Oh my goodness!!! I am incredulous and indignant beyond words for you, Conni618, and absolutely aghast and truly shocked that you were duped TWICE involving the exact SAME counterfeit bag over the course of two years!!!
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I can hardly believe and accept this, although I know it is true, and you are right that what hurts more than the loss of money and the stress over having our funds tied up sometimes for a while over a fake bag, IS the excruciating pain of loss of our dream bag, that "sinking realization" as you put it, that tormenting, anguished feeling that it has eluded us once again after interminable searching, longing, waiting, etc. for years!!!
After having our ardent hopes raised up so high and erroneously believing that we have FINALLY found an overzealously coveted Bal HG treasure, our hopes are dashed, and we feel justifiably morose and crestfallen and are once again, back to square one in our endless, frustrating, and oftentimes futile search!!!
You are right, Conni, that we are infinitely vulnerable to being duped because we passionately love these beloved, exceedingly rare Bal oldies so much and want them so very badly, that in spite of what a veritable and precarious land mine it is out there with such a cringe-inducing plethora of fake oldies, we are apparently so "blinded by love"...lol!!!...so true!!!...that our hope that we have somehow serendipitously stumbled upon a rare, old, pristine Bal treasure remains inexhaustible, indefatigable,and inextinguishable indeed even in the face of all of the aforementioned.
Thank you so much for sharing this deeply resonating post about your heartwrenching experience with me. Please know I appreciate it immensely and am deeply compassionate and empathetic, and that your sentiments resonated resoundingly.
As far as I remember your mum wasn't too pleased about it 
Did you re-dyed it? If yes- it would be great to see it. You can create a new thread.