Greetings and Salutations -

For the US editors, we are about to head into the Thanksgiving holiday. This is a period of celebrating the love of family and friends. People gather together, talk about the Old Times, enjoy good food, and relax.

I'd like to offer a warm thank-you to everyone in our BellaOnline family. Together we achieve great things! We donate millions of ads to the Red Cross and other organizations. We help women in Peru learn how to knit. We help young mothers get support in caring for their babies. We help abused women find safety and security.

So many sites around us fold or sell out, while we hold strong. Our visitors love our honest, personally written content. They adore that we don't pepper them with pop-up ads or interstitial ads. We have created a community that has thrived for over ten years, and I look forward to decades more.

I get deluged with offers to sell our site, and I turn them all away. I know if anybody else took our site that they'd pump it so full of ads the content would vanish. We have something special here, and I treasure every morning I come down to my computer. I thrill at the idea of doing this forever. This *is* my dream retirement from work! :).

Thank you all for making our world such a wonderful one. Give a toast to yourself tomorrow. I wish you the best of love, joy, and serenity as we head into the holiday season.

Sincerely,

Lisa Shea, owner
BellaOnline.com

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