Puppy -- I guess I wasn't as clear as I should have been. We've all heard the Hallmark card "If you love something, set it free; if it comes back to you... blahdeeblah."
And as a purely academic problem -- yeah, of course. Sting made a million bucks with that song, right?
One of my great personal flaws is over-analyzing, parsing, reading between lines.
It's also one of my great personal strengths since, among other things, it's what I'm paid to do.
So Thinking DrHemlock says, "Yes, that is a rational proposition."
Emotional DrHemlock says, "Ya gotta be effin kidding me! I'm not in the Secret Service -- it's not my job to take a bullet for you! Ya want out? Serve me papers!"
But of course Rookie DB'er DrHemlock just says nothing at all and runs to the discussion board!