Very valid possibility, Dan.

Yet...also...we have to be so careful to not get broken by the broken ones.

Some of these good guys...I don't sense that they're concealing themselves. Some were raised in the suburbs with good, solid parents, progressed through their careers and child-rearing quite nicely til they had a little hiccup with the divorce. There just hasn't been a degree of pain or suffering in their lives that I can connect or relate to, which makes them seem...rather plain. Yet I also recognize they're good and healthy perhaps because they haven't had severe dosages of such. Sometimes in their ordinary, suburban existences, I feel like an exotic, misplaced creature, yet I've grown tired of subsistence living in the jungle. Ach. 1 stout too many tonight:)

PS -- Now THAT is a compliment indeed given you've been reading on here for...what...3+ years?. You might as well have shown me your deepest emotional scar:) My usual would be to say something self-deprecatory like surely you can find something better to subscribe to than my nonsense:)...but tonight I just want to say...it feels very cool to hear that from you. Really cool. My fingertips have been feeling itchy lately with the need to write, but I'm uber-disciplined about forcing myself to take care of my work-work responsibilities first, and those piled up high the last 2 months. But summer is here...so hopefully I'll be here with you more often in the upcoming months.