bonnie
02-02-2008, 01:20 AM
I wanted to explain to you all who Rua is and why her and her granddaughter are so important to our family. Not just to the family that has been here for sometime, but to our new family as well. It is important that we remember the reason we are all here. The reason we can all be a family that does not only talk about birds, but a family that can talk about our personal lives as well.
Before Uncle made this nice 'home' for us, many of us were members of another board. There I met Larry, Anna, Evelyn, Brenda and many of our other members we have here at Happy Birdy. One person that is not here to share HappyBirdy with us is a very special person named Tony.
Tony had a very gentle mannarism and was very charming when helping to teach me, a very new parront, how to handle issues with my bird. Just the kind of person you absolutely love and respect.
A month or so after meeting Tony, I found out that Tony was very ill with a lung condition and did not have long to live. Tony's neice, Rua, kept us all up to date on everything happening with Tony and Tony's birds. The illness was kind of an odd one, one day we were told Tony didn't have much time, the next we were told Tony had a year or so. Many members of the board began sending Tony books, cards and flowers. This made several of the moderators of the board wonder if the illness and/or Tony were even real. They began researching and found that Tony was really a woman named Jill. This caused a lot of problems on the board. The moderators posted their findings and wanted everyone to question this Tony person we had grown to love. It was during all this chaos that we learned Tony/Jill had passed away. After Tony/Jill passed away, Rua kept in touch with Larry. She began taking care of her birds. She was just as wonderful as her late aunt.
Larry knew the truth about Jill. Tony was exactly who the moderators had found her to be. A woman named Jill. But she wasn't the liar and fake the moderators had made her out to be. Jill had a past with a very abusive husband. After getting out of the relationship, she reached out to few people. However, she did join the board with the alias... Tony.
The moderators would no longer allow us to talk about Tony/Jill. They deleted anything anyone posted about her and even kicked members out. Those of us who are now on HappyBirdy stuck together via email and phone contact. We were very excited when Uncle gave the news that we were up and running. We finally had a home again.
Uncle made sure that everyone knew family things were welcome along with the birdy things. Everyone that had been kicked out of the other board or just left because of all the tension found themselves amoung family again.
I know this is long, but this is our history. As cheesy as that may sound, Rua's Aunt Jill is the reason we are here together. We should not forget the circumstances behind that. If I have got any of the information wrong or out of order in anyway or you have something to add, please correct me. I just needed to share it.
This is a photo of Jillian Rua Karetai
Before Uncle made this nice 'home' for us, many of us were members of another board. There I met Larry, Anna, Evelyn, Brenda and many of our other members we have here at Happy Birdy. One person that is not here to share HappyBirdy with us is a very special person named Tony.
Tony had a very gentle mannarism and was very charming when helping to teach me, a very new parront, how to handle issues with my bird. Just the kind of person you absolutely love and respect.
A month or so after meeting Tony, I found out that Tony was very ill with a lung condition and did not have long to live. Tony's neice, Rua, kept us all up to date on everything happening with Tony and Tony's birds. The illness was kind of an odd one, one day we were told Tony didn't have much time, the next we were told Tony had a year or so. Many members of the board began sending Tony books, cards and flowers. This made several of the moderators of the board wonder if the illness and/or Tony were even real. They began researching and found that Tony was really a woman named Jill. This caused a lot of problems on the board. The moderators posted their findings and wanted everyone to question this Tony person we had grown to love. It was during all this chaos that we learned Tony/Jill had passed away. After Tony/Jill passed away, Rua kept in touch with Larry. She began taking care of her birds. She was just as wonderful as her late aunt.
Larry knew the truth about Jill. Tony was exactly who the moderators had found her to be. A woman named Jill. But she wasn't the liar and fake the moderators had made her out to be. Jill had a past with a very abusive husband. After getting out of the relationship, she reached out to few people. However, she did join the board with the alias... Tony.
The moderators would no longer allow us to talk about Tony/Jill. They deleted anything anyone posted about her and even kicked members out. Those of us who are now on HappyBirdy stuck together via email and phone contact. We were very excited when Uncle gave the news that we were up and running. We finally had a home again.
Uncle made sure that everyone knew family things were welcome along with the birdy things. Everyone that had been kicked out of the other board or just left because of all the tension found themselves amoung family again.
I know this is long, but this is our history. As cheesy as that may sound, Rua's Aunt Jill is the reason we are here together. We should not forget the circumstances behind that. If I have got any of the information wrong or out of order in anyway or you have something to add, please correct me. I just needed to share it.
This is a photo of Jillian Rua Karetai