I think I have myself in a corner unless someone from H.E.L.P shows up to meet Ruth and guide her where she would be useful.

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Man, I love colour text but I hate coding it.  Go through the whole thing writing it as colour=darkred, only to have to change it to color=darkred after I try to post it and find that the English spelling isn't accepted.  
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Write in Notepad or Notepad++. Put * for the beginning of your speech and ~ for the end. Replace * and ~ with the BBCodes you want.