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Happy Birthday!! Great chapter. can't wait until she sees Clark at work. more soon. Laura

Yay! The revelation!!!

OMG!!! There's gonna be MORE revelation!


It is about time! Wahoo! Now don't mess this up Clark!!! Fess up!!!

Sorry I've been a very bad girl with fdk. Loved how Lois figured things out in this one.

Even Spiderman is dancing (The Flash sends his regrets - but he was unable to make it... previous engagement...)

<g>

-- DJ <who apologizes profusely for her silliness>

Here's a reply from a fanfic lurker.

I've been reading your story since the beginning, and I think it's wonderful. Very well written, and I'm always eagerly awaiting the next post.

I hope you are having a Happy Birthday, and just to continue the "Happy Birthday in other languages" theme, here's in Portuguese:

Parabéns prá você,
Nesta data querida,
Muitas felicidades,
Muitos anos de vida!

First of all...Happy Birthday Rachel!

Finally, you posted and Lois knows! I have to admit that I am glad that the story is moving now. Great writing, but I was just getting impatient with where things were.

I'm so excited that Lois knows and did not get angry. These are my favorite revelations...when Lois isn't mad. Now I cannot wait to see what happens when they meet up at the Planet. Now Lois knows why Clark runs off all of the time.

I'm glad that Lois went through her feelings in her head and is thinking things through before she lets on that she knows. Poor Clark has been fighting his internal demons for a while now, afraid of what Lois would do if he told her. He doesn't have to worry but he doesn't know it yet.

Great part and please hurry along with the next chapter.

Feliz Cumpleanos, Smirkita!

Very nice chapter. Loved Lois's moment of epiphany, including the "computer crash" theme. I've seen too many of those myself not to sympathize. And now Clark is going to tell her what she already knows! Wow!

Did you, by any chance, find a quote by the director of "Superman Returns" where he says that Clark on the farm is the most real identity of this complex man? With all the memories Lois had crashing in on her about Clark with his parents and doing farm-type stuff, it seemed to be an appropriate comparison.

Can't wait for the next chapter. Keep up the wonderful work!

I’ve had this chapter saved to my desktop for a solid week just so I could do it justice. Because this is the chapter that I’ve been waiting for since the first time you posted. And such a delicious moment deserves a thorough savouring.

But first, let me get this out of my system.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! COWABUNGA!!!

*clears throat* Ahem.

Right.

And now to get rid of my inner Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and opt for coherency.

The first time I read this I was completely freaked out. Why? Because I have a scarily similar scene written for a future chapter of my own fic, and when I finally post it I will point it out to you so you can freak out with me. Two scenes, actually. One of them will be included in the next posting.
Now either you believe me and accept you are my spiritual twin or something, or you don’t and suspect I’m a serial plagiarist.

Yesyesyes…hold that thought and follow it…don’t lose it…please God…

And she scores!!! Woo hoo!!

The ultimate humility of true love. Nuff said.

Beautiful. *sigh*

Do you know I hate sunsets? It’s an oddity of mine. I don’t care how beautiful they are, they just remind me that the day is dying in a garish, gory display of colour. For the same reason, I love sunrises passionately. This scene is one very close to my heart.

My thoughts exactly!

A kiss of true understanding. When the shadows are swept away in all-encompassing illumination and revitalizing warmth. Sunlight and love which are manna for the soul. How wonderfully symbolic, Rachel!
Incidentally, it also ties in with the saying I referred to earlier: “To love and be loved is to feel the sun shining from both sides”.

And I can’t wait to see what she’ll do when she does! Rachel, you devious devil, you are a genius. Instead of delivering the whole shebang of a revelation, you’ve staggered in into parts. Now, you’ll soon have a mob lining up outside your door demanding that Clark gets a clue!
So now we have a whole new development to look forward to! Way to go, Smirkster!
Forty-one chapters were more than well worth the wait!

Write fast, dearie!

Hasini.

PS: OMG, DJ! I have that Bollywood Spiderman too! You need to have a Hindi ghazal on in the background for full effect. Isn't it hilarious?!

