I request that persons posting to this topic avoid flame-warring.  Thank you.

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Lauda’s personality was quite different than mine.

One of my principal criticisms of her was that I think that she was too kind and gentle.  Yes, seriously.

One of her principal criticisms of me was the approximate inverse of that.  Not that she thought I was wrong; to the contrary.  As to the many fights that I tend to get into, she usually (not always) thought that I was in the right.  Nonetheless, she feared that the stress of conflict, hostility, anger, and negativity would be injurious to me.  She was worried about me.

This is actually one of the reasons why I suspect that she was female.  She engaged in conflict only because she was courageous, and she would stand up for right over wrong—if necessary.  She was strong—willful—but she disliked conflict.  There was a peculiarly feminine quality to her attitude about that.

Perforce, I don’t see it the same way.  I am unmoved by conflict.  It does not distress me.  The only question to me is if it’s a waste of my time.

This is her thread.  I know that she would not want fighting here.  I request that this thread be kept the way that she would want it.  It is about her.