Hooray for beta-readers! smile I'll just concentrate on the ones I've got at the moment, but many others have helped me out, too.

Thanks to Claire Hess for being unfailingly supportive, and for all the great insights into the characters & situations.

Thanks to Wendy Richards for cleaning up my commas goofy You are one of the main reasons I have any idea what punctuation to use, especially in dialog tags.

Thanks to Elena for being so enthusiastic it's slightly alarming! wink

Thanks to Hazel, who volunteered *and* sent back comments within hours of first reading the file. thumbsup (don't worry, I won't expect that ever again!)

And thanks very much to everyone else who's helped me throughout the years. I've learned *so* much, and I appreciate it all.

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K