kkd, you are right that I seriously doubt the genuineness of the original thread, but it's due to suspicions and feelings that have been building up for months now, a lot of coincidental threads and happenings, things not explained and threads later erased when it was questioned. This is not a snap assumption on my part, however I don't feel "turning" on her and being hateful is right either. If she has been making up stories, it probably isn't to play with people's emotions but because she wanted to feel loved and cared about. I'm saddened by it, both because it is wrong and because of the unhappiness that probably compelled it, and yes there is a chance that we could be coming to the wrong conclusion, but there are just so many things that have made me wonder about her truthfulness in the past. I do hope one way or another she will be able to tell us the truth in all this.

I do feel Paula and Lexi are real. I don't feel Country was real, or Chiquita (never mentioned again after the initial introductions, or added to the pets in her sig). I doubt Lexi hurt her tail a few days after Kiara, that she got bloat. I certainly hope that Paula was never beaten and abused. But if she started a thread about it after Megan talked about it, that is often the pattern I noticed that made me wonder.