I have been told that great authors write from experience. As I doubt you ever danced in an opera or had a disfigured friend who murdered people and who lives in a hand made home of rock but with a lake side view? One never know but I doubt it. Therefore I must conclude that you pay great attention to everything. You seem to write through your minds eye using your heart and soul. I'm sorry to be flowery but you have a gift that few have. May try but few suceed. Your there. I do hope that you will be able to publish and soon. In the mean time do not stop composing. So many what ifs. Again I msay thank you. JPL

I passed this short story up so many times. I finally decided to read it. Dang it was good. I would have liked a little more though with Meg reunited with Erik. I never have liked Christine. She would have been so bad for Erik.

Very sad...

I despise E/M. I screech and kick and scream and cover my ears. But something, somehow, I was drawn to your story. I read it all, without skipping not even a word. And I loved it.

It was mature, in the sense of adult life, in the sense of honour, lof ove, and of marriage. Christine and Erik still love each other, despite the heartbreak and pain, they adore what they once were. And yet they stay with the ones they promised themselves to. They do not break the vows of marriage. In heart maybe. Maybe even in mind, but not physically.

I loved how Meg wasn't afraid to tell Christine about the fact that Erik still loved her. Sure, she was hurt, and it saddened her, but she promised to tell Erik all, and she probably did. And I loved how Meg let Christine tell her about Christine's love for Erik and the child she dreamed they had.

Anyways, you are one of my all time favorite authore after reading only two of your stories. Two thumbs up.

oh, wow..

i've had you on my favorite authors list for a while...after finding one of your stories on someone else's profile or a mention of it in a forum somewhere...i can't remember... anyway, sorry i've never reviewed before.

let me just say that your talent for writing is incredible! i love your style, and i just rage through your stories like a ravenous dog after tablescraps (not that your work is tablescraps...far from it! more like a thanksgiving dinner...yummy!)

so yeah...that's just me. please, keep writing! i love it!
- dark-hearted rose

This is, perhaps, your most brilliant work. Your dialogue is definitely your strong suit. It has a strength and subtlety that takes it outside the realm of the popular and mediocre, and places it at the level of art.

Never stop writing!

This is a really mature story. Not mature in the context most people seem to think of, like sex and violence, but in the sense of potraying adult life well. Not many think of how the characters live after the Lair Scene, and the ones that do not very creatively. I'm also glad the Piangi lived in this story, even though he didn't appear. Christine and Meg are perfectly done. I never thought of how Christine would adjust to being a wife before, or Meg, but you handled both well.

I'm not much for E/M shipping, but this was so believable. I don't even know how to describe. I just love how it's thirty years later and describing their life together, rather than immediately after the lair scene like most E/Ms. And I love how the pain is between them all, unspoken, and how Meg and Christine are awkward with each other at first but then begin talking about it more easily with each other; I especially liked how Erik's love for Christine is like an overhanging shadow above the entire story, even though he's made a new life for himself with Meg and isn't even physically present in the last two chapters.
Bravissima.

This is an intriguing start... is it a start? Is there a story to come beyond this? It is funny... I know there is more story, but these three chapters are just a lovely heartbreaking snapshot... Somehow, I want to hear more, but am content to know that these two hearts have met in teh garden, and that both loves will go on. ... I appreciate too the quiet hints at depth to the characters and the things that weren't said...

What on God's Green Earth possessed you to write this? I apologize but C/M SLASH?! It's slightly- no beyond SLIGHTLY, it's very sick. Homosexuality was almost UNHEARD of back then, a few little ballet rats would be the least likely to be lesbians. It's insulting to ALW and Leroux to mutilate they're characters to such a point. I apologize for flaming but I'm tired and mad (as you've already guessed by now)

THIS GETS BETTER BY THE CHAPTER

Alright...Meg wasn't giving herself enough credit, I'm happy Christine did ^_^. This is quite depressing though. If I was Meg I don't think I'd be able to talk about my husband like that...I'd be in tears. Alright, Keep Going!!

thank you for shattering the rampaging cliches. this feels mature and that is such an extraordinarily Nice change

I was kind of expecting Raoul to be the bad guy with all this...But it turns out it's Christine. I like her son already ^_~. So...Will Erik be making an unexpected visit home? Cause that would be interesting...Or the next chapter is just Meg telling Erik of the visit?...Or just more visit, lol. Keep Going!!

Ah! I love how...ah, how to say it? 'Worldly' this is...and so historically accurate! So many Phantom centered stories seem to forget it's the 19th century, if you know what I mean. I can already tell I am going to love this very much -- update soon!