I have to confess that I was prepared for this story to be too tragic for me to read and truly enjoy. I brushed that aside and plunged in, determined to do my teammately duty.
Boy have I never been so happy to have been wrong! While it was tragic and even painful in places, it was, more than anything, breathtaking. You are amazing and so is this story. How you managed to make me feel good at the end of it all, I'll never know, but I leave this story completely satisfied (and very much in awe). And I don't think this one will leave me any time soon.