Dear DU Brothers and Sisters, calimary needs a little help. UPDATE AND MORE THANK YOUs!!!

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122. Dayum!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU octoberlib!!!

I'm gonna HAVE TO keep this thread. No way can I lose track of it. I told Michael that I invited DU to vote and that you guys were doing so. He was really happy to hear that. We do try to keep politics out of the band part. I even stopped posting a lot of stuff on my own Facebook page. The boys have fans in all parts of the country by now. Too bad they can't get to 'em as often as they'd like! And I sure don't want my own sometimes rather strident views to alienate fans of the band! I will say in some cases that it's been a reality check almost like a punch in the nose sometimes. It helps to remind me that not all red-staters are the nincompoops about whom I'm sometimes given to generalizing. I've found that the fan base is a bunch of really nice people. At least those with whom I've had encounters, either because I met them or because I've had Facebook conversations or message traffic with them. And I need that. They're just very dear - all the moreso because they love my kid's band.