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I can't quite believe it has taken me two weeks to read the final chapter!

Oh but Eric this line "The book was writing itself. It occurred to Paul that he wasn’t writing anything—the whole of creation was already being written all around him. And it was unfathomably beautiful." epitomised the entire divine story for me.

I have loved every chapter a little more than the one previous to it, l felt almost to be part of the story, one of the crows perhaps watching your adventure from a swaying branch, sometimes the wind nearly knocked me off, but mostly it just swayed me gently into the adventure beautifully...!

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Sep 23Edited

“…he wasn’t writing anything—the whole of creation was already being written all around him. And it was unfathomably beautiful.”

A brilliant ending!

“The one in your own eyes right now.”

I suspect there were pieces of you scattered throughout. Maybe your recipe was a mixture of fiction with a side order of fact, but it was ever so subtle that I put the thought aside in a box entitled possibilities. I searched for clues (yes, I tend to do that to become more involved in the story, or when I’m left with a big question mark to solve). 11:11, the information I found brought your writing to a whole new level that I most likely would have missed if I didn’t go snooping.

I ‘closed the cover’ of your book with a big smile. And this little verse came to mind.

Robert Frost seems to be my go to poet, always finding the words and metaphors in his poems, when my own words are not enough. ( He is also a fellow Vermonter, so I am a bit partial);

“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost~The Road Not Taken

I sincerely hope that the path you found, or found you ,that is, if you story leans towards truth, will continue to contain a lifetime of unexpected wonders .

(To be continued on D/M. Now you have to suffer my literal connection).

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