Y'know, I'm thinking this is the section of the story where everything gets really really bad for a while, before the eventual turn-around. This is not my favorite part of a story. peep So... post more quickly, please <g>

PJ
hope your grandfather's doing well

"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