I note, by the way, that you have no response to this, and yet have not yet said in the same public manner that you slagged my friends off that actually, there *are* reasons why she might be able to ask for help, and reasons that people might be disposed to give such help as they can.

Either tell me I'm wrong to help my friend, or have the honesty to admit that you may not have had the full picture, please.

We may not speak much these days, but I have always thought of you as someone with the integrity to know when you have stepped over a line.