I so agree with what you say about simple love being more terrifying than the complicated variety -- it bypasses reasoning, which is the most frightening thing imaginable.

I'm sort of overwhelmed by the fact this made you cry -- it's easy to feel for the characters while one writes, but there's always the niggling fear that this hasn't worked, that the same things won't be easily accessible or visible and that somehow the story will have been destroyed through manhandling and gracelessness.

Thank you so, so much for reading this and for your lovely comment (your comments are always lovely and thoughtful, but it's worth saying how much I enjoy getting them!)