I really didn't mean for it to escalate to this. You've been a welcome presence on this board for a long time and your experience has been invaluable. I owe you the courtesy of stating more clearly what was on my mind.

The fact that anyone would throw around a specific figure just kind of struck me as self-congratulatory and a little tacky. I suspect many of us don't have ten grand to give away, regardless of how worthy the cause is. In my mind, when you were making your point it would have been a bit more becoming to simply say, "I made a contribution; what did you do?" Instead, it appeared needlessly competitive and kind of thoughtless -- you immediately won that round of the debate because you spent more.

I would definitely like to move past this, and I'm sorry for derailing the thread.

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