sara, what can i say? that was beautiful. much better than the original.
lovely introspection, great conversations, wonderful ending. congratulations on a very good start to your fic writing career.
Paul
p.s. for some reason, i'm still seeing a lot of these: </st1:place> they always come after the word "clark," but not after every "clark." not sure what's going on, but if you could delete them, it would be nice.