I think it's a very good e-mail, and a perfectly reasonable request, IF you want to try this arrangement. I'm still skeptical that it can work, but to try to make it work WITHOUT such a concrete arrangement would be sheer folly.

Starsky

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BD 5/07; W's affair 5/07-8/07

At the end of every hard-earned day, people gotta find some reason to believe. (Bruce Springsteen)