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I'm super-duper late to the party, but maybe you will see this... hopefully :)
I LOVED this. Delightful. Lovely and believable. I loved that Jim pushed Pam, that he wasn't misinterpreting things, that she kissed him back.
I'm sorry I didn't read this a decade ago!

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So, I'm a bit late... I'm not sure if you'll even get this, a decade down the track...! I just started a massive re-watch and NobleLandMermaid led me over here and all I can say is that I wish I'd known about fandom life back in the day but anyway, this was great. I spent half of the story with my hand clapped over my mouth, feeling like my heart was in a vice. I laughed at "Rumble in the Dunder" and Dwight's involvement and Creed. The ending was delightfully sappy (I have a goofy grin on my face) and I loved the "I don't know how not to be in love with you" and everything about the scene in the office, but mostly especially Pam being bold and brave and flirty and then taking Jim home with her.

I love the end notes! lol When I was in Japan I only ever got propositioned by drunk men (and a couple of jr high school boys I was teaching :o).
Do you have any idea how much I wish the answering service had malfunctioned and Pam had gotten all of Jim's messages? Yeah, I guess you probably do.

"the one who told her he loved her and kissed her in a way that made her question the last decade of her life"

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so many feels in so few words!

Author's Response: Thanks! I still enjoy this little fic

YES! This is a perfect epilogue and I didn't even have to wait 7.5 years to read it. Is there more?! I want more!

Author's Response: I have been flirting with the idea of a Season 4 and 5 edition, and have the drafts of a couple conversations written out, so. . . . maybe ;-)

So obviously I'm reading this a while after you wrote it.... ;-) but I'm enjoying your little author notes about being in Japan. I lived there for 4 years '98-'02, before the internet was fully formed (ugh!! and Japanese computers were weird then too). TV sounds like it was the same.

Author's Response: Ha I thought about taking those off but it's a little picture into where I was at the time when I wrote this so I decided to leave them. I visited last year and the couple times I flipped on a TV it still appeared to be mostly weird variety stuff and eating shows, so don't miss that part of it!

I just re-watched The Job today and yeah...

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There are so many things I love about this story! I loved that Pam had saved the card to read last and noticed it had gone and remembered Jim leaning over her counter. Dwight giving her the clue about where Jim keeps sentimental things in his desk drawer (I wondered what else Pam might find there). I loved that Pam broke up with Roy because she realized she didn't have the love she wanted and needed with him and that she took that brave step without knowing what would happen, before she knew for certain how Jim felt. I loved that she found Jim's card but decided not to take that from him and that she expressed her own feelings without knowing what his would be. And the cards! They're both perfect. I love that Pam's was so brave and open and that Jim's was affectionate and caring but couched in language that she could brush off as friendly if she wanted to continue to live in denial - that wasn't what I expected, but it rang so true. His wanting her to know that she was loved, but allowing her to choose whether it was romantic love or friendship. And I could read pages of things getting out of hand kissing on Pam's parents' porch...
Lovely story, all around. I had all kinds of feels when I read this last night.

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Again, I'm reading this about 8 years late, but man, you brought tears to my eyes with that phone conversation. Actually with both of them. Hurt sad tears during the drunken conversation, something more like hopeful happy tears near the end. It hurt, but it was good.

Kinda wishing the detailed sexytimes were in this chapter instead of the last! Even though OBVIOUSLY this is a wonderful. The awkward encounter with the neighbor was great. I love that Jim has no idea what it means until after it was over.
"Hey Michael, something's popped up and Pam and I won't make it in til lunch, alright?" Oh Jim, could you have thought of any worse way to phrase that to Michael?! snort!

Author's Response: Ha, sorry! I hope I put in enough hints that the reader can kind of fill in the sexytimes for themselves ;-) And yeah, you have to be careful what you say to Michael, he will find a "that's what she said" in just about anything.

This is just lovely. I never did understand why Jim let Pam go in that moment - he had a car! he could have driven her home! gah!
I know why they couldn't do that on the show -- because THIS would have happened! :)
I'm re-watching the show from the beginning and so happy to see that Pam and Jim fanfic is still a thing. I didn't have anyone to flail with (or even know what that meant) when the show first screened.

Author's Response: SO glad you like it! Such a frustrating scene... wish I could just get inside Pam's head. Thanks a bunch for leaving a review!

Ooh, I missed a couple of updates! Yay! I love where this story is going. The conversation about the weirdness of the whole thing made me smile - that moment where they break through the awkward and remember it's just them :) I'm so glad they're going to be working so CLOSELY on this project ;)

Author's Response: Thanks so much, yes, they will be very close on this project ;-)