RE: DarkAngel's Ramblings, etc.
You are a much more confident and very together person, and I was seeing a lot of that. I am very glad that is the case, as you deserve all of those things. You deserve the compliments and the pride in yourself, and those people really always didn't get a lot of what you needed. You needed the affirmation from others that had nothing to do with the appearance, but we here that always saw you as beautiful knew it and see it in all things. Now I am glad that they are seeing it, and that you know it about yourself because you are more beautiful than many who judge solely on the outside.
I am glad that you did all those things, but because you did them FOR YOU. The clothes, the hair, etc,. was for YOU mainly, but your hub and kids and your real friends who love you encouraged you, didn't tell you that you had to or make you for someone else. It is all for you, and that is always the point, DA. I know it has been hard for you and that things just happened that were just so much dung added to the heap, but now I am so glad you are seeing that you really are a beautiful gem among a bunch of overpriced polished rocks (sorry, that is how I see a number of these people in your immediate physical RL world over there). Granted, there are some of those here online as well, but that is beside the point.
You are special, beautiful, and just plain fabulous. Those of us here who love you always have loved you and are not afraid to say it. *hugs you tightly*