I took a break from my writing to read your story Carol. The story has an interesting perspective and I like how you made it feel more real, than fairy tale (I'm sure that if this was a movie Hollywood would have cleaned up all the loose ends long ago <g>, to the determent of the story).
Truthfully though I don't know if I would still be hanging on to Lana's memory as long as Clark does in this story, especially after Lana had moved on. So good advice from his mom
Max