b_t_e___pause_for_continuity_check birdmad before anyone who has managed to endure my interminable prose thus far goes into withdrawal, i am going back into everything to make sure that some of the bits and pieces and names still match as we have entered the home-stretch of the narrative. A little chronology: The prologue and first chapter open in 1991 and the last, which we are maybe seven to ten chapters away from, depending on what i choose to include between now and the the epilogue, ends in 1995, the current chapter finds us approaching summer 1994 for those interested, look for the current chapter to be completed before the end of this week. 030602 ... User24 I'm really sorry, but I haven't read one. I will though, I promise (to myself as much as anyone else). 030622 ... User24 up to chapter 3 now.. I started reading it at lunch time.. good so far 030813 what's it to you? who go blather from