First of all, My apologies to everyone. The delay in getting this last post ready was
far too long. Suffice it to say, that real life has a way of dictating what we must do
over that which we merely feel a desire to do. I hope that for reason alone, that
something like this never happens again; and further, that I have not alienated any of
the nice people who were willing enough to want to follow this story.

For those of you who have expressed an interest, my small fuzzy companion, despite
several smaller seizures, does not see any of this as a good reason to stop trying
to lay on my arms as I type, or to sit in front of the middle of my computer screen to
stare lovingly up at me as I write. (Which he is trying to do right now!) Thus, he
is still with me, my constant companion of 18 years, and I can only say that this my
hobby will have lost an ineffable pleasure when we can no longer share it together

Thus my apology, one last time, for my unavoidable breech in the confidence you've all
shown so generously to me.

On a related note, I wanted to share something that I found most distressing as I began
to reproduce these lost sections of this story. I found that although I remembered every
small part of this story fairly clearly, I had great difficulty in the beginning, because
no matter how I wrote the words they just didn't seem true to the original. This alone
cause a delay of weeks, as I first wrote and discarded the first chapter of part ten three
separate times.

What is more, and as this is the part of the story where many of the threads that were
begun in the earlier chapters are being drawn together, I had significant difficulty in
again deciding again just when to tell the reader which bits of information that he needed
to know. This was, distressingly, perhaps the most difficult aspect of this rewrite.

I was just wondering if anyone else has ever been comfronted by this.

As of its posting, I am satisfied with the work as it is, even though it can never be exactly
as it was. I trust that those of you who choose to read it will feel the same.

Please feel free to let me know.

Respectfully,
Sarah Lynn Morgan