This just keeps getting better!! Although I was eager to read when you first started this whole story, I honestly couldn't imagine how you were going to pull it off - but you have done it not only beautifully, and amusingly, but also so very poignantly! *sniff* The ending out in the field really got to me... and I love to see them growing closer... and it's going to be so *heartbreaking* when it all falls apart.