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If a gay uncle is a guncle, does that mean a gay aunt is a gant? Or is she a gaunt?

The item about the free online calculus book is real. My daughter is an internationally recognized expert on open text books, which are available online for free. Instead of professors publishing text books and collecting royalties, they are paid a stipend to write their books and put them online. Students can download them or just read them online. Other professors can download them and rearrange the contents to suit their own teaching plan, as long as they give credit to the original author.

I read in a prior chapter that several of the documents binding Liam to Marina were signed while Liam was 17 years old. He was not yet an adult at that time. Such documents are not valid. Why has this not been raised in court?

You wrote: And underneath it all, whether I wanted it or not, something inside me was shifting. Not replacing Kevin. Not erasing him. Just… making space. Room for a new presence in a life I’d convinced myself was already full enough with memories and routines. I have two grandchildren, a grandson from my son and a granddaughter from my daughter. My grandson overheard me tell my granddaughter that I love her. He get very belligerent. However, he calmed down when I explained that love is elastic; it expands to cover everyone with whom I am close.

"At night, he started coming to me in dreams." Yes, if we love someone who dies, they live forever in our hearts and dreams. My father died about 75 years ago, but he often still appears in my dreams. The same with my mother, who died 15 years ago, and with my son, who died 12 years ago. Sometimes they are all together in my dreams, sometimes only one is. When they appear, there is no kidney failure (my father), no Alzheimer's (my mother), and no lung cancer (my son). Instead they are all healthy. When I awake, I am not sad. It is comforting that I had a little more time with them.

Is this a rerun of an old story? Somehow, I recall reading a story with this same title several years ago.

In 1972, July 4 fell on a Tuesday, not a Wednesday. Just the same, this is a very enjoyable story.

Is this very much the same as the story posted several years ago? Or have you made some significant changes? I was already into "The Next Stage" and remember much of it.

Please refresh my aging memory. In what chapter was there an attempt to kidnap Bryce?

I actually cried.

The Prologue and Chapter 1 are identical.

My memory fails me. What is OBR?

I do not know what places in this story are real and which are fictional. (I believe Thomsponville is fictional.) As I read, I try looking at a map of Australia via OpenStreetMap at [https://www.openstreetmap.org] I am able to find many of the places named. However, I find Macquarie Harbour on the island of Tasmania and Port Macquarie where the plot-line describes Macquarie Harbour. Is this intentional, is this your mistake, or is OpenStreetMap in error?

In my old age (82), my memory is sometimes not great. Please tell me, what is the "project" that is being built? Alternatively, direct me to the book and chapter where that is explained.

Yes, indeed continue. However, I have been waiting a long time for continuation of other of your stories, for example "Discovering Home" and "Shoulder Season". Also, is there a follow-up book to "And A Child is Born"?