Glad y'all liked this.
Millefeuilles, you shouldn't laugh at the romantically stunted. (Oh, wait, yes you should! You definitely should! Especially in this tale.) Thanks for reading and commenting.
JackieK, thanks for the kind words. This has the most humor - and maybe the most angst - of anything I've posted here.
Yeah, Daneel, quite different. Although I've shoved these characters into some really different situations before.
Michael, thanks ever so much for the high-quality beta work you did on this. Kudos to you too.
Now I'm posting the epilogue.
