She KNEW. Stephanie Roe Costello KNEW last nite [7/3/08] was her last nite working for me, yet she said NOTHING. All text in parens was not in the letter.

I see now why last nite when she was here she was acting funny. She was supposedly my FRIEND also, not just my employee. We were friends first. She actually was acting funny for 4 days.

This is my final email to her:

Stephanie, I must admit I really enjoyed having what I thought was a friend. I had so much fun on the drive to Vegas, in my mind I kinda thought about the 'other shoe dropping'. I guess that was God trying to tell me you weren't for real.

I thought we were such a good team, as we both said.

I have no idea why you lied about so many things. Michelle was a lie. [this was allegedly her friend in Vegas, 5060 New Port Cove Dr. who was going to let us stay at her place for a trade show we were attending. All expenses paid for Stephanie Roe Costello of course. This friend never materialized. ] Going to work at Home Depot is a lie. Not talking to me about anything is a lie, the lie of omission.

What hurts the most and I'm sure you don't care, is the friendship, or lack thereof. I was really sucked in. A lot of the things you would say about Steve, I would overlook. The always wanting more, I would overlook. The blaming Steve for many things, I overlooked. Using me to figure out your time in school and here, I overlooked. I bent over backwards trying to make your work here pleasant. I never cook dinner, but I did for you.

I allowed you to go on your family vacation with only a few days notice. That was rude. I guess the tip-off should have been when you gave me 1 hours notice on the concert back in May. [she canceled 1 hour before a concert. if she had told me earlier, I could possibly have found someone else]

The one thing that I firmly know for a fact now, is that any mormon who is a practicing mormon, is a user and a manipulator. I've seen it time and again.

Three different people have said you are running from something. They all said they think you will want to come back. I have thought about if I did something wrong, however since you never bothered to talk to me about anything, it's obviously it's not me. [yeah, that typo was in there]

The only thing I can do is pray for you. I pray God will bless you and prosper you and that you will take the real salvation of Jesus Christ. Because being a Mormon is not the way to heaven. No one can become a god when they die. There is a website and a place you can go to learn more about Mormonism and Christianity. This is it: http://concernedchristians.org/

Steve used to be a mormon til he understood the lies of mormonism and asked Jesus to forgive him and accepted Jesus in his heart.

I have learned some things thru this, business-wise.

But I've never been so crushed, so wounded by someone in many many years. I'm sorry for you that you feel you are so worthless that you cannot be a friend. And having someone else write your resignation letter, speaks volumes.

I praise God in all things, this included.

Janine [end of letter]

What I have learned in all this