All I can do is echo what so many others have already written. This is an astonishingly accomplished piece of writing and one of the best pieces of fan fic I have ever read (and I've been reading since Kirk and Spock first got it together!) You made young Snape so real and so human. Their love affair was a series of beautiful vignettes that became a perfect whole. This was a story about love and the impact it has on all of us, whatever the medium through which it is conveyed. This is also a story that will live long in my memory. I can't thank you enough for letting me share it.