I agree Vic hun, well said, and if it's Nic's decision to leave then I would totally accept that. But I don't think she just chose to leave like that. The last I heard from her in PM, she said how excited she was to chat with us the following night in the NC-17 thread, and then *nothing* from her for over a week. It's strange, and like Jenny said, I think that if she did choose to leave or take a break, she would most likely have given some word of goodbye.