Soooo.... are we still on schedule for a chapter today smirky? I know you have been busy with school (from what i saw in other threads) so I wanted to know.

Do we need to send the little men after your professors and tell them to stop giving you hard tests and homework so that you have more time to write??

<grimaces> Well, it is *that* time of semester, and I am quite swamped, that is true. To tell you the truth my birthday actually threw off my writing schedule quite a bit, just because I usually write pretty much all of my chapter on Friday and Saturday, and between a family party on Friday and a friend party on Saturday it was kind of hard to find any time to sequester myself away. I often do a couple hours of writing on Sunday, too, but I ended up visiting a friend of the family with my mom from where she was in the hospital a good little journey away from home. And then, yes--school is busy. On top of all that, my next door neighbor whom I've gone to school with since kindergarten passed away this last Sunday, and so things have been busy with the family and all, and today was the funeral . . .

I think you get the picture. This week has been insane.

To tell you the truth, I've hardly even started the next chapter. However, I decided it was finally time for me to lay out the remainder of the plot for myself, just so I don't forget anything, and I figure there are going to be about 15-20 more chapters. .

Thanks for your guys' patience and all. Again, I'm sorry I've been AWOL this past week. With a lot of luck I *may* be able to post the next chapter Saturday evening, so keep your fingers crossed!

Thank you all for the reviews. They really have helped me through this week, just knowing I have some good friends out there keeping an eye out for me!

Good luck with everything that's going on for you!

Rachel

Oh lady!! You have had a tough week! *hug*

Please please take care of yourself. We can wait a bit for the next chapter. Those real life things come first.

I think at this point you couldn't get rid of us if you tried on this story. It is way to addicting. ^_^

15-20 more chapters? Rock on!

You know, that's how we roll on these boards. It's probably the main reason I've never left. So you take care of school and your family! We'll be around...

JD

I'm so sorry about your neighbor. That's got to be tough, especially since you've known this person since kindergarten. <Hugs>
Hang in there! We'll be here waiting.

One of the best bosses ( principals )I ever had told me, when my grandmother passed, that his priorities fell in this order 1st Family (including close friends) 2nd God 3rd work. Remember--as much as we ALL love this story you have to take care of yourself and those you love first. Please do!! We care about you and will be here supporting you when ever you need it--story or not. <hug>

I, too, am very sorry to hear about your neighbour, Rachel.

Anyway, I read something today in a no-cost daily paper of the kind that you can pick up at train stations and the like. There was a review of a new movie - or new here in Scandinavia at least, "300" by Frank Miller. The reviewer described the movie as extremely "black and white" in terms of the morality of its characters - except then the reviewer contradicted himself by saying that the bad guys in this movie are extremely, unbelievably bad, while the "good guys" are only moderately bad.

This got me thinking about the characters in your fic. And I really think that you show us so convincingly that Clark and Lois - Clark especially, of course, but Lois too - are really so unaffectedly, unassumingly good in a way that is rarely seen and which is difficult to write in such a way that the characters don't become boring. Interestingly, Clark and Lois are far from perfect in your fic - Lois especially, but Clark too has his shortcomings - and yet they are so, well, good. Which brings us to the next question, by the way - what the heck is goodness anyway?

One of my own favorite books is a a book about a 14th and 15th century English woman, Margery Kempe, whose life's ambition was to become a saint. She worked hard for many years to achieve sainthood. Isn't that interesting? But what does it take to become a saint?

Technically, you become a saint if a Pope canonizes you. However, you must first deserve your sainthood. Now, Margery Kempe was an illiterate woman. Her ideas of what it took to deserve sainthood may not have been the same as those of the learned theologians of her time, but even so - isn't it a little funny to think that she spent years and years nagging her husband to stop having sex with her, because she thought that a saint must be celibate? And isn't it shocking to think that when she finally had managed to evict her husband from her conjugal bed, she pretty much abandoned her fourteen children so she could go out into the world and do saintly things? She spent many years going on truly arduous and often dangerous pilgrimages to holy places such as Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela, because she thought that such journeys were looked upon with great favour by priests and bishops and supposedly by God. Margery Kempe also had revelations accompanied by seizures inside churches, so that people could see and hear for themselves that God spoke to her. And finally she began dressing in white, so that the purity of her soul would be matched by the color of her clothing.

I find Margery Kempe's dedication to her quest for sainthood so fascinating - she reminds me, in a way, of a sort of spiritual athlete, tirelessly doing everything in her power to live up to her own ideas of sainthood. But does that make her a good person?

A new Swedish documentary describes the life of a contemporary young woman who became a nun at eighteen. For this young woman, being a nun means never leaving the convent, not talking to the other nuns in the convent for more than two hours a day, not forming any special friendships with any of the other nuns, not meeting with members of her family more than seven times a year, and never hugging her parents or siblings, because she and her family must always stay on different sides of a barrier of bars. Personally, I'm not going to criticize this young woman for choosing this kind of life. She isn't hurting any other people except perhaps her family, but then again, her Catholic mother expressed great pleasure that her daughter had become a nun. But I have to say that this nun doesn't strike me as an obviously good person, but rather as a - well, as an athlete of the spirit. A spiritual super-achiever, a champion of abstinence. But can anyone else benefit from this woman's self-imposed isolation?

Lois and Clark, on the other hand, are not saints. They have flaws and faults. They are hurt, lonely and scared. But they instinctively fight to protect other people from harm and to make the world a better place, and they do it in spite of their fears and shortcomings. They do it not to win prizes at the Olympic Games of Saintlihood. They just do it, because if they don't, there will be more pain and suffering in this world.

Your portrait of Lois and Clark and their instinctive fight for good and for other people is so moving and unforgettable, Rachel. You have created truly good people who are real, vulnerable, flawed, flesh-and-blood humans - or in Clark's case, a Kryptonian - which in every way that matters amounts to the same thing. In this day and age, when so many movies and stories portray people who are evil and brutal, your story about Lois and Clark becomes all the more gripping.

Ann

I havent sent any feedback in a while but I am still reading and enjoyng this story, especially hte last two chapters where things began moving a bit faster again. I check all the time hoping to see the next installment.

Great job !
Post again soon.

Cheers,
A.

Okay, guys. Life certainly hasn't really slowed down, but I think I may have a timetable for the next chapter. Unfortunately, I don't think you should look for it until next weekend. Still, at least you can know I haven't *completely* gone off the deep end.

Finals are in three weeks, so posting may continue to be inconsistent until then. Heaven help me not to go crazy! <dies>

Again, good luck to everyone!

Smirky

Finals...I keep forgetting all you real people are done with school soon! Good luck! We're on the quarter system, so we just started a fresh 10 weeks of school with new classes...

JD

It took me forever to find this. Just wanted to know, I'm still checking everyday (or more) to see if a new chapter's been posted. But I understand school comes first. But please hurry

doublel

<shrinks in, flops down on chair, bites lip, begins typing>

Hello, everyone!

I'm sososososososo sorry for dropping off the face of the planet like I have! My classes have been craaaazy, and I tell you--I could whine about it all day. Instead, I'm sitting down to check on this for the first time in days--or is it weeks, now!?--and then I'm going to start <grimaces> . . . yes, I'm sad to admit it--*start* writing the next chapter.

I *hope* to have it done in a few days, or maybe in a week . . . <sighs and shakes fist at sky>. I really do wish school would settle down right now, if only for five minutes!

I really do apologize for the break in my usual posting schedule. I hope you can all forgive me!

Sorry for making anyone worry. I really am quite well, except for being severely sleep-deprived and so stressed out that my muse is being much more flighty than usual. But it will go on!

Only a little longer, after all, and finals will be very nicely out of the way.

Thanks for your understanding. Again, I apologize for the wait!

SmirkyRaven

Take care of yourself lady. We will patient until then. We promise.