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This is still a free country, and everyone is entitled to be completely wrong as often as they wish to be. LOL

Darren is truly blessed that Luca's parents decided to step in. Anything in the foster system is truly a crapshoot and the older you get the more unsettled it becomes. Can't wait to see how this plays out, I am sure that with @Lee Wilson everything will be rainbows, sunshine, and lollypops.

I could live with the Pistachio, but the Sunset Copper is just flat ugly....

So enjoyed this story the first time around, can't wait to see how you expand it.

Lord, if only I had time to get to all the stories that I wanted to.

Oh, holy hell, that kinship analysis is going to blow up in everyone's faces I am afraid. Ellen is more intuitive than I ever gave her credit for when it comes to the slaves. I truly do despise Anduin and his mistress as well. Could the description of the bedroom boy fit the real Remy more than the current one? Was the real Remy more sexually outgoing? Oh, this just opened up so many questions.

I think this trip has been good for Russ. He has been able to reconnect with Con and might even be allowed to help him out a little, even if it is just with a good business plan and a few other things. He got to realize, if he didn't already, how good Lisa was for his brother and what a delight she is to be around. She has a dry sense of humor and cares deeply for the people in her life. And thanks to some help before he arrived and some experience with Toby, he has been able to connect better with the boys than he thought he would be able to and they got to know him some as well. He has made a few new friends, but they will be long distance friends at best. But this time away has made him realize how important Brian and Gordon are both to him, and how much he truly enjoys his time and conversations with Toby. Can't wait for them to get back together and see where this all goes for them all.

A great bunch of stories.

Wonderful story and has others before me have stated, worthy of the best of the fables. We should never discount others, not even creatures that we don't always understand, as we never know when they will be what stands between us and something truly unpleasant. Let us hope that the two new friends have many great adventures ahead of them.

What a beautiful story, so full of wonder and hope. I sometimes believe if we could see more of the world through the eyes of children we might treat nature better. What a shame that we lose our sense of wonder as we grow older, we forget or close our minds and hearts to what we once believed.

Such a sweet story, while I have never experienced the idea of seeing someone and feeling anything like that; I wish it had happened. I do think there are people that are just so obviously meant to be together that you know from the first moment that they will be together for the rest of their lives.

Excellent story and the writing and characters were so well done.

Two important things happened this chapter, well at least more important than anything else in my opinion. First, Rick needs to listen to his instincts, he recognized the main at the train station from somewhere, and he needs to remember where. The little light goes off for a reason, and for a regular person, that might just mean really concentrating on what is going on around you; but for a police officer it means that something in you is telling you this is important. Secondly, Alexis is missing. He just flirted with Rick, but it was enough to make an impression. Does he have a history of missing work, I am betting not, something tells me this isn't a good thing. Rick and Adam obviously have a connection, but Rick is holding back some, how much of his past does Adam know about? When are we going to find out about his past? And what the hell is the deal with this motor pool issue?

Takes me a flat week to get used to both time changes, and I do wish they would do away with Daylight Savings Time, only benefits the damn golfers now days. Thanks for the catch up as always. Love Halloween went out in costume with friends for supper and drinks. Left a big cauldron of candy for any kiddo's that came by, about 85% empty when I got home.

So well done, and I don't even mind not knowing what is truly going on. The trip back became a ritual to honor one that was gone, then long after that disappearance another left with him willingly. The following year the last two returned, to truly say a farewell, knowing that neither the two that went missing nor the last two friends that were left would return. They had made their choices and had to follow their own lives.

Lord, leave it to Will to find the repressed straight guy that is hiding out because he has to go to the LGBT club meeting, and try to make his life better. Will really can be a good guy, but then he will channel Brad, and it all goes to hell. So, Preston has to go to the club meetings as punishment, or to help him understand where he was wrong? I like Finn, but this passive aggressive act is getting old fast. Glad that Marie has Will there to check on here, even if he is doing it by calendar. LOL. It would be easy for her to bury herself in schoolwork and not try and deal with any of it. Marie and Will have each other's back, and that matters to both of them. I had wondered what brought about JP's behavior with Jeremy, while he has always seen education as really important, the way that whole meeting was done, was just so out of character for him. Brad led him astray. I don't trust Petrovic, but he is the best connection they have. Jake will figure out a way to keep the meeting safe. Just like Claire to get through part of her pain by helping others. I wonder how tied Jessica and the baby will end up to the family. Can't wait to see what happens next on several different areas of this story right now. As always, a bow to the master @Mark Arbour

So very happy for Vince and Peter, and glad that Freddie is all on board. Gray will be as well, and of course, Dawn is all for it. I think that Peter opens a side of Vince that has been locked down for a long time, maybe even before Moira passed. Good to see it opening up, let's see how far he will go. Graham and Matt just need to communicate. Matt's issue was he was fretting that Graham might take off, but I don't see that happening at all. Graham may have to travel some for work and exposure, but I think his muse has always been in this place. Wonderful chapter can't wait to see what happens next.

Wonderful chapter but do despise that Granger is so down; hate it more that Calvert cheered him up. Are we sure a fatal carriage accident couldn't be arranged. Daventry seemingly in awe of Granger's ward. While that would be quite a coup for her, I have to wonder if that would disrupt their friendship, and I am not sure that anything is worth that happening. Lord, George willingly gave Davina 2000 pounds to clear a gambling debt, was he struck on the head and I missed it? While I think that Granger would make an admirable ambassador, I could think of other roles that would suit him more. Although with his connections to Spain, that would be an interesting posting, to say the least. Sigh, I guess if Calvert makes him that happy, keep him alive, but Lord, he is a bore. Can't wait to see what happens next.

I have a feeling that Jimmy will play a bigger role in the story that we get from first appearance. Jarvis sounds like a piece of work, but we don't know much about him yet. Martin is what interest me; he keeps getting mentioned but not much to go on; obviously a murder victim, but was he Rick's first love, or what? Love Helen.

intriguing story, but I want to know what happened to Eljah...

Lovely chapter, I am glad that Russ is being more social. I hope that Russ does take Jamie up on the invite to meet Cathal and have a lovely evening with them and his mother, Emma. Jamie and Emma have proved to both be dears and I am sure that Cathal will be as well. Toby will love the gift, no matter what the cost of it was or wasn't. Con and Lisa seem to be set up, if they only had a little more financing and maybe a better business plan. I am sure that the boys will have Uncle Russ up, whether he wants to be or not. LOL, boys that age are not known for being neither quiet nor restful on Christmas morning. Honestly, a little surprised how open Russ is being with everyone on this trip.

Sad that both Sam and Gabe have to deal with so many issues from family. Why can't anyone just respect and accept who you are?

Well, the Golden Boy moniker can be both a blessing and curse, which will it be for our Rickie boy. Being that young and already a detective shows some true smarts and probably a lot of luck. Interesting times ahead.

Some really interesting and spooky stories here, some I have read and some I have one my to do list. Thanks for the recap.

No, if there is truly a single all-knowing, all-seeing deity; it is clearly cat based in reality. Just ask @kbois...