Yeah, I have to admit that that letter choked me up a bit. I'm going to assume he meant every word he said. After all, he would have had no reason to write it if he didn't mean it. And I'm very glad that he's gotten help and hopefully will get his life back on track. As much as the people on the Internet are real, I think he's really lucky that he messed up here rather than in some other medium. In person, his actions could have been much more dire, and so could the consequences. What he got from here was a sobering wake-up call and a bruised conscience, and I'm sure that's the best that any of us could have hoped for, if that helped him clean up any bit at all.

So I'm glad Mike O started this thread because it ultimately brought about much more closure to this subject. And I happen to have quite a bit more respect for Adam because of that letter, because there are so many f-ed up people out there who never do get the guts to come back and beg for forgiveness or even allow themselves to admit that they have a problem in the first place.

Who knows. Had the circumstances been a bit different, maybe Adam could have been a respected poster here, and none of us would be talking about this at all right now.