Your heartfelt comments are an embarrassment of riches to me. In exchanges, one hopes to please the recipient, above all, and in so doing if one pleases, touches or gladdens others it is the proverbial icing on the cake.
Posting it publicly being the surest way of discovering typos that writer and betas all miss, I hope you don't mind if I post a cleaner version of it in the near future? They're small, but glaring to my eyes.
Even then, his need for self-preservation included her. Yes. Thank you for noting that.
I'm glad my story spoke to you so deeply; it's gratifying, not to mention humbling. I hope it continues to please in future. Thank you for your very kind feedback!