This was a tough story to read - and yet a good one. Kudos to Terry. There are a lot of comedies and romances and happy-endings on this site - with good reason. The show was a romantic comedy, and certainly we all love a happy ending.

But life isn't all peaches and cream, and not everything works out OK all the time. In anyone's life. This is a tragic story, pure and simple. When I beta'd it, I was all, "Oohh nooo!" And yet I had to give credit to Terry for telling the story as it should be told. Hard to read - and yet cathartic. Sad, but well done. Honest and true.