Neat part. And I'm glad Martha has another woman to talk with about her son.

How come Lois didn't pass along Dr. Klein's advice for Clark to spend lots of time in the sun? I kept waiting for her to say something and she never did. Was she that rattled by Clark's insistence that no one experiment on him?

If that's true, then she's risking almost everything in taking that hair to Star Labs. Clark might be so mad that he never speaks to her again! (At least, until the next chapter.)

Oh, just so we're all on the same page, hair shafts do not contain complete copies of DNA. In order to get a good sample, at least part of the hair root must be attached. But I'm sure Dr. Klein can find that tissue without much difficulty.

I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining, because I'm not. This is a very tender story and I'm waiting impatiently for the next post.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing