perhaps you know that sometimes a simple expression of sympthy is the best, but if one has had similar experiences they keep bursting in and derailing what is supposed to be kindness to another person not an autobiographical infodump; but anyway, very glad your leaf is back with you.

Thank you. I do not take all expressions of sympathy-from-experience as derailing, but I appreciate very much that you did not want to be that person.

I am so happy about the leaf.