Nothing like a grandparents acceptance. The love of ones grandparents is more than the love and acceptance of ones parents. all i can say ride the wave Dawn. Keep your hopes up but beware the sludge of rednicks.

The days snowfall publishes is a great distraction from the four Mondays proceeding it. Thank you Snowfall for the wonderful story. I am surprised that no one twigged when Blake said that Lux had been there since day one doing charlies job. They had to have known that Don was doing it. I am also happy that Grandpa Dale came around right after meeting Dawn and basically seeing his adopted daughter/daughter in law. Again thank you Snowfall and I will be there to read when you publish.

First, Angela is an ass of the first degree. Apparently she has no concept of what real friendship is, and no filter either.

Second, Dawn should have reported what she saw to the police immediately. Witnessing a crime and not doing something to prevent a repetition is criminal in itself. I know most people are afraid to get involved, it if we don't draw the line somewhere the animals will take over. As the saying goes, good people have to get up awfully early in the morning, 'cause evil never sleeps!

And lastly, I truly cannot wait to see more of this! You have outdone yourself Hon!

Dallas

over the suggestion I just sent Snowfall in private.

Great chapter.

I can see Angela will be spending a lot of time at the Seniors Home in the very near future.

Producing PSAs can be really interesting, and using celebrities can, indeed, give them some punch - but some of the best and hardest-hitting PSAs i have ever seen didn't go that way.

(I will say here that my mother spent most of her working life in advertising as a writer/producer, and had her own small agency up to her retirement - both before her own agency and during that period, she won several national awards or citations - one for a campaign that i helped design. So i have some experience around the subject...)

{Warning - though these are actual PSAs that have run on TV, in theatres and on DVDs, they are both pretty intense ... they WILL get your attention}

One of THE most brilliant and hard-hitting PSAs EVER was this one: https://youtu.be/YOi5FclEh_Q

And then there's THIS beauty: https://youtu.be/1XzQP4wqsvE

But probably the BEST PSA i ever saw was one my mother and i happened to catch back in the 60s on TV.- i wish it was on YouTube. It showed a guy at a hot-dog cart making a hot dog - and when it was finished, he stuck a little sign on it that said "by John Doe". Then a series of other everyday incidents, with, in each case, someone signing their work (a window-washer, i think, and i wish i could recall more). The VA kicked in, saying something along the lines of "If everyone signed their work, we'd all take more pride in ourselves."

And then it cut to three people sitting in director's chairs, with their backs to the camera. One said "Jack Blank, Producer" (obviously, fifty years later i don't recall the names, but they were obviously the people's real names. The next said "Mary Something, Writer" and the third said "Jim Wossname, Director" ... and then they all looked around and smiled hopefully like "Did you like our ad?"

I only saw that spot once, more than fifty years ago, but i remember it quite clearly...

This is a fantastic chapter in my opinion. lots of things going on, and as usual Dawn is the center of it all. I loved the way she let Cindy know what happened to her brother without beating her up for it. the fact she still wants to help Charlie is wonderful. The fact that she found time to reach out to another soul in conflict. The conflict with Angela and the images she painted for dear sweet Angela I hope will get through to her and help her come to terms with what ever is eating at her. I loved how she trapped Cindy into being a Vortex babe. As I said at the beginning just a fantastic chapter with lots of room to grow the story.

Charolotte Van Goethem