All Comments on 'Charity Begins Next Door'

My little girl was stillborn in 2001, next week. I cried my way through this story. So many emotions came back as I was reading. Looking forward to another chapter.

Excellent story. Heart wrenching and sad but a Happy Ending that I so much enjoy. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Second time I’ve read this. Still powerful. So well written. Bravo.

A Christmas story fit for the tweleve days of Christmas.

This is so well crafted, it's ready to become a Lifetime Movie Classic. Looking for it on video next Christmas, unexpurgated, in full living color. A romance epic!

A superb story, excellently written as well as crafted. Absolutely the best punctuation on anything I've read on Lit in 15 years. Thank you. Gave me a break from my own depression.

Great story; this is the second (or maybe third) time of reading. It's New Year's Day as I write this just two weeks ago my friend Jake died of a massive heart attack. He was not a child, or even a young man. At 78 the man with the scythe was waiting. But now his loving wife Connie is alone and for her, too, Christmas will never be the same again.

Absolutely perfect read for Christmas Eve. Thank you!

God damn that story is rough, gets you right in the feels. Amazing job.

Thank you ,

A nice tale with which to relax. It was a little too fast moving, but that was easily overlooked.

5 star fun.

Bill S.

The story of another ruined marriage. Just what we need to spread joy. If life was like the stories you and your cohorts write, no one would ever celebrate a golden anniversary.

I read this every year around Christmas. Still tear up but just love the story. Gives me hope for the new year

Bittersweet Christmas story with a somewhat happy ending. How about a sequel?

Damn you!!!! You made a crusty old man cry you bastard. I never cry. Good job of writing.

Beautiful just beautiful

WOW!!!! What a great story. It really touched me deeply! Thank you so much :-)

Oh WOW, this story hit me in the heart, hard.

Awesome writing TTT, Thank you

I hope you have a Merry Christmas

Obvious from the comment section, this is a tour de force. For me it is required reading at least once a year (Christmas time). It would be a hard tale to equal let alone top but we welcome you to try! Once again, thank you TTT,

somewhere east of Omaha

I have my favorite 'christmas' stories, this is a great way to begin December. Thanks for all the times that I've enjoyed this tale.

somewhere east of Omaha

This is one of my favorite stories here. Everyone deserves love and happiness. I may be a bitch sometimes but I really do believe in happily ever after

I have reqd this one every year around the Christmas season. Speaks volumes about your skill in pose you have written a LW classic!

Lovely

I can’t believe how this story affected my emotions. Hit me right in the heart. Fantastic!

Very nice, didn't know I would cry at a sex story. You have a remarkable talent!

Love this one

Read and re- read again, really satisfying

Wow! Really, really well crafted. It broke open some nearly 50 year old scabs of my own. I still hate a visible Xmas tree skirt, unladen with future smiles not to be.

Read it for a second time...

...got me right in the heart again, dammit !

A solid 5...

EastCoaster

Merry Christmas!

Oh my this story had me in tears.So well written.

This is so good. It should be published. You are a wonderful writer. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

This might be my third or fourth time reading gets better every time.

By the 2nd page I knew what the ending was going to be and loved every word of it.

great story loved it ,

Loved the story just as much as the first time I read it.

Anony Mous

TTT, you drew the first 5 stars out of me. I haven't a negative criticism to offer. Where others wallow in their emotional sterility, you plunged in headfirst. Thank you.

Awesome story about loss and loves redemption, reminds you to cherish what you have

Omg wow!!

This story was fantastic. I literally teared up and had a lump in my throat from start to finish. Definitely 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I have read some great stories on this site but this is the best so far. It is the most emotional and well written from one end to the other and as long as it had to be. A masterpiece without a doubt

Well this heart if ice on a bug bad wolf melted into a yipping pup. Well done. Best story I have read in a long time. Well done.

rolled off of??? wtf!...

So...damn... Had to wipe the tears away before I could write this. Not at all expected, and beautifully crafted. Thank you.

It brought tears, well done !

I'm seventy years old and it still made me cry

I loved it thank you still in tears

It was a story that made you think about what others go through and not be a total drawn out sex fest. Well done

I think that this story could easily produce years from the most hard hearted and miserly man in the world, even Scrooge would be sniffling.Congratulations you have brought together pathos, humour, love, lust and erotica under one title.

EXCELLENT work. Thank you for publishing this beautiful work.

What a roler coast ride you gave us all the emotions so well wrapped up in that story ,thank you for this

Good stuff. Thank you.

I just read this. I laughed and cried. It was a beautiful story!!!

Nice character development, and a good, and reasonable and happy ending

Nice

Good story about triumphing over tragedy. This story was uplifting.

Aww jeez, wasn't looking to cry today. Well done and well written.

I read this story three times and cried all three times. I loved it. Thanks for writing it and sharing it with us. I realize it took 20 years for you to write all the stories but I appreciate all the different settings and characters and styles of writing and different types of situations etc.

