...Goddammit Vivid. You sure have a way of making a guy go quickly between cheering these two on to devolving into a blubbering mess. You always know exactly what to write to strike us poor readers right in the gut, for good or ill. I could help but have this in my head during the entire end of the chapter. Excellent work, as always.

Oh man, that last part definitely hit home for me. Putting someone else's happiness above your own; being happy because the one you love is happy; that's true love.
I'm pretty sure I've told my girlfriend this quote verbatim:

I want you to be happy, even if it means we can't be together. That's what's important to me. It means more than everything else in the world.

Tagged as spoilers just in case it is. A year ago, I wouldn't have known this, but one of the things I've learned and committed to with my girlfriend is to make sure we're open with each other and we want each other to be happy. Life places limits on us, for sure. It's not about breaking those limits, or forcing through them, though; it's when you slip through the seams, when you find ways around those limits life gives you that signals that you truly love someone.

The silence I hear in my room as I finish this chapter is deafening... I'm stuck between how this feels fair and how this feels unfair... I've put off reading these chapters for so long for I was afraid of the inevitable... and I know the pain isn't over yet (what with Soarin's injury in the present)... but I'm happy that I've finally made it to this point... you write good Vivid... you write good... well, forward and onward.

Was it supposed to look so suggestive? 'Cuuuuuz it kinds looks like the bottom half of a blue pony lightning-fucking that apple's ass.

you know, that's actually what I thought it was at first. I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be.
Damn, this is getting emotional.

My god these last several chapters have been an absolute emotional fuck! Happy times knowing sad times are in store immediately. Hot, sexy times mixed with more sad. Sad with depressing!

Damnit all!

I cried at least 5 times reading this chapter.

Tonight's theme is 'A New Dawn Together.'

hoo boy. had to take a couple breaks while reading this chapter

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...and THEN the last paragraph happens

Goddamn...

Thank you for giving them a day and a night to remember. Now if you excuse me I need to go find some kleenex. For some reason my nose is a bit stuffy and my eyes seem to be blurry.