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Even though I’m wondering what Rudy has to talk to Trevor about and dread Karl making an appearance, I’m SO happy!!!! Hi Kieran!!!! 👋

I love this story before I’ve even read it❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thank you, Brian❣️❣️

Will you finish this this year?

Yeah. Jett is so not straight, lol. April (and Jett) fell in love at 13 and never got over it. They were perhaps too young to deal with the intensity of their feelings, or maybe not, as it seems they still can’t deal with them, lol. Zane will set them both straight, I think, if April doesn’t slip up and mention a past memory that only Theo would know.

Damn. I was proud Jake put his big boy pants on and told Christy about his feelings for Alex and then Amber’s suicide took all the air out of this chapter. Jake has to live with his part in what happened to Amber for the rest of his life, it’ll be interesting to see how he deals with things.

Is Amber going to out Jake? Will Christy find out about Jake’s feelings about Alex? Is Alex really straight?

Glad Jake told Christy that he’s gay, still sad about him pining away for Alex. Jake leading Amber on can only end badly. Maybe living with Sam will provide a different perspective and options. I know there’s an age difference between Jake and Sam that might preclude a love connection but there have been bigger and they are both legal now....🤔

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Ummmm....this female thought of a reply and decided instead to agree.

“Everybody’s Wounded”and this story are so achingly beautiful. Even though it’s 8 years later since an update and a less than 8 year reread of both stories on my part, I’d love to see a conclusion to this story. There was a slow, realistic adjustment on the parts of Luc and Matt that was allowing them to step away from their feelings for Scott and Josh respectively, that I would like to witness the continuation and conclusion (of some sort) to. It would also be nice to see Laura and Brandon progress to the open trust and love they were clearly on the way to. I hope you’re still around and I hope all is well with you that an update is possible.

This was so BEAUTIFUL. What respect and restraint on Michael’s part. It is my hope that by the time David finished school, he and Michael met up again, as Michael proved how worthy he was of David.

So now I can add survivalist to the other attributes of your stories. Between this one and “Finding Refuge”, I’m better informed about how to manage in the Wild West and a blizzard 😉. (In all seriousness, I was very impressed with Cooper’s breadth of knowledge in “F.R.”) To be emotionally moved and intellectually educated in a story is a good thing. I’d read this story and “Stepping through the Mirror” as one offs before, it was nice to read your anthology together. 🍻

😄 You know it’s all good, we’ll wait. I just had to tease you about it. 🤭

🤔....☺️

I noticed that, too.

Reread this gem today. I’d love to see a glimpse into their future....Blake and Ryan loved up together and Ryan the most famous artist on the continent, his sycophantic mother and distant father remorseful over their actions and but kept at a healthy distance by Blake, who’s living life on his terms. Mind you, this is not a story suggestion (can't advise Picasso after all, 😉) just my version of their HEA.

I want Jake to get what (who) he wants.

Why does it seem like this amazing, normal boy attracts the kookiest of the kooks?!?! His parents and now Amber, smh. Seeing his mother in that condition I feel is a warning that Jake is ignoring, his progenitor is not done with him yet.

VERY nicely said.

How beautiful. ❤️

I agree. Happily ever after doesn’t mean Jack and Jill, Jack and Jack or Jill and Jill always wind up together; Happily ever after means everyone winds up in the best place they should be.

Being shown this generosity from Christy and her family might make Jake suppress his feelings for Alex more if Christy starts to like him. Did I see a crack in Jake’s mother’s crazy?

Jake’s parents are going to make this a hard read for me, lol...,I wonder if they were both nut jobs before they got together or if one influenced the other. Two friends having a crush on the same guy isn’t unusual, even if one friend is a boy and the other is a girl nowadays, my interest is in finding out what team (or teams) Alex plays for. I’m sad that Jake may now not be able talk to the one person he might’ve opened up to about his feelings for Alex; He needs an outlet.

Ditto. 😊 😘

What a tease this was, Gary. I was delighted to see new material from you and as is typically the case with your writing, I was fully immersed in the scene and left hanging at the end. (“That’s it?!?!” was my mind’s response) There are many who have had or still have a Scott in their lives; There are many who have had or wish they had this liberating conversation. Reading that Dan was still in love with Scott and was “faking it ‘til he makes it” as it were is realistic, just as him truly being at that point emotionally would be as well. The important thing is that Dan took that first decisive step to end the song and dance they’d been playing for years. “Last Christmas/I gave you my heart/but the very next day/you gave it away/This year/ to save me from tears/I’ll give it to someone special”. “You are what I’m most grateful for this Christmas”, indeed. Freedom, especially from a hurtful situation and the emotional manipulations from false love will always be a gift. Excellent, Gary. It left me wanting a longer look into their world. 🍻