haha i read you because you are sassy and witty! You say what a lot of us think! I never thanked anyone at any stage of my subscribers. I hope that yes they do not read me because they think i am a charity case and actually like my reading. Sometimes i put thank you for reading after I have left a paragraph such as this in response to a comment! Now you have me thinking that I might stop, I was just doing what the "medium" protocol seemed to be! trying to balance the "professionalism and the real me" in one.. it never works.