Vitauta, I think your devotion to your friends is very admirable. However, please don't let your emotions and imagination run away. I left last year thinking I would never come back - my personal issues were just getting too great and I was feeling like DC was a distraction not a help. I think it was 4 or 5 months, but I started to come back slowly. I am so glad I did because when Dad went extremely ill and then passed away, everyone here was so supportive.i must have some serious abandonment issues. as self-sufficient as i think i am, i seem to be obsessing about everybody who for their own very personal reasons steps away from this dc site. found myself searching for selkie again, missing her faithfully clinical arkansas weather reports....
Snip, if I remember correctly, was moving back to South Africa and wasn't when or if she would have an internet connection again.
As for Timothy, I looked at his hydroponic site and while I can't find out much without joining, it looked like it is still running just fine - only there are not a lot of users there. So maybe he had to devote his time there for awhile.