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Jane,

Thanks for bringing several of the otherwise diverse items from the book together, as well as some additional clarification. I must admit that I was doing nothing more than suggesting a possibility when I mentioned a "smoke screen." I don't think I knew, or recalled, anything that indicated that BP or RG did nor didn't know about BM's issues. But getting a quick review of the events surrounding the "weeping" meeting does clear some things up. I had always wondered how it was that they could make reference to the so-called rebellion as causing the fall of a brother if it was about his ultimate problem. That was his own failing and no one else's.

But even at that, I can't figure out how to say that anyone else was at fault for his "falling." Unless they really didn't care about the weeping, but only about BM's apparent interest in your direction, which they took as being some kind of rejection of Lee's direction and therefore a falling away from the Lee-ordained truth.