Tamang Lady, Thank you for being so gracious with your comments :) Cleopatra, Glad you liked it. A very interesting perspective you offer there. If you look at it this way, perhaps things might appear a little less depressing: each of them can now live in happiness as a result of their new found freedom. But maybe I am just a hopeless optimist :) Daddy, Thank you :) Old Maven, Thank you. Appreciate the nice words. Lootekukur, Appreciate your comments. I agree relationships operate on multi-dimesional planes. To your point about fragility : relationships, as I see it, have a birth, a life and a death. Sometimes they are re-born once or twice or over and over again. Sometimes they are not. Life is about being able to handle both cases. Thanks again for reading and as usual a special thanks to those leaving comments. - http://www.sajha.com/guild/read.cfm?guildid=398 (with more clean-ups)