User blog comment:Kittyfire/Random Topic Blogging!/@comment-3006892-20111228003746/@comment-5151799-20111228014752

The fact you need to reassure us of that worries me. It seems that we have come to a time when many are anxious of who is leaving next - that we can't even fathom that someone has an outside life, and that if someone is gone for an extended period of time, that they aren't coming back and have abandoned the community.

It makes me shudder.