Dear Athena,

OH MY GOD WHY HAVEN'T YOU UPDATED!!!!!!!  And don't give us any crap about school work.  School needs to take a back seat on this one.   In 5 years NO EMPLOYEE is going to be like "hmm we'd like to hire you, but you have this one C on your report card... sorry".

Sniff sniff.. we miss it sooo much.

sigh.

luchy 

I hope you haven't given up on us!  This is such a great story, and such an awful cliff-hanger to leave us with.  We're all too emotionally invested, now.  At least, I know I am.  I also know how difficult it is to write a story like this.  I have before.  And, trust me, it took a loooooooong time.  So, it's okay if you take awhile, just so long as you do plan on updating eventually.  Again, this is a really beautiful story.

Not to bother you, but just wanted to say I miss your story. I'm sure you have lots going on in your life, but just so you know you have faithful readers here looking forward to the next chapter. I hope to see an update soon of this beautifully written story.

Author's Response:

Oh, thank you so much.  I really am working hard on my next chapter.  I've just been really busy.  I'm doing a summer quarter at my college, and everything is shortened, so I have lots to do.  I promise, I'll have some time to write this week!

You do such a good job with this story; it's a topic that is very sensitive and would be so easy to just turn into melodrama, but you do wnoderful work exploring depth and emotion. I look forward to each new chapter!

I didn't cry when Albus freaking Dumbledore died, and my friends thought I was inhuman, because it seems everyone did, and I thought I didn't know how to cry about fictional things and characters but you've actually left me bawling, OK? It's brilliant, it's gorgeously written, and maybe it's also the fact that this is also unbelievably real - it's just - perfect. And it's basically ripping my heart out. 

Hopefully you hand it back to me at the end of the story - so as hard as it is to write this [that's what I believe, anyway, because this is too achingly real to be written just like *snaps fingers* that], I want to implore you to please, please not stop it here - maybe giving it a happy ending [or an ending, at any rate, that's hopeful and happier, because that's it: i know it's fictional, and i know this is real, but sometimes keeping it fictional and giving it some hope makes it a billion times easier for the people reading it - and hopefully writing, it too?] -- 

argh, this story kills me every, single, time i read it. my punctuation has probably died, too.

can i say something, though? the way jim's reacting to it? it's - brilliant. it's freaking brilliant, and it hurts almost as much as pam hurts me, and it's - ARGH. i'm talking in circles.

and my punctuation has died.

i can't wait to read more, because this is brilliant, like i've sad - a lot. in circles. again and again and again

someone make me shut up. 

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Excellent and well-written.  Wish we had more good angsty stories, as they're my favorite.  Thank you for sharing your gift of writing with us.  I'm excited to see where this will go. 

It's amazing I can type this through my tears. But, just.. so very well done. Amazing. I cannot wait to read more, please don't keep us waiting long. Just.. beautiful. And yeah, babbling now.. but so SO so good.

Really this story is unbelievably emotional and well done.  I believe that you are right, it is in painful moments that so much love can be found, and you're doing such a wonderful job with a difficult topic.  I know that these chapters must be hard to write, but know that we are anxiously awaiting the next chapter.

this is such an incredably sad and moving story. i love how jim is so touched and worried about pam just like the old jim really is. i absolutly love this story. i cant wait for more

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wow, such a powerful update. I love reading your story because it really gets to me, really makes me feel something. The writing is so wonderfully good, your descriptions of Jim's face and eyes while talking to Pam was so good. I'll try to be patient until the next update, but I will say I hope I don't have to wait too long. Thanks once again for sharing this story with us all.

I completely love this story. Weird but true, but it's because you can feel it, deep in the recesses of my heart. I can feel pain pouring out of Pam and Jim and want nothing but happy things to happen for them, but living in the real world we all know that's not always going to happen. I guess it's nice to feel something other than giddy goodness for these 2 but to feel the distance between them and how bad they wish it was different. I'm probably rambling but you probably know what I mean. Thanks for writing this and please please don't stop.

You are a very tallented writer.  This story is beautiful and heart-breaking and so real.  The missing window-pane, the row of dead flowers, it's so haunting.  But, in a good way.  You're awesome.  Please update soon.

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I love this story!  I like that it's taking a while.  That Pam really is trying to hide the fact that she was raped, but that she's so wounded that she can't.  Even Karen picked up on the fact that something was wrong.

Now that you're all settled, find a good writing place and keep this story going!