And I am sending it to four people: alex in austria, my sister in law in NZ, a friend of ours in Toronto and my old time penpal who was there for me when I truly was disjuncted and disjoined in my head, Senor Plume. I am super pleased with this collaboration between hubby and I (I integrated three or four of his comments and ideas to rewrite some of the story to what it is now). Everyone loves it. My high school pen pal said 'Good work!'.  And hubby likes it too! It is rare he likes what I write! ah!