Thank you guys - I'll be back with more later, but I did want to respond to a couple things Elisabeth said...

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I know there are some who will feel that by having one heart-to-heart fix everything you're making the ending too easy
Umm... we're nowhere near the end wink . Though this chapter of their lives [the perpetual miscommunications] is coming to an end, its not going straight to a bed of roses - or maybe it is - roses do have thorns after all...

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As for tortuous deaths, have you read Fox's Book of Martyrs?
You know... we have a copy of that around here somewhere... I'll have to look for it. Thanks for the idea smile .
Carol