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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buckstaff" data-source="post: 1736824" data-attributes="member: 33854">Frank,It's quite moving to read the empathetic replies and heartfelt responses from the regular readers of the binoculars forum here regarding your personal plight. Let me add my own hopes and support and complete confidence that you will emerge from the fog that obscures your view right now into a better light. We have had a brief correspondence on the HuntingPa website when giving suggestions on some glass to a member there, and you recognized me as Bob S, a writer and artist from Pennsylvania. I must reiterate here that your astute technical expertise has helped me tremendously in making choices for various glass, and your honest enthusiasm in pursuit of the best view of this beautiful world surfaced in your reviews. And it surely is a beautiful world, and Penn's Woods where we both hail from, among the most lovely places of all.You know, I often thought to myself that one of the great attractions of using binoculars was that no matter what may be occurring in our lives-- stress, pain, whatever--when we look through this wondrous apparatus it shuts off the rest of the world and we focus only on that one thing before us, and we relax and study it and marvel at it and every other element is shut out. It is instantaneously therapeutic. There is great personal peace in the view. And at the risk of sounding preachy, the view down through a bottle is not quite as rewarding.I am sorry you have had to sell your optics. If you could post a place where you could receive a package, and when you are ready, I would gladly send you a pair of nice bins that you may keep. It's been said that in the natural world we always find more than we seek. You will find answers out there, but first you must look. Bob S</blockquote>

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