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And thus her decision to include Oscar in the PPC comes full circle. Very sweet. :D


Author's Response:

Oh, I didn't even think of that full circle thing.  Um, I mean, exactly!  I planned that full circle thing all along. ;) 

This is the chapter that made me ask in the Word Challenge thread if it was okay to use the words out of order, because  'pineapple' fit logically later in the story, and not earlier (that was an early word).  As it turned out, I mixed up the order every which way, although Table and End were the first and last prompts, and the first and last in my story.

I can imagine everyone catering to pregnant Angela as much as possible, just to avoid more unpleasantness than one can normally handle.