It's their job as a leader to be objective, to keep their personal emotions from distracting them from what needs to be done. And I haven't even started, but I'm already thoroughly distracted, and it's not something that's likely to go away anytime soon. Same goes for my running partner. We've decided to officially withdraw from the race. I'll still be around, you know, doing whatever I can. In smaller ways.
Best of luck to those of you still running. And you know what, whoever or whatever is making people disappear should go swallow a bucket of Ashwinder eggs.
MJ
Mabel, isn't it?