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Click hereI accepted the offer and started checking airline schedules to Brussels.
THE ONLY TIMES I saw Marcy after she slammed the door on me were the final court hearing, two weddings (where our kids convinced us to pretend to be civil), and the occasional grandchild's birthday celebration. Somebody should have told her the updated version of the one thought she passed along to me: If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, it means no one else liked them, so set them free again.
This time for good.
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Anonymous3 months agoBrilliantly written, compelling tale and well worth the time I expended to read it, so what is servant111's beef actually about? Or is he just another one of the intoxicated characters who feel compelled to post rambling, incoherent comments here about stories they are too stoned to understand?
JR
silverthorne164 months agoI liked it. However, I would have also liked to find out why the wife and her lover got the weird job offers from MSF and what might have happened to them their.
jflinders7 months agoI thought he'd pretty much immediately decided on divorce and retribution. Why was he calling his wife and suggesting she could save their relationship if she stopped her affair?
UpperNorthLeft10 months agoGreat continuation of the original plot. 5* Although I do enjoy a good BTB with a righteous roasting of the wrong-doers, I also appreciate a more believable outcome, such as this one. I liked the distinction between revenge and retribution, with the latter’s connotation of proportionate penalties for transgressions. IMHO, the MCs ambivalence about MacArthur was subtly but clearly conveyed by the “Dugout Doug” remark.
Helen189910 months agoAt least the author fronted up with an explanation, something very few do. Showed a touch of class, thank you
A_Bierce11 months agoAuthorTo those who were upset because our hero didn’t re-connect with Dee, who was stationed in Brussels:
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“The offer was a resumption of--not return to--active duty. Seems that my retirement paperwork somehow got altered to an assignment as commander of a reserve unit that was almost immediately disbanded. I was authorized two weeks leave and another four days travel time, at which point I had a billet in the next War College class. I accepted the offer and started checking airline schedules to Brussels.”
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Unfortunately, that closing sentence got separated from the rest of the paragraph and sort of got lost at the top of the next page, thanks to Lit’s mindless algorithm for breaking pages.
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But the confusion was my fault for trying to be cute by merely implying the resolution of Dee’s future rather than stating it explicitly. Rest assured, Colonel Weston—soon to be Brigadier General Weston—and Dee had a glorious reunion and lived happily ever after. If I resubmit the story to tidy up some other (less egregious) errors, I’ll fix it.
Helen189911 months agoNo burning the birch here, no finish either, what happened to Dee? A certain 5* only ended up with a 3
WolfOfTheWorld12 months agoWish I had connections in the Pentagon like Ski. But being minus a leg would shoot that in the foot PDQ.
