Other people used my adjective already! Gerry, this story is just plain adorable.
I loved how Clark just automatically ate her raisins as she picked them out -- the thing is, Perry or Jimmy wouldn't eat them, even if raisins were their favorite food. They just don't have that same kind of intimacy with Lois that Clark does, even before they are dating, and I think this was a really neat way of showing that.
As for their debate over the original letter, I thought it was really well done. I found it especially fascinating because I would have taken the same side as Lois did -- Cynthia is clearly fooling herself -- yet Clark makes some really good points about how there is probably more to the story. The most telling thing, though, is the fact that he's willing to go to such lengths to fill in those blanks. His tenacity should tell Lois something, so I was very pleased when she did in fact put the pieces together.
Very nicely done.
Oh, and I do understand about pulling scenes from other stories and reworking them. I've done that with a couple of my archived stories, too. I think this is great as a stand alone, but if you decide to put it back and build a longer story around it, I think it would be very sweet as well.
Kathy