I hardly ever read the comments by the people that read stuff online in any format not just this website having read a few of them I’m reminded why I don’t read them I really don’t understand some people and the way they think.So unappreciative of the effort it must take to think of new stories and characters and flesh them out…. years and years. i’m glad many people also give you good comments because you deserve them.MHaiCS

An accidental 2nd read. When I realized, I continued, not remembering it much, but I remembered a sense if greatness. I hope I gave it a 5 then. Rounded off, it sure is.

the best written story I have had the pleasure of reading however brings back great sadness having lost my eldest daughter to cancer and my former wife also loosing her husband to the same terrible illness while I continue with my own devils and memories of Christmas past and cancer cut from my body.

Thankyou.

Was a very good story, I was hoping that he'd get to feed Cathy also

5* for this gut-wrenching, heartbreaking and uplifting story. Your writing can wring real emotions out of "ink on paper".

I’ve read this story over 5 times and it is so perfect.

This was such a beautiful story that left me dehydrated from all the tears flowing. Thanks for posting a truly heartfelt story. It really made me think and finally wonder how anyone can rebound from something that tragically horrific and especially after believing that at least one daughter was going to make it. I couldn’t handle something like that. At least when you are the one that is going to be dead, you know that your problems and worries will be over without having to attempt to keep everyone else going. It might sound like a selfish way to look at things and it might actually be selfish but we all gotta go sometime.

Now that was a Christmas miracle! Thank you for writing this gift to us all.

Wow, I don't know what to say other than thank you for putting things into perspective with a realistic good ending

Well done, real tear jerker at times

Absolutely one of the best stories I have ever read. I would give it a 7 out of five.

Great story only complaint you made me cry to much 😅

A very ez 5 stars.

That was the...sweetest thing I've ever flapped to.

"Anonymous3 days ago

boring…"

There is a reason why you are Anonymous and also why you are boring.

Outstanding , I'm an old Softie and I haven't had kids yet but hopefully that will change in my future.

Loved it. Cried several times while reading this little masterpiece.

Easiest 5/5 I've ever given on this site.

So wholesome and touching, and yet so erotic too

boring...

Outstanding. Erotic. Moving. Amazing.

Multiple times reading this masterpiece. I always end up in a better place after a reread. Thank you

Excellent perception and description of the very deep pain adult survivors feel at the loss of loved one, especially when kid that had an completely open future did not make it for no fault of their own. The same feelings occur to kids who lose loved ones. They cannot explain or understand the how or the why but they suffer just the same. This story is so good! It is as if the author had experienced this situation already and is reporting the deep trauma first hand. I know... after losing my extremely brilliant son at 20 to suicide, even if that was 22 years ago! The numerous details included here add so much to the credibility of this writing. It was my third reading and I'll come back to it several more time. Thx

6*

BJ

Second reading, better, it you can believe it, then the first time. Really got to me this time. Well done.

Man, this one hurt. Got tears out of me more than few times. Very well done. 5 stars

Damn man, one of the best stories I've read

Wow, wow, wow…..that was great!!! 5 stars. What a story!! Loved it!!

Well written. I greatly appreciated not having the character description in the first paragraph. And that you didn’t provide unnecessary graphic details. Five stars

WOW a hallmark moment! 5 stars to writer. I love a happy ending. Thanks

So sad but uplifting at the end

This story is a great Christmas tale.

Especially the comment about the 'Ratty Olde Robe'.

A special way to remember the start of a new beginning.

Amazingly well written, thank you! What a great story!

Never read a romance category story before. Thank you for being my first.

It was so caring and generous, and I really felt the love in it. Your words made me feel at ease and it could have been a gangbang and I would have still felt loved.

Lol. Seriously though, was my first. Loved it. 5/5

Nato

Beautiful story. Characters were great. Thanks.

Thought it was really good. Very emotional, sad in parts and uplifting in others. Had a tear in my eye at one point. Guess I'm getting old! Well done!!

You have outdone yourself once again

Great story❤️

Absolutely heart touching 💜

Really touching.

Absolutely loved it 💗

The best story I have ever read in 60 years

Very pleased and impressed. I'll have to try more of this authors stories.

I have read it twice and in all of the scenes where tears should be my eyes showed full. In one the tears rolled down my cheeks as this story, save for the sex, as my son died the week of Christmas and I really haven't had Christmas. This was therapy as well as very well written. Thank you.

One of the best on the entire site.

I wish I could give this story 5* again.

Glad I'm not the only softy, lovely story, hard to read through blurry eyes sometimes.

O doubt this was written with your soul. You are an excellent writer, you played perfectly with emotions, and didn’t loose time with trying to do a happily ever after story. It was as real as life is. It made me cry, be angry at life and God’s ways, and be happy that the characters been vi fixated. I’ve read a lot here, and this is the first time I make a comment. You were amazing! Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