I'm sorry your RL was so sucky, and I'm glad I could brighten your day a bit!
I am so happy you enjoyed the story--I tried to keep it shorter and more concise, but it would let me. I wanted Harry to be somewhere totally different from the epilogue. It seemed that all of them--Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Ginny, were stuck in the boxes they'd made for themselves as teens, and I attributed that to a lack of objective insight (both on the part of the characters and JKR!). I wanted to see where (figuratively and literally) Harry would end up if he took a moment to just stop and think.
Anyway, knowing that the characters, interactions, crisis and its resultant relationship worked for you means so much. Oh, and the twins: I thought that with all of the other problems in their lives, the kids should be relatively easy going, don't you? Thanks for your comments and glad you liked it!