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Re: The eagle has landed ....
Posted By: Carla In Response To: The eagle has landed .... (Margaret MacGillivray)
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008, at 12:08 p.m.(pst)
Hey Margeret- Thanks for the advice- Her husband will be there so hopefully that will help. He is staying at a local hotel but will spend most of his time at her house working on the business plan.
She hasn't relpied back to me after she said everything is ok, it did tell her I was glad she checked it out but I wonder if I didn;t plant a seed and she is digging deeper now-I hope. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, she was asking for postitive support.
As for me, I am better and got things worked out with the foundation. They contacted all the artists and myself and have agreed to return the art at no cost or they can leave it until the fall in hopes there will be a auction. Most chose to leave them, so I did too. But I asked it to be in writing that if no auction will be held by the fall, then the art will be returned and they did it.
The lady that called me, was very nice and totally understood my point and was very apologetic and said all the artists had high regards for me and told her how hard I worked and it was wrong for them to do what they did to me. That made me feel really good.
Hope things are going well on your side of the pond-Carla
>> He sounds like a real bird of prey - and this girl is the prey. It
>> would do no harm to suggest that she has a friend/neighbor be around when
>> he is :O)>> Also, suggest that she emails her itinerary when he is there to a
>> third party ....>> .... oh, did I say I've just been watching CSI???? LOL
>> Joking apart, it's a sensible precaution.
>> Margaret
>> ps - how are you?? I was just thinking about you today and, lo and
>> behold, here you are on the FIB forum.
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