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I must be sort of weird too, I checked and I actually have a couple of emails from a guy I was dating in 1998... One is a poen he wrote me and the other a long winding email he sent a few days before he was killed in an accident... I just have them saved in a folder that is backed up online and at an offsite facility... No jokes about seeing a therapist; I know it is a little strange but I just can't seem to delete them...

I could totally see Wade pulling a JFK Jr. route with the public defenders office. He doesn't need the money plus, Wade actually seems to really want to help others... Plus, I would not mind a few tie ins with Father Tim and the mission either...

Okay, I actually had to calm down after reading the chapter before I posted anything on here... I just do not understand Marie at all. The ethical, moral, and even legal issues in doing what it appears they did are significant. If they did plot to get Will infected with a STD; it is just not possible to in any remote way justify that action. I just honestly do not even know where to start on this issue... If Marie did what Will knows that Ferris and Kyle tried to do; then she needs to be removed from the family and into a boarding school or military academy with a really strong theraputic tie in. I truly cannot imagine anything this bad happening in this family... Claire and Jack have obviously really moved to crack down on Marie but it doesn't appear to have done any good; as we could tell by the phone in the purse... I did love how straight faced Will told Marie, your purse is vibrating... John appears to be firmly back in Will's corner and Claire and Jack both seem to understand that Marie has to be brought into line... I keep wondering what percipitated this complete 180 in attitude and behaviour from the first few times we saw Marie. I thought Will really handled everything the first day really well. He was able to keep his temper in check and even used his wit at just the right moments as well. I am not sure that Mr Sessions having a talk with Ferris will break him, gay boys tend to be made of sterner stuff but that being said, Ferris may not like that Will and at least one adult is on to him... Well, I do wonder who had the gift for Kai's dad set up; you know it had to be JP, Stef, Brad, or Robbie... It sounds more like JP or Stef although I could see Brad doing it as well, I imagine we will find out. It is almost nice to have all this teen drama going on before the real trauma hits for everyone. If JP has to get involved in this teen tempest in a teapot; everyone may have wished that they had all behaved better to start with... Exceptional work the last few chapters from Mark and his team...

Two really great songs for this chapter, both strike just the perfect cord...

WTF!!! That is too far for anyone to go. If Marie did that then there is nothing else that can be done. She needs to be removed for everyone's safety. A very strict boarding school or military academy. I don't care what the issue is; you do not under any circumstances purposely give someone a STD. This is actually approaching a legal matter. I know that Will would never take it that far but damn.... I am glad to see that John has moved firmly behind Will and really glad that Claire and Jack have obviously moved to do more than just crack down on Marie... I did love the line when Will advised Claire that her purse was vibrating... Great chapter and can't wait to see where this is going...

Those of us that lived through the early years of AIDS recognize the fear and terror that they all felt. Those that had the disease were so villified that it was almost scary... Even several years later, in the late 80's, I remember how horrified people were when my mother danced with a man in our small town in Texas that was openly gay and dying of AIDS. Everyone knew he was sick but my mother had always loved to dance with him and he looked so sad watching others dance; so she asked him to dance a waltz... He was so weak that she had to almost hold him up for the last third of the dance but it made him so happy... So many people were freaked completely out that she had touched him and I remember her looking at them and telling them they were all idiots... Great story, Mark the writing and plotting was just excellent... You and your crew have created something really special.

The start of AIDS, no one really knew the first couple of years how it was spread or why some got it and others didn't... The fear in both the gay and general population really shaped the next couple of years... If you lived it, you never forgot it, and if you did not you could never understand it...

The paiting and the sculpture were just perfect for JP. He, Stef, and Isidore can all look back at Jeff and see the good now and feel the sadness of loss without the totality of the guilt becoming to much... I loved the idea of Orgasmic Stef... This family is special, not just those of blood but those of choice...

Drama, Drama, Drama; my god to be a teenager again would not be worth it no matter what... The writing just keeps getting better and better; Mark and those helping him are doing such a damn good job...

Much like JP before him, Brad has absorbed the lessons of Tonto and the elders in how to deal with life and tragedy. It is a shame that so many in reality have choosen to ignore the lessons that they could learn as well... Mark, even after reading this for the fifth or sixth time; I bawled like a baby throughout this chapter...

Losing a sibling can be among the hardest things for a person to go through; it is just that much worse when you are fighting and can't resolve the issues before death does. Brad and the others will have to come to terms with this or it can haunt them forever... Isidore is going to need the others maybe more than they need her; but in the end this family will come together and survive... Billy's death is some ways parrots Jeff's but I don't know if I could handle another one like this...

You know, a the right party can fix just about anything... LOL... I really do feel that the writing and plotting for the last few chapter have just been spot on; it is really great how Mark is able to get into the mind of an 18 y/o in the social whirl that Brad is in... He either lived it, at least in part, or has done some really good research...

You have to pick your battles but sometimes the cost can be unbelievably high. Sometimes for no reason that anyone can explain; a child can be damaged for no obvious reason and nothing can be done to help them. I have to wonder about Billy, he really has been given a perfect life and except for Sam leaving never seemed to face any real problems; what switch flipped that caused her current level of issues...

A fight between two children will tear a family apart faster than almost anything. Isidore is protecting her "baby" and will be a mother lion about this. Billy always seemed almost an afterthought for everyone else, but I think he is the one she is really invested in; because none of the other kids really need her...

Here begins one of the saddest series of chapters in the CAP universe... Robbie really seems to understand Brad much better than Brad understands Robbie or maybe even himself. The scene on the plan coming back was perfectly written. I really enjoy when Stef interacts with Brad and the other kids.

The writing just keeps getting stronger and stronger. I really feel that I am in the room with these people dealing with what is going on. What is even better is that I really wish I was in the room with these people... Great work, Mark...

Someone in this story should have fallen in love with a good therapist and they could have saved a fortune... Mark writes some of these scenes with such accuracy and passion that the research is really first rate or he has some experience with it in some way in his background... Great Job...

I swear when Brad acts like Tonto, I want to cry...

I have never been able to really understand the need of some to pick on the weakest. I guess it goes back to protecting the tribe and wanting only the strong to survive so the tribe as a whole was stronger. I was just raised differently. My mother and grandmothers always went out of their way to make sure that those less fortunate were helped. I guess it stuck...

The writing for the scene with Claire and Brad is so realistic. There is few decisions that a girl/woman will ever have to make that is as hard as this one is going to be. In the end, no one but the person making the decision really knows what is best for that person...

The drama of high school is never easy to understand or decipher. You can spend a lifetime just trying to get a grip on it. Mark is able to convey the feel and flow of teen drama better than almost any writer I have ever seen... Bravo...

It is amazing that you could really have a party like that and no one, not even most of the other parents cared back then; do that now and the cops and the DA would have a field day. Brad needs to have a little trust but hard to do thta when you aren't really sure of yourself...

The past is a pull that none of us can really ignore; the secret it not to let it determine where you end up in the future... Each day can be a clean slate, we just have to decide what to do with it...

There are some people that no matter how much you try, you just need to cut loose because in the end nothing you do will ever really work. Jake seems like this; he knows what he is doing is wrong but it is a pathological need on his part, he really can't help himself... Mark's writing is so good that as much as you want to hate Jake, you can't even though if like me you have read this all before you know how much damage he will do in the future as well...

Damn, the rich really are different than you and me; they even run away with more style. I was starting to wonder if Robbie was ever going to stand up for anything that he wanted with anyone. I guess he picked the battle that was really important for him to win.