Thanks, everyone! Very glad you all liked it.

I personally love Turkish Delight - we spent a month backpacking around Turkey for our honeymoon and visited Istanbul again with our son last year. Hopefully, Virginia, you can find a way to string all of those deleted scenes into one comprehensive nfic tale...the other side of the boards can always use new stories!
My husband teaches second grade.

Plus, every kid my age in the '70s knows all about Schoolhouse Rock.
Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here! Slight grammatical errors personally don't bother me at all (except for "alot"...oooooooh, it drives me insane when my students misspell that!), but I thought it would be a fun jumping off point for the story.
Mrs. Young, whose signs at the front of her classroom look like this:
A ___________whiteboard, whiteboard, whiteboard, ____________ LOT