate to see the community lose someone of your caliber. If you perchance do not reconsider I wish you all the best, but would rather have someone like you around.
Evan

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Wow! The force is stong on this forum! Someone call George Lucas!

Serge, mon petit chou: Vous etes veritablement une personne magnifique et cet etiez a cause de vous je n'a pas voulu partir vraiment. Mais parfois, c'est plus gracieux pour incliner hors rester etaient alors les vies de tristesse. Merci beaucoup pour demander de que me rester. Il signifie m'attribue.

TRANSLATION: Serge, my little "cabbage" (a French term of endearment). You are truly a magnificent person and it is because of you I did not want to really leave. But sometimes, it is more graceful to bow out than to remain where sadness lives. Thank-you very much for asking me to stay. It means allot to me.

Bob: I am a lady and will not say why and what happened as the person has many fine and admirable attributes outside what was said.

Carlton: I always subscribe to the "let's talk it over" belief, and be assured it has worked with this person, much to both of our reliefs.

Hesh: Your kind and encouraging words struck a chord (no pun intended) with me and as always made more sense than anything going on in the situation that caused me to consider leaving OLF.

And Don: It is nice to know I have big brothers on the forum. After all we have a "Don" and where would be without him! I can't let your wife down - 2nd grade teachers rule!

My thanks to anyone I didn't list here as there may have been postings while I was composing.

So my friends, how can I leave with such an outpouring of concern from my OLF family? Impossible to do so

This individual has been in contact with me and "smoked the peace pipe". We ironed out the situation and have an understanding about the incident that occured and we both know it will never happen again.

Thanks to those of you who PMed me.

Brock - everything is cool.

Besides, I need to stick around or you will all be in trouble if Hesh quits using Word and goes back to posting with that dastardly spelling he possesses. YIKES!

So, where do I go for my first post as a returning sister of the OLF? Jeanne38941.8759375

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Evan

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ARGGGHH --- You folks post to darn fast....I QUIT Anthony Z38941.8931365741

All right, Great choice Jeanne, we won't regret it.

I'm very glad you've chosen to stay. Look out Serge my friend, you've got competition.

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"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

Way to go Jeanne! Glad to hear you'll be hanging in here with us!

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[QUOTE=Jeanne] I am a lady and will not say why and what happened as the person has many fine and admirable attributes outside what was said.[/QUOTE]

This is why we need you to stay around, cause most guys have foot in mouth disease, even if they don't know it. I've had it for many years now, sometimes you think it's gone, but it's just in remission.

We hare lucky to have a fine Lady such as yourself here Jeanne.

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

Glad you are staying Jeanne.

Jeanne...glad you worked it out. We need your wise and soft words around here to soothe the savage beasts in all of us. Welcome back!!!

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Wow, this caught me by surprise. I've been working on some time
consuming projects all week and haven't read many threads. I'm really
glad it worked out.

Glad you are staying Jeanne,
I don't know you, but glad to have you stay.I have been away for a bit and will be a bit more, but I'am looking forwadr to connecting again.
I will use the laptop to check out the OLF when possible, that is how important you guys and gals are, and Jeanne I'm sure you feel the same.Well you just showed that you do.
Tim

Ok! Which one of you idiots left the toilet seat up?!?

Jeanne, glad fences are mended as you are much of an asset here.

Jeanne, you sure had this Bear worried lots!

I'm sure glad i read your post in time and the response you got! WOW! It would have been a tragedy to lose someone like you, the minute you started posting here, me , Hesh and all the other folks knew you were that generous person with wisdom and laughter to share abundantly!

J'ai tres hate de voir ta premiere guitare mon amie Jeanne, tu peux toujours compter sur mon amitie et mon aide, merci d'avoir decide de rester avec nous!

Translation: I can't wait to see your first guitar my friend Jeanne, you can always count on my friendship and help, thanks for your decision to stay with us!

Votre petit chou Bear